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I I MR. SPARKS: "So the Bureau no doubt will attempt to secure additional funds so that the project report can be completed by the end of our two year deadline. We will give all possible priority to that completion date. In anticipation of securing these funds we have held a series of meetings in the South Platte Valley, advising people of our tenta- tive program. In some cases Bureau of Recla- mation officials, myself, and others from our staff, attended those meetings, and in other cases I attended them alone. To date meet- ings have been held at Fort Morgan, at Hudson and some other meetings by the Bureau. In- directly connected with this, a meeting was held at Ft. Collins. A meeting is scheduled tomorrow at Ft. Lupton which I will attend with Mr. Miller, our Supervising Hydraulic Engineer. In each case we have tried to pre- sent the general broad plan and have requested the people to start thinking about representa- tives on the steering committee. The Board will recall that Mr. Stapleton, Mr. Miller and myself were appointed as a com- mittee to select members of the steering com- mittee. At this time we have merely advised the people in the South Platte Valley that we would be calling upon them for recommendations concerning this committee. Municipalities, including the Cities of Denver, Englewood, Aurora, Arvada and others have been contacted and they have all indi- cated their willingness to participate in these studies. They have also offered some financial assistance. Both the City and County of Denver and the City of Aurora have indi- cated their desire to participate financially if necessary. I have advised them in respect to that, that we would wait until the final year of the plan and then possibly we would be short some money to complete the studies and if so, we would call upon them for finan- cial assistance.