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<br />MR. SPARKS: To amplify a little on what 'Rolly has said, it is <br />virtually impossible, if not impossible, today to justify a reclamation <br />project based entirely upon irrigation. I just don't think it can be <br />done anymore under the rules that have been set forth. Those rules <br />started under the Nixon Administration, and they are being pursued with <br />even greater vigor by the Carter Administration. That is the problem <br />with the Savery-Pot Hook and Fruitland-Mesa. They are entirely irri- <br />gation projects. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />This board has long thought that irrigation was good, and the Governor <br />thinks it is good. But there is simply no way that we can justify <br />irrigation projects on their own merits under the new rules that have <br />been established. This means that we have to include some other <br />element, and the only other element we have is municipal and industrial <br />water. <br /> <br />Our other projects, the Animas-La Plata, the Dolores, Dallas Creek have <br />elements of M&I water in them. As a matter of fact, that was a mandate <br />of the Nixon Administration. If you recall, the Nixon Administration, <br />on the Dallas Creek Project, we had to revise that to put in a sub- <br />stantial amount of M&I water. And we. got into some trouble with the. <br />Governor about that. We had to reivse it back to some extent, but we <br />did end up with a substantial municipal allocation for that project. <br /> <br />That is just one of the facts of life that we have to face. It will. be <br />almost impossible in the near future to justify irrigation by itself. <br />There is strong local support for these projects, but people are a little <br />stunned. They don't know where to 'go. We are all being overwhelmed by <br />so many requirements that the average citizen who lives in the project <br />area and has worked twenty years in getting something done just doesn't <br />know where to go at this point in history. I'm not sure where we can <br />go, either. <br /> <br />MR. STAPLETON: Do you want to introduce the Acting Director? <br /> <br />MR. SPARKS: Harl, would you stand up? I would like to introduce Harl <br />Noble, who is the Acting Director of the Upper Colorado Region, out of <br />Salt Lake City. He took Dave Crandall's place. Are you still acting <br />for Dave, Harl? <br /> <br />MR. NOBLE: I am still acting until they decide what to do. <br /> <br />MR. SPARKS: I understand Dave Crandall has gone into the commercial <br />fishing business, in Washington or Oregon. <br /> <br />MR. STAPLETON: Oh, really? <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />MR. SPARKS: Yes, salmon fishing. Maybe he takes people out fishing. <br />Is that what he does. Harl? <br /> <br />MR. NOBLE: I understand it is along that line. <br /> <br />MR. SPARKS: We will get Dave's address. <br /> <br />-6- <br />