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.HltlU MR. ST~PLETbN: irrigable acreage under the Juniper Project. That presents to us a project which is more likely to be adopted by the Congress. We think under this scheme the Juniper Project can be authorized and we've asked authority 1_ here to appropriate $20,000 during this next fiscal year from our own budget to commence these necessary investigations. There is no possible way of starting it any sooner because we are already operating under a budget which has been previously adopted by the legislature. The only possible way would be a deficit appro- priation next January and between January and July we think there is very little difference. If we are allowed to include this $20,000 we could start the investigations on the Juniper- Great Northern Project in the fiscal year starting July 1, 1965. Some mention has been made about the previous resolution of the Board. We looked that up and the problem with the Juniper Project when the priority schedule was adopted by the Board was that its status was unknown. It was out in 'no man's land' so to speak because we had no information as to whether it would be included as a main stem project or as a participating project. Until its status was determined, we could not include it in any priority schedule. It was mentioned by resolution that the Juniper Project have priority but it was a resolution adopted after the priority schedule had already been adopted by the Board. It is impossible to interpret what the Board's action was. It was never certified to the Bureau as a project for feasibility investigation but we did request that a reconnaissance report be pre- pared. That report was rendered to us a few I' . months ago. We have not yet submitted our comments on that report. The Bureau is now awaiting the action of this Board to determine how to proceed on the project." "I'd like to have our archivist, Mrs. Keating. read that, please. The resolution."