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PANEL DISCUSSION: LET'S LOOK AT BIG RED OPENING REMARKS By IVAL V. GOSLIN, Executive Director Upper Colorado River CommlSllon, S:alt Lake City. Utah I have since been informed that "Big Red" means the Colorado River and that "let's look" re- fers to today and into the future with respect to the situation on the river from the standpoint of wa- ter and the problems associated therewith, I have also been enlightened to the fact that to function as a moderator one is supposed to arbitrate or mediate. I hope that something to mediate does come from this panel. There is nothing disgraceful about differences of opinion, Only by laying the problems on the table is it possible to see what they ;Ire ~nd to discuss them. Only by making the other felldw aware of your problem can you expect to enlist his aid in their resolution, More specifically, the discussion by this group is going to be centered around a new law that was signed on September 30th by the President, I am referring to P. L. 90-537, the Colorado River Basin Project Act of 1968. This law came into being only after twelve years of legal battling followed by five years of legislative controversy during the negotiations among the seven basin States in prepar- ation of the authorizing bill. Each of the States represented on the panel is affected either positively or negatively - - bene- ficially or adversely - - by this Act, Sometimes the legislation has been called the great compromise bill, Sometimes the Bill, or parts of it, are relegated to the category formerly distinguished by the Monkey- Ward catalogue in grandpa's "two-holer", At this point I wish to introduce our participants. and briefly describe how they will operate. I. Myron Holburt, Chief Engineer of the Colorado River Board of California, has been named as our "keynoter". His function will be to highlight several problems confronting the Colorado River Basin as a whole that have either not been solved by enactment of P. L. 90-537, or have resulted be- cause of it; or that may occur in the future, as he views the situation, under certain premises that he will discuss. 2. Next is our panel of distinguished representatives from the 7 States of the Colorado River Basin with whom I am highly honored to be associated, The panel will listen attentively, I hope, to the problems raised by Mr. Holburt. Each panel member will then be given five minutes to discuss the pro- lems raised by the "keynoter" as they relate to his State as a member of the Colorado River family, The panelist if, of course, not precluded from raising other questions - - related or not related to those discussed by the "keynoter", Wyoming Colorado Nevada Utah New Mexico . . ~ .. ~ Introducticins PANEL MEMBERS Del1)ert L. Boyer Assistand State Engineer Felix L. Sparks Director Colorado Water Conservation Board Ivan P. Head Director Las Vegas Valley Water District ThQrpe Waddingham Attorney at Law Commissioner on Upper Colorado . River Commission David p, Hale Engineer Nej,v Mexico Interstate Stream Commission -38-