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of the Upper Colorado River Compact by enlarging the staff of the Commission and giving the com~ mission additional assistance through the Engi~ neering and Legal Committees of the Commission. I The above are but two examples of the con- tinuing leadership being offered by Colorado in the field of water development and conservation. This is brought about, in my opinion, by the willingness oi the Director and the Acting Direc- tor to assume leadership when the other states appear to be willing to drift apart. I don't know whether this is the place to say this or not but I'm going to say it anyway. I have noticed several times in the last two or three years, 1 don't know Whether it's a willing- ness, or an inclination, on the part of the other Upper Basin states to move independently on mat- ters which I think are of importance to the Upper Basin states alone. I am in thorough accord with, and I am sure Governor Johnson believes, that the Upper ColoradO River commission is the organiza- tion through which these things should be chan- neled. I may have some questions from a legal point of view as to what the authority of the commission is as set up by the Upper Colorado River Compact but I still feel that the Commis- sion, being the one agency that represents all four states,. is.the agency that should speak for four states on Upper Colorado River matters and that they should do so as the uniform voice. I Time and again it has been either Mr. Sparks or Mr.. Kuiper or both who have more or less grabbed one of the other states by the ear and said this is a matter for the commission to speak on and the four states to speak on and not for each state to go off on a separate path and, I think, although certainly there are some diver~ gences of opinion between the four Upper Basin states, that in these matters the approach should be a uniform one and it should be done jointly because when we do it individually we just dilute and \'leaken the effect of any action we take. And this is the time more than ever before, I think~ when we ought to act together.