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<br />I <br /> <br />respectable sized fish to take a picture of. Being the entrepreneur <br />that. he is, he went to the Leadville Fish Hatchery and he borrowed two <br />nine to ten pound trout, and all the aeration equipment and he hauled <br />them allover the ppoject and took photographs. (Laughter) On occasion, <br />if he needs clouds, he goes to Ft. Carson and borrows smoke. Anyway, <br />I want to give him some acknowledgement here, because he is an out- <br />standing photographer. <br /> <br />(Slide) If you really want to see what the fish look like in Pueblo Dam <br />and Reservoir, this is a gill net test run by the state sometime last <br />fall, I think. My boys brought home some fifteen or sixteen inch trout, <br />so there are some nice fish in the reservoir. <br /> <br />Insofar as where we have been and where we stand and where we're going <br />is concerned, I came on the project in 1970. At that time, we were <br />thirty-nine percent complete, based on a ratio of total expenditures at <br />that point in time to the total estimated project cost. In other words, <br />if you had a dollar project, if you spent forty cents on it, you were <br />forty percent complete. <br />. , <br /> <br />Well, this is some six years later, and we're now forty-one percent <br />complete. What happens to create that kind of a situation? Well, in <br />the first place, when appropriations run in the vicinity of ten million <br />dollars and the cost escalations on the remaini~ project runs fifteen <br />or twenty million dollars, it's obvious that you re not gaining very <br />fast. I don't think we can blame this on the Congress or the willingness <br />of the Congress to appropriate funds for the Fryingpan-Arkansas Project. <br /> <br />There are a couple of other things that happened. One thing that <br />increased the project cost and, of course, reduced our percentage of <br />accomplishment was the fact that we, in 1974, achieved authorization for <br />the second hundred megawatt unit of generating power at the Mt. Elbert <br />Power Storage Plant. Also, at the same time, we went forward with <br />expanded and enlarged municipal water service to Fountain, Widefield, <br />Security and Colorado Springs and the Arkansas Valley Pipeline. <br /> <br />. . <br />Now, these things are one hundred percent reimbursable. We're not too <br />concerned about that. But along about 1969 came about this grand and <br />glorious thing called the "National Envirorunental Policy Act. ".which <br />isn't all that bad except for the fact that it took four or five years <br />for everybody to figure out just what the devil to do with it. So we <br />spent a lot of time attempting to grind out an impact statement. And <br />accordingly, I feel that at times our appropriations were reduced or <br />withheld for that reason. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />Now, another thing that takes place is plain old procrastination. <br />People go to sleep. And that's where I come in. That's where I feel I <br />have a specific objective. And, in that regard, I'd like to tell a <br />little story. I heard it a long time ago and I don't think I've ever <br />told it before, but probably all of you have heard it. <br /> <br />It's about a little Bohemian who migrated to this country. <br />anybody here who is Bohemian, I apologize, but this guy had <br />some place. Anyway,he came from Bohemia and he migrated to <br /> <br />If there is <br />to come from <br />this country, <br /> <br />-7- <br />