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<br />MR. SPARKS: <br /> <br />"Gentlemen, you have in your folders a <br />copy of Senate Bill 72 which is identical <br />with H. R. 2352 (the House bill) which is a <br />bill to authorize the San Juan-Chama and <br />Navajo Irrigation Projects. The draft you <br />have before you shows certain amendments in <br />capital letters. These amendments are <br />amendments all of which have been previously <br />considered by the Board. There has been no <br />change I as you will recall I from what was <br />originally considered, with the exception of <br />the changes in Sec. 2 on the second page. <br />That is the section which has been the source <br />of. difficulty to date between Colorado and <br />New Mexico. It has to do with the operation <br />of Navajo Reservoir. <br /> <br />The change which you see there in Sec. <br />2 has been approved, in principle at least, <br />by the New Mexico Interstate Streams Commis- <br />sion at its meeting last Friday in Santa Fe, <br />and is, in effect, ~ proposal I made to the <br />State of New Mexico a few days earlier in <br />Santa Fe. There was a minor modification <br />they made in subpar~graph (b), but as far as <br />I am personally concerned, I do not consider <br />that to be anything of substance. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br /> <br />- <br /> <br />MR. NELSON: <br />MR. SPARKS: <br /> <br />"Is their modification in this version?" <br /> <br />"Yes. This version contains their modi- <br />fication of subparagraph (b) - the bill that <br />you have before you. (See Appendix A). <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />This matter has been gone into at con- <br />siderable length before. I think briefly I <br />will summarize what is in the new Sec. 2. <br />The Southwestern Board has been insistent <br />that the Navajo Reservoir be operated so that <br />water stored or entering the reservoir should <br />be utilized to satisfy downstream requirements <br />in the. State of New Mexico, when such require- <br />ments would constitute a demand against the <br />State of Colorado under the terms of the <br />Upper Basin Compact. We have that provision <br />in there with a proviso that the utilization <br />of the San Juan River water entering or <br />stored in Navajo Reservoir shall be regulated <br />insofar as possible, so that shortages to <br />users from Navajo Reservoir shall not exceed <br />shortages to users from the Animas River in . <br />