BOARD00985

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

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force them to do it. If they have a sub.
stantial investment in the well and see an
opportunity to utilize it in conjunction with
a surface right. or not use it at all. or use
it in a very limited way. I have no doubt
which way they are going to use it.

I think one of the virtues of the Board
draft is that it may. with appropriate re-
visions after conference with the committee.
give to the legislature an opportunity to
have in one package the solution to the pri-
mary problem. an attempted solution to the
primary problem. without eliminating the right
of the legislature to adopt such other
features of the committee drafts as they may
feel desirable. In my relatively few con-
tacts with the members of the legislature.
and today is the first day I have been in the
Capitol building since the legislature
started. one of their problems is one that I
think was mentioned by Mr. Sparks. The fact
that there are seven different bills is a
source of some confusion to them. One of
them said to me 'Whenever I ask a question
about one bill. they say that is covered in
another bill'. I suppose this is one of the
things that happens when the problem is
approached this way.

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As I see the Board draft. if this bill
with its present philosophy. regardless of
the details and I'm not trying to say that
it should be preserved in its present form.
I think there can be valuable changes to it.
Adopting it alone would go a long way toward
helping us solve our problems. The adoption
of anyone of the other bills doesn't give
me that same feeling. Maybe I'm wrong. but
I don't have that feeling.

I want to clOse by saying again that I
think there is a significant difference in
this draft and in Senate Bill 81. I think
this gives greater opportunity. greater