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Board Meetings
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4/27/1953
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Minutes and Resolution
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<br />148 <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />of the West, are in the Senate by and large. Our representation <br />in the House is very, very small. We rely and trust that the <br />Director of the Colorado Water Conservation Board, and in- <br />fluential'people from other western states, will appeal in <br />correspondence, that appropriations will be raised to a <br />sufficient amount so the joint action of both houses will <br />make for a reasonably satisfactory program. Now I have to <br />admit-that I haven't had time to analyze this Bill myself <br />thoroughly, and I want to encourage you gentlemen to analyze <br />that Bill as I shall certainly do; but there is one item <br />and that may serve to illustrate how much more serious the <br />situation is this year. It has to do with the appropriation <br />for investigations for the Bureau of Reclamation. Mr. Riter <br />intimated, with proper official restraint just a few moments <br />ago, that we might not have any people in the Bureau out here <br />to do any investigating work for us. I want to assure you that <br />his statement was extremely restrained, and I think I can <br />illustrate. There are no proposed appropriations for the <br />Missouri Basin program, if I understand the Bill and the Com- <br />mittee correctly. Appropriations for the Missouri Basin are <br />limited I understand, to one special fund appropriation. The <br />amount proposed to be appropriated to the Missouri River Basi~ <br />will not be quite enough to pay the accrued annual leave of <br />employees of the Bureau of Reclamation who will have to be <br />fired because there will be no investigation program. So far <br />as appropriations for the Colorado River Basin, I am talking <br />about investigations only. We are limited entirely, or would <br />be, under these circumstances for appropriation from the Colo- <br />rado River Develop~ent fund. That proposed appropriation will, <br />according to my understanding, and I cannot give you the <br />figures because I do not have them in mind, but according to <br />what has been reported to me, will be sufficient to pay the <br />accrued annual leave of investigation employees who will have <br />to be taken off rolls, and to leave a very small sum, an <br />insignificant Slli~, for carrying on investigations in the <br />Colorado River Basin. I cannot help suggesting to you what it <br />seems to me is a part of the cause of this treatment of the 17 <br />western states so far in the Appropriations Bill. It seems to <br />me to arise from the same sort of confusion which I noted in <br />St. Louis two months ago at the National Water Conference; <br />confusion of the economic objectives and the matter of policies <br />affecting our program in the west. Much disagreement on the <br />part of the House Appropriations Interior Sub-committee in <br />the past with policies of the Bureau of Reclamation, high level <br />policies, has caused resentment in that Committee at those <br />high level policies, and I d~ not pretend to suggest whether <br />that resentment is justified or not - maybe it is; may be some <br />policies have been wrong; maybe they should be corrected. But <br />the question is whether you change policies by completely _ <br /> <br />H- <br /> <br />I <br />
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