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<br />I <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />feasibility on that project this year. Is <br />that correct?" <br /> <br />MR. SWEET: <br /> <br />"I am not aware of it as yet. Larry." <br /> <br />MR. SPARKS: <br /> <br />"We must get our information from different <br />sources evidently. I was informed that some <br />money had been programed for this project. <br /> <br />On the Pacific Southwest Water Plan. about <br />a month ago Mr. Goslin. myself and a representa- <br />tive from New Mexico attended a meeting with <br />the Lower Basin people in the City of Los Angeles. <br />Intensive efforts are being made to resolve the <br />differences between Arizona and california. The <br />way California would like to resolve the diffi- <br />culty is to have everybody else agree that we <br />should import water from the Pacific northwest. <br />namely. Oregon and washington. All of us who <br />were at the meeting agreed to this. with the <br />exception of washington and Oregon~ But appar- <br />ently California will hang on to that premise. <br />that unless a new source of water can be found <br />for California they are not in favor of the <br />central Arizona Project. This is leading to a <br />showdown in the Congress this year and it may <br />effect the entire reclamation program. Senator <br />Hayden and Senator Fannin and the representatives <br />from Arizona are determined that Arizona will <br />get this project. which will cost over $1 billion. <br />The price tag on bringing water from the Colum- <br />bia River Basin into California has not been <br />determined but they are probably talking about <br />$4 or $5 billion at least. Already there is <br />some $3 or $3~ billion projects pending in the <br />Congress. So whether or not we are going to <br />be able to get through our measly $150 million <br />I don't know. That's what we have pending in <br />this overall program. <br /> <br />We will continue to meet with the people <br />from California and Arizona in hopes that we <br />can work out something to everyone's mutual <br />advantage. Until we do, it will be difficult <br />to get any further development in any of the <br />Colorado River Basin states. I think, for the <br />most part, the people in California and their <br />