BOARD01477

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

side of the bed as our member over there. I'm
not too optimistic this morning. I'm a little
out of step I guess. Everybody is in step
but me.

I

I think this bill is a very good bill.
I've got one suggestion I'd like to make and
no reflection on the Director of Natural Re-
sources. This Board has been in existence
since 1937. It has been in every part of
this state and made maps and has records. To
have one man appoint these members of the com-
missions rather than a board, and that isn't
being said because I am a member of this
Board, but just to have one man appoint from
the river who happens to be in that depart-
ment, I can't see but what a Board like this,
which has representatives from every part of
the state, why it should be left to one man
rather than a board like this. The staff of
this Board is already formed. They've got all
this information from allover the state and
they are supposed to know what they are doing.
Maybe I'm a little out of order but I couldn't
go for the bill just for that reason.

Speaking of the water in these rivers
being appropriated and all, there is a change
in these bills that will change the water
and the surface water uses. So I am going
to speak for these surface water users be-
cause I think they are in the majority. If
they want to integrate the wells with the
surface water, I don't see why the actual
irrigators or the users of this surface water
who are not hampered with wells and so forth
are going to have to be penalized. That is
just what this thing does. They are being
penalized. They are getting a whole new water
bill on how they are going to take their water.

I

I haven't read these new proposals and
so forth but I can see that I have been left
out of the watershed districts too. That
happens to be the Laramie River and also the