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<br />in terms of protecting the fishery resource. If you lOse that option, <br />you are not going to be able to depend on the Division of wildlife. <br />The Division of wildlife is not a habitat manager. We collect licenses <br />and we stock fish. We control little in the way of water, and we never <br />will. When it comes to the benefit of this state in the future of the <br />fishery resource, this board had better have some say, or we are going <br />to find thirty years from now that we are going to be looking back and <br />have a lot of degraded streams. ' <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />What I am saying is that I am glad the Board voted to continue with <br />SB 97 until a constitutional decision is arrived at. <br /> <br />I hope, first of all, that the law is constitutional. If it is not, <br />we had better have an mnendment, because what we have got is a major <br />issue. You are looking at the entire state and its fishery resOurce. <br /> <br />MR. STAPLETON: Thank you, Eddy. Is there any further discussion? <br />(NO response.) <br /> <br />All those in favor of adopting the preliminary recommendations, please <br />indicate by saying- "Aye." (Unanimous ayes.) Those opposed? (NO <br />response.) <br /> <br />The motion is carried. <br /> <br />Now, the floodplain information reports. Would you please comment, <br />Mr. Sparks? <br /> <br />MR. SPARKS: Mr. Chairman, these are completed floodplain information <br />reports'. They have now been submitted to this board fOr approval. <br />Our staff has reviewed. the reports"and we believe they are adequate. <br /> <br />I might state that we are having considerable difficulty with the: <br />volume of reports that are coming in now. We are having particular <br />difficulty with some of the reports being_ done under contract by <br />federal agencies. We are rejecting some of them and sending them back <br />fOr correction. We hope to resolve that matter with the federal agencies <br />involved in the very near future. <br /> <br />The approval of these floodplain reports is not automatic with our staff. <br />We review them as thoroughly as possible with the small engineering <br />staff that we have in the Flood Control Section. In some cases, we <br />send them back because we think -they are inadequate. They may fail to <br />properly describe the land or the work, is sloppy. <br /> <br />. , I <br />We will make mistakes, since we are trying to review some fifty or <br />more reports a year. They are very voluminous and contain a .great deal <br />of technical data. They are very time consuming to review. We are <br />doing the best we can with them, and the staff does recommend the <br />approval of these four reports. <br /> <br />MR. VANDEMOER: Is this a question of a free report, as compared to one <br />you pay for? In other words, when the federal agency makes it, does <br />somebody pay them? How does that work? <br /> <br />-22- <br />