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<br />17 <br /> <br />year on account of the Oolorado River Oomprehensive Plan. <br /> <br />The President recommended $7,000.000 for investigatlons <br /> <br />ln the seventeen western states. The House cut that to <br /> <br />$5,150,000. That would not have been so bad were it not for <br /> <br />the faot that the House also included under general lnTestl- <br /> <br /> <br />gat1ons'approxlmately .2,&00,000 in oosts whioh beretofore <br /> <br />were borne. from other souroes, so 1 t was about a 50 or 60 per <br /> <br />c'ent out lnthe amount recommended by the Pree1dent1a the <br />Budget Bureau. . <br />The Bureau of Reclamation, 1tself, requested $12,000,000 <br />for preparation for understand1ng the real situatlon. The <br />BU:J:"e8ubiJ11ntd that $12,000,000 was needed. What they actually <br />got for general lnvest1gations was ln the ne1ghborhood of be- <br />tWeen three and four million dollars. In addltion to that, <br />there was some language lncluded in the'. blll Which seemed to <br />deny all Iloney for basln-wide 1l\veetigat1ons, dependting on how <br />1 t may be interpret eo.. FUl"ther, they had langlllsge which made <br />the 9010rado River Development money reimbursable whereas <br />under the Boulder Oanon 'roJect AdJustment Aot lt ls non-re- <br />imbursable. . When I was in Wash1rtgton in April, the matter vas <br />of such importance to Oolorado that I devoted a lot of tlme to <br />, <br /> <br />1t, oontacted the Senators who are members of tbe senate <br />Appropriations sub-committee and, all on Sundays, worked out <br />a memorandum and an agreement was made Whereby the full e1 t- <br /> <br />uation would be explained by the Bureau. The Bureau has <br />