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<br />Mr. Stapleton: Senator Hart, we appreciate your being here. Let me <br />say that I hope when you get the notice of our meeting, we are going to <br />have one in Grand Junction on May 1st and 2nd. The Board would like to <br />go out in the field to see the projects, and we would welcome you in <br />Colorado. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />Senator Hart: Well, Mr. Chairman, we look forward to that. We follow <br />your schedules very closely; and to the degree it is possible, I certainly <br />look forward to that. <br /> <br />Mr. Stapleton: I don't know when you have to leave -- <br /> <br />Senator Hart: In five, or ten minutes. <br /> <br />Mr. Stapleton: If I may just interrupt to introduce the Senator to the <br />members of the Board he didn't meet, Ray Moses, John Fetcher, Herb <br />Vandemoer, David Robbins, and Harris Sherman. <br /> <br />Well, now, with the thought that we can ask a few questions, the Senator <br />has a few minutes, so, does anybody of the Board, first of all, have <br />some questions for the Senator? <br /> <br />Senator Hart: I just want you to know the symbolics and significance <br />of meeting in the Watergate Hearing Room. <br /> <br />(laughter) <br /> <br />Mr. Stai1eton: That is the first time the reference has come up. <br />were al doing our best without that reference. <br /> <br />Senator Haskell, we are just-about to conclude this hearing on the <br />agenda, and we would like to hear from you. We know you have a busy <br />schedule on the Floor. <br /> <br />We <br /> <br />Senator Haskell: I do have to apologize for not being here. The Tax <br />Bill is on the Floor, and as a member of the Finance Committee I have <br />to be there almost all the time. So, I will just waive remarks to some- <br />body else. I'll just listen. I think that would be better. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />Mr. Stahleton: Well, I might say, the item coming up next on the agenda <br />you mig t be interested in, is the Closed Basin. I think one time last <br />year you thought you were not in a position on that matter among people <br />that live there, you may recall that. I am told there is so much <br />unanimity it scareBme now. I am told there will be 1,400 petitions <br />presented here this afternoon, and there is almost complete agreement <br />on the real issues. <br /> <br />I don't know if you and Senator Hart will have the time to listen, but <br />this Board is practically a sounding board from the State of Colorado; <br />and when these programs come to Congress they have the approval of the <br />Board and the State of Colorado as a whole as a result. <br /> <br />I have been on the Board for many years. In 1958 was my first meeting <br /> <br />-57- <br />