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<br />I <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />MR. PETERSON: <br /> <br />13Z\J <br /> <br />Now that will require the addition of <br />three personnel which this Board authorized <br />last fall and which we have included in our <br />budget to the Legislature this year. Those <br />three additional personnel we have finally <br />decided upon will be two project engineers <br />and an economic analyst. We find that we <br />are not able to intelligently review any <br />project because we have nobody on the Board <br />that understands the economic aspect of <br />these projects. Even though in the past we <br />have had to review the reports put out by <br />the Bureau of Reclamation, we little under- <br />stood them as far as the economic aspects <br />are concerned although the final criteria <br />of all these projects is the economics, that <br />is: how can they be repaid? Can they be <br />repaid under existing law, and what criteria <br />should be used and be the governing factors <br />in arriving at the economic justification of <br />these projects? <br /> <br />We do not have such an economic analyst <br />and we are still short a project engineer. <br />We have put out feelers in every place that <br />we could think of and we are interviewing <br />applicants for these jobs at the present time. <br />I just came back from the Western Slope where <br />I interviewed some engineers over there with <br />reference to an engineering position which <br />the Board authorized over there. <br /> <br />We even found that we had no equipment, <br />no engineering equipment, although the Board <br />has been staffed with engineers, we have no <br />engineering equipment to accomplish field <br />surveys. The surveys we have done to date <br />we've accomplished by borrowing equipment, a <br />practice dependent upon whether or not it is <br />available or not from the lender. It will <br />take probably $1,000 or $1,500 to get a transit <br />and a plane table so that we do not have to go <br />out to the Bureau and, in some cases, we have <br />had to borrow from private individuals." <br /> <br />"If you will pardon me, I would like to <br />make a statement - or a suggestion - concern- <br />ing small projects insofar as they include <br />that portion of the State within the Colorado <br />River Basin. Now this would take an act of <br />Congress but an act has to start somewhere <br />