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<br />...\,11 V <br /> <br />MR~ SPARKS: <br /> <br />MR. KIMBALL: <br /> <br />MR. SPARKS: <br /> <br />VIR. ROMER: <br />MR. STAPLETON: <br /> <br />MR. ROMER: <br /> <br />conservation pool. While no o~e ever gets what <br />they probably would like to have, again if we are <br />willing to purchase the water, I think the pri- <br />mary consideration is whether or not it is gOlng <br />to be worth it - the money the Game and Fish De- <br />partment is going to put into it. If our biolo- <br />gists think that an optimum condition calls for <br />20,000 acre-feet, and we are willing to buy the <br />water, what would be the objections to including <br />that amount in it?" <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />"I have given them to you, Mr. Kimball. The <br />Corps of Engineers have been reluctant to invade <br />any of the flood control space because they say <br />it's not sufficient now. They have been very <br />reluctant to invade any flood control space. It <br />was only after a great deal of work that they <br />have finally agreed to this 10,000 feet. This <br />is not the optimum but I'll say this, another <br />thing that we considered was the availability of <br />water. Ten thousand feet is going to be diffi- <br />cult enough, 20,000 is ten times as difficult. <br />You just magnify the problem that much, the higher <br />you go. We are not considering the optimum in <br />this case. There are other uses besides fishing <br />in that reservoir. We are trying to only insure <br />that there be a sufficient pool there so that <br />there is some. water left in that reservoir." <br /> <br />ffYou also stated that you hoped to invade the <br />pool another 100,000 acre-feet for irrigation pur- <br />poses at some later date. It would seem to me <br />that if that much is available, if the 20,000 <br />acre-feet is optimum for recreation it is not too <br />much out of line." <br /> <br />"That's totally contingent, Mr. Kimball, up- <br />on the construction of the Fryingpan-Arkansas <br />Project. That's one hundred percent contingent <br />upon that. \~at may happen when that contingency <br />comes about is another matter not before us now." <br /> <br />"Mr. Chairman." <br /> <br />"Yes, sir, will you please use this micro- <br />phone?" <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />"I'm Jim Romer from Holly, Colorado, Vice- <br />President of the Amity Mutual. We are below <br />John ~~rtin in District 67. I would like to <br />take exception to the remark that Mr. Sparks <br />made that the water using agencies are not <br />