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<br />J"::>ts <br /> <br />MR. SPARKS: <br /> <br />MR. STAPLETON: <br /> <br />MR. SPARKS: <br /> <br />to this Board in the field of Quality of Ground <br />Water, the thinking being that all of the money <br />was going to the Health Department. This is not <br />true of the, as I recall, $40,000; about $10,000 <br />would be for Health Department purposes and the <br />balance would be the program worked out between <br />C.S.U., the Board and the Geological Survey. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />As far as the bill itself is concerned, if <br />it is passed, I don't know that we need the <br />money, I think we can accomplish this purpose <br />under the appropriation which has been requested <br />by the Board. Perhaps Larry has talked with <br />Senator oliver in connection with this - I have <br />not." <br /> <br />"I prepared a memorandum for the Joint <br />Budget Committee since there was some concern <br />that it might duplicate the activities of the <br />Board. Actually, I pointed out, this request <br />for appropriation did not duplicate our activi- <br />ties at all because this proposed appropriation <br />to Colorado State University is for a problem <br />type research only and has nothing to do with <br />the Basic Ground Water Survey so in that sense <br />it is not a duplication at all of the program <br />that the Board has undertaken." <br /> <br />"vlell, I had some concern about this bill <br />because I felt, in reading it, that this was <br />something that the Board ought to have control <br />of and supervise and contract with C.S.U. about <br />it, as we have in the past. You don't consider <br />this is a Board function to control and develop <br />and integrate with our other studies and with <br />the Federal Bureaus?" <br /> <br />"Unfortunately the language of the bill is <br />misleading. It apparently puts it on the same <br />basis as our Basic Ground Water Surveys and <br />that was my objection to the bill as I pointed <br />out to the Appropriations Committee - that it <br />was identifying their specific research with <br />the basic ground water program and that the pur- <br />poses of the bill were for something entirely <br />different. I told them that I felt, in that <br /> <br />I <br />