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<br />Now we'll go to the report of the federal <br />agencies and we will call on Jim Knights from <br />Region 7, please. Jim." <br /> <br />MR. KNIGHTS: <br /> <br />"Mr. Chairman, members of the Board, visitors, <br />I've divided our Region 7 report up a little <br />differently than we have heretofore. I'll talk <br />about investigations first and then go to con- <br />struction and other matters. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />On our investigations, I think probably the <br />Narrows is the first thing of interest. We held <br />a meeting down there at Ft. Morgan on the 14th <br />of March at which Senator Allott toured the <br />Narrows area itself and following that, on the <br />19th of March, was a meeting of the regular <br />Steering Committee at which time the Bureau <br />reported on their findings to the Board and to <br />the visitors that were assembled at that meet- <br />ing. It was quite a large meeting, with a great <br />deal of interest, and we presented all of the <br />facts that we had available to enable the <br />steering Committee to come to some conclusions. <br />They had another meeting on the 23rd of April, <br />after having studied the data prepared and pre- <br />sented to them on the 19th. On the 23rd they <br />were still unable to come to definite conclu- <br />sions. however, we did come to a general con- <br />clusion to the effect that the investigations, <br />insofar as the economics and the hydrology were <br />concerned, were so nearly the same and so nearly <br />covered the areas that we could go ahead, and <br />the state would desire the Bureau to go ahead, <br />with those studies based on the assumption the <br />Narrows axis was the primary axis to be consid- <br />ered, the primary site to be considered. Not <br />definitely, however, eliminating the Weld County <br />from further consideration as an alternate. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />In connection with those studies the state <br />will undertake to make a survey of the Valley to <br />determine the probable line - boundaries - of <br />the conservancy district that could be formed to <br />contract with the federal government for the <br />project. That would comprise essentially two <br />possibilities, still considering that Weld <br />County might be an alternate to the Narrows <br />