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34 <br /> 0 <br /> 0 <br /> 0 <br /> a praotioal standpoint rather than a legal standpoint? I i <br /> think there is a very non-legal question that is not set- <br /> tied by our local and state courts as to the return flows <br /> from imported water. In that Natter I remember hearing a <br /> group of attorneys over the state..--perhe.pe you both were <br /> w <br /> there...wien the Bureau made a filing in behalf of the • <br /> Colorado Big Thompson,. inoluding in their etatement of <br /> claim the claim on the imported water and the return flews . <br /> theretroat as being not subject to the appropriation- laws <br /> or subject to appropriation by the water users with rights <br /> in the flow of the streams into which that imported water <br /> was to be conveyed, and the decision finally was to allow <br /> the statement of claim to be filed in the State Enxineer e <br /> office, leaving the practical question I want to discuss <br /> about losing its identity to be decided by more basio and <br /> definite facts as they became available and the project was <br /> constructed and operated. <br /> I think we all realize the extreme complication of <br /> trying to say that return water to a strewn as it exists, <br /> exclusive of the question of imported waters, how muoh <br /> should properly be credited to the diversions from that <br /> stream and how muoh to natural precipitation in the surround.. <br /> ing area. It is quite ooaplioated in itself. <br /> Then when you add a nev factor of imported water, and <br /> divert it along with your local supplies and let it mixed <br />