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<br />b <br />'853 <br /> <br />"At the Santa Fe meeting, there was a kind <br />of a package understanding--concerning the <br />allocations to which you have referred--that <br />revenues from the Central Utah Project be <br />used, so far as they would go, for the pay- <br />ment of the Central Utah Project, and that <br />as to Indian lands, the payment of construc- <br />tion costs within the capability of those lands <br />to repay would be deferred so long as the In- <br />dian title thereto remains unextinguished and <br />that all construction costs beyond the capa- <br />bility of the land to repay would be non-re- <br />imbursable. Would you have any objections to <br />including in the resolution an approval of <br />those two premises. I think it would make <br />the other states happy." <br /> <br />GOV. JOHNSON: "In the bill before Congress, if Congress ap- <br />proves the New Mexico projects, we have New <br />Mexico which produces less than 2 per cent of <br />the water receiving more than 40 percent of the <br />credits. The Congress is going to have to de- <br />cide whether those projects are going to be <br />charged to Bureau of Indian Affairs and I do <br />not ~hink we have anything to do with that. <br />I do not'~hink that that needs to appear in <br />the bill. I would not be in favor of a bill <br />that had any "ifs" about the amount of power <br />credits we get. If we say you get these if <br />the projects in New Mexico are assumed by the <br />Indian Bureau, I would not be in favor of that <br />at all. Congress is in charge of the Indian <br />affairs and Indian finances. If they want to <br />pay part of the cost of the Navajo Project <br />that is perfectly all right, but I do not want <br />to have any question about Colorado getting 46 <br />percent of the power credits." <br /> <br />MR. CHILSON: <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />MR. CHILSON: "I was wondering if you just wanted to approve <br />those principles of the Commission." <br /> <br />GOV. JOHNSON: "I am sure that any ha~less words which do <br />not infringe upon or diminish the allocation <br />to Colorado, it .would be acceptable. <br /> <br />I was told that the Commission wanted the ap- <br />proval of Colorado with respect to this formula <br />which they adopted. They wanted my approval <br />and they wanted the approval of the State of <br />Colorado. They can have my approval and I hope <br /> <br />I <br />