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<br />~4~~ <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />approval of the then proposed Fryingpan- <br />Arkansas Project, the Colorado River Water <br />Conservation District Board submitted a <br />resolution to the Colorado Water Conserva- <br />tion Board which, in effect, said the same <br />thing that this resolution does. That reso- <br />lution was adopted by this Board eight years' <br />ago. The policy then established was later <br />violated by this Board, of which fact our <br />Board has always been keenly conscious. <br /> <br />One of the things which we are attempt- <br />to do, I say one of them, is to attempt to <br />establish a policy of the State of Colorado <br />which will make the protection of the Western <br />Slope's water rights and water needs something <br />more than something to talk about, and our <br />Board insists that that be done. Pursuant <br />to that desire that such a policy be estab- <br />lished and effectuated, if you establish a <br />policy that means nothing unless you put <br />teeth in it to effectuate it, in 195--, well, <br />a couple of years ago, our District Board <br />directed that we submit to the Insular and <br />Interior Affairs sub-committee, an amendment <br />to the then proposed Fryingpan-Arkansas Bill <br />providing for a limitation for a period of <br />25 years of transmountain diversions of water <br />from western Colorado in an amount not exceed- <br />ing 20%, which would have assured water for <br />the Fryingpan-Arkansas Project. Quite a <br />turmoil was raised and some of us were called <br />some rather uncomplimentary names as I recall <br />it. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />We still stand here unprotected. As I <br />once said to the sub-committee, which is now <br />the Aspinall sub-committee, we in western <br />Colorado have to watch every gopher hole over <br />there to see that it isn't used for trans- <br />mountain diversions of water. We reached the <br />point where the most substantial transmountain <br />diversions must be accomplished by use of <br />federal funds. Most of them, not all of them <br />we found to our sorrow, are beyond the reach <br />of private capital. <br /> <br />I want to call the Board's attention to <br />another matter which was suggested by Mr. <br />Sparks in his remarks. The Colorado River <br />Water Conservation District has a decree for <br />