BOARD00198

• Board Meeting Date: 1/15/1969
• Description: Agenda or Table of Contents, Minutes, Memos
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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in the first go-round here we set up a
different procedure, a different method, for
bringing the wells on the Platte and the
Arkansas into the adjudication system, using
somebody else as a referee r~ther than a
division engineer in view of the tremendous
worklog. Now that bill is still in the
process of being worked out.

I don't know, Glenn, do you have any-
thing to add here today?"

MR. SAUNDERS:

"The last thing Jim said is important,
I think. The two things that are in your
letter, the two paragraphs that Larry has
said need some action are actually in draft
form. He had called attention to the fact
that there will be a tremendous work load to
try to integrate 5,000 wells into the adjudi-
cation system. The plan there in general is,
I'm going to change the word on you, Jim, not
for a different method than is provided in the
bill, but a hearing board or boards under the
method shown in the bill which will relieve
the load which is on the division engineer.

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One reason these things had to wait a
bit, you remember that this Board a few years
ago appointed a committee and worked on some
legislation about a water court. We had two
bills that were approved by this Board's
legislative committee. One of those was for
a water court and this is still available of
course but the thought has been Which way do
you go? A great deal of discussion was given
to this and the method devised in the bill of
having the present district courts do this
matter, this adjudication, just as in the past
upon the basis of facts found by the division
engineer as a referee, was accepted as probably
more palatable to the whole state. But we
haven't lost track of the bill that we did a
year or so ago. Ray Moses, Larry Sparks, I,
and I think three members of this Board worked
on that a bit with Dick Eckles.