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<br />Mr. Sparks: It is not a joint project. <br />Mrs. Gardner: But it has been thought of? <br />Mr. Sparks: It has been thought of, yes. There is no way we can meet <br />that problem that I know of as far as this board is concerned. <br /> <br />Mr. Stapleton: I would agree with you that I think there ought to be <br />communication and input between. I just don't believe that the state <br />line cuts everything off. This may be something that at least I would <br />recommend that the staff do and have some input, because I am just not <br />that sold on state boundaries just because it divides it off at an <br />arbitrary point. I would ask that that be done in the future. <br /> <br />Mr. Nelson, who is a former board member. <br /> <br />Mr. Nelson: In answer to Mr. Kuiper. The Bureau of Reclamation studied <br />the project down there and said it was no good and dropped it completely. <br /> <br />Mr. Kuiper: The power development, Bill? <br /> <br />Mr. Nelson: For both power and irrigation. <br /> <br />Mr. Rollie Fischer: I would like to speak to the point brought up by <br />our state engineer. There is a decreed water resource project in that <br />stretch. It is held by Industrial Development, Inc. It involves a large <br />reservoir, pumped storage and a thermal'power plant. It was decreed in <br />about 1965 or 68. The District Court has found diligence. I have so <br />informed Senator Dominick and former Senator Allott's office about those <br />decrees in there. I think that whatever the board does in its study <br />that those decrees should be considered. I believe the associated coal <br />leases have been leased by the BLM to whatever the name of the corpora- <br />tion is now. This would be something to consider and I think the state <br />engineer is probably right in that regard. <br /> <br />Mr. Stapleton: Rollie, we never question whether he is right or wrong. <br />We always assume he is right. <br /> <br />Mr. Rollie Fischer: I always do too, Mr. Chairman. <br /> <br />Mr. Kuiper: I get along too until I get into court. <br /> <br />Mr. Rollie Fischer: That is something the court might want to consider, <br />the status of those decrees in there. <br /> <br />-16- <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />I <br />