WSP09291

• File Number: 8220.200.05.P
• Description: Hoover Dam/Lake Mead/Boulder Canyon Project
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Date: 5/3/1979
• Author: USACOE
• Title: Transcript of a Public Hearing for Re-evaluation of A Flood Control Operation Plan for Hoover Dam: Yuma AZ
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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park, he purchased this park from a private individual.

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The private individual, where did he get it? How was the

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was in view of land management land prior to his owning it

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or anyone, then why did the Bureau of Land Management allow

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the park, allow this piece of property to be sold to a

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private individual for occupancy?

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PRESIDING OFFICER: You're asking us that

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question?

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MR. OBERG: I'm asking you that series of

questions. I'd like to know how I could get an answer to

this. Maybe not tonight, but I would certainly appreciate

I, I: some kind of an answer to find out if I was completely
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PRESIDING OFFICER: Thank you, sir, for your

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comments.

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MR. MELLON: Several years ago I farmed BLM

c:', ground along the River south of lo\orales Dam. And I know

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for years the BLM has been trying to clear the floodplain

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all along the River by Shortening tile leases, terminating

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c:, the leases. And they were doing this for a reason. And

~i this seems to be the reason now. I didn1t know what the

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reason was then. It made me a little hostile because I was