BOARD00983

• Board Meeting Date: 4/13/1966
• Description: Minutes and Resolution
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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announcement will be for the week of May 9th.

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We discussed with the Congressman and
with other members of the delegation, particu-
larly Congressman Rogers, the scope of the
hearings and what should be said at the hear-
ings. It seemed to be the concensus of opinion
that we should not plow up old ground, that the
hearings should be limited to new matters only.
The new matters, of course, in Colorado are the
inclusion of our projects, those sections which
apply only to Colorado, and that section which
applies to the operating criteria for Glen
Canyon. Hopefully, the scope of the hearings
can be limited to that. The other states will
not put in any great amount of additional
testimony except to express their agreement to
these operating principles for the combined
Glen Canyon-Boulder Dam operation.

Our Advisory Committee met just before
the Washington trip to go over the testimony
and any other matters pertaining to this bill.
Various conservancy districts are now pre-
paring their testimony. They have been re-
quested to limit their oral testimony to not
more than ten minutes and preferably shorter.
Becaus€ of the great magnitude of this bill,
the individual witnesses are not going to
have much time. However, a 20-minute or
30-minute statement can be put into the record
as though it were read in full. So we have
cautioned the witnesses, in whatever statement
they want to prepare, to have it in such shape
that they can read only the particular para-
graphs that should be emphasized.

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There was mailed yesterday to the members
of this Board and to the members of the Ad-
visory Committee a memorandum on this subject.
In the memorandum we set forth a suggested
form of testimony, with a preface and then
the points that we thought should be covered.
The particular points that should be empha-
sized by the conservancy districts, and by
people testifying who use water in the