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<br />North Platte are mine and so I'd really <br />rather not refer to this bill as a river <br />basin bill because it is not. I know I am <br />from an isolated part of the country. I've <br />made a study of water for a few years myself <br />and I'm no engineer or lawyer but I can see <br />things in these proposals that are going to <br />affect every surface water user that is <br />using water. <br /> <br />Thank you." <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />MR. KROEGER: <br /> <br />"Thank you, Clarence. We are always <br />glad to have your thoughts on these things. <br /> <br />I think that some of the expressions <br />that you have made today are not materially <br />different from what Si was saying, only in <br />a different way. I am sure that I have run <br />into the same thing in my area. Whenever <br />the water bills are studied and discussed <br />by the water users in the San Juan Basin, <br />there is only one thing that is said and <br />that is 'Leave it alone; don't change any- <br />thing'. It's not easy for our people who do <br />not have wells and the problems that go with <br />them to want to make changes to assist in <br />the overall administration of water in the <br />State of Colorado. I think we are going to <br />have to do those things but certainly the <br />expressions you made are very real ones for <br />a large area of Colorado." <br /> <br />MR. BURR: <br /> <br />"Well, I think that we are going to have <br />to corne up with a bill. There is no question <br />about that. I'm talking to that, but it is <br />just like the wilderness bill or the gun <br />bill. We are going to have to get some kind <br />of a bill that the water users and everybody <br />can live with. <br /> <br />To make a big change on the surface water <br />users at this time, I'm like Mr. Geissinger, <br />I don't think it is the proper time to change <br />the surface water uses. If you want to get <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />'. <br />