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<br />I <br /> <br />questions and such like - and the Bureau is in <br />the process now of re-examining their entire <br />plan with those specific questions and criti- <br />cisms and suggested further studies being <br />carried out in detail. They are being carried <br />out with the utilities and, as I get the report, <br />in agreement with the utilities. They have <br />laid down ground rules which are acceptable to <br />the utilities under whiCh these analyses will <br />be made and things are progressing very nicely. <br />I think that we've got the battle more than <br />half won now, in coming out with a plan which <br />will be in the best interests of everybody con- <br />cerned. By everybody, I mean the Basin Fund, <br />the Bureau, the preference users, the utilities <br />and everyone connected with this project. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />In that connection, you have enclosed in <br />your folders a brief, prepared by Don Hamburg <br />of our staff, and which has been reviewed by <br />Ray Moses, on the Keating amendment. I think <br />probably a lot of you do not know what this <br />Keating amendment is and I'll say only a couple <br />of words in connection with it. This Keating <br />amendment, in certain cases, places restric- <br />tions upon transmission construction in which <br />the Bureau can engage. It was of some concern <br />to us that in negotiating the various agreements <br />and working with the Bureau in developing this <br />transmission plan that we not be boxed in to <br />something we didn't want by an application of <br />the Keating amendment. This is a very brief <br />analysis of it and we' d like for any of you to <br />look it over and call any disagreement of it to <br />our attention. Don has a quite comprehensive <br />legislative history of this which is available <br />in our office for anyone that wants to look at <br />it at any time. It was too voluminous to in- <br />clude in this report. <br /> <br />You have had a copy of the testimony which <br />was presented in the name of this Board at the <br />Public Lands Subcommittee of the House Committee <br />on Interior and Insular Affairs in Montrose on <br />November 1 and I also submitted the motion, <br />which was passed in 1960, expressing the feeling <br />of this Board in regard to Wilderness areas <br />