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<br />Nevada: Alamo, Baker, Basalt, Beatty, Caliente, Carp, currie, Ely, Fallol
<br />Gerlach, Goldfield, Hawthorne, Lathrop Wells, Las Vegas, Lida, Lovelock, Lund,
<br />McDermit, Mesquite, Mill City, Mina, Moapa, Nixon, Oasis, Orovada, Panaka,
<br />Pioche, Pyramid, Reno, San Jacinto, Schurz, Shoshone, Wells, Winnemucca,
<br />Yerington.
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<br />Oreqon: Adel, Andrews, Basque, Bend, Detroit, Durkee, Hampton, Harper,
<br />Lakeview, La Pine, Madras, Millican, Ontario, Paisley, Plush, Portland,
<br />Prineville, Rome, The Dalles, Tygh Valley.
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<br />Utah: Boulder, Callao, Delta, Park Valley, Wendover.
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<br />All 7 States of the dry Colorado River Basin would benefit from putting t(
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<br />use l5,000,000 acre feet, a small part of the surplus water in such a river as
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<br />the Columbia, which flows 170,000,000 acre feet yearly to the sea. That which
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<br />is surplus water is a wasting asset sorely needed by Colorado River basin State'
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<br />to meet future demands by new homes, farms and industries. These states are
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<br />Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming.
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<br />Putting water which is surplus in other rivers into the Colorado main-
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<br />stream, either behind Hoover Dam or behind a dam farther upstream, would increa,
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<br />the total water resources of that inadequate stream to benefit communities in
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<br />all parts of the arid basin of the Colorado River.
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<br />It is these sunny, sere
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<br />regions that both new births and new settlers now promise to impose the most
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<br />severe population pressures in the growing Far West, Tunney pointed out.
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<br />Senate Bill l019 of Sens. Thomas Kuchel and George Murphy, plus 37
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<br />identical House bills introduced by Arizona and California Congressmen, are
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<br />pending. Of this batch, Congo Tunney introduced HR 4673 last February. Each
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<br />bill provides for an immediate start by Sec. of the Interior Stewart Udall on
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<br />a Westwide Water Inventory, plus a study of alternative plans to lmport from
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<br />water-surplus areas to the over-burdened Colorado River as much as 15,000,000
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<br />acre feet yearly by the most feasible means.
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<br />Hearings by the House Subcommittee on Irrigation and Reclamation on this
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<br />proposed legislation are expected to be scheduled soon.
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