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<br />I <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />MR. STAPLETON: <br /> <br />MR. PETERSON: <br /> <br />MR. STAPLETON: <br /> <br />MR. PETERSON: <br /> <br />1787 <br /> <br />"It will be so recorded. <br /> <br />The next item on the agenda is the Dinosaur <br />National Monument legislation." <br /> <br />"Mr. Chairman, if I may interrupt here, un- <br />less for some reason it can't be done, I would <br />appreciate very much if item #4 on the agenda <br />could be substituted for item #3 at this partic- <br />ular time due to the fact that we have with us <br />some people from western Colorado who are defin- <br />itely interested in, and came here for this <br />particular purpose, to make comments on agenda <br />item #4. Due to tne kind of weather we are hav- <br />ing, it's going to be imperative that they get <br />back to the western slope as quickly as possible. <br />So in order to save time, if it would be possible <br />to make that substitution I would appreciate it <br />very much." <br /> <br />"Hearing no objection, we will consider item <br />#4 which is the Tri-County and Upper Gunnison <br />River Water Conservancy Districts' matters and I <br />I think Mr. Peterson could probably get us in to <br />that subject." <br /> <br />"Mr. Chairman, I won't take up much time on <br />it because these people from western Colorado will <br />explain what the problem is a great deal better <br />than I can. Actually, we think now that there is <br />a possibility that the Curecanti Project will <br />soon be in a position to be constructed and in <br />dOing SOt there is going to be some problems con- <br />cerning he existing water rights and storage <br />rights of both the lower Gunnison basin and the <br />upper Gunnison basin. <br /> <br />There have been joint meetings held between <br />the Tri-County Conservancy District which com- <br />prises Ouray, Montrose and Delta Counties, and <br />also the Upper Gunnison River Water Conservancy <br />District which takes in the upper basin. There <br />is the problem of the Taylor Park Reservoir and <br />the problem of perhaps utilizing that water in <br />the Upper Gunnison Basin instead of in the Lower <br />Gunnison Basin when the Curecanti project has <br />been constructed. There is also the problem of <br />power development in Taylor Park Reservoir which <br />reservoir has been constructed and is being re- <br />