BOARD00985

• Board Meeting Date: 2/5/1969
• Description: Agenda or Table of Contents, Minutes, Memos
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

the draft dated 2/4/69. I presume that most
of you have copies of it. If you do not. there
are copies of that particular draft here on
the table in front of us.

I'd like you to go over it in as much
detail as you believe necessary. Larry. and
point out to us the salient features of it.
Then I'll ask for comments from any members
of the Advisory Committee who care to speak.

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For your information. for consideration
of some of the state problems. we've had an
informal advisory committee that works with
the staff of this Board. This is a voluntary
informal group of people. Anybody who wants
to attend these meetings. I'm sure would be
welcome. The committee has been used in an
advisory capacity in relation to the legisla-
tion that has been drafted to date.

With that background. Larry. if you'll
go through the bill. I'd like to have you
point out how this duplicates or changes any
of the six bills that Mr. Geissinger and his
committee have been drafting so that we will
have a good perspective when we call upon Mr.
Geissinger for his comments."

MR. SPARKS,

"Mr. Chairman. first. this bill for which
I have been the scribe (and many other people
have worked on diligently for several weeks
now) was not intended as a substitute for all
of the bills which have been introduced to
date. It does not involve all the subject
matter of those bills. The bill that we have
drafted goes to one thing and one thing only
and that is the appropriation. use and prior-
ity of water. It does not attempt to amend
other articles of the statutes. many of which
are included in some of the bills presently
introduced. It does not duplicate in that
sense many of the bills nor does it attempt to
COver the subject matter which is covered in
some of the other bills.

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