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<br />I <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />MR. D. MILLER: <br /> <br />on. And I think we can't afford not to be a <br />member of this Council simply for information <br />and future protection. It's one of those <br />things you have to invest in. <br /> <br />That is my analysis of how the Council <br />started. When they pulled in New Mexico and <br />Utah they left it open for Colorado and Wyoming <br />to join if they requested. They didn't want <br />to push it. And I again believe that this may <br />be an attempt to develop a body which will over- <br />ride our Upper Colorado River Commission which <br />I don't think any of us want. We can only pro- <br />tect that by being in on the ground floor at <br />these meetings and making our representation at <br />tha t time. That's my analysis and that's the <br />analysis I gave the Governor." <br /> <br />"Mr. Chairman, I'd like to add one other <br />comment here by way of analogy. The 'no new <br />starts' policy which was severely criticized by <br />this Board and by the western states generally, <br />was called to the attention of the United States <br />Congress and other people by the action of the <br />Missouri River states Committee at, I believe, <br />Council Bluffs, Iowa. This was at the request <br />of Governor McNichols to me as the representa- <br />tive of a Missouri River state and while I said <br />a moment ago that I would have a hard time <br />explaining anything that the Missouri River <br />States accomplished, I can recall this as a <br />specific example. We did get the support of <br />every single Missouri River Basin state through <br />the Missouri River States Committee in this <br />attack upon the 'no new starts' policy of the <br />previous administration. <br /> <br />The resolution which Stan Miller and I <br />drew, or helped draw, was printed, I think, upon <br />three occasions in the Congressional Record and <br />represented one of the main attempts, (and it <br />turned out to be successful), to get this policy <br />reversed. <br /> <br />Again on the Missouri River, the Missouri <br />River States Committee, as Governor Johnson well <br />knows, is the governors of those states and the <br />