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<br />Authorization of the Central Utah project should include <br />authority for the Secretary of the Interior to construct recreational <br />facilities, the cost of which should be nonreimbursable. The under- <br />lying report contains proposals for an allocation of costs to forest <br />resources development, and our investigations have also shown that <br />there are definite benefits which will be realized through control of <br />erosion and sedimentation. The making of allocations to all of these <br />purposes will doubtless be given consideration by the Congress in the <br />future if attention is given to formulation of a uniform national water <br />resources development policy. In the absence of provisions for alloca- <br />tions to these purposes in existing law, we are not recommending such <br />allocations. The smell amount allocated in the underlying report to <br />forest resources development could be added to the allocations to the <br />primary purposes of the project without any material effect on the <br />project financial analysis. <br /> <br />The Jordan River channel improvement and the diking of Goshen <br />Bay of Utah Lake, authorized as features of the Provo River pr.'ject but <br />not yet undertaken, should be approved as features of the Central Utah <br />project. The channel improvement should be authorized for construction <br />in the initial phase. <br /> <br />Project authorization should include approval of the repay- <br />ment plan described in the report, including use of net revenues from <br />power and from water used for municipal, industrial, and miscellaneous <br />purposes in excess of the amount re'luired to repay the respective allo- <br />cations to these purposes, in payment of the irrigation allocation. <br /> <br />Y:A1! 4~,~~~ <br />