8014

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 8014
• Author: McDonald, W. J.
• Title: The Upper Basins' Political Conundrum
• USFW Year: 1997.
• USFW - Doc Type: A Deal is Not a Deal.
• Copyright Material: NO

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Acknowledgments
First and foremost, I would like to acknowledge the able assistance provided
by Spencer J. Shepherd, on the staff of the Western Water Policy Review
Advisory Commission, in locating and gathering together numerous
references for my use. His timely research and prompt responses to my many
requests were of great benefit. In addition, he proofed all statutory and case
law citations for the final paper. In this regard, thanks are also due to
Jennifer Holman, a law student intern from the University of California at
Davis in the Pacific-Southwest Region, Office of the Solicitor, U.S.
Department of the Interior, who originally researched many of the citations to
the statutes and cases referenced in this paper.
I would also like to recognize the extensive help provided by Wayne Cook,
Executive Director, and Jane Bird, General Counsel, Upper Colorado River
Commission, in identifying resources in the Commission's library and
responding to numerous inquiries for data. I also want to acknowledge the
assistance of numerous personnel in the Mid-Pacific, Lower Colorado, Upper
Colorado, and Great Plains Regions of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation who
provided a wide variety of data to me, always on short notice. Finally, my
thanks to folks in several other federal agencies, and state agencies, who
provided background materials to refresh my fading memory.
To my colleagues Marlene Mills and Steve Jones, Pacific-Southwest Region,
Office of the Solicitor, U.S. Department of the Interior, I would like to express
my thanks for their tireless help in typing the final manuscript. The care
with which they attended to the necessary details is greatly appreciated.
A draft of this paper was provided to a number of people for review. To each
of them, I would like to extend my thanks for the thought provoking
comments which were received. The final paper reflects changes made in
response to most, but not all, of these comments and it is undoubtedly a better
product for it. To the extent that some reviewers' comments have not been
accommodated, this shortsightedness is mine and mine alone.
Finally, my thanks to Don Glaser, the Commission's Executive Director, for
having invited me to prepare this research paper. I trust that the
Commission finds this paper useful in informing its deliberations.