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<br />I <br /> <br />MR. STAPLETON: <br /> <br />MR. CRANDALL. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />0/0:> <br /> <br />projects advance planning efforts. We are <br />going to begin the Animas-La Plata next year <br />with a local contribution of $25,000. The <br />advance planning on the McPhee site on the <br />Dolores Project and on the Dallas Creek will <br />start this coming fiscal year if the Congress <br />approves the amount that is in the President's <br />~get. <br /> <br />Advance planning on the San Miguel is <br />contemplated in the subsequent fiscal year. <br />The West Divide Project, the people up there <br />may consider a contribution. They did at one <br />time. <br /> <br />That sort of wraps up where we now stand <br />on the five Colorado projects. <br /> <br />Mr. Chairman, I'd like to say something <br />nice about your Executive Director if that's <br />all right." <br /> <br />"All right." <br /> <br />"Larry sometime ago recognized the very <br />vital necessity of developing relationships <br />with the local entities that are going to take <br />over these projects. As you know, they have <br />to contract for the repayment costs and to <br />operate and maintain them. Not only that, the <br />projects have to be finally built in a way <br />compatible with their local needs. There has <br />to be a very close continuing working partner- <br />ship with the people these projects are being <br />built for. So Larry has organized a contact <br />program where we join him and have met with <br />each of these groups and have gone over all the <br />details involved in these upcoming steps in <br />getting these projects completed. I am sure <br />we are all going to be repaid for that effort <br />many times. <br /> <br />The next item, beginning on page 15, is <br />the Western united States Water Plan Study. <br />The Colorado River Basin Act required that this <br />