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<br />J.OOJ. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />have just passed out. The small sheet of paper <br />says: 'S. 72' at the top. <br /> <br />I think we will go through the bill that was <br />agreed to at Santa Fe. You will notice that the <br />first page is the same way that we had it before. <br />We did not agree to any changes. We specified <br />the 'Initial stage of the San Juan-Chama~ and <br />then 'as conditioned, modified and limited here- <br />in'. Those are the only changes which occur on <br />page one. <br /> <br />On page two, at the Santa Fe conference, on <br />the fifth line the word 'approximately' should be <br />lined out and in lieu thereof the words 'not to <br />exceed one hundred and ten thousand six hundred <br />and thirty acres of land'. <br /> <br />We modified the proviso we had to some ex- <br />tent. Our chief worry all along with the Navajo <br />Irrigation Project has been it's possible inter- <br />ference with the Animas-La Plata Project which is <br />a joint Colorado-New Mexico Project. In other <br />words, we did not want any additional call put <br />upon the Animas River in Colorado which has not <br />already been there historically. We have con- <br />sidered many things as a limitation on that <br />Indian project but in final analysis we considered <br />only this proviso which you have before you - the <br />new one, and that is, that the San Juan River <br />flow, or the waters stored in Navajo Reservoir, <br />must be first utilized to satisfy the pre-compact <br />rights in New Mexico which are the Cudai, the <br />Hogback and the other Indian projects below Farm- <br />ington. That's been our chief worry all along. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />Now New Mexico has not seen this new proviso <br />that we have added, but we think that it defines <br />Colorado's position. Both the storage and the <br />natural flow of the San Juan must be utilized <br />to satisfy those downstream rights. That is the <br />only way that we think the Animas-La Plata Proj- <br />ect is absolutely safe insofar as demands in New <br />Mexico are concerned." <br /> <br />MR. BARNARD, JR.: "A question. Does this proviso take the <br />place of the entire proviso?" <br /> <br />MR. SPARKS: <br /> <br />"It takes the place of the entire proviso be- <br />cause it does not make any difference to us as <br />to how they use the water out of the Navajo Res- <br />ervoir so long as it is used to satisfy those <br />