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MR. KUIPER: MR. PETERSON: MR. KNIGHTS: MR. STAPLETON: MR. DELANEY: MR. STAPLETON: MR. DELANEY: "I think that's what prompted Pete's question." "What I was thinking, would it be possible, as long as the operating principles contained Section 19, that this committee could be acti- vated, the Bureau of Reclamation being repre- sented on it, of course? I think a lot of this is through misunderstanding. I think that if we got together on the thing and found out what was going on, it might iron out a lot of the difficulties. This committee, it looks to me, is the way to do it." I "That could be." "I'd be in favor of reactivating the commit- tee and working with the Bureau. I think, Mr. Delaney, you wanted something affirmative that nothing be done at this time. I would think that if we reactivated the committee with the Bureau as one of the members that I, for one, don't want to take a position, (and I don't see how I can), until Itle know what comes up. I would hate to have the committee not have any function to perform and I think their function would be to work with the Bureau in seeing what they are doing. I don't see where you would stop anything, or want to stop anything, if you did reactivate this committee." "Mr. Chairman, may I make one statement?" "Mr. Delaney." "In your discussion here you have used the words 'reactivate the committee'. It's my inter- pretation of this document, or whatever you may call it, the operating principles, that it isn't a reactivation of the old committee that adopted these principles, it's an entirely new committee and certainly the United States has two repre- sentatives on it; the Southeastern Water Conser- vancy District has a representative; the State Board (your Board) has a representative; and the Colorado River Water Conservation District has a representative. It starts out with this language, I