SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTIONS
SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION "B"
(Vendsel)
GARRISON DIVERSION UNIT
A concurrent resolution urging the President, director of the bureau of the budget and the secretary of the interior to make early transmittal to Congress of the project plan report on the Garrison Diversion Unit.
WHEREAS, the regional director, region 6, bureau of reclamation, on January 29, 1957 submitted to the commissioner, bureau of reclamation, a project plan report on the engineering and financial feasibility of the Garrison Diversion Unit, Garrison Diversion, North and South Dakota, Missouri River Basin Project, and recommended its approval; and
WHEREAS, the commissioner approved and transmitted the same to the secretary of the interior on April 19, 1957, which action gave hope to every interested North Dakotan that the report would go to the 85th Congress in time for hearings and action thereon; and
WHEREAS, after a further study and review thereof, the secretary on June 12, 1957 approved the report which was thereafter transmitted to the bureau of the budget where it still remains; and
WHEREAS, it is of the utmost importance that the report be sent to Congress as soon as possible so that hearings and action thereon may be scheduled and taken at the earliest practicable time during the First Session of the 86th Congress;
Now , Therefore, Be It Resolved 'by the Senate of the State of North Dakota, the House of Representatives Concurring Therein:
That the President of the United States, the director of the bureau of the budget and the secretary of the department of the interior be, and they are hereby, respectfully urged to transmit to the First Session of the 86th Congress the project plan report on the Garrison Diversion Unit at the earliest practicable date.
Be It Further Resolved, that copies hereof be mailed by the secretary of state to the President of the United States, the director of the bureau of the budget, the secretary of the interior, to Senators William Langer and Milton R. Young, and to Representatives Quentin N. Burdick and Don L. Short.
Filed February 25, 1959.
