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"LII'! MR. STAPLETON: MR. MILLER: MR. STAPLETON: MR. MILLER: back there to realize that the folks out in the sticks and the grass roots have knowledge and experience, have aspirations that should not be eliminated. Thank you." "Thank you, Senator Johnson. To the Board members, the NRA News of November and December, 1961, which just came, outlines Congressman Aspinall's position on this. You might want to look at it and refer to it when you get back home. I I would agree, entirely, with Senator John- son that, in my reading of the bill, it cer- tainly doesn't spell out in the bill the things that congressman Aspinall says the bill will not do. I would think we'd all be generally in accord with those principles. Now, I know there will be a lot of people who would like to comment on the report of the Investigation Com- mission and the Planning Act and I am going to first ask for discussion from the Board members and then later from our guests. So, would any of the Board members care to comment now on the bill itself or On the report of the Investigation Commission? I take it, what we are aiming for is a resolution either supporting or modifying the Investigation Commission's report or a resolu- tion setting forth the state's policy on this matter." "Mr. Chairman." "Mr. Miller." "I think this has positive aspects a's well as negative aspects or, to use Senator Johnson's paraphrasing of Congressman Aspinall, shall do's and shall not do's. I read this act originally with the thgught.inmind that this gave to the states, in general, and to Colorado in particu- lar, a voice in the formation of a national water policy it does not now have. I have not read the volumes of material that have been pub- lished on this subject. It has received rather thorough. and detailed consideration from the Columbia Basin Inter-Agency Committee and other organizations. I think I would look at this as an I