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<br />It might be appropriate to look at page <br />40 of the budget book which shows the state <br />expenditures for the past ten years and the <br />amount appropriated to this Board. You will <br />note that in 1960 the total appropriation <br />was $455,000; in 1968 it had risen to $548,000. <br />Actually the budget that we are proposing this <br />year is less than the '68 budget by some <br />$15,000. In the back of the book we have also <br />summarized the total current federal budget <br />for this year as well as for the past ten <br />years. During the past ten years, as a result <br />of our cooperative state-federal programs, the <br />federal government has expended $339 million <br />in the State of Colorado. The State of Colo- <br />rado has expended $4,600,000 in appropriations <br />to this Board. The ratio of federal dollars <br />to state dollars has risen dramatically in the <br />past ten years. In 1960 the ratio of federal <br />dollars to a state dollar was $21 federal <br />dollars to each state dollar. It reached an <br />all-time high in 1967 with $107 federal dollars <br />to one state dollar. This past fiscal year <br />it dropped to about $88 federal dollars to <br />each state dollar. This reflects the severe <br />budgetary reductions which have been made on <br />the national level in the past two years and <br />which will continue during the present year, <br />and perhaps for some years in the future. <br /> <br />There are no new developments concerning <br />our budget. It maintains about the same pro- <br />gram. We were short during this fiscal year and <br />We still are short to carryon our full coop- <br />erative program with the Geological Survey. <br />Some of that has been made up with contribu- <br />tions from local agencies. We are still short <br />$15,000 to continue the Arkansas Valley pro- <br />gram at its present level. We have, at the <br />request of Senator Locke, prepared a request <br />for a supplemental appropriation of $15,000 <br />and the bill has been introduced by Repre- <br />sentative Palmer Burch as a supplemental <br />appropriation for this year. We have also <br />been advised by Senator Denny and Representative <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />I <br />