March 28, 1968
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Dickey-Lincoln School Hydroelectric Project, Maine
HON. EDMUND S. MUSKIE OF MAINE IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES Thursday, March 28, 1968
Mr. MUSKIE. Mr. President, at the annual meeting of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association on February 25-29, at Dallas, the association passed a resolution in support of the Dickey-Lincoln School hydroelectric project in Maine.
It is significant that the association, representing Americans across the land, should feel strongly enough about the fist multipurpose project proposed for New England to adopt a resolution in its support.
The resolution correctly reports that New England is the only region in the country without a multipurpose hydroelectric plant, that New England has the highest electric rates in the Nation, that the Dickey-Lincoln School project has been carefully studied and has an excellent cost-benefit ratio of 1.9, and that failure by Congress to approve final planning funds for the project would deal a severe blow to all future multipurpose resource development.
Because of the outstanding reputation of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association and because of the aptness of its resolution on the Dickey project, I ask unanimous consent that the resolution be printed in the Extensions of Remarks.
There being no objection, the resolution was ordered to be printed in the RECORD, as follows:
NATIONAL RURAL ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATION RESOLUTION F-3, ON DICKEY-LINCOLN PROJECT, MAINE
Whereas, the full development of water resources is of critical importance to a region's development of its commercial, industrial, agricultural and recreational potential; and
Whereas, the Dickey-Lincoln project would be the first multiple-purpose project in the New England area which would serve to develop the above mentioned potentials of the New England area, and
Whereas, the New England area has the highest electrical rates in the nation, and
Whereas, the Dickey-Lincoln project has been carefully studied and shown to have an above-average benefit-to-cost ratio of 1.9, and
Whereas, final planning funds in the budgeted appropriation for fiscal year 1968 were removed from the Public Works Appropriation bill last year through the concerted effort of the New England power companies,
Now, therefore, be it resolved, that we strongly support the budgeted appropriations for the fiscal year 1969 for the Dickey-Lincoln project, and
Be it further resolved that we actively urge the Congress to fully support the Dickey-Lincoln project as the failure to approve the construction of a project having such an excellent benefit-to-cost ratio would deal a severe blow to all future multiple-purpose resource development.