BOARD01477

• Board Meeting Date: 2/5/1969
• Description: Agenda or Table of Contents, Minutes, Memos
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

viewpoints. One proposed to have the divi-
sion engineer do this in the first instance,
while Mr. Sparks' bill undertook to do this
with the proposed water commissions.

In the meeting in the Governor's office
most of the discussion centered around this 1._
major difference of opinion. It seemed to .
be the result of the discussions there that
we would undertake to revise the law, I'm
not prepared to say if it is the Colorado
Water conservation Board draft or if it is
the Senate Bill 81 draft, but revise the pro-
posed legislation so that it incorporated the
two features, the water rights commission and
the water judges, which has been done in the
draft which is before us.

I don't know how many of the people here
have read Senate Bill 81. I don't know how
many people here have seen the proposed
amendments that have been developed for
Senate Bill 81, many of which speak to the
same kinds of concerns that have been dealt
with in the various changes that have taken
place in the Water Conservation Board draft.
Whether or not it would be germane or valu-
able to read Senate Bill 81 or have people
aware of those provisions, I don't know. I
suspect that some df these people are aware
of it and I suspect there are others who are
not.

I am very hopeful that the Water Con-
servation Board, and the water users present,
will be able to unite in support of a con-
census position that will result in useful,
workable legislation that will advance our
efforts to solve the difficult problems we
have in water use in Colorado."

MR. NELSON:

"The people back here can' t hear."

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MR. TEN EYCK:

"I'm sorry and I'll say that again. I
am most hopeful that the water users and the