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RESOLUTION NO. 55-93 OF THE - CITY COUNCIL OF-~ OF SANTA ANA, CALIFORNIA, OPPOSING TaE UPPER COLORADO RIVER BASIN PROJECTS AS PROPOSED IN S. 500 AArD H.R. 270 AND Tlt~ FRYINGPAN- ARKANSAS PROJECT AS PROPOSED IN S. 300 AND H.R. 412, NOW PENDI$~G IN CONGRESS. ~.~2~EAS, the City of Santa Ana, California, is vitally dependent on a water supply obtained from the Colorado River, and %q~EP~EAS, California's rightful share of Colorado River water is threatened by the Upper Colorado River Basin projects as proposed~ in S, 500 and H.R. 270 and the Fryingpan-Arkansas project as proposed in S 300 and H.R. 412, now pending in Congress, and ~EREAS, the aforementioned projects would inflict on all taxpayers of this City and the Nation an unjustifiable burden of more than four billion dollars, and ~tY~REAS, these political pump-priming schemes if authorized would furnish water to grow the kind of crops which are already in great s~rplus in this country, and which are already heavily subsidized by the taxpayers, and ~EREAS, the Colorado River Board of California, official state agency charged with the responsibility of safeguarding California's existing contracts for Colorado River water, has gone on record strongly opposing these NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the enactment of these project bills is against the interest of the City of Santa Aha, California, in particular and the State of California in general and should be opposed. BE l~ FURTHER RESOLVED that the City of S~nta Aha respectfully quests the representatives of the State of California in the Congress of the United States to actively oppose the enactment of the above mentioned bills or any similar proposals, and that certified copies of this resolution be air mailed to our Congressional representatives, and copies be made avail- able to press and radio news sources.