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<br />~::;l'::;l'.L <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />I ought to give just a little background <br />here, perhaps, more than has been expressed. <br />I had just returned when this January 20th <br />draft upon which the February 1st draft of <br />the bill was based, had been promulgated. I <br />had just returned from being away from here <br />for many months. It gave me a rather objec- <br />tive view and the thing that impressed me the <br />most about what has been told me that occurred <br />during this interval was the very fine cooper- <br />ation and working together which had occurred <br />among the various representatives of different <br />sections of the state. I heard the same thing <br />that Ken Balcomb has just said, that a great <br />deal of credit for this is due to Larry Sparks <br />,,,ho has worked indefatiably to this end. <br /> <br />On reading this bill of February 1st, it <br />seemed to me as I read it, and I had to read <br />it very fast but yet with some background of <br />experience, that a good many compromises had <br />been made. There is language here that isn't <br />nice and clean but having been in these things <br />myself I kno\'l what happens. You start out <br />with a nice,clean statement of what's in your <br />mind and you have to adjust to what is in the <br />minds of other people. For this reason, when <br />we have approved language for a bill, as no <br />doubt we are going to do some way.. or other <br />here before we get through, (we have to take <br />a stand, Colorado has to move in on this), I <br />hope that we will not gain the impression that <br />we have now 2inished our job. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />I have to again agree with Ken Balcomb <br />when he says that this is a pretty minimal <br />of language that we have here and I would hope <br />that we will continue to work toward the per- <br />fection of this language. A thing which I <br />think we can do without retracting any agree- <br />ments that we may have made with Lower Basin <br />states, if there are ambiguities, those who <br />are earnest and sincere in making agreements <br />with us should be glad to eliminate those <br />ambiguities and it appears to me that we must <br />continue to do that. <br />