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<br />I <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />MR. STAPLETON: <br /> <br />MR. EAKES: <br /> <br />MR. NELSON: <br /> <br />MR. STAPLETON: <br /> <br />MR. SPARKS <br /> <br />.L'J:"; I <br /> <br />on another project. They move them around <br />but they are able to use all that personnel. <br />If this appropriation is cut down to where <br />it presently is, there will need to be a <br />reduction in force in that office. I think <br />what we need to strive to do is to get Con- <br />gress to put up enough money to at least main- <br />tain the present personnel arrangement in both <br />the Grand Junction and the Durango offices. <br />As for the Durango office, the amount of money <br />that we want to get from Congress is $220,000 <br />approximately. Now the amount of money we <br />want to get for the Grand Junction office, I <br />don't know. The cut there, from what Mr. <br />Larson said, is approximately fifty percent. <br />So what we are probably talking about is in <br />the neighborhood of a half million dollars <br />or more." <br /> <br />"Just one more question. The $20,000 you <br />are talking about is an evidence of good <br />faith and interest in the State of Colorado?" <br /> <br />"That's right. We are hoping that per- <br />haps we will prime the pwnp." <br /> <br />"For a little bit of clarification, as I <br />understand it, the administration has requested <br />the Bureau field offices to cut their appro- <br />priation requests below the figure that was <br />actually submitted to Congress in January. <br />I don't have the figures for Grand Junction <br />but I learned through the grapevine that they <br />are in'the same situation as Durango, If there <br />was a request submitted to Congress for $100,000 <br />the administration is now telling its executives <br />to whittle that down about fifty percent, so <br />it is below what was actually published in the <br />budget in January." <br /> <br />"Thank you, Mr. Nelson. Well, I would now <br />like to have us hear from the Director who <br />talked to Mr. Larson, I believe, yesterday. <br />I would like, Larry, for you to state as to <br />whether it has some state-wide implications <br />as well as the particular problem Bill has men- <br />tioned. Will you comment for us now?" <br /> <br />"I am sorry I was late. The reason was <br />that I was going over this with Mr. Larson <br />again just a few minutes ago. It is true that <br />