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<br />I go on at 11:00. <br /> <br />MR. SPARKS: Back up just a minute. March 28th is Monday, a week from <br />tomorrow. I have my notice for Thursday. That is when the Governor <br />was scheduled. I was wondering when the Governor got bombed. <br /> <br />MR. THOMSON: You were going on in the Senate while Jim is in the <br />House. I notified some of the people scheduled in the Senate right <br />after the Governor and they want to abort the Senate and come over to <br />the House to see what Jim is going to say. Jim will go on first. <br />Bizz Johnson, chairman of the Public Works Committee, very strongly <br />worded a letter to the other members of the House. He is very unhappy <br />about the procedure that is being followed and makes a very strong <br />recommendation which will be used by members of the Congress when they <br />accompany their state delegations in the next week. He said: "Pro- <br />vision should be made to have observers from the appropriate congres- <br />sional committees present during the project evaluation prOcess. This <br />will enable us to acquire the information we need in time to react <br />effectively to whatever is proposed, which is especially important in <br />view of the early deadlines imposed by the congressional budget and <br />appropriations process." So the White House is even bypassing the <br />congress of the United states. YOU are aware of what Senator Muskie <br />said. The Senate passed a very strong bill two weeks ago on the 10th <br />and he said, "I certainly do not object to any President's right to . <br />review the merit of projects which are ongoing when he takes office, <br />however, I do violently object to the procedure which has been used. <br />It is a procedure which has denied due process to all of the values <br />which are built into these projects; denied due process to those in the <br />Congress who have undertaken to support these projects taking them <br />laboriously through the legislative mill and across the President's <br />desk. It denied due process to the communities and regions of this <br />country who are affected and benefitted, hopefully, by.these projects." <br />So this might be of some service to the delegations when they appear <br />tomorrow but if these people from Aspen are going to make a mockery out <br />of this hearing, well, John Denver can play the qui tar better than I, <br />but I still will see him in Washington, D. C. <br /> <br />MR. BENTON: There is one thing that I would like to comment on both as <br />a member of this Board and as a rancher and irrigator. I-have been. <br />acquainted with the leaders of these various groups that are supporting <br />the President and commending him on his action for quite a few years. <br />They have always'assured me that they were sympathetic to the rancher <br />and farmer; they want to encourage agriculture, and, yet, their actions <br />cannot do anything except polarize the different factions. It seems <br />to me that any rancher-farmer that receives a request to go fishing on <br />his property or something like that that he certainly would be within <br />his rights to tell them to go elsewhere. <br /> <br />MR. JOHN W. HAWKINS: John Hawkins, County Commissioner from Delta County. <br /> <br />-20- <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />I <br />