WSP03949

• File Number: 8141
• Description: Fryingpan-Arkansas Project
• State: CO
• Basin: Arkansas
• Water Division: 5
• Date: 12/16/1975
• Author: Terence Brace
• Title: The History of the Fryingpan-Arkansas Project Prepared by Terence Brace
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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method they knew who they could count on tor support, the
people who wer,) very opposed to the bill, and finally the un-
decided Con~reEsmen who might bo persuaded to voto for tho
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proje,ct. Phs of course private citizens writinG lotters and
working hard fc,r the project.
At tl:.is time, 1960-62, the Chairman of the Lobbying

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group was Mr. ~,parks and he n9d the rosponsibili ty for coordina-
ting the effort.s of these people working on passage of the bill.
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At times there were as many as 50-60 people working for the bill
and in the end it was the work of all these people who were pri-
marily responsible for getting the bill passed.
;:;'or l:he Fryingpan -Arkans as bill to be pas s ed it "Ioule
have tu clear t;he Irrigation and Reclamation sub-conunittee (at
that time one of five sub-conunittoes of the Interior Conunitteel,

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the Interior Conunittee as a whole and finally the Rules Commit-

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tee. Th3se committees are, of course, in the House and many

tactics were used to kill the bills in conunittee led by tho two

major opponents of the Fryingpan-Arkansas Project, Congressman
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Saylor of Pennsylvania and Congressroan Hosroer of California.

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The Senate passed every bill on the ?ryinGpan-Arksnsas Project,

the problem was in the House where it was continually rejected.

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To be able to achieve passage of the bill thrOUGh the

House it was important to have friends. influential friends who

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Chmoweth, p. 25.

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