HEARINGS BEFORE A 15 Congress, SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE The subcommittee met at 10 a. m., pursuant to call, in the hearing room of the Committee on Appropriations, United States Capitol, Senator Kenneth S. Wherry (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. Present: Senators Wherry, Cordon, Knowland, Dworshak, Hayden, O'Mahoney. Present also: Senator Downey. STATEMENT BY THE CHAIRMAN Senator WHERRY. Gentlemen, we will proceed, and I will call the hearing to order. I would like to make this brief statement: On December 3, 1947, the Interior Subcommittee of the Senate Appropriations Committee held a joint hearing on the Bureau of Reclamation with the Interior Subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee. Later in December supplemental estimates were submitted for four of the major reclamation projects, namely, the Central Valley project, California; the Columbia Basin project, Washington; the ColoradoBig Thompson project, Colorado; and the Davis Dam project, Arizona-Nevada. The House Interior Subcommittee held hearings on these supplemental estimates, and the Interior Subcommittee of the Senate Appropriations Committee held hearings on December 17 and 18, 1947. As a result of the supplemental estimates and the hearings held thereon, Congress appropriated additional amounts for each of these four projects. AMOUNT OF SUPPLEMENTAL ESTIMATES AND AMOUNTS APPROPRIATED In the case of the Davis Dam project, the estimate was $2,800,000, and the Congress appropriated. $2.800.000. For the Colorado-Big Thompson project there was an estimate of $4.150,000, and this amount was appropriated. For the Columbia Basin project the estimate was $11,725,000, and Congress appropriated $13,584,000, or $1.859,000 in excess of the estimate. For the Central Valley project. California, there was an estimate of $10,700,000, and Congress appropriated $11,405,000, or $705,000 more than the estimate. 1 |