BOARD01303

• Board Meeting Date: 1/14/1960
• Description: Minutes
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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MR. STAPLETON:

MR. MOSES:
MR. STAPLETON:
MR. MOSES:

MR. SAUNDERS:
MR. STAPLETON:
MR. SAUNDERS :

MR. STAPLETON:

MR. SAUNDERS:
MR. SPARKS :

nls there any comment on this part of the
bill? Do the members of the Board have any com-
ments? Any of our guests have any comments on
the suggested changes up to dater

"Mr. Chairman."

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"Mr. Moses."

"I might call attention again to the dele-
tions. Some of these deletions are just about
as important as the additions. We have deleted
the paragraph authorizing the Secretary toocon-
struct tunnel and conduit works of the initial
stage big enough to take care of the second
stage."

"Mr. Chairman."

"Mr. Saunders."

"I hope you'll pardon me for staying back
here away from the smoke to which I am allergic.

In connection with what Mr. Moses just said,
I go back to your original question about 'initial
stage'. I didn't have it before me at the time
but I think you should definitely pin it down and
that something should be done by way of defini-
tion. On that first page I think you could in-
sert the words, in the line where that 'initial
stage' first occurs and make it read after the
words 'New Mexico', 'and the works defined in
(whatever it is) as the initial stage'. . Then
down below where you have initial stage, in-
stead of 'the initial stage', say 'said initial
stage' thiii'"'Tying those words back to the place
where you get the 'definition because when you
read it( it refers to the initial stage, and the
connecb.on, as Mr. Moses has just now pointed
outl has been deleted. Giving a definition to
'in tial stage' ties right back to the place
where Mr. Moses has pointed out already, you
dropped the term."

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"Thank you, Mr. Saunders. I .think you must
be a practicing attorney, are your .

"I've been charged with that."

"You will note on page five, in the new sub-
paragraph (c), about the middle of the page, we
have stricken out the words, 'both in its initial