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<br />r:) <br />~/'') <br />l '~~ <br />..-~ <br />(_."; <br /> <br />C~. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />STATEMENT OF DAVID WILLIAMS, JR., REGARDING THE AQUATRAIN PROJECT <br />PRESENTED BEFORE THE COLORADO RIVER BASIN SALINITY CONTROL FORUM, <br />MAY 1, 1984, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH <br /> <br />Introduction <br /> <br />Thank you, Mr. Chairman. It's a pleasure to be here with you and <br />other members of the Forum this morn ing. I have heard much <br />favorable comment about this group, and am pleased to work with <br />you on the AQUATRAIN Project. Before discussing the subject <br />matter, I would like to share with you some personnel changes <br />that have taken place recently in AQUATRAIN. Most of you know <br />Ira McKeever. Ira's leave of absence from W. R. Grace & Co. <br />expired the end of March and, regrettably, he will not be able to <br />continue with the project. We will miss Ira. The Directors of <br />AQUATRAIN are pleased that Mr. Morgan A. Greenwood has agreed to <br />succeed Ira McKeever as President. Morgan and I have worked <br />together for more than twenty years and have put together <br />projects of similar magnitude under Williams Brothers Engineering <br />and Resource Sciences Corporation, which we both were involved in <br />managing. I would like to introduce one other key individual, <br />Mr. Thomas P. Clark. Tom is Chairman of the Board of Aquatrain, <br />Inc., and a partner with me in a number of business investments, <br />including Western Water Reserves Inc., the new parent of <br />Aquatrain. I am here today pinch-hitting for Morgan Greenwood <br />who has had a stubborn virus that has temporarily detained him. <br /> <br />In providing a report on AQUATRAIN to the Forum this morning, <br />both technologies and economics should be emphasized as they <br />relate to the Project. Additionally, we would like to review <br />with you some of the steps we planned in the near future to <br />better define the project, its functions, and its financial plan. <br /> <br />Technoloqies <br /> <br />With regard to technologies, Reclamation has done, and continues <br />to do significant work on uses for saline water in the powerplant <br />environment. We are following those studies closely and are <br />paralleling such activities with additional commercial saline <br />water use applications that have come to our attention. As those <br />applications become better defined, we will bring them to the <br />Forum for your advice and counsel on their acceptability to the <br />States. <br /> <br />From previous briefings, you are aware of the C02/coal slurry <br />technology that is being developed by Arthur D. Little, Inc., and <br />