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<br />P_ The s..<<iaoI 'United Stat"" District Court I the conservationist! primarIlY fllr !~ive wor~,s to pr~ the
<br />W,........ ......u for the Distnet of Columbia, publie~ty reaso~. But be ~ed ,~palrm~t of lbe RaiaIlMr
<br />. Alex Their petition for a temporary that It wal h~ personal View Bndge National Monument.
<br />WA8HINGTON - Judp , ,': injunction was heard by Judge that some of the conservation- Former Interior Secretary Fred
<br />&:HoItJ.eIf Jut, ~, ,_ IJooItzoff on Dee, '1:1, He dismissed ists were deadl,Y, seriOUS, about" A, sea, ton got the Budge! Bu-'
<br />dismi.pd . it' 'lritbin 10 minlJ\es, on, the the case, ....u to include $3,200,000 in the i
<br />ry ifti~'" liIat the plaintiff. bad no If they had t!\IIdi. h~cJ:I>.'iIY, 'tlII' llllll budaet to start con&lruolion'
<br />.... rJ '*"*""lilllI"" '" hel..... tM coort \0 sue it, they w.... - III...... -tile on building such works. Ilut the;
<br />IjiIiml hMriar &ecrol:ary,., " , ' n. Frank J" Barry. Soli,citor enlire Upper Colorado<,'~ !louse and Senate ApprcpriatiaM I
<br />.. I. Udall to '1Iiop,,~., , or IIIe Inter,or Department, lion schedule InlD a turmotl, be- Committees denied the ltIjIIOSll
<br />.. OIl Glen CalI)'!08 ililm untl( said later that the .Justice De-' cause Glen Canyon Dam Is lbe for funds on the basis 01 an .....'
<br />~ works are ballt -.nd partlnent will directly me a pe. most vitoal installation in the en- the-spot survey of tho area by
<br />- r ~ :8ridp about 10 mila titiOl\ Ie IUIVe the case dismissed. [ire project, staff members of the Hoose com-
<br />tlI9i .....' ,.'.,It it OWlain: on the basis of The National Parks A..ociation mittee and on the basis of export
<br />it.e _ona1 Pub AsIroci:Hm7 Jt<lftzolrs actIon on DeC. '1:1, has heen threatening to sue reports on the area mad. by the
<br />.. FederaliOll of Weste t the es.. will he di.mi..ed, Udall for several montliA, ;rbe, U,S, Geological Survey indicaling
<br />... QubI the Sitml Club of Barry !raid. conservationists' case arose dj- that Rainbow Bridge would not I
<br />tIIUontia ~ Ricblrd C. lIra60 The plaintiffs might appeal tho rectly out of Congressional fail. be damaged when ....ters from
<br />... 01 Colorado Springs wera ta!l8, however, he added, Barry ure to Implement a provISIon m Lake Powell formed by Glen
<br />... plaintifb. 1'hay filed a corn- SCtid !hal ....omto' Inl~'l iot T){'part- i the 1966 UppE'f Colorado Slorage Canyon Dam come to the vicinity
<br />....t for ..~ reltef on men! ;ltl:i'lC1I' l1ar1 sp~culaled I PruJ&I Act n::qu1rln8 the secre- or the bridge. This will happen
<br />Dille. 14 .,.inst Udall in thto>! thai tl1..., ,~a....t' IV.I' hf.'f'.n hIed hy, tar\' nl tnlNlllr to construct pro- onlv about 13 per cent of the
<br />time, USGS said. In some years
<br />the waters from Lake Powell
<br />will not even come near the
<br />Ihe bridge,
<br />1110' cost of the so-called pro-
<br />tectJ ve works would have come
<br />to between $21.$25 million, at
<br />least, and would have bee n
<br />I cllargod against the water-and-
<br />I power users of the Upper CoIo-
<br />I radt) storage project. Hence the!
<br />I Upper Basin delegation. from
<br />~, New Mexico, Ulall and
<br />I Wyoming never had much sym.
<br />: pathy for the construction of the
<br />i protective works.
<br />I But the conservationist lobbies
<br />did of}( have to put up any man.
<br />ey for the protective works, and
<br />r hey continued to demud con.
<br />struction of the works even aher
<br />offiCIals of the National Park
<br />S~rvJce conceded it l\I8S . lOll
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<br />JAN:~ 1963
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<br />upp",,; COLORADO
<br />mVEfl COMMISSION
<br />t?,:t P~\':!ce City, Utah
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<br />cause .
<br />With the closure of the ritbt i
<br />diver~h)f1 tunnel of Glen Canyon i
<br />Da m ,cheduled for Jan. I, 1113, i
<br />and the closure of the left.-- i
<br />div~rslon tunnel scheduled II!Y-,
<br />eral months thereafter, the cen" I
<br />servationist lobbies decided ~t I
<br />they must 8ue Udall now or nev. '
<br />er. In their complaint. filed lit
<br />Dee, 14, they claimed that wben
<br />the water in Lake Powell r.at-
<br />e> I he aJevation of 3,606 Ieot, it
<br />\\--Ill back into the monumeat:
<br />'8rea, and when it reaches the
<br />elevation of 3.688 feet, it wiD ...ck !
<br />up through Rainbow Bridge, Tha I
<br />I complaint claimed that the wa.:
<br />ter would actually penetrate the:
<br />rn-OOIJment ~ pel cent of the time'
<br />and would back up throu,h RaUl- .
<br />, bo\o\ Bndge 46 per celli of the
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