FEDERAL ASSISTANCE FOR SMALL RECLAMATION PROJECTS

HEARINGS

BEFORE THE

SUBCOMMITTEE ON
IRRIGATION AND RECLAMATION

OF THE

COMMITTEE ON

INTERIOR AND INSULAR AFFAIRS

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

EIGHTY-FOURTH CONGRESS

FIRST SESSION

ON

H. R. 104, H. R. 384, and H. R. 3817

TO SUPPLEMENT THE FEDERAL RECLAMATION LAWS BY
PROVIDING FOR FEDERAL COOPERATION IN NON-FEDERAL
PROJECTS AND FOR PARTICIPATION BY NON-FEDERAL
AGENCIES IN FEDERAL PROJECTS

FEBRUARY 9, 10, AND 11, 1955

Printed for the use of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs

CONTENTS

Statement of—

Fred G. Aandahl, Assistant Secretary of Interior; accompanied by

W. A. Dexheimer, Commissioner of Reclamation; Elmer Bennett,

legislative counsel; and T. R. Witmer, Office of the Solicitor,

Department of the Interior__

John Bliss, chairman, small projects committee, National Reclamation

Association _ _

Doyle Boen, general manager and chief engineer, Eastern Municipal

Water District, Hemet, Calif., and member, small projects com-

mittee, National Reclamation Association_

Floyd Bonge, director, Eastern Municipal Water District, Hemet,

Calif.

Charles H. Callison, conservation director, National Wildlife Federa-
tion, 232 Carroll Street NW., Washington, D. C..

Lloyd C. Halvorson, economist, the National Grange_

Tom W. Jensen, small project committee, National Reclamation

Association

Hon. A. L. Miller, a Representative in Congress from the State of

Nebraska.

Hon. John Phillips, a Representative in Congress from the State of

California...

W. C. Smith, member, small projects committee, National Reclama-

tion Association..

Hon. Keith Thomson, a Representative in Congress from the State of

Wyoming...

Matt Triggs, assistant legislative directive, American Farm Bureau
Federation...

Roy Whitacre, manager, Walker River Irrigation District, and

member, small projects committee, National Reclamation Associa-

tion.....

T. R. Witmer, Office of the Solicitor, Department of the Interior

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