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m <br /> 208 <br /> 0 <br /> 0 <br /> 0 <br /> feet of water in Caddo& Reservoir for publio use, such <br /> m. <br /> DI <br /> storage having been provided with public funds. ' The .' <br /> 0 <br /> threat of that thought runs all through, that the Boolean. <br /> tion Bureau or any other Federal <br /> y *gently has a right if it <br /> e ahoy what they are proposing to do has a new public in. <br /> tereat, to assume to use its oapasi.ty and to avoid, in the <br /> ogee of the Reclamation Bu ■eau, the construoti.on of a new • <br /> reservoir, for example, as part of their basin-wide de- <br /> veeleest plans, including the importation of water in order <br /> to re iuoe the cost of those future developmtemt ,programs; <br /> they are assuming that they have a perfeot right to store <br /> water and exchange water in' daddoa Reservoir. <br /> I think we are overlooking something here when we <br /> rely wholly upon the legal afoot of this pro,3eot that is <br /> authorised for the definite purposes of flood control and <br /> irrigation, and we are asses that it ie,a, as we are looking <br /> at it, largely ,arm irrigation structure that nothing else osn <br /> interfere with. I am afraid we are overlooking the foot here <br /> it might be true if we had borrowed the money and agreed to <br /> repay the money, to some Federal agency which I doubt, if it <br /> is true to that full extent under the peculiar ciraumstanoes <br /> of the situation of Caddo* Reservoir. <br /> CHAIRMAN IRAMER: I an glad you emphasised that <br /> point, Mr. Patterson, because I certainly at some juncture <br /> or Cher woula be constrained to call da;tation to it myself <br />