BOARD02386

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

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MR. KROEGER:

MR. SPARKS:

MR. FORD:

MR. SPARKS:

MR. Me QIGHT:

"Another thought I have is that - for you
and your staff representing the water board to
appear back there is admirable but certainly
insufficient. It is going to take a tremendous
amount of effort on the part of all the conser-
vancy districts and conservation boards and
ditch companies and everybody else in the State
of Colorado. Can we get some direction in that
regard from you?"

"Yes. Obviously, a decision was made at a
very high level that these proposed standards
were politically acceptable to the people of the
United States. . They had to assume that at the
very beginning. Now, the only way to demonstrate
that this is not so is for the people who are
interested in this is to say so. This means
that everybody who has any objection to any part
of these principles must submit a statement,
both to the Water Resources Council, and as I
have said, the key to it is really the United
States Congress. I think we have to convey to
our senators and representatives in the Congress
our objection to these principles. That is
where the ultimate battlefield will be, the
United States Congress. That is where it should
be in any event, unless Congress is going to let
this go by default. I think it should be a two-
pronged attack. The first is to submit state-
ments not later than March 31 to the Water Re-
sources Council concerning these principles,
and at the same time to indicate to our people
in the Congress our objection to these prin-
ciples.Perhaps this thing is politically
acceptable, I don't know. The question is what
can we generate to show that it is not? If we
don't do it, it will go right on through."

. "The time is getting pretty short."

"We still have about fifteen days to get
some statement off - a little over fifteen
days."

"How about those that are going to ask to

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