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12 <br /> 1 Mr . Vice-Chairman and members . I am Major Gary <br /> 2 Bonham, Deputy District Commander of the Albuquerque • <br /> 3 District , U . S . Army Corps of Engineers . I thank you <br /> 4 for the opportunity to present key topics from our <br /> 5 report of the last year and items of current <br /> 6 interest . <br /> 7 Joining me from the Albuquerque District is <br /> 8 Dennis Garcia , Reservoir Control Branch Chief . We <br /> 9 also have Jason Woodruff , Arkansas River Basin <br /> 10 Coordinator; Karen Downey, John Martin Dam Project <br /> 11 Manager; and Traci Robb , Trinidad Lake Project <br /> 12 Manager . In addition, we also have the pleasure of <br /> 13 having Van Truan, our Pueblo Regulatory Chief , here • <br /> 14 this year . <br /> 15 I would like to start by giving you a brief <br /> 16 history and description of the Albuquerque District <br /> 17 of the U . S . Army Corps of Engineers . As the United <br /> 18 States struggled in the throes of the Great <br /> 19 Depression , a new U. S . Army Corps of Engineers <br /> 20 District was created in New Mexico under the command <br /> 21 of Captain Hans Kramer . Although flood control and <br /> 22 irrigation projects in the sparsely populated region <br /> 23 of the Canadian River were not economically feasible <br /> 24 in 1929 , widespread unemployment in the early 1930 ' s <br /> 25 helped convince President Franklin D . Roosevelt to 411 <br />