BYU Library - Special Collections

Scope and Contents note Folder contains press releases, hearings, correspondence, congressional records, newspaper clippings, and legislative bills from 1963 to 1964 that concern different aspects of the Dixie Project in Utah. The information provided includes moving one of the dam sites for the Dixie Project eight miles downstream on the Virgin River to Warner's Ridge because of unsuitable conditions for construction at the previous site, as well as integrating the Dixie Project into the Lower Colorado River Basin...

Scope and Contents note The folders contain reports, maps, correspondence, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, and legislative bills from 1956 to1965 about federal reclamation projects in the Western United States such as the Flaming Gorge Unit of the Colorado River Storage Project, Lake Powell behind Glen Canyon Dam, and the Burns Creek Project in Idaho. Maps include the preliminary designs and locations from 1959 of the initial recreation development for Flaming Gorge Reservoir in Utah and the proposed boundaries...

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Folder contains reports, legislative bills, correspondence, newspaper clippings, press releases, congressional records, statements, maps, and pamphlets from 1963 to 1965 which provide information about the appropriations and benefits of the Bonneville Unit of the Central Utah Project in Utah and the progress of the Colorado River Storage Project in the Western United States.

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Folders contain reports, congressional records, legislative bills, maps, and memorandums from 1955 to1958 concerning water policy and water projects in the Western United States. The majority of the materials pertain to the Small Reclamation Projects Act of 1956 and other federal reclamation projects such as the Central Utah, Glen Canyon, and Green River projects in the Western United States.