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together a project which was economically feasible within the standards and criteria required by the laws of the United states. The Bureau of neclamation likewise were not able to put together a project which was feasible with any ratio which they felt would I permit the project to be built. Therefore, after the war, some young men who had come back from World War II wanted to make this town grow. Because of the coal industry having been considerably curtailed in the area, the prosperity was dwindling and they wanted to make things grow there if they could. As a result there was quite a movement of civic activities. They bought their own electric plant, they built their water system, their gas works. But constantly the floods plagued them and the agricultural economy was not sound. So the idea vIas put together of com- bining the flood control and reclamation in a multiple-purpose project which might then prove to be feasible. It is getting rather late and I am going to go through these things pretty fast here. If you want a lot of detail we've got it. There's been a lot done. As a result of all of this work that was done commencing in 1953 to put these projects together, in 1958 the 84th Congress passed the Flood Control Act, House Document No. 325, which set up some operating principles which were the solution, you might say, for these controversies and recommendations that we had had to make. Now in all of this, this Colo- rado Water Conservation Board has t~,en a leading part. The Board has set up the dis- trict that was necessary to repay the contract; I it has brought together the federal agencies; it has brought together the local people. There were many differences of opinion there and through the patience and foresight and hard work of this Board, this project has been made possible. And I think we couldn't pass this project without mentioning Len Kuiper, who was assigned by Larry to do major work on