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years. Secondly, the flow in the late part of the season is no silt problem. For a hundred years, if you only have that low flow, it does not deposit any appreciable amount of silt in the reservoir because silt is deposited according to the volume and velocity of the water. So in the lbw flow periods there is virtually no silt which enters John ~~rtin Reservoir. You can't even measure it from year to year." I MR. NELSON: "What is the done by Mr~ Doe? problem now?" status bf the work being Is he working on this MR. SPARKS: "Yes. We have already started evalua- tion, as ~~. Beise suggested, of various water rights. ','Ie have several in mind. ''Ie are trying to see how they would work. There's no hurry at the present time. It's too late in this session of Congress to get any legislation in. What we hope to do, through this summer, is to have field crews evaluate various sources of water and how they could potentially work out. Also at the same time, to draw up the legislation so that everybody can have a finger in it and perhaps, as near as possible, we can eventually satisfy everyone. However, I recall a motto that I saw in Governor Clyde's office a few weeks ago, that read something like this 'I can't give you the formula for success, but I can give you the one for failure - try to please everyone'. That say- ing is applicable to all our water problems. We have to do the best we can." MR. NELSON: "Dr. Clark, do you have anything further at this time?" DR. CLARK: "Mr. Nelson, I think we have probably taken as much time as this subject merits at the present. Larry has just mentioned that we've got lots of time now. We missed the boat for any possible legislation for the present session of Congress. We also missed it in our own state legislature in its special session. We have until next year in which to resolve this. I