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2-28 House Committee amended to appropriations Page 20 of 22 Madame Chair: Rep. McKinley: Rep. PelllY Rep. McKillley: Madame Chair: Rep. PelllY that's the case. It might, it might. It celiainly won't make it more expensive. If anything it would make it less expensive. Something for the Committee to be aware of in checking with David and with Representative Plant I think the next stop is appropriations on this bill if it gets out of this Committee. So any other questions or thoughts for Representative Penry. Representative McKinley. I still have a problem here. Declared that the policy of the State of Colorado, that all areas the state must cooperate. And then we see it is fi.lrther declared to be the policy of the State of Colorado River basins, sub-basins should negotiate agreements regarding use and we had heard testimony earlier, highest and best use is defined as where the money is, that's where the money is. Representative McKinley, where are you reading? On Page 3. It's got regarding, and then we have the two IC used and we had defined highest and best uses for the money, but there's things like lifestyle, cultural and heritage into that also. We're actually going to put into law something that mandates a policy without superseding or changing any of the courts. We're getting into a lot of the court areas here. When we talk about binding and legal, those are terms that are done by courts. And then we've given the Executive Director powers here above and beyond what we normally would. So I think we need to do a lot of work and study, nothing wrong with studying, we have to have education, we have to have knowledge to arrive at a decision. But to couple knowledge with law and mandate educational law it kinda goes against what Representative Penry The language that you're reading in the nonbinding legislative declaration, I wouldn't, I don't accept your interpretation about highest and best being, you know, sort of flowing to the money. But if you would, you know, that's a nonbinding section of the bill. That's cotton candy, so if you'd like to rewrite that to make it more comfortable, I think that's all right. And in terms of studying this, you know, we've studied this issue ad nauseam for a very long time. And that was one of the reasons in the constmctive dialogue I had with Representative Curry that I www.escriptionist.com Page 20 of 22