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<br />I <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />~~. Stapleton: ~~. Ten Eyck, I realize that we just caught you coming <br />in the door. do you have any position on this point? Or should I <br />bring you up to date? We are trying to go through the comments on <br />the report and we are getting to the point about whether or not water <br />should or should not control economic and population growth. I just <br />wonder if the Department of Natural Resources has a position on this <br />that it would like to express. <br /> <br />~lc. Ten Evck: You almost caught me off guard. Ben. l1e have not fully <br />enunciated yet within the department the position or a policy in this <br />regard. We have asked Larry and the staff of the t1ater Conservation <br />Board and Kuip and the staff of the Division of Water Resources to <br />review the impressions and views they might have on this and give us <br />some recomrnendations. t1e hope to put together as the outcome of this <br />water board meeting a policy statement we would propose to the Governor <br />for his response, a statement that could be delivered by the state of <br />Colorado at the meeting in Washington before the National Water Com- <br />mission. I don't think we yet have really jelled on a position. I <br />think we are all really groping for the best techniques and the best <br />methods to use whatever tools we may have to control growth. I think <br />in some method water will be one of these tools. The specifics have <br />not yet been developed. <br /> <br />l.~. Stapleton: It seems to me that this would fit in with our argu- <br />ment that we don't want the federal government interfering with state <br />water. If we support this position it seems to me we support that <br />premise from another angle and therefore this encourages the federal <br />government to this extent to keep out of what are essentially state <br />matters. <br /> <br />~~. S~arks: From the federal viewpoint they should <br />allocate water resources to influence the growth of <br />This is a matter which should be decided internally <br />state. ,Ie could solve the problem in that manner. <br />would coincide with the Governor's views. <br /> <br />not be trying to <br />various states. <br />within each <br />I believe that <br /> <br />Mr. Stapleton: Does any member of the board have any further remarks <br />on this part of the report? <br /> <br />Mr. 11oses: I would like to say this, l~. Chairman. Other portions <br />of the report such as those which would require the users to pay for <br />all water development and the provisions of the report to protect <br />areas of origin would seem to me to pretty well eliminate the pos- <br />sibility if the report as a whole is adopted by the Congress. <br /> <br />-6- <br />