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<br />, 000703 <br /> <br />1\ /-z.4/8 I <br /> <br />Reagan geisbnU funding I <br />~Hergy~b water jir'OjectsD F- r <br /> <br />upn <br />eBB <br /> <br />THE FORUM <br />FAre-of No. Dak. <br /> <br />NOV 27 1981 <br /> <br />WASHINGTON (AP) - The Scn- <br />ate on Saturday passed and sent to <br />President Reagan a $12.5 billion bill <br />that provides money for more than <br />200 energy and water projects. <br />Sponsors say Reagan is likely to <br />sign it even though it calls for : <br />spending more than he wants. , <br />The bill was the second 01 a dozen. <br />money bills for fiscal 1982 to ~ain ' <br />linal congressional approval, With a ' <br />District of Columbia appropriation' <br />9ill having been approved earlier in . <br />Ine week. . <br />I Voice vote approval came shortly <br />ofter Sen. Daniel Patrick Moym- <br />han, D-N.Y., criticized his col- <br />leagues for spending millions of dol- <br />lars for the Tennessee-Tombigbee <br />waterway, which bas long been' <br />IInder construction, but no money to <br />develop new water construction <br />projects. <br />, "This nalion has ceased to devel- <br />op its water resources," said Moyn- <br />~an.. "The first domestic function <br />r thb Congress was to develop its <br />ater resources. What we have <br />ere are the projects of another <br />. generation." . <br /> <br />-- -.--- -.--.- . ..- <br /> <br />UNIVERSAL", <br /> <br />.. (1'11:)11]': ~ill.'.'1 <br /> <br />~~~~~. <br />.,.J..'I T <br />Manitoba 111ay increase <br />d!fpositioll.tO Garrison <br /> <br />fight any project features that <br />could harm Canadian waters. <br />Canadian officials have long <br />feared that Garrison runoff could <br />flow into Cb.nadi~n watersheds <br />and introduce undesirable fish. <br />species and aquatic diseases, <br />Pawley said that could have a ca- <br />tastrophic effect on Canada's <br />commer~ial fisheries. <br />The new premier said the ong- <br />oing disputes over the water proj~ <br />ect will not foster good relations <br />between his provincial govern. <br />ment and North Dakota's state <br />government. <br />4.'1t certainly wouldn't assist re- <br />lations whatsoever, because <br />there's very intense feellng in <br />Manitoba," he said, "That would ' <br />be expressed very clearly and <br />very forcibly through the various <br />channels that are open to us." <br />The Garrison Diverslon project, <br />first authorized by Congress in <br />1965, is meant to divert Missouri <br />River water to central and east- <br />ern North Dakota for irrigation <br />and municipal, industrial and rec. <br />reationa) use. <br />Completion of the project is now: <br />estimated to cost more than $1 bil- : \ <br />lion. ' , <br />~ \ <br /> <br />BISMARCK N.D. lAP) - How- <br />ard Pawley, premier-designate of <br />Manitoba, says.; his new govern. <br />ment wil1 be even more staunchly <br />opposed to North Dakota's Garri- <br />son Diversion project than the <br />outgoing prnvincial government.. <br />Pawley, who ran on the New <br />Democratic Party ticket, ousted <br />the Progressive Conservative gov- <br />erp.ment of Premier Sterling Lyon <br />in an election last week. <br />Pawley said his government <br />will not relax its scrutiny of the <br />project, even though construction <br />on the 250,OOQ..acre water project <br />was halted eadier this year by a <br />federal court order. <br />"As I Indicated during the cam- <br />paign, we will establish an office, <br />a listening post, in Washington, <br />that could monitor what is taking <br />place ~nrl ensure that we're kept <br />aierted," Pawley sald in a tele- <br />phone interview. <br />Construction on the project has <br />been stalled since 'May by a fed- <br />er al court order issued in a case <br />brought by the National Audubon <br />Society, an environmentalist <br />group opposed to the project. <br />Pawlev sllid his gO\'t:rnmenl is <br />not b<isically opposed to the irri- <br />gation project, but said be y;il1 <br /> <br />Sen. Mark Andrews, R-N.D" then <br />look the floor to criticize a House <br />vote that let stand a 1977 court order <br />halting work on the Garrison Diver- <br />sion water project:onene-said is <br />ni:eiled in hiS state. <br />"It is a tragedy for North Dak()- <br />~,.' be told a reporter. "The money <br />IS 10 the blU, so what we do is lay the <br />foundation to run it through and <br />complete it next year," <br />"We've got to have Garrison Di- <br />version or the next wildlife flock <br />will go to nothing," be continued. <br />"It's incomprehensible that en- <br />vironmentalists don't want it." . <br />The HouSe vote, aod' the Senate <br />aceeptan.ee of it,. means money for <br />tl)e Garpson project remains in the <br />bill but cannot be spent. <br />The legislation contains money <br />for ~ore than 2flO energy and water <br />projects around the nation indud- <br />109 $195 billion for the Clinch River <br />breeder reactor in Tennessee and <br />$IB9 mUlion ror the Tennessee-Tom- <br />bigbee Waterway in Alabama and <br />Tennessee. <br /> <br />.----' <br /> <br />,- <br /> <br />.J_~ <br />