STATEMENT OF REPRESENTATIVE AL ULLMAN OF OREGON Mr. ULLMAN. Mr. Chairman, we are indeed grateful for the coneration that you have given us in the past. I am also going to ask that my statement be placed in the record at s point and will make only a few remarks due to the lateness of › hour. Mr. CANNON. Your statement will be included in the record at this int. (The statement referred to follows:) STATEMENT OF CONGRESSMAN AL ULLMAN Ir. Chairman and members of the subcommittee, I want to thank you for e again affording me this opportunity of appearing before you in defense of posals for an adequate and continuing investment in the resource developat program that is of such great importance to Oregon, the Pacific Northwest, 1 the Nation. I know that you have a great many people to hear and limited e to do so and I will take as little of that valuable time as I can. I have pared a summarized table indicating the items of special interest to the people ny district and the amount I recommend for each of them. While I wish to my strong endorsement to the recommendations being made by my colleagues n Oregon in both the House and the Senate, I will confine my own statement hose projects of particular concern to the Second District. he public works expenditures which I am supporting are not only important he development of our great resource heritage; they are, for the same reason, 10mically and fiscally sound. Land and water resources are basic to the wth potential of any economy. Their full development is essential to the tinued economic expansion of any nation and the challenge of competitive xistence emphasizes the need for their development in our own great country. enditures for this purpose are fiscally sound because these development jects not only to a large extent repay our investment in them directly, they o repay it indirectly through the higher levels of output that result and the sequent increased tax revenues that flow from such higher levels of income output. entlemen, a careful study of the President's budget proposals for public ks in fiscal 1961 reveals that it is somewhat more adequate than in recent ious years, but still lacking in a number of important areas. With an eye, aps, on the political calendar, the administration has reluctantly given up 10-new-starts policy, but grudgingly so. It still seems to me to be looking ward over its shoulder rather than facing fully forward as the needs of the try demand. With regard to Oregon's Second District, these inadequacies te particularly, as I shall indicate, to needed funds for planning and for the ller projects. I urge that you give careful consideration to the full budget ests which I endorse and to the increases I want to recommend as a step ard getting our resource development program back on schedule. ITEMS SUPPORTED WITHOUT CHANGE you will note on the summary table attached, I endorse wholeheartedly the budget request without change for some 20 items of importance to central eastern Oregon. y civil functions ese budget requests include the usable funds for continued construction on the John Day lock and dam and the Dalles lock and dam and for operaand maintenance of the Dalles lock and dam and McNary lock and dam, all ple-purpose projects on the Columbia River and all vital to the long-range am of full development of the basin. The budget request also includes the mount necessary to complete the flood control project on the Malheur River 1 was begun, as you will recall, at the insistence of the Congress and over nistration opposition, and the full amount necessary to complete a study of ood control problem on the Grande Ronde River. Bureau of Reclamation For the Bureau of Reclamation the budget request includes the funds nerve sary to continue construction on the Crooked River and Klamath projects and to complete the definite plan report and carry out contract negotiations for the Bully Creek extension of the Vale project, the new start to which I alluded earlier in my statement. The President's budget proposal also includes sufficien funds to complete the Upper and Middle Snake River Basin study, to entine three other investigations now in progress, and to initiate two new stoča namely the Walla Walla project study, which includes the Milton-Freewar division, and the study of the Birch Creek diversion unit of the Umatilla proje Finally, the funds requested for the Bureau include the amounts necessary operation and maintenance of two projects serving Oregon and adjoining S the Boise and Klamath projects. Bonneville Power Administration With regard to the budget requests for the Bonneville Power Administra I want to specifically endorse the amount requested for continued constru of the transmission line to Burns, Oreg. This line was begun last year and? funds asked will be sufficient to assure completion by November 1961. 3 summary table shows, I also endorse the amounts requested for substatio Hempton Butte and Ione. I have, in the interest of brevity, summarized these references to the bir requests which I support. They are all important items and their presens the budget request of the President is itself testimony to their full justifies e I will not take up further time in reiteration of the need for these appropr tions but will turn my attention now to certain increases which I feel are nee over the budget proposals. Again, reference to the summary table I have prepared shows that I am the subcommittee to recommend increases for eight items of importance a people of my district. I will comment very briefly on these. Bureau of Reclamation I am recommending one increase (item 17) in the budget request fr Bureau of Reclamation. Studies of the proposed western division of the It project have been in progress for a number of years. With the declarati year by the Oregon State engineer of a critical ground water shortage area of The Dalles, the need for this project became particularly acute. 