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anybody else who comes in after that, it's a lower priority. And on <br /> Clear Creek, which is apparently what's really caused this need for this <br /> new legislation, we've — there's lot of users and they've been <br /> appropriating or putting the water to beneficial use for 150 years. And <br /> you're coming in now and so when Senator Matsunaka is saying if <br /> Georgetown or Silver Plume makes a request for some beneficial use, <br /> could be consumptive use for more houses or something like that, <br /> they're coming in after you have already made your request for <br /> beneficial use. I mean, isn't that what we're talking about. Those that <br /> are before you, who have already asked for a water right and have <br /> been to the court before you, you're after them, you're long — they got <br /> rights ahead of you everyday of the week. But if somebody who now <br /> comes in and asks for beneficial use, that he apparently is worried <br /> about. <br /> • <br /> Mme. Chair: Mr. Hartman. <br /> D. Hartman: Excuse me, yes, that is correct. The water rights we're filing on Clear <br /> Creek are very, very junior rights. Most all of the water that is coming <br /> • <br /> by our course right now is senior and being called by other <br /> downstream users, be it the cities of Westminster, Arvada, Thornton, <br /> Northglenn, all take water out of Clear Creek below Golden. So does <br /> Coors Consolidated Mutual. All of that is way senior to ours and it <br /> would only be someone who comes in and files a junior right, a right <br /> that would be in time after ours that we would affect. <br /> Man: -- once Golden agrees to it. <br /> • Mme. Chair: Any further questions? Thank you very much, Mr. Hartman. <br /> D. Hartman: Thank you. <br /> Mme. Chair: The next person is Joel Heath. Welcome to the Public Policy <br /> Committee, Joel, Mr. Heath. <br /> Joel Heath: Thank you. My name is Joel Heath. I've Vice President of Vail <br /> Valley Tours and Convention Bureau. The Tours & Bureau is a <br /> marketing cooperative representing over 600 businesses. We do not <br /> represent the ski company. We're ma and pa businesses and our <br /> mission is to establish a year -round economy for the Vail Valley. <br /> Originally from Boulder, Colorado, been in Vail for the last eight <br /> years. Vail built a whitewater park this last fall. We spent over about <br /> $200 thousand and completed on November 10 of the year 2000. <br /> We're ready for our first run off this year. There's four points of <br /> emphasis that I would like to speak to in opposition about Senate Bill <br /> 216. From the economic impact side, it creates a place of gathering <br /> April 12, 2001 <br /> Page 15 <br />