MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON
THURSDAY. JULY 19. 1962
Durno Opposed to Reclamation Job In Baker Vicinity
By A. ROBERT SMITH
Mail Tribune Washington
Correspondent
WashinRton - (Special)
Rep. Edwin R. Durno, doing
what a congressman almost
P jtvCVT never does
! jf- " 1 has come i
I 1 r c 1 a mat
! IT ( project lor
located to irigation would be
epaid to the government
without interest, and the other
costs are non-reimbursable.
The project is designed to
supply full irrigation water
supply to 4010 acres of pres-
has come out ently dry lands and a supple-
LV-V
new mental water supply to 13.990
ion acres.
project for his Grounds for Attack
state - the up- j Congressman Durno and his
per division of colleagues have attacked the
bill on these grounds:
1. The project is not eco
nomically justified under any
proper method of analysis; 2.
Proper repayment is not as
sured; 3. The 160-acre limita
tion would be breached; 4. It
has dubious flood control
benefits; 5. Half the lands are
poor; 6. Over half the lands
tne Baker irri
gation works,
north of Ba
ker in eastern
Oreeon.
The Medford Republican
and eight other GOP members
of the House Interior Com
mittee have filed a vigorous
dissent from the committee's
majority endorsement of a bill i are owned bv relatively few
sponsored by Rep. Al UUman, I persons; 7. The bill requires
Baker Democrat. an unjustified power subsidy
The bill authorizes S6168.-(from Bonneville Power Ad
000 in federal funds for de- ministration; 8. Crop surplus
velopmenl of the project, ics make reclamation of mar-
which includes the Mason dam ginal lands unjustified.
currently running an annu
al deficit of about $19 mil
lion and said: "It is fully
evident that there are no Bon
neville power revenues now
available to subsidize the
Baker project payout. To
authorize such use of Bonne
ville power revenues would
be a farce unless the bill also
provided for a proper increase
in Bonneville rates to assure
current repayment of the
Baker project costs and of the
cost of all other federal proj
ects that are to be repaid by
the use of power revenues in
the Bonneville area."
The GOP congressmen went
on to challenge the long-stand
ing policy of the government
in charging no interest to re
imbursable irrigation invest
ments, claiming that the "un
paid interest costs the taxpay
er run from l'j to 4 times the
initial cost of reclamation
project."
Trial Balloon
Conceeding that the Baker
project costs are relatively
small, the dissent slated:
"There can be no question,
however, that this is just a
trial balloon or precedent for
authorizing larger and larger
uneconomical re clam ation
projects outside the present
Bonneville power marketing
area, with major repayment
to be charged up to nonexist
ent surplus power revenues of
! Bonneville. We must empha
; tically oppose any such pro
i posal."
Durno and the other ob
jectors cited the long-standing
limit of ISO-acres in a single
ownership, if the government
delivers water, and pointed
; out that this bill affords an
exception by authorizing de
liveries to up to 320 acres
if the land has been classified
! as poorer class 3 and class 4
lands.
They noted that 6 persons
I own 6,130 acres, or 35 per
; cent of the project lands, and
that "by the expediency of the
i transfer of a 320-acre block to
each of four members of a
j family, it appears no excess
land would have to be dis
j posed of on this project."
! "While it might be true that
the proposed increase in aere
' age under one ownership
would be limited to the poor
er class 3 and class 4 lands,
j this proposed method of
; breaching the lHO-acre limita
' tion could easily result in
questionable or deliberately
'dishonest land classification
, whereby an actual circumven
tion of the lriO-acre limitation
could be achieved even on
class 1 or class 2 lands." the
minority stated.
Benefits Boosted
In early Interior Depart
ment reports on the proposed
Baker upper division, the Fish
'and Wildlife conservation ben
lefits were estimated first in
1951 as $2200 annually. In
1958 it was boosted to $5,400,
and in 19n'0 to $17,700 annu
ally. The minority charged
that the "it appears to be a
: collusive effort by two related
I agencies to juggle conjectural
j figures in an attempt to
achieve a favorable economic
i answer." They said the allo
cation of $032,000 as a non
reimbursable cost for fish and
f wildlife over the 50-year per
iod is "totally unrealistic and
unjustified in the record. The
recommendation that Con
gress ask the taxpayers of the
nation to pick up the check
for this amount is an aiiront
to our intelligence."
bill has been
a hearing by
The Baker
considered in
the Senate Interior Committee
but not voted on yet. Its Sen
ate sponsors are Oregon Sens
Wayne Morse and Maurine B.
Neubergcr.
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on the Powder River 18 miles
from Baker, plus a replace
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pumping plant. The Bureau of
Reclamation has allocated the '
total cost of the project as j
follows.'1 for irrigation, S4,
354. BOO; flood control, Sl.-i
The objections to a subsidy
refer to the provision where
by the local water users would
repay SI. 127, 500 of the proj
ect's cost, over a 50-ycar per
iod after the initial 10-year
development period, and Bon
neville would pick up the tab
for the remaining S3.227.100
056,400; fish and wildlife con- allocated to irrigation.
servalion. SOJ2.000; and rcc
realion. S125.000. The cost al-
The
noted
dissenting lawmakers
that Bonneville is
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