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<br />I <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />Now if there are any questions that I could answer, I would sure like <br />to do it. <br /> <br />Mr. Stapleton: Thank you, Mr. Nichols. Is there anything further on <br />the presentation on the West Divide project? Do you have anything <br />further to say before we ask both of you some questions? <br /> <br />Mr. Fischer: Yes sir, we do. We have Mr. Carl Bernklau on the West <br />Divide who would like to make a statement. <br /> <br />I would like to point out at this juncture concerning West Divide and <br />oil shale. But first of all, the United States as you know, is <br />adjudicating in the state courts on this and other projects. It <br />, <br />seems to me that it would be consistent if Mr. Sparks and the Governor <br />would ask the Colorado congressional delegation to recognize this in <br />funding West Divide studies in fiscal 1974. <br /> <br />Second, it is possible that the industry is just a little bit further <br />ahead on oil shale in its thinking than the water board staff is. <br />This is not to mean that the staff is behind, but I think that the <br />industry is probably thinking that oil shale may be activated a little <br />bit sooner than the staff report would imply. <br /> <br />Mr. Carl Bernklau of the West Divide project will speak now. <br /> <br />Mr. Bernklau: Mr. Chairman and members of the board, I am Carl <br />Bernklau of the West Divide Conservancy District and I want at this <br />time to sympathize with the fellows in Wyoming about the shortage of <br />attorneys. Our attorney called this morning from Aspen and said he <br />was snowed in. So if you will bear with us, we will give you more <br />or less the grassroots report on the West Divide project. <br /> <br />I have been a farmer in that area for a good many. years, most of my <br />lifetime so to speak. I came there about 1905. I have been engaged <br />with agriculture all these years. Some years you raise a good crop, <br />the next year you raise a small crop. But maybe I shouldn't get <br />into this agricultural end of it being it is not too popular with <br />people up the line. With the things happening the last few years, <br />maybe and if it continues on this trend, perhaps agriculture again <br />might be a very important aspect to these projects. It could very <br />easily happen by the time we get them built. <br /> <br />I would like to emphasize one point insofar as the agriculture goes <br />in the West Divide area. I know of no food that is produced in <br /> <br />-74- <br />