21 4.In HEARINGS BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE ON OF THE COMMITTEE ON INTERIOR AND INSULAR AFFAIRS EIGHTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION ON H.R. 2325 A BILL TO AUTHORIZE THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR COLUMBUS BEND PROJECT, TEXAS CONTENTS Letter from Secretary of Interior dated August 15, 1961... Letter from Deputy Director, Bureau of the Budget dated July 19, Letter from Commissioner, Bureau of Reclamation, Department of the Interior, dated March 27, 1961. Letter from Under Secretary of the Interior dated April 18, 1961. Letter from Commissioner, Bureau of Reclamation, Department of the Interior, dated August 31, 1960--- Letter from Assistant Secretary of the Interior, dated August 10, 1962- 255 272 Baca, Mrs. Leonard, Fayetteville, Tex_ Burleigh, Harry P., area engineer for Texas for the Bureau of Recla- 11 245 154, 291 Erhard, Earl C., president, First National Bank, Bastrok, Tex. Gideon, Sam, general manager, Lower Colorado River Authority, Austin, Tex.. Gray, Shapleigh G., petroleum geologist and engineer, Houston, Tex. Gullatt, Doswell, on behalf of the Fayette Co'na Counties Rivers Hofman, William F., president, First National Bank. I Holum, Kenneth, Assistant Secretary for Water and Power Develop- 260 COLUMBUS BEND PROJECT, TEXAS NOVEMBER 6, 1961 The subcommittee met, pursuant to previous arrangement, at 10 a.m. in the auditorium of the La Grange High School, La Grange, Fayette County, Tex. Present: Congressman Walter Rogers of Texas (chairman of the committee) presiding, Congressman Thomas G. Morris, of New Mexico, Congressman J. Edgar Chenoweth, of Colorado, Mr. Sidney L. McFarland, consultant on irrigation and reclamation, Washington, D.C., and Congressman Clark W. Thompson of Texas (author of H.R. 2325). The CHAIRMAN. The Subcommittee on Irrigation and Reclamation of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs of the House of Representatives, U.S. Congress, will come to order for the consideration of H.R. 2325, a bill introduced by Mr. Thompson of Texas to authorize the Secretary of the Interior to construct, operate, and maintain the Columbus Bend project, Texas. The record will first reflect H.R. 2325. We will then include in the record without objection the transmittal letter from the Secretary of the Interior, the Honorable Stewart Udall, together with the report from the Bureau of the Budget, a letter from the Department of Interior under date of March 27, over the signature of Mr. Floyd E. Dominy, Commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation, and a further communication from the Department of Interior under date of August 31, 1960, over the signature of Mr. Floyd E. Dominy, Commissioner of Reclamation. (The documents referred to follow :) [H.R. 2325, 87th Cong., 1st sess.] A BILL To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to construct, operate, and maintain the Columbus Bend project, Texas Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to construct, operate, and maintain the Columbus Bend project, Texas, in accordance with the Federal reclamation laws (Act of June 17, 1902; 32 Stat. 388, and Acts amendatory therof or supplementary thereto), except as those laws are inconsistent with this Act, for the principal purposes of storing, regulating, and furnishing water for municipal, industrial, and irrigation use and recreation benefits and, as incidents to the foregoing, for the additional purposes of controlling floods and permittinng generation of hydroelectric power. The principal features of the Columbus Bend project shall consist of a dam and reservoir on the Colorado River near Columbus, Texas, and a minimum basic recreational facilities at that reservoir. SEC. 2. The Secretary shall make appropriate allocations of project costs to municipal and industrial water supply, conservation and development of fish and wildlife, and recreation: Provided, That all operation and maintenance costs for Columbus Bend Dam and Reservoir shall be allocated to municipal and industrial water supply. Construction costs of said dam and reservoir 1 |