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<br />". <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />..' <br /> <br />g <br />o <br />P <br />Y <br /> <br />4"):'0 <br />.J \j <br /> <br />FUNDS FOR FRYINGPAH, COLORADO R.l'tER t'ROJECT' IN COLORADO IN JEOPARDY <br /> <br />From the star-Journal and Chieftain w",..hington Bureau <br /> <br />Washington--Funds to continue construction of the big $203 <br />million Fryingpan-Arkansas project in Colorado and Colorado projects <br />in the Upper Colorado River project during the coming year are in <br />jeopardy, it \~as learned here over the \'leekend. <br /> <br />The House approved the $4.6 billion 1968 public \'lorks appropria- <br />tions bill on July 25. But the Senate Appropriations Committee has <br />not started to mark up the bill yet, even tho it has held its hear- <br />ings and even tho president Johnson has asked for quick action on <br />appropriations bills this summer. <br /> <br />"We have received no \'lord from our chairman to proceed \.lith <br />the bill," the Senate Appropriations Committee staff :oaid here on <br />Aug. 26. The Committee chairman is Sen. Carl Hayden, D-Ariz., who <br />is desperately trying to move his Senate-passed Colorado River Basin <br />bill out of the House Interior Committee chaired by Rep. Wayne u. <br />Aspinall, O-Colo. Aspinall does not plan to act on the bill in <br />this session. <br /> <br />So Hayden has sent word to A:opinall indirectly that he can ex- <br />pect all Colorado public works appropriation:o to be held up it <br />Aspinall does not permit a vote on the Hayden colorado River bill <br />in his House Interior Committee. Aspinall is furious with this <br />threat of Hayden's, which he regards as sheer blackmail. Sen. Gordon <br />Allott, R-colo., a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, <br />and his staff claim to knOVl nothing about Hayden's threat. Allott <br />declined to discuss it. <br /> <br />But everyone else in Washington is. Aspinall is in receipt of <br />a letter which Hayden wrote to a third party in which Hayden threaten- <br />ed to cut off Colorado's funds for its water projects if Aspinall <br />continued to keep the Hayden bill, which would authorize the Central <br />Arizona project, from a vote in his Committee. <br /> <br />If Hayden proceeds "lith his threat, as he has been shO\~ing <br />every effort of doing in recent days, the Fryingpan project '1ould <br />be particularly hard-hit. It is now at the peak of construction, <br />with $21,015,000 provided for it in both the President's 1968 budget <br />and in the House-passed public worlcs appropriation bill. The <br />