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fnezis jeweiry tiems, meKwing counoilroan in this communityMetcalf Says Dozen Groups Will Oppose Two NFC DamsBy JOHN KAMPSWASHINGTON ' (AP - At least a dozen groups will file .statements With the. Federal Power. Commission' Monday in opposition to two. proposed private power' dams in Montana. Sen. Lee Metcalf, D-Monl., *aid Sunday.Metcalf' termed the Montana Power Company's two-dam pro-. . posal for the Flathead River awnokescreen to'block the con-iMruoMon Df larger federal projects In the same stream.'The power firm is asking an FPC1 constrictor, license for Buffalo Roplda dams which -would cost an estimated $42 million, The project would have generating capacity of 240.000kilowatts.Mcdoalf Is backing legislation t» authorized oonalrueUob ME feeFederal Knowles Poject which he says would cost $247 million, generate more power than the smaller projects, and provide flood control and other benefits.He recofrnieeds.a federal dam al Paradise if Army Engineers decide it'should be built instead of Knowles..The senator aald group* opposing the power company ap-x plication include the American Public Power Association; Swan .River Farmers Union; KalispcU Local 371, International Union of Operating Er^ineera; Northwest Publicpower, 'Association; National Rurpl Electric Cooperative Association;1 Montana Farmers Union, and the Committee for Paradise Dam.Past history demonstrate* that the Montana Pywer Oo, has (Continued Page U, Col, $)
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Montana Standard Post
Butte, Montana, US
Mon, Dec 28, 1964
Page 9
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