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<br />Proposed Legislation for Management of <br />Water; <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />Proposed Legislation Concerning Reser- <br />voirs; <br /> <br />Proposed Legislation Concerning Advisory <br />Boards for each Water Division of Colorado; <br /> <br />Division Water Advisory Committee; <br /> <br />Responsibilities of Water Resources <br />Division of Colorado; <br /> <br />(These two are housekeeping sections <br />in regard to the office of the State Engi- <br />neer which I will comment on in a little <br />more detail); <br /> <br />Fiscal Management Section of Division <br />of Water Resources. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />Each one of these drafts is geared to <br />a basin-wide concept. In no instance is <br />there any drastic revision in any of these, <br />and can't be. Because of the legislative <br />mandate all of this legislation is to be <br />prepared in accordance with the constitution <br />and the rule of priority of appropriation. <br />As I stated before. and on many occasions, <br />the priority doctrine is a good rule of law. <br />However, the statutes that were passed in <br />1879 and 1881 in regard to administration <br />are pretty much the same today as they were <br />almost a hundred years ago. The water com- <br />missioner has the same functions today as <br />he had in 1879 and there is some room for <br />modernizing in many instances if we are <br />going to get the improved effective admin- <br />istration that the legislature in the 407 <br />studies has suggested, and it should be one <br />of the principal subjects of the studies. <br /> <br />No legislation can solve all of these <br />water problems and no one should expect that <br />