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<br />MR. HELTON: I might add that the Denver Water Board has seen the <br />state's basis at least a year ago. They have had all this information <br />as it has developed. They have had it all along. They had that prior <br />to the, NUS. <br /> <br />MR. STAPLETON: I understand that the Denver Water Board is on the one <br />side. Who is on the other side, the Grand County Commissioners? <br /> <br />MR. HELTON: Yes. <br /> <br />MR. STAPLETON: The Fish and Wildlife? <br /> <br />MR. HELTON: Yes. <br /> <br />MR. STAPLETON: Who is going to be representing them if we have to get <br />to this first hearing? <br /> <br />MR. HELTON: Grand County? <br />MR. STAPLETON: Grand county and the Fish and wildlife. <br /> <br />MR. RITSCHARD: Mr. Chairman, I am Herb'Ritschard, with the Board.of <br />County commissioners in Grand County, and I would direct your attention <br />to the letter that the Board of County Commissioners has sent in tOday. <br />And I think most of you have a copy of it. It basically says that we <br />support the minimum streamflows that were recOmmended by the Department <br />of Wildlife, and that was before your meeting, on several occasions <br />earlier. The ones that are before the meeting today have been modified <br />somewhat, and we do not support those. We would urge that you adopt as <br />preliminary the ones that were presented in the previous meetings. <br /> <br />I also would ask that any mee~ings that may be had at the staff level of <br />the Water conservation Board to resolve this between now and the next <br />time it comes up that Grand County would like to participate in those <br />meetings. <br /> <br />MR. STAPLETON: I'm sure that you will be welcomed and you will be given <br />that information. <br /> <br />Now, what about the Division of wildlife? <br /> <br />MR. SPARKS: There are two gentlemen here from the Division of Wildlife, <br />Rex Taliaferro -- <br /> <br />MR. TALIAFERRO: I will probably represent the Fish and wildlife and <br />probably will have the assistance of the Attorney General. <br /> <br />MR. STAPLETON: Well, this is the first controversy we have had that <br />has COme to this point, or may come to this point. And I want to.try <br />to get the ground rules set so that we all understand each other. I'm <br />hoping that there will be some accommodation and some resolution, after <br />a year of meetings. I want to know what we are going to do, who is <br />going to make the presentations, how long it is going toctake, so'that <br />we can schedule our meeting, which is in Grand Junction, to give the <br /> <br />-26- <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />I <br />