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<br />'$'500,000 Fund;'
<br />\.ViUHelp Pla1l),<
<br />Narrows 'Dam~.rj
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<br />a dam near F'ort Morgan, has b()e~' ~
<br />authorized lor more than a decade 'L~_,
<br />by Congress" and preliminary'~
<br />work, including land PUr,Fhi,?eS; '\'
<br />has been under way sporadically
<br />[or several years, ":i,, ,:: ';
<br />The Narrows projectis designed' :,;
<br />to store water allocated .to eolo':',;
<br />,cado under ,interstate agreement$ ''\i
<br />but now lost as it flows ,from the Z :
<br />state. Supporters say the project. , ,:----
<br />wili provide irrigation water [or .)oj
<br />nearly 300,000 acres of nortl)east" ; '\.):,
<br />ern Colorado larmiand, additional ~
<br />municipal and industrial water lor ' ~
<br />nearby communities, and im~ ",-;,
<br />proved recreational and flood coil; :
<br />trol lacilities.
<br />In 1977 President Jimmy Carter:' '
<br />included the Narrows on his initiai
<br />list 01 both' Bureauo[ Rechimatiori, 'r'" --"
<br />and Anny Corps 01 Engineers proF' :
<br />ects whose construction he intend,
<br />, ed to block [or various reasons, i1)"
<br />cluding budgetary, environmentaIi
<br />salety and local opposition, '
<br />Specific lunding on the Narrows
<br />has belm stalled since, including
<br />the first budget submitted by Pre?-
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<br />'By LEONARD LARSEN
<br />Chief, Denver Post Washington Bureau'
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<br />, WASHINGTON - U,S. Recla;
<br />mation Commissioner Robert
<br />Broadbent said Tuesday ,that
<br />$500,000 in his agency's current fis-
<br />cal,yearbudget wili be shilted to
<br />contmue pre-construction work lor
<br />the Nan-ows Dam in northeastern '
<br />Colorado, :
<br />: ,The transler, 01 discretionary
<br />lunds within the Bureau o[ Recla-
<br />mation was authorized last week in
<br />a move by Rep, Hank Erown, R-
<br />eDID:,: who inserted a provi~ion in
<br />the .final' version o[ the Energy and
<br />Water Appropriations Bili. ' ,
<br />. Brown praised the decision by,
<br />Broadbent as a "key move -for
<br />Colorado'in our efforts to retain
<br />more of our own water." Sen. Bill
<br />Armstrong, R-Colo., said ,the agen.
<br />cy action on the Narrows would aI-'
<br />, low it to become "the first or one
<br />o[ the [h'st 01 the Carter adminis-
<br />tration "hit list', projects to start
<br />moving again," ' '
<br />" The Narrows, a project intended,
<br />I tos~ore 300,000 acre-Ieet of. water'
<br />I fro~ ,the Sou\h Platte River pehind'
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<br />Please See NARROWS on 6-8
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<br />N arrowsD am Planp.ing
<br />Is' AnO'cated $500,000 ' ,'"
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<br />,NARROWS From 5.8 , ,tion o[ the Nan-ows, Joel Kassiday,
<br />," ,':' ,': "" , , ' : Brown's press spokesman and leg-
<br />ident Reagan, who has aballdol)ed, ,islative assistant" said ,the con,
<br />the outspoken hostility against ,wa-, gressman talked with residents in
<br />ter 'projects expressed by , the, the area to gather "objections" to
<br />Carter admiriistration but !Jas con-, the project "and ,submitted those
<br />tinued the 'carter, policy 'against ' criticisms to the Reclamation Bu,
<br />new starts for water project con. reau in question form.
<br />struClion. ' ' , ,The answers returned to Brown,
<br />, Brown, when he took office last' Kassiday said, satisfied him and he
<br />"January; had mad2no commit. ,"endorsed the project".' '
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