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<br />I <br /> <br />Mr. Bailey: "What projects do you want to see started <br />before you give your endorsements?" <br /> <br />Mr. Moses: "It seems to me, and I am not yet in a. <br />position to make a selection yet, we either have to take <br />the selection of the local interests without question of <br />what seems to be the preferable thing to d~ or to keep <br />the preference of the local interest. It seems to me that <br />this matter is an important one." <br /> <br />Mr. Bailey: "Any questions in anyone's mind about this? <br />What competition is there for these funds that are mentioned <br />here? Maybe there is a competition here that we don't know <br />about. " <br /> <br />Mr. Crawford: "We have been before the Sub-committee of <br />the Interior and Insular Affairs on Appropriations with <br />regard to those six units now under study and I requested <br />funds for them because they are almost through." <br /> <br />Mr. Peterson: "I am a member of the Colorado Water <br />Conservancy district and there is no competition. There is <br />one thing that is of concern to us. We know that the basin <br />investigation will take a long time and I am just wondering <br />if it isn't possible :that the participating projects in the <br />upper states will be put up for authorization. It looks to <br />me like that fund could be divided some way." <br /> <br />Mr. Dutcher: "So far as <br />River are concerned, the <br />situation. We certainly <br />included along with that <br />acute situation." <br /> <br />other projects on the Gunnison <br />Ohio Project is in a very acute <br />would like to have that Ohio project <br />investigation, becuase it is an <br />- <br /> <br />Mr. Crawford: "Don't the people on the Colorado main stem <br />want the Rabbit Ear Unit?" <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />Mr. Merriell: "The situation on the Rabbit Ear is that it <br />is a large rolling area. The water users built a lot of <br />reservoirs in there. It was the consensus of opinion of <br />the members of the committee that they were doing pretty <br />well on their own. One or two reservoirs should be built <br />there. I can assure you that 200 or more reservoirs have <br />been built or enlarged in the Colorado River basin. This <br />Cliffs-Divide report considers only irrigation." <br /> <br />..J.I" <br /> <br />,- <br />