BYU Library - Special Collections

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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.

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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Folder contains correspondence, legislative acts and bills, reports, press releases, newspaper clippings, congressional records, maps, magazine articles, and statements from 1963 to 1966 that pertain to different aspects of the Colorado River Storage Project in the Western United States such as the use of water from the Colorado River, power generated from different units of the project, and appropriations.

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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.