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<br />~vv~ <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />The Savery-Pot Hook Project report has <br />been submitted to the Secretary of the Inter- <br />ior some six months ago. We promptly sub- <br />mitted our comments under the Flood Control <br />Act to the Secretary of the Interior on that <br />project but the State of Wyoming did not. <br />Since it involves both Colorado and Wyoming, <br />they are participants in that project. <br />Recently, however, the State of Wyoming did <br />submit its comments and they were favorable. <br />Then without warning, or as far as we knew, <br />of notice to anyone, a Bill was introduced by <br />a Senator from Wyoming in the Congress to <br />authorize that project. I have not seen the <br />Bill. My first knowledge of it came from our <br />Congressional delegation and they were caught <br />unawares also. I expect that that Bill is in <br />the office today since I requested copies of <br />it by air mail for an analysis. If the Bill <br />is satisfactory, we will ask our Senators <br />and our Congressmen to introduce companion <br />bills also. There is no chance, of course, <br />of getting any authorization this session of <br />Congress, but we anticipate that at the be- <br />ginning of the next session of Congress in <br />January of 1961 that we will drive for the <br />authorization and immediate construction of <br />that project. <br /> <br />It is possible also, at the next session <br />of Congress, that we may have the Bostwick <br />Park and Fruitland Mesa Projects ready for <br />authorization. If so, that means that we will <br />have four projects for authorization in the <br />next session of Congress which is a pretty <br />large order. They are the Fryingpan-Arkan- <br />sas, the Savery-Pot Hook, the Fruitland Mesa <br />and the Bostwick Park. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />For construction funds at the next <br />session we are hopeful that the Silt Project, <br />which is already an authorized project, will <br />be ready although it is somewhat doubtful. <br />In any event, we have hopes that we can get <br />construction funds for the Silt Project dur- <br />ing the next session of Congress. <br /> <br />You will recall that when we toured the <br />Collbran and Paonia Projects areas last sum- <br />'mer, some of you took a side trip to the <br />Redlands Mesa area in Delta County. That <br />