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I I MR. STAPLETON: MR. KUIPER: I would like to say further that in the opinion of Congressman Aspinall a feasibility report on this project, at this time, would not be in line with the Congressional policy established in Public Law 485, that is, the Colorado River storage Project Act. It is his thinking that the feasibility reports on the projects named in that Act be completed before new feasibility reports are started or com- pleted. It is therefore my recommendation to the Board that the Board support reconnaissance grade investigations in the Upper San Juan Basin at this time. That's as requested by the Southwestern District. I further recom- mend that this Board defer action on any feasibility investigation of the O'Neal Park Project until a thorough study of the inves- tigation priorities, including the implica- tions in Public Law 485, be made and that the project priority schedule as set forth in our Volume I, 'Federal-State Water Resource Planning Development in Colorado', be extended sometime this year to include priorities for the next five to seven years following 1965." "Mr. Kuiper, we have a lot of guests present, including members of the Legislature, and I wish you'd give them a little more back- ground on the resolution, etc., so that they may know something more abou t the problem." "In this Resolution, the Southwestern Dis- trict Board - I think perhaps if we read the 'Resolving Clause' that that would focus the problem before the Board at this time: 'THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, by the Colorado Water Conservation Board, in regular meeting assembled at Denver, Colorado this l4th day of November, 1962, that the Bureau of Recla- mation be requested to initiate water develop- ment studies in the Upper San Juan River Basin.' The preambles to this resolving clause make