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Those are the things that come up. I just <br />wanted to bring those things out on the table and <br />whatever kind of help that this committee can give <br />us, any instructions they can give us, as to what <br />kind of an investigation they want us to carry <br />forth, will be extremely helpful. I think that <br />none of us, the three representatives from the <br />Bureau here this morning, have given any indica- <br />tion that we are set in our ways about the pick <br />of any sites off of this report. The report is <br />there and it's to be evaluated." <br />MR. STAPLETON: "Jim, let me ask you this, if I get the sense <br />of the meeting the people here, the steering com- <br />mittee, are not willing to accept the Narrows <br />site because they don't know, first of all, <br />whether the exchange will work. That's at least <br />my idea. Now what can be done about working and <br />firming up the exchange? That can either alleviate <br />or confirm the fears of the people who object to <br />the Narrows site for that reason." <br />MR. KNIGHTS: "Right off hand, Ben, I wouldn't be prepared <br />to be very specific about just what we can do but <br />certainly there would be certain things in between <br />this overall approach that I've just explained and <br />the committee could say 'We won't need to consider <br />this', and that is what we understood the Director <br />of the Water Board to say. I believe I'm right <br />in this, this was done while I was gone, but I <br />believe he said we will not go up the tributaries, <br />we'll consider only the main stem and we'll con- <br />sider only the Two Forks. He attempted to cut <br />some of the whiskers off of this so that we could <br />begin to get into the thicket far enough to tell <br />what we had. But now, today, we have broadened out <br />and gone away from that and we've got the entire <br />thicket. Whatever short cuts or whatever specifi- <br />cations you want to hand us, we can work on those <br />if we can eliminate. If you don't eliminate, I'm <br />sure that you all see that it's a long, long <br />process. I'm not saying it's impossible but it <br />certainly takes a lot of time and a lot of money." <br />MR. D. MILLER: "Jim, let me put it this way, that I'm called <br />upon to decide whether to go for this thing or <br />CERE <br />