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, " January 24, 1974 Page 2 the states met In Denver, Colorado, and prepared a response to the Federal Subcommittee Position Paper. A copy of this State Subcommittee Position Paper is enclosed. This position paper was presented to the Ad Hoc Committee on January 18, 1974 at which time it was agreed to suggest that the deadline to develop a unified state/federal position be extended to July 1, 1974, an extension of five months rather than the six months referred to in the State Subcommittee Position Paper. This extension to July 1, 1974 has since been approved. The purpose of this memo is to request that each of the ten basin states bring an attorney to the February 5-7, 1974 Kansas Citv meetinQ of the Missouri River Basio Commission. The attorneys will meet with the states durinQ their caucus on February 5. 1974 at 8:00 p.m. in the Wyandotte Room of the Ramada lon, Center City Plaza. Another room io which the attorneys may meet has been reserved in the event it is decided we should meet separately while the states are caucussing. Our prime immediate objective, as I see it, is to review the Federal Subcommittee Position Paper and the Report of the legislative Technical Group to the Ad Hoc Committee in order to determine the states' separate and joint positions relative thereto. This is not to infer that the two other technical group papers are not worthy of our study - they are as they definitely raise legal questions with which we must conteod. We must, however, begin with the most obvious legal issues - those contained in the legislative Technical Group Report and the Federal Subcommittee Position Paper. I am, therefore, enclosing copies of all three technical group reports. also suggest that we all familiarize ourselves with the Flood Control Act of 1944 (58 Stat. 887); Senate Document No. 191, 78th Congress, 2d Session;