BOARD02242

• Board Meeting Date: 1/17/1962
• Description: Minutes and Resolution
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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nation's water resources, it must be given
the most profound consideration. Congress
should make provision for receiving and
giving consideration to actual language by
which the principles outlined above may be
accomplished. At many points the bills
offered are inadequate to this purpose. No
hasty consideration, to be regretted at
leisure, should occur in this far-reaching
matter. Colorado stands ready to marshall
the best informed opinion in the state in
order to make its own fair contribution to
the perfection of the best possible national
water policy legislation.'

Thank you, Mr. Chairman."

MR. STAPLETON:

"Mr. Hamburg, I notice you use the words
'preliminary examination'. I'd like to in-
quire first of all whether you've had any
further examination which, in your opinion,
would alter substantially the basis of your
report, and secondly, do you plan, from the
Investigation Commission, a further report?"

MR. HAMBURG:

"Mr. Chairman, I might say the meaning
of that was this, that we did consider the
bill in its entirety on a line-by-line basis
but I think .the 'preliminary' referred to in
there means that we did not try to line-for-
line come up with amendments ~ I think a
further work of this Commission, and of the
staff, should be that after a policy is
adopted by this Board, then we should turn
to a line-by-line amendment of the bill and
work fOr those amendments."

MR. STAPLETON:

"Then I take it that it's a fair state-
ment, from reading this report, that there's
substantial disagreement with the present
form of the bill. Is that correct?"

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MR. HAMBURG:

"That's absolutely correct, Mr. Chairman."

MR. STAPLETON:

"All right. Well, I think we'll start
the discussion of this matter by asking Mr.
Kuiper to comment on the Investigation
Commission's report."