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<br />_-v, <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />Bill is so bad that you can't study it without <br />losing your objectivity. It's ridiculous and on <br />this particular point I think this Board must, <br />if it's honest in carrying out it's responsibil- <br />ity, oppose the enactment of S. 1123 or anything <br />which does not provide for exceptions for water <br />rights. <br /> <br />Now, as I say, this is a very complicated <br />matter. I've got about 15 pounds of files here <br />dealing with the subject. I am still trying to <br />go through the whole thing. I think it might be <br />better if I made myself available for any ques- <br />tions." <br /> <br />MR. CONOUR: <br /> <br />"Mr. Barnard; do any of the proposed amendments <br />go so far as to, in effect, protect the vested <br />rights of water users looking toward the contin- <br />ued maintenance and operation of the works? I <br />have in mind a situation we are confronted with <br />at the present time on the Weminuche Pass diver- <br />sion where the Forest Service, under an existing <br />wilderness area, is refusing to permit the owners <br />to go in there with motorized equipment to make <br />the necessary repairs and insisting that it be <br />done with horses and scrapers, assuming that any- <br />one can find anyone that knows how to run a horse <br />and scraper any more." <br /> <br />MR. BARNARD, JR.: "In answer to the specific question, the <br />Allott amendments, if adopted, would be applica- <br />ble to that situation." <br /> <br />MR. CONOUR: "Are they broad enough to include individual <br />water users?" <br /> <br />MR. BARNARD, JR.: "Yes, sir. They were specifically wr~tten <br />with that in mind." <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />MR. McCANDLESS: <br />MR. STAPLETON: <br />MR. McCANDLESS: <br /> <br />"Mr. Chairman." <br /> <br />"Mr. McCandless." <br /> <br />"I'd like to ask Mr. Barnard, I've gone <br />through his resume as carefully as I could, and <br />yet I can't see where provision has been made to <br />harvest timber if this wilderness area took in a <br />stand of timber. Over in our country we have <br />just recently put a road in to a huge stand of <br />timber said to be the largest left in Colorado, <br />and the Forest Supervisor told me that thousands <br />and thousands of dollars had been lost up there <br />