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<br />~. Stapleton: Do you have any information on their backgrounds? <br />This preliminary report doesn't give you any indication unless you <br />happen to know them. which I don't happen to know but one or two. <br /> <br />Mr. Sparks: Charles F. Luce is the chairman. The last I kpew. he was <br />either chairman or president of the Consolidated Edison Company of I <br />New York. It is one of the major utility companies in the Uriited <br />States. His entire background has been in the power and electrical <br />generation field. He is from the state of New York. Roger Ernst is <br />one person I know personally. He is from Arizona. He is an official <br />of the Arizona Public Service Company. James R. Ellis. I believe is <br />from the state of Washington. The other gentlemen I am not ~cquainted <br />with., One is from Texas. The Pacific Northwest is where the bulk <br />of them come from. Appling is from Oregon. I might state that in <br />Washington and Oregon. they don't need much more reclamation. Eighty <br />percent of the irrigated acreage in the state of Washin~ton is under <br />reclamation projects. compared to about thirty percent in Colorado. <br />Oregon is about the next highest of the reclamation states. <br /> <br />Mr. Stapleton: Who prepared the Commission report? <br /> <br />Mr. Sparks: The basic part of the report on agriculture was prepared <br />by Iowa State University. The people there have been dedicated to <br />the midwest-type farming. They take the position that the midwest <br />can grow all the grain that is needed in the United States. They have <br />never been oriented to irrigation in any form. Why this important <br />report on irrigation waG farmed out to Iowa State University. I'll <br />never know. But it was, and it constitutes the principal basis for <br />all these conclusions about irrigation and reclamation. <br /> <br />Hr. Stapleton: Is there any further course of action that we should <br />take as a board before this meetiTlg on Thursday? <br /> <br />Mr. Sparks: I don't know of anything else we can do. I expect to <br />pick up the Governor's completed presentation this afternoon. We will <br />mimeograph it tomorrow ~nd it will be in the mail to the board members <br />either tomorrow evening or by Wednesday morning. <br /> <br />Mr. Stapleton: Next on the agenda is a memorandum of Jan~~~f 30. 1973. I <br />concerning wate~ and amending th~ Water Right De~e~minat~on &nd Admin- <br />istration'Act of 1969. Would you tel+ us what this is all about? <br />This is news to me. <br /> <br />Mr. Sparks: In his recent message to the Colorado General Assembly. <br /> <br />-18- <br />