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<br />..!.0UU <br /> <br />in the Colorado River for a period of ten <br />years with a budget of a million dollars <br />a year. <br /> <br />Personally I feel that it is very <br />important, not only to this project, but <br />to the welfare of the State and the Board, <br />that we. have this project well under way <br />before this bill is passed and the money <br />appropriated because then we would be in <br />a highly strategic position to command a <br />part of these funds for research and for <br />this project rather than seeing the money <br />diverted to the University of California <br />or the Bureau of Reclamation or whatever, <br />alone. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />The Bureau of Reclamation is another <br />source of possible support and here again, <br />once the project is definitely underway, <br />I feel sure that the Bureau will have a <br />very strong interest in it and would be <br />willing to finance it. <br /> <br />Finally, if you will look at the bud- <br />get in detail you will see on the very last <br />page, I'm sorry, not the last page, on the <br />summary page - no, on the first page of the <br />budget, the summary, we have broken down <br />the budget amount by the three groups parti- <br />cipating in the project and then we have <br />added 550 station years of meteorological <br />data for the other states in the upper basin <br />which adds forty percent of the cost of the <br />meteorological analysis to the project. We <br />have, in Colorado, about 1450 station years <br />of data which can be ana lysed and about 550 <br />station years of data in Utah, Wyoming and <br />New Mexico where the stations are in the <br />drainage of the Colorado River. It seems <br />to me quite likely that the Upper Colorado <br />River Basin Commission ought to pick up, or <br />be interested in picking up, the tab for <br />the analysis of the stations outside the 1= <br />boundaries of this State, or indeed it would <br />appear to me a possibility that the Commis- <br />sion might carry the whole cost of the total <br />project under the leadership of the Colorado <br />Water Conservation Board. Have I answered <br />your question?" <br /> <br />MR. MOSES: <br /> <br />"For the record,the bill that Dr. Garn- <br />sey refers to is H. R. 3704. I don't know <br />what the number is in the Senate." <br />