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2-07 House Committee Lay Over Unamended Page 43 of 49 Ms'. Schreier: Madam Chair: Ms'. Schreier: Madam Chair: Mr. Arnish: Yeah; I was pretty much about to wrap up. There is the point that to bring the parties to the table and keep the process moving forward, there does need to be clarification of how this process will integrate existing processes; 1041 _ hearings, etc., having that incentive of regulatory certainty, reduction of lawsuits and streamlining the process for all the parties involved. There is some political momentum and political will now to move forward. As I said I've provided some examples and we will be happy to work with the sponsor and Director George and others to help to develop the framework that's going to work well in the state of Colorado. Great. Thank you. Feel free to submit anything written that you have and anyone whose testified, please feel free to do that. Are there any questions for Ms. Schreier? At this point on Representative Brophy brought up earlier, the idea of the ratification by the General Assembly is probably more similar to the ratification by U. S. Congress of the compact that once the parties have gone through that process of coming together and coming to an agreement, while it's possible for a legislative body to tinker, it tends to be not advisable once they're at that level of agreement and support. Alright; thank you very much. And our last person signed up is Mark Amish. Mark, thanks for your patience. I'll try to make this brief. I know that we're a little bit behind time so I'll try to summarize my comments here briefly. But again, my name is Mark Arnish. I'm a diversified row crop producer from the Prostic Valley area. I'm a water user from the South Platt river basin and I'm a director to the Colorado Corn Grower's Association, who I'm representing here today. I'll try not to confuse the issue this time with the words quantity and quality like I did last time. So I've stricken those from my testimony. Colorado Corn is the voice for nearly 550 corn producers across the state, both on this side as well as on the west slope of Colorado. As corn producers in a semi-arid climate, you can imagine that water is one of our primary focuses. It's very important to us. Agriculture may be our life, but water has been and always will be part of our future. Collaboration, communication and cooperation are the three fundamental aspects in my mind to getting something done with www.escriptionist.com Page 43 of 49