BYU Library - Special Collections

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Folder contains press releases, newspaper clippings, statements, legislative acts and bills, reports, correspondence, and congressional records from 1960 to 1964 that pertain to the authorization of the Dixie Project in Washington County, Utah as well as appropriations to fund an early start in the project construction.

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Folder contains legislative acts and bills, newspaper clippings, correspondence, reports, congressional records, press releases, pamphlets, maps, and statements from 1956 and 1963 to 1964 pertaining to details, plans, and authorization of the Dixie Project in Utah. Much of the correspondence comes from proponents of the long-awaited passage of the Dixie Project bill which would help develop the water resources of the Virgin and Santa Clara Rivers in the Western United States.

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Folder contains a newspaper clipping, congressional records, legislative bills, and correspondence from 1971 to 1972 relating to legislation for the acquisition of lands in the Cache National Forest in Utah by the Secretary of Agriculture for the interest of protecting Ogden City's watershed.

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...

Scope and Contents note Folders contain press releases, newspaper clippings, correspondence, congressional records, pamphlets, reports, and legislative bills from 1956 to 1965 that provide information about concerns, construction, and plans for establishment of recreational areas for the Glen Canyon and Flaming Gorge Units of the Colorado River Storage Project in the Western United States. Also provided are Anthropological Papers from September 1959 which outline the history of the Glen Canyon Region from 1776 to...

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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.

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Folder contains congressional records, correspondence, newspaper clippings, legislative bills, and reports from 1956 to 1957 concerning amending the Watershed Protection and Flood Act of 1954 which especially affected the State of Utah.