5 feasibility report is currently being commented on by the affected States Federal agencies and should be coming to the Congress in the near future. thorizing legislation is now before the appropriate committees in both E of Congress. We are hopeful of enactment soon after transmission of the bility report. Because of the critical character of the water shortage area, two things are needed: the beginning of construction as soon as pos after authorization and completion of construction on an accelerated s if at all possible. For these reasons, I am asking you to include an add item of $500,000 for this proposed project. I am advised that this amount be usable in the first fiscal year under an accelerated schedule and that the cost of such a schedule would not differ significantly from that of a schedule. In the event authorization is not secured, these funds would!? used in the coming fiscal year, of course, but their being available can be to meeting the critical needs of the community for increased irrigation fac Army Civil Functions With regard to the Corps of Engineers, I am recommending the addit funds for three projects which are authorized but not included in the Presor budget proposals (items 4, 5, and 6). The Hood River small boat basin 2 will increase the facilities for barge commerce on the Columbia, is eligible the small authorized projects section of the budget and I ask that $3 included for this purpose. I also recommend the addition of funds st to carry forward and complete the preparation of the design memorandz two authorized flood control projects $25,200 for channel improvements 2 John Day River below the town of Mount Vernon, Oreg, and along the N and South Forks, and $11,600 for needed channel reconstruction on Birch ( where it flows through the town of Pilot Rock, Oreg. Ar Pr recommend an increase of $300,000 in the budget request for operation and intenance of the Vancouver-to-The Dalles ship channel (item 7). The corps 3 indicated that they could utilize a total of $1,300,000 for the full maintenance this new and important link in our inland water transportation system in the cific Northwest and I urge that this full amount be appropriated. Finally, I recommend increases in three items relative to investigations and earch (items 10, 12, and 13). The importance of continued study and plang to the job of carrying forward full development of our water resources not be overemphasized, as you know. This is true of all aspects of multiplerpose development. In view of this, I ask that funds be recommended for the initiation and comtion of a study of the navigation potential of the Lower Snake River ($25,000) d for initiation of a study of the flood control needs on the McKay Creek 10,000). Of even more importance is the increase I am asking for research the fish passage problem. As you gentlemen are aware, the problem of fish ssage at high dams is greatly complicating our program of full development the Columbia River and its tributaries. Since fiscal 1960 the budget of the rps of Engineers has included appropriations for studies to be carried out by e Fish and Wildlife Service in regard to the effects of water control projects fish and wildlife resources. A large part of these studies are carried out in operation with the appropriate agencies in such states as Oregon and Washgton. Because of the increasingly critical nature of this problem of fish pasge, I urge the subcommittee to recommend an additional $500,000 to be used ecifically for studies in this regard. The benefits to be derived from a sucssful solution of this problem are so great as to fully warrant such an accelered program of research, and, as you know, the Middle Snake River area is e in which the problem is particularly pressing. In conclusion let me note once more that I have spent relatively more time the few increases recommended than on the larger and more numerous items here the President's budget requests are satisfactory. This is not intended to ply that one group of items is more or less important to my people than the ner. I strongly urge that you recommend the full amount usable for every m listed on the summary table I have prepared. And, on behalf of the people the Second District of Oregon, let me again thank you for this opportunity to pear and to commend to your serious consideration the sound and realistic ogram of resource development which I have so briefly outlined. immary statement, public works appropriations, fiscal 1961-Congressman Al Ullman, 2d District, Oregon Summary statement, public works appropriations, fiscal 1961-Congressman A Ullman, 2d District, Oregon-Continued Item Amount included in President's budget Bureau of Reclamation-Continued Operation and maintenance: 18. Boise project (Oregon-Idaho). 19. Klamath project (Oregon-California). General investigations: 20. Columbia River Basin (Oreg.-Wash.). 21. Upper and middle Snake River Basin (Oreg.-Idaho). 22. Upper Lost River storage unit (Klamath project) 23. Crooked River extension.. 24. Walla Walla project (including Milton-Freewater Division). Bonneville Power Administration: 26. Harney transmission line. 27. Hempton Butte substation.. 28. Ione substation.... 1 Revised by budget amendment from $41,800,000. ? Eligible under small authorized projects budget. New studies. Mr. ULLMAN. Mr. Chairman, I have prepared a very brief stal ment and have submitted a table of projects included in the Se Congressional District, listing those that are in the budget and minor changes that I have recommended. We feel that although not completely adequate for the develop of our resources, at least the budget takes care of our minimum We do not feel at this time that we should be pressing too far berni that, knowing the propensities of this Congress to keep down experttures. I would like to say, however, that the resource expenditures the Pacific Northwest in my opinion are the finest and the sour expenditures that the Government of this country is making in t field of water development, and in the field of timber managemen We are, generally, going to be paying more back into the Treas than we are taking out, and we hope that the situation continues. Mr. CANNON. Thank you. Mr. ULLMAN. Thank you so much for your consideration. Mr. CANNON. The committee will stand adjourned until 2 of this afternoon. AFTERNOON SESSION WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13, 19 OPPOSITION TO CROSS-FLORIDA BARGE CANAL WITNESS THOMAS B. HUTCHESON, CHIEF ENGINEER, SEABOARD AIR LIE RAILROAD CO. Mr. CANNON. Association of American Railroads, Mr. Thomas F Hutcheson. Will you be seated, Mr. Hutcheson. I believe you w to be heard in opposition to the Cross-Florida Barge Canal. Mr. HUTCHESON. That is right. Mr. CANNON. You may proceed. Mr. HUTCHESON. My name is Thomas B. Hutcheson, I am the thi engineer of the Seaboard Air Line Railroad Co., Richmond, Va.. pear as chairman of zone 3-Committee on Waterways of the ssociation of American Railroads, a committee consisting of reprentatives of railroads operating in the southeastern United States hich review waterway problems in its area. Those railroads opposg allocation of funds for the proposed Cross-Florida Barge Canal e: Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Co., Central of Georgia Railway 5., Chesapeake & Ohio Railway Co., Louisville & Nashville Railroad ., Seaboard Air Line Railroad Co., Southern Railway System. It will be recalled that zone 3-Committee on Waterways of the ssociation of American Railroads appeared before your committee the first session of the present Congress. Mr. John T. Ward, sistant chief engineer for my company, and Dr. Charles A. Welsh, rector of the graduate program in business administration and asciate professor at Rollins College, Winter Park, Fla., testified on half of the Committee on Waterways of the AAR. Their testimony shown on page 220 through page 236, part 3 of the record of heargs before the subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, [ouse of Representatives, 86th Congress. Mr. Ward introduced into the record a preliminary analysis of the estudy report of the Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army, on the Crosslorida Barge Canal project dated January 10, 1958. This analysis is the record beginning on page 221, and I urge your consideration of at analysis when considering the Cross-Florida Barge Canal. Dr. Welsh testified that he had, at the request of the Association of merican Railroads, prepared a critique of the economic restudy of e cross-Florida barge canal by the U.S. Corps of Engineers. He aid that the critique was, at that time, in the process of printing and opies would be made available to the committee as soon as possible or their reference. I now have printed copies of Dr. Welsh's crique, the "Economic Prospects of the Cross-Florida Barge Canal roject." I respectfully request that this critique be printed in the ecord in order to make it available to the general public and to your ommittee for its consideration. Mr. CANNON. The summary will be included in the record. (The document referred to follows:) PREFACE This study endeavors to follow the pattern of analysis of developments in ransportation established in theory by the Brookings Institution study of "Naional Transportation Policy" by Dearing and Owen, “Economics of Transportion" by Westmeyer, the 1955 report by the Presidential Advisory Committee n Transport Policy and Organization, the study by Haver and Renshaw on The Future of the Illinois Waterway," the Hoover Commission task force eport, and "The Measurement of the Benefits From Public Investment in Naviation Projects" by E. F. Renshaw as well as other similar surveys. Its parcular subject is the "Economic Restudy of Cross-Florida Barge Canal," made 1958 by the Corps of Engineers. These studies along with numerous others which are cited endeavor to develop balanced perspective with regard to the Nation's needs for transport policies hich will promote and foster a symmetrical, competitive, economic, and effient system of transportation as applied to specific projects. The railroads are he backbone of America's transportation system and their position as competiive common carries is necessarily central to the discussion of a transportation etwork and its problems. Other forms and facilities of transportation have each instance an optimum competitive role to play in a dynamic transportaon economy. 54265-60-pt. 5- -32 |