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<br />53BU <br /> <br />not competent,.,\t~:ha,n~c~~~h~t particular and <br />sensitive task. There' 'is where my objection <br />is. <br /> <br />But getting back to what should be done <br />now, I repeat that I don't want to delay for <br />one second, action on 467l, revised, and I <br />don't want the other six states of the Colo- <br />rado River Basin to be able to say that there <br />is a basic difference of opinion even in <br />Colorado with respect to what we are trying <br />to do. <br /> <br />As I have already said, Colorado is the <br />only state that seems to be aggressively and <br />energetically at work in trying to develop <br />and reach a decision with respect to the <br />protection of the Upper Colorado River water <br />and the use of the Colorado River water by all <br />of the seven states of the Colorado River <br />Basin. So, while I am not going to offer <br />any amendment today, I feel in my heart that <br />an amendment is necessary and I am going to <br />take up with our delegation in the Congress, <br />the Colorado delegation in the congress, the <br />proposal that I have in mind, make a record <br />of it in the Congress, because I feel that a <br />record is absolutely necessary. I have lived <br />with this matter for a long, long, long time. <br />I have seen many tragic mistakes made and I <br />don't want us to make another tragic mistake <br />and destroy what appears to me to be a possi- <br />ble solution of the upper Basin in the <br />delivery of water by the upper Basin to the <br />Lower Basin. So I shall remain silent here <br />today and I thin]~ many of you will rejoice <br />that I do, not that I might affect things <br />primarily but I think that we should have a <br />united front in the State of Colorado because <br />we have a tough job in Colorado doing anything <br />much with the water of the Colorado River. <br /> <br />The state of New Mexico has no burden <br />at Lee Ferry. The state of utah has very <br />little, if any, burden at Lee Ferry. As many <br />of you know, the yampa River must deliver, or <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />1 <br />