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conservancy district, are that the conservancy districts are ready, willing and able to enter into a contract for the repayment of the project with the united states Government. This is quite important. Somebody from each conservancy district should say that his conservancy dis- trict is ready to enter into a repayment con- tract as soon as possible after the project is authorized. people who are going to receive municipal or industrial water, primarily the cities or domestic water organizations or potential industrial users, should testify that they are ready, willing and able to pay their portion of the cost with interest in the time prescribed by law and that the city, or what- ever it may be, is willing to enter into an agreement with the conservancy district to bear its share of the cost. Those are two of the major things which must be emphasized. We will have some difficulty in connection with the potential M & I water. That is, on oil shale water for instance on the West Divide Project and some of the thermal generation water under the Animas-La plata project. The oil companies and coal companies involved should prepare the best testimony they can to ' indicate that they can give the congress reason- able assurance that this water earmarked for industrial purposes will be utilized. This means that before that project is constructed, a repayment contract has to be signed and firm and binding commitments have to be made. proj- ect construction cannot start until that is accomplished. Now this means that if the projects are authorized this year that we will have a period of four to five years to work out the final details. But we will have some diffi- culty on those points. The other thing Congressman Aspinall mentioned particularly was that we must em- phasize the need for additional water supplies in the area, particularly storage facilities and something about the economy of the area - that this would greatly improve the economy I I