BOARD00983

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

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and would be a beneficial project.

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The Bureau of Reclamation will take care
of the matter of the engineering and economic
feasibility. The people from the conservancy
districts should not attempt to justify in
detail the economic and engineer.ing feasibility
of these projects. But they can testify in
their opinion, based upon their experience in
the area, that the projects do appear to be
sound from an engineering and economic view-
point.

The matter of crop surpluses often rears
its ugly head in that committee. We have been
able to meet that successfully by showing that
in these reclamation areas we actually eliminate
much of the dry farming which is now in wheat
or other grain crops and convert that type of
farming into forage crops and row crops, which,
in general, are not in surplus. And any other
points which individuals think should be em-
phasized.

We would like to limit the testimony to
about two witnesses per conservancy district,
but when we have particular problems such as
the oil shale companies or we have Peabody
Coal or Pittsburg-Midway, we should have either
written statements from them or we would like
to have some of those people present verbal
testimony as to their future plans for oil
shale and thermal generation development. The
cities particularly, such as Durango, Cortez,
and others that will immediately subscribe to
additional municipal water, should be able to
testify to that fact at these hearings.

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Governor Love will present the major
testimony for the state of colorado and will
cover the other points. The conservancy dis-
tricts' job will be merely to cover their
particular interest in this bill and also to
state that they endorse the bill.

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