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<br />514 <br /> <br />MR. P.UGHE: <br /> <br />GElV. JOHNSON: <br /> <br />MR. CRAWFORD: <br /> <br />-., <br /> <br />MR. PUGHE: <br /> <br />want anyone in this State xo forget that <br />Colorado p~oduces a little over 72 %'of <br />the water in the Upper Colorado River. <br />A state that produces that much of the <br />water ought to be entitled to something. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />, <br />"In my opinion, it is not the eighteen <br />projects in Colorado that are going to be <br />added to the Bill that are. making the <br />difficulty. It is some of the other things <br />in the storage plan which are not going <br />down so good. In my opinion, the Bill can <br />go through the Senate with the eighteen or <br />without the eighteen. I think the Senate <br />will pass, at an early moment, the Upper <br />Colorado River Storage Bill'whether you <br />have the eighteen in or not. When it gets. <br />to ,the House, I don't know." <br /> <br />"What would be those features as you see <br />them?" <br /> <br />"Echo Park Dam, of course, is under severe <br />and serious attack by wildlife people and <br />they are making a great deal of headway. <br />The Navajo Project is under a lot of attack. <br /> <br />"The Mhole project which is the <br />objective of, I think everybody is to <br />develop the whole'Upper Basin of the <br />Colorado River, including all par.ticipating <br />projects and all 6f the storage projects in <br />all of the states. Enemies of the project <br />are trying to bring f6rth the huge costs of <br />doing that very thing. <br /> <br />"The Bill is going to have very difficult <br />sledding in the House." <br /> <br />"Are there ,other viewpoints with regard to <br />these eighteen projects?" <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />"I move that we include the eighteen <br />projects'listed in the suggestions by the <br />Governor, including Battlement Mesa." <br />