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<br />. <br /> <br />r,:, <br /> <br />PAGE 12 <br />VALUES, APPROXIMATELY SIXTY-FIVE MILLION RECREATION VISITOR DAYS ARE <br />BEING RECORDED AWWALLY AT RECLAMATIOIJ PROJECTS. ABOUT EIGHTEEN MILLIOfJ <br />PEOPLE ARE BEING SERVED ANNUALLY WITH WATER SUPPLIES DERIVED IN WHOLE OR <br />IN PART FRO~l RECLAMATION PROJECTS. TO SUMMARIZE THESE STATISTICS, IT CAN <br />BE SAFELY STATED THAT THE RECLAt'1ATIDrI PROGRAM IN MY TWO-YEAR PERIOD <br />PRODUCES A GROSS PRODUCT WHICH EXCEEDS THE TOTAL AND FEDERAL INVESTMENT <br />FOR THE PAST SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS. <br />AS I STATED AT THE OUTSET, rw PURPOSE IN BEING HERE TODAY IS TO GIVE <br />ONLY A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF THE STATE'S POSITION REGARDING THESE THREE <br />RECLAMATION PROJECTS. I TRUST THAT THE PEOPLE OF THE FRUITLAND tAESA <br />PROJECT AREA WILL FORGIVE MY IMPOSITION UPON THEIR TIME. THE PEOPLE <br />qF THAT AREA, ALONG WITH THE PEOPLE OF THE DOLORES AND SAVERY-POT HOOK <br />PROJECT AREAS, HAVE PATIENTLY SUFFERED T~ROUGH ONE INTERrlINABLE DELAY <br />AFTER ANOTHER. HI 1956, THEY 11ERE PROMISED BY THE CONGRESS AND THE <br />PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES THAT THEIR RESPECTIVE PROJECTS \'IO~LD GET <br />IMMEDIATE CONSIDERATION. THAT PROMISE HAS RESULTED IN ONE BITTER <br />FRUSTRATION AFTER ANOTHER. BUT AT LONG LAST, THEIR PROJECTS HAVE BEEN <br />AUTHORIZED AND CONSTRUCTIOn HAS TO START THIS YEAR. <br />