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I I Power Company as presented." They turned it down, not even a counter offer. Mr. Berthelson: One more thing, Mr. Brannan, and then I am through, Mr. Chairman. I am looking at a copy of a filing made in the Division 5 Water Court signed by Mr. Charles Brannan and Mr. Wayne B. Williams. And this is dated as late as May of 1972. So this I understand would be your position in regard to the use of this water as of that date. And I quote: "Rocky Mountain Power Company proposals to sell water led to the study of an exchange plan to deliver water to the eastern slope. This plan, claiming water on the Blue River, pumping and transporting it to the Williams Fork River above senior appropriators, etc." This would be and I quote another, (I am going to miss a little, but it is all in here if anybody wants to look at it). "Although this would be an excellent way for six cities to obtain about 110,000 acre-feet of water annually, they did not accept this plan." In other words, this - you tendered them a plan to sell them I presume llO,OOO acre-feet of water as you testified in the Water Court as of 1972. Has your plan changed since then? Mr. Brannan: No, sir. Let me elaborate on what you have just read. That water is the water of the Williams Fork and the Blue River upon which there is a ~iling. It is the water of the Williams Fork and the Blue River, if any. which would be transported. The water of the White River which flows through the Meadows and about which we are directly concerned at this moment, would be released to the extent that any that was taken across out of the Colorado Basin would be released into the Colorado Basin at a higher point. Well, actu- ally at the confluence of the Sweetwater Creek and the Colorado River, rather than going all the way down the White River. Now remember two or three things. First of all, that the legal obli- gation plus the state commitment that the White River's channel of the White River will continue to be a viable channel for fishing, recreational, and other purposes and that sufficient water will at all times be available for that purpose, no matter what other uses,. oil shale, power, or any other uses are to be made of it. Second, may I just point out a matter which maybe good water lawyers might disagree with. If we dropped that water or a part of that water into the Colorado River above the Shoshone plant, that horrible spectacle below the Public service reservoir and above the Shoshone plant could be rectified because I think there is some law to the effect that we might require the Public Service Company not to touch that water, but to let it go through their reservoir and on down the stream. So even if the oil shale people and the power people plus -13-