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2-28 House Committee amended to appropriations-1 Page 2 of 19 Madame Chair: Rep. Hoppy: Madame Chair: Rep. McKillley: We've got problems we have to solve and we should do it today, so I would urge a No vote on this amendment. Representative Hoppy Thank you Madame Chair, and I would ask for a No vote on the McKinley strike bill amendment also. I think it's important that we move forward today and set up these basin roundtables, go with the bill as the proposed amendments indicate. But with another amendment change, I think, setting the date out a little farther, I think as the Chair is proposing to do. A portion of this or all of this can be discussed in the Water Resource Review Committee, which is the interim committee. There's nothing to prevent discussion from going on in that Committee because the bill's passed, you know. So I think it's appropriate that we move forward with this bill, and I'd ask for a No vote on the McKinley strike bill amendment. Representative McKinley, we need a little bit of clarification about what you want the Water Resources Review Committee to consider. Is it the bill itself, House Billll77? Yes, I've kind of gotten confi.lsed here, what's amendment and what's the House Bill. But we have a lot of contradictory terms in there. We have voluntary and we have policy. And right here it says it shall be - all areas of the state must cooperate. And it wasn't my definition, highest and best usage, that'd come out of the testimony earlier when we were done. That was where the money was. In here it talks about agriculture, recreation. We have some recreation bills up we're gonna be looking at with regards to the water. How that affects our streams. That's a bill we're looking at, agriculture. All of those things. And how much water do we actually use? How much do we need? You know, that's the term that we hear is water usage and how much water you use. Figure up yourself how much you use. I can tell you that a man and his mule only need s about 14 gallons a day, and most of us don't have a mule. But go through the - 500 gallons a day is what the water people use over in Grand Junction and they have really got conservative to use 500 gallons a day. The industry standard is about a thousand. And figure that's 250 gallons per person. Figure out how many times you want to use www.escriptionist.com Page 2 of 19