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<br />include that in our budget to request to the legislature. <br /> <br />Mr. Stapleton: Are we recommending these as direct grants, or <br />participations, or what? <br /> <br />Mr. Sparks: I think in most cases they would be participation. with <br />other funds, Four Corners, the EPA, etc., and local funds as well. <br /> <br />Mr. Stapleton: How about repayment? <br /> <br />Mr. Sparks: No. There would be no repayment on this type of project. <br /> <br />"Mr, Kroeqer: It is purely research. <br /> <br />Mr. Sparks: This is research and experiments such as what we are <br />now doing, automated irrigation, sprinkler irrigation, where we are <br />setting up demonstration plots. Once we have demonstrated the <br />"economic feasibility of these projects, we would try to get them <br />going on a large scale. We then might finance a large-scale develop- <br />ment using the project construction fund. <br /> <br />Mr. Ford: Can you move part of the equipment down around Montrose <br />and Delta? <br /> <br />Mr. Sparks: We hope to expand the Grand Valley program. In addition <br />to what we have going in the Grand Valley, there is one being done <br />in the Cortez area and one in the Durango area on sprinkler irriga- <br />tion. That is an area where sprinkler irrigation has not been <br />practiced in the past. Those are being funded largely by grants from <br />the Four Corners administration and the Soil Conservation Service, <br />Bureau of Reclamation and local funds. <br /> <br />Mr. Ford: Let me ask one more question. Do these projects have to <br />be channeled through the regionai office there, the Region 10 office? <br /> <br />Mr. Cornelius: No. <br /> <br />Mr. Ford: Thank you. <br /> <br />Mr. Stapleton: What is the attitude of the Joint Budget Committee on <br />supplying funds in this area? Did you talk with any of them at all? <br /> <br />Mr. Sparks: The legislators, by and large, seem to be favorable to <br />this type of program. As you know, we have done a limited amount of <br />this in the past. The funds appropriated to us now is a small amount <br />for the work in the Grand Valley. In my conversation with the members <br /> <br />-16- <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />I <br />