BOARD02386

• Board Meeting Date: 3/8/1972
• Description: Agenda or Table of Contents, Minutes, Memos
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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instruments that I have ever had the misfortune
to have to read. It assumes that every fed-
eral investment is subject to this type of
analysis. The truth is that there is no other
activity of the federal government which is
subject to an analysis like this. Highways,
health, welfare, schools, foreign aid, military
spending, you name it, nothing goes through
this type of process. Why is the water resource
singled out?

As far as the Bureau of Reclamation is
concerned, its program is a minor program in
the budget of the United States Government.
So why all the emphasis upon this type of pro-
cedure for water resource planning? It doesn't
make any sense. It doesn't conform with any
other activity of the federal government; unless
as I said, a political decision was made to des-
troy water resource development in the United
States. There is no other way you can explain
this document.

The serious decision facing Colorado and
the people of this nation today is what are we
going to do about it? Do we have to accept
this? Here is an agency which is insulated
from the elective process. It is not respon-
sible to the people of the United States. In
a sense I think this type of thing is generated
by overdue emphasis on environment. If we try
to dispute that there needs to be additional
consideration given to preserving our environ-
ment, we are doing a disservice to the people
of this state. We must increase our concern
in this area. But there is a limit to how far
this concern can be carried.

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To give you an example of what we are run-
ning into and may be creating some of the pres-
sure on things such as these principles, I want
to quote from a couple of statements that have
come to our attention through various publica-
tions. Arthur Godfrey is reported to have made

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