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<br />J.4Zl:I <br /> <br />course, to justify any specific amount <br />for San Miguel or any other project because <br />as I stated,.the Bostwick Park and the Fruit- <br />land Mesa Projects also are going to require <br />some assistance. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />If this Board passes any resolution at <br />this time, I would recommend that we indicate <br />to the San Miguel Conservancy District that <br />we will conditionally authorize an appropria- <br />tion, let's say of $20,000, until such time <br />as an actual determination can be made of the <br />need. That we will not know until I can get <br />to Washington and back. As a matter of fact, <br />we probably won't know that information <br />actually until the budget is finally adopted <br />by Congress. <br /> <br />If our own budget was adopted by the <br />Legislature as submitted we can pick up a <br />considerable amount of slack in these proj- <br />ects. We can't take it to the extent of <br />$180,000 by any means, but we can insure <br />that the rate of progress on these projects <br />will be minimized. As a matter of fact, <br />some of these projects are now being, or will <br />be, completed partially by our own staff. <br />There is no money budgeted, for instance,for <br />the Smith Fork this year. We will complete <br />the necessary work on that project, and it <br />may be that we can also supplement the Bur- <br />eau's field staff with a full survey crew or <br />a full field party. There are many ways in <br />which we can take up some of the slack. We <br />can't take it all up and it will depend <br />eventually on the Congressional budget. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />I was advised yesterday by the Governor <br />that our own budget has been cut by $35,000. <br />I requested the Governor to talk with the <br />Appropriations Committee to tell them our <br />need was far greater now than I was able to <br />testify to in January of this year. I also <br />talked to members of the Appropriations Com- <br />mittee briefly last evening and I received <br />some assurances that they would try to re- <br />store that cut." <br /> <br />MR. EAKES: <br /> <br />"Mr. Chairman may I make another comment? <br />I don't mean to want to be getting into an <br />argument with Mr. Sparks, I am not trying to <br />