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Y 4 at this time or questions to ask of the Bureau of Reclamation representatives who are present. Mr. Sloan." MR. SLOAN: "I have certain questions but I will bow out to Mr. Osborne to express them." MR. GILDERSLEEVE: "Mr. Sarchet do you have any comments or questions ?" MR. SARCHET: "It seemed to us that this site selection affected the people in the Morgan.County area more than it does up here and I think that I would like to hear from those people first before I ask some questions and make some comments. I think those people are more vitally affected by the choice between the Narrows or the Weld County sites and I would suggest that maybe we hear from them before I make my comments or ask questions." MR. GILDERSLEEVE: "Mr. Davis, do you have anything at this time ?" MR. B. DAVIS: "I have no comments or suggestions at this time." MR. GILDERSLEEVE: "Well, Mr. Osborne, you're from Morgan County." MR. OSBORNE: "I'll start out very briefly and state it this way. There are problems as far as Morgan County is concerned and other people are of - fected indirectly as their interests might be as to the geographical location of our irri- gated lands in Morgan County, the prospective additional usage on underground recharge and that sort of thing. And due to the fact that the river, of course, runs downhill we are in the position to give service to the bulk of the Morgan County irrigated lands, and also the lands that are susceptible to more intensive irrigation and perhaps some enlargement if the water supply did become available in the future. Also to the larger portion of the lands that are critically short of water in some years. I'd say in our plentiful water years we get along right well but on the real short water years, we have in the neighborhood of 45,000 acres of land that become -5-