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I I MR. CORNELIUS: MR. SPARKS: MR. CORNELIUS: MR. SPARKS: MR. CORNELIUS: MR. STAPLETON: MR. GOODWIN: MR. STAPLETON: MR. GOODNIN: ~IR. STAPLETON: ~..:l.J":> "This request for $20,000 for the Soil Conservation Service, was ,that their request?" "That's their figures." "You touched lightly on the Big Sandy Project. I'd like to mention that the Kiowa Creek Project was the pilot project under Public Law 566 and the flood of 1935 there did $200 million worth of damage and this year it was kept down to $70 some thousand, a very similar flood. It seems to me like $20,000 isn't much for the S.C.S. in light of the accomplishments they have done." "This is planning money only. This is to add to their staff. We have agreed to also furnish them part of our staff, that is, we'll furnish a complete team from our own staff to the Soil Conservation Service in addi tion to this." "I see, thank you." "Mr. Goodwin had a comment." "Mr. Chairman, I feel like you do, this resolution might have widespread circulation. I think this $l50 million up here is just wholly inadequate. I can sit over here on the western slope, and I haven't been over there since the flood, and I know darn well they've got five times that. I know they have." "Craig, I think that, on the basis of the Corps of Engineers' estimate, the damage to the South Platte alone was one-half billion dollars, that we have agreed to amend that to read over one-half billion dollars." "''Ie haven't said we have. That's the thing I wanted to know about." "That is part of it. ~tr. Hanna and Mr. Nelson, we have a reso- lution here that I think we'd like you to