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MR. D. MILLER: MR. STAPLETON: MR. CUYKENDALL: MR. STAPLETON: MR. CUYKENDALL: We have certain procedures we mus,t go through to arrive at that point. The only thing here is, is to determine whether we are going to present this to the Congress and if so, what would be necessary to certify the land. This is in the process of plan formulation and at this I stage the details are so nebulous that all we are trying to do is to determine what is avail- able and what might have to be done to do the whole job. We're not making definite steps at this point and that's the purpose of the steer- ing Committee to bring forward this information and we will work very closely with them and I can assure you that we won't be doing any more work than is necessary to accomplish the objec- tive of the investigation." "Thanks, Jim.1I "Thank you, Mr. Knights. Mr. Cuykendall, would you like to say something?" "I'd like to put my nickel's worth in." ttFine.1I "Thank you, Mr. Chairman. When this first was proposed - to make a study of the Platte River Basin - I thought at long last that we were going to get a genuine study of all the possibilities in the Platte River Basin. Now, from where I sit at the present moment, it seems to me that the matter of any recharge of ground water in the Bijou Basin is completely ignored. I see on your report that you are speaking about a reservoir at Wiggins. A reservoir at Wiggins, for recharge of the ground water in the Bijou Creek Basin, would be just completely worthless. From Wiggins north to the river doesn't need any help in the matter of ground water recharge but from Wiggins south they do need he'lp. Those people are pumping that water out. They may not agree with me on that statement but all we need to do is look at their static ground water level in their wells as it goes down from year to year. I