BOARD00985

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

early as June the principal subjects to be
covered.

I am sure that both Larry Sparks and
myself. I know. we have worked very closely
on many. many problems in the last six years,
look at the solutions to these problems in I
very much the same way. I don't believe there
is an iota of difference in Mr. Sparks' bill
from the standpoint of concept or what we
are going to do here for the State of Colorado
and our concepts. He has indicated that much
of this has come from what I call the Bob
Welborn bill. which is Senate Bill 81 and
that the philosophies are practically the
same. As far as I can figure out in reading
them. other than the declaration of policy and
method of determining who is going to be the
referee and aid the courts. that the philoso-
phy along those lines is 100 percent together.

In our bills we have suggested that this
problem be tackled also under civil service
but under a hearing section of the state
engineer's office. After all. we conceive
of either this water commission or the
state engineer's staff or a special hearing
section and they would accomplish the same
purpose. They would help us get this work
load out of the way and bring all these wells
into the system and permit their integration
through alternate points of diversion which
is permitted in both of these bills. both
this bill and Senate Bill 81.

I think that Mr. Sparks' principal com-
plaint or suggestion - I don't think it is a
complaint because I agree with him in many of
these particulars - is that maybe we should
shore up and be a little more definite in
some of these guidelines so there will be no
misunderstanding in the legislature or among
the people of the State of Colorado. What we
are trying to do here under a common philosophy
is to integrate 10.000 wells into our surface

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