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MR. SPARKS: I I MR. McCANDLESS: 1117 "What Dave has said is true. We have some projects over here that need lots of work on them, the Purgatoire, the Narrows. My thinking, Dave, was to try it out with two people and one of them should be on the Western Slope, at least. I don't care where he lives. It is a mat- ter of convenience in getting the work done. We have to have someone to devote attention to project planning wherever it may be. Our engineering staff now is pretty well swamped and I have to do the only contacts for promotion work at the present time. I don't mean that I can't do it, but there are certain limitations - I find that I am meeting myself coming back from various meetings. Whatever'project planning we have, the projects planning engineer is an employee of the Board wherever he may be and he works on the projects this Board as- signs. If you will note the Appendix which the staff worked up, the engineering staff - it is Appendix C - I was staggered at the projects on the planning board now in Colo- rado. They are almost one billion dollars and they do not include, as I say, the Soil Conservation Service which we have badly neglected and which is a part of the func- tion of this Board. Small reservoirs have been overlooked to some extent because we have not had the staff to coordinate with the Soil Conservation Service. Not one loan has ever been applied for in Colorado under the Small Projects Act. I find that every other reclamation state is making busy use of that fund, and the purpose of these two engineers would be to familiarize themselves with every Federal agency that has money available for projects. We are not utilizing the services of the Federal agencies now available to us." "Mr. Chairman it has always seemed to me that we have probably more projects here than we should have. These men might be able to trim some of them that are not feasible and then we could drop those."