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<br />.:lb!::l:G <br /> <br />appropriated budget is being withheld. This was <br />not serious in some of our bUdget items. The <br />only serious thing that occurred, which I wrote <br />to the Board about previously, was that it cur- <br />tailed the possibility of our being able to <br />cooperate with the Bureau of Reclamation on the <br />Two Forks and Upper Gunnison studies, and also <br />with Colorado State University on our ground <br />water program. <br /> <br />Mr. Eckles has assisted us in attempting <br />to get this money put back into our budget so <br />that we can go ahead with our project investiga- <br />tions the way they were originally planned. <br />And we believe this will be accomplished so <br />that our investigation program will not be <br />effected. <br /> <br />The only other item which affected us in <br />the budget reduction was in our travel. Since <br />we are already in critical shape for travel <br />funds for this year, we will have to economize <br />greatly for the rest of the year. As a matter <br />of fact, it appears that we will be completely <br />out of travel funds by about the 1st of March. <br />This means we will have to curtail Board meetings <br />and our out-of-state travel. We are now reducing <br />the number of inter-agency committee meetings <br />that we normally attend. Instead of the two or <br />four a year in the various river basins we will <br />cut that down to about half of what we have had <br />previously. In other words, we will not have a <br />representative at many of these inter-agency <br />conferences. <br /> <br />On the other reductions we were not particu- <br />larly effected. We had already effected some <br />economies in our salary and staffing pattern and <br />in our normal office operations. <br /> <br />The item of litigation, I put that there <br />merely to bring to your attention that in the <br />case of Arizona v. California in the Supreme <br />Court, the petition of California for rehearing <br />was denied and we anticipate that a final decree <br />will be entered very shortly in that case. I <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />t. <br /> <br />I <br />