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Page 2 It looks like we are going to have another one in 1973 -- Cost Sharing. The Water Resources Council is scheduling meetings to consider cost sharing legislation. It will probably hit the street before Christmas, I'm beginning to think Scrooge is still alive and doing well. PROJECTS WHICH SHOULD START SOON In spite of the threats from the National Water Commission and the Water Resources Council, some progress is evident in our basin on water reSource projects. Work is continuing on a wide variety of projects and EI Dorado Lake, Kansas was started in September 1973, Our forecast for the rest of the year looks like this: BIRCH - Construction could start as early as December 1973. Land acquisitinn is underway. COPAN - Land acquisition and relocations underway. A construction contract by mid 1974. BIG HILL - Land acquisition to start soon. A construction contract in the Spring. SKIATOOK - A construction contract early in 1974. Land acquisition will be well underway soon. FY 74 FUNDS It appears that there will be no water resource funds impounded or placed in BUDGETARY RESERVE this year, including the amounts over the budget appropriated by the Congress. This is good news and hopefully presages an era of better cooper- ation between OMB and the Congress, BOARD OF DIRECTORS MEETING The ABDA Board of Directors met in Tulsa, on October 3, for its semi-annual meeting, Excerpts fro~ President Cunningham's report to the Board follow: We have not been able to dislodge a new oonstruction start on the Salt Project although the Congress did increase the funds for planning and has urged the Corps to accelerate the co~pletion of planning in the Red River Basin, We are still hopeful that our Congressional Delegation, working with Red River interests, can secure an early construction start. * * * * * * * * * * In June the Southwestern Division Engineer released the Oklahoma National Recreation Area Study. Our Association was instru~ental in raising several important questions regarding recreational and industrial plan- ning and use of that portio~ of the waterway which would be within the proposed O~A, Together, with Tulsa and Muskogee interests and the Arkansas River Develop~ent Corporation, we have brought these questions before the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors, Our position is essentially that the planning fo~ recreation and industrial use must be do~e prior to authorization of the Oklahoma National Recreation Area to insure adequate industrial a~cess to the waterway. We shall continue to press tor a solution to this pro~le~.