BOARD02537

• Board Meeting Date: 9/17/1958
• Description: Minutes and Resolution
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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they could save a great deal of money
if the State of Colorado had someone in
a particular area to tell them what to
work on to begin with.

Now what has happened is that
Region 4 has had to strip personnel from I
other areas because, as you will note
from one of the memorandums that I sent
out, approximately one-third of the Bur-
eau of Reclamation budget for this year
is for Region 4 which meant that they had
to get personnel from other regions. An
engineer would come in from another region
say to the Gunnison area, never having been
there before in his life, knows nothing or
little or nothing about it. The Department
of Agriculture will send a man up from
Albuquerque to make the agricultural sur-
vey. They spend two or three months there,
they make a report which mayor may not
be accurate. Very often they are unrealis-
tic as far as the economy of that area is
concerned. That's our problem with some
of these unfeasible reports. We' don't be-
lieve that they accurately reflect the
economic conditions of that area. So if
we are to proceed and get the projects
built now in planning, I think it is imper-
ative that we have somebody familiar with
those areas who can work with the Bureau
as those investigations progress. We don't
get these projects built until a feasible
report is rendered by both the Department
of Agriculture and the Department of the
Interior."

MR.NELSON:

"What action should be taken toward
that end?"

"I think this. I merely took some
hypothetical titles and some real duties
actually but there is nothing concrete
'about this proposal except that I know
this - we do need two additional people
to work with the Governmental agencies
exclusively and I am convinced that one
should be on the Western Slope and one
should be here.

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MR. SPARKS:

This cannot take place until the