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<br />001877 <br /> <br />adequate, equitable administration of this project, we at the Depart- <br />ment are prepared to cooperate with the committees of the Congress in <br />putting such provisions into the legislation. <br /> <br />SENATOR KUCHEL. I think the chairman, for example, if he had sat <br />in 1922 would have taken some objection to the exact language of sub- <br />A;u;o............ 1..:1\ _. '='.........;,..1~ TTT +-"" C!~'U' ""'6 'UO""" 'a~C1'" ::t.nn;<F ....h~rA CQUld <br />--... --............ \-, -... ....... ....---.... -...... t -- --~ -...- .. --.I -----, -....- -- ------' <br /> <br />be answers given on a problem such as this in anticipation of future <br />development I think we ought to have them. <br /> <br />SENATOR ANDERSON. You know Browning' s comment on his poem. <br />He wrote it. He knew what it meant and God knew what he meant but <br />only God knows now. At the time they wrote the compact the people <br />writing thought they knew what it meant. <br /> <br />Are there other questions? <br /> <br />SENATOR BARRETT. I just want to ask this