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<br /> <br />36 <br /> <br /> <br />Commenting upon the advisa15ility of aoquainting the people of Colorado " <br />wi th the work of the Board, he stated: <br /> <br />"There has been some doubt in my mind that all parts of the <br />State know what you fellows are doing beoause on a number of <br />of oocasions I have taken the opportunity to ask what was <br />going on in their territory under the guidanoe of the Conservation <br />Board and few of them are able to answer. I am inclined to think <br />you don't blow your own horm, a lot of you. That is my reaction <br />and I suggest that you review the situation and see whether you <br />are telling people what you are doing and how you are doing it and <br />What"you hope to. accomplish by i~." <br /> <br />Mr. Patterson, Chief Engineer of the Board, made a sta.tement <br />concerning the so-oalled "small projects" and asked Mr. Page conoerning the <br />polioy of the Bureau as to the design and fumI'e prospeots for suoh projects. <br />Answering this question Mr. Page replied as follows: " <br /> <br />"I recognize Mr. Patterscn, that that is a true statement. We <br />have a highly technical design seotion and we have from the <br />beginning recognized that we oouldn't use the same procedure <br />on these smaller projeots. We very definitely plan that if we <br />ever get any money for those Smaller reservbirs that were <br />proposed, that we would have to set up a different organization <br />to handle them entirely apart, That is too small reservoirs <br />oannot stand the overhead whioh is now being given on some of <br />these projects. I know that many of these farmers can go out and <br />build a dam and that there is a middle grotUld between our highly <br />teohnioal design and that whioh the farmer puts out and in there <br />some pI ace is a place these should be ]IIet. I suggest whenever you <br />have these ooncrete examples, go to Mr. Porter Preston and lay them <br />on the table and say here these oan't be built and say oan't something <br />be done, beoause we have talked about it many times. TOOre are none <br />of these small proje"ots whioh oan stand the overhead whioh the big <br />ones have to have. but we never got into the small dam business <br />enough so that we have set up a maohinery for that." <br /> <br /> <br />Mr. Stone then referred to the so-oalled "small reservoir aot" and <br />the Water Faoilities Aot and asked Mr. Page oonoerning that legislation. Mr. <br />Page replied as follows: <br /> <br />"I would like to give you a little background on that Aot. We <br />fought that Aot. We reoomnended a vetoe. I mean by that that <br />the Bu"reau of Reolamation and the Depariment of Interior <br />recommended a vetoe. I think it is due to you to explain why <br />that was done and the situation. In the first plaoe there was <br />nc hearing on that bill in either house. It was passed on <br />unanimous oonsent. Maybe twenty-five Congressmen there, but we <br />fought it en the grounds that it prcvides administration in tile <br />Department of Agricul we. Seoond. it has no limitation end as <br />we saw it invaded direotly the field of the Bureau of Reolama.tion <br />and jeopardized the repayment polioy whioh has been the baokbone <br />of the Reclam3-tion Polioy ever since it was started. Now at the <br />time the President signed that bill he sant a message to the <br />budget in which he said that there should bem confliots or <br />duplication between the Federal Agenoies in the matter of water <br />conservation and I think he hinted or suggested, I have seen the <br />