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<br />1.. · n ~I <br />.1. v... <br /> <br />~I <br /> <br />Joun'I.1 <br />Sioux City. IA. <br />Cir. 0 70,442 <br /> <br />Jut 31 1983 <br /> <br />UNIVERSAL Press Clipping Bureau <br /> <br />. ".-:.. '. " /'-1. <br /> <br />A"6-The Sioux City Journal, Sunday, July 31, 1983 . , <br /> <br />Bt1gelllauds.O'NeiIldalll setback <br /> <br /> <br />WASHINGTON - U.S. Rep. Berkley against the project since 1917, said he of whlcb Is already Irrigated tbrough <br />B.edell, D-Iowa, Saturday praised COD- . supported f:he study and hoped It would .prlvate development:'In the process, <br />gressional aclloD to require a study of lead to a less costly, less damaging and almost 30,000 acres of }.and would be <br />alternatlve3 to the O'Nelll .water 1n1ga:" more efficient al~rnat1ve. flooded. 'I:he project carries an esUmated <br />tlon project. . "Tbls project, as originally proposed, price tag 01 more than $360 mWlon. <br />The action was on part of the 1983' is unnessary and expensive:' BedeU said. Ib December,. the House voted, by a <br />Supplemental Appropriations bill whlcb ."1 applaud the conlerence committee lor, lDO-vote margin, to delete lurther lundLqg <br />dIrects the Secretary 01 lbe Intertor, In tbls action and 1 tblnk It's time tbe lor lbe project. However, that vote was <br />co:QjuncUon with the State of Nebraska, project's proponents recognize that the _overturned In 8 conference commUtee <br />to conduct an IS-month study.of bandwritlng Is on lhe wall. The original wblcb relnstated the funds. <br />alt.ernatives "to the orlglnsl O"Nelll project, as it was envisioned, will not be "I was pleased tbat we were abJe to <br />project. Tbe legislation, wblcb Is buUl." , . convince lbe House at that lime to delete <br />expected to -be approved by Congress' The O,'NeW project Involves lbe con- lunds," Bedell said. "Tbls project does <br />berore U adjourns for tbe August recess, strucUon of a dam on the Niobrara River Dot make sense and I'm glad we've been <br />places a moratorium on constructlo.ll..for in north central Nebraska and construe- able to. persuade otber'members at <br />the project unW tbe study Is completed. lion of a 28-mUe, diversion. canal to Congress to oppose this pork-barrel <br />Bedell, wbo bas been leading a lIl!bt dellver water to 77,000 seres 01 land, ball spendlng.'" <br /> <br />c-14 <br />