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<br />547 <br /> <br />cessor about this matter, gone into it <br />fully with him and Steve McNichols, who' <br />is here and can speak for himself, has <br />told me that he is first, last and all the <br />time for the appointment of Larry Sparks. <br />It seems to me that the attitude or the <br />feeling of your retiring Governor and your "I" . <br />Governor-elect should carry weight with <br />this Board. The Governor and the Attorney <br />General have an extremely great responsibil- <br />ity with respect to the matters this Board <br />is concerned with and it seems to me that <br />the Board would do well to consider whatever <br />Governor-elect Steve McNichols thinks about <br />this. I hope you will give full weight to <br />his views. If you do not have the leader- <br />ship of the Governor of the State of Colo~ <br />rado, the unhampered leadership, the unfet- <br />tered leadership of the Governor of Colorado, <br />this Board is not going to be able to accom- <br />plish its fulr opportunities and to do the <br />things that should be done. The Governor <br />appoints the members of the Board and I am <br />not discounting at all the tremendous respon- <br />sibility that rests on the Attorney Gener~ <br />aI's office especially in legal matters. <br />The law makes it possible for him to veto <br />anyone selected by this Board. It has to <br />be done with his full concurrence <<nd he <br />has a tremendous responsibility placed on <br />his shoulders with respect to selection of <br />counsel and with respect to matters which <br />this Board must consider. He is the key <br />man, along with the Governor, in the opera- <br />tions of this Board. I need not say very <br />much to you men this morning about the im- <br />portance of this Board to the State of Colo- <br />rado. Not only to the present but to the <br />future there is nothing so precious, nothing <br />so valuabre, nothing so important to the <br />State of Colorado as its water resources and <br />that is the very thing this Board, in its <br />delegation, will be dealing with. There are <br />many problems that are showing their heads <br />.now that will be very serious and difficult 1 <br />problems in 'the future and we need to get on <br />the top of them and we need to have counsel <br />for this committee not only with an under- <br />standing of all of the legal steps that have <br />been taken but all that may be taken in the <br />future. In other words, your work and the <br />work of this Board is going to hang upon <br />