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1 1 and year out, to actually increase the appropria- tions. All the public works funds did take a reduction. Congressman Aspinall and Senator Allott have made a considerable study of this matter and I lmow in recent months they have made inquiry of the Bureau of the Budget and other sources trying to determine the future fiscal policy. Senator Allott as a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee and Congress- man Aspinall, by virtue of his chairmanship of the House Interior committee, are both in a position to get considerable information con- cerning the Administration's future fiscal policy. I am sure they can add something to this tomorrow morning when both of them will be here." l-lR. GOODWIN: "Thank you." l-lR. I<ROEGER: "Are there any comments or questions out front?" r,m. SPARKS: "r,1r. Chairman, there is one more comment I'd like to make on r1r. Crandall's report. I thiru~ it is quite significant. That is the part in his report which pertains to releases at Lee Ferry. There has been considerable criticism of the fact that in past years the Upper Basin has greatly over-delivered its com- pact commitment at Lee Ferry. In prior years we had no choice. We had no storage facilities upstream adequate to control the flow of the river. However, since the closure was effected at Glen Canyon Reservoir, we have only released about 6.3 million acre-feet of water on an aver- age in the .past five years. \~hich is considerably behind our compact oblig~tions. As a part e:~lanation for this, we have run into a cycle of years that has been rather poor. If this cycle continues, both the Upper and Lower Basins are_goi~g to be in trouble. A delivery of 6.3 million at Lee Ferry mal~es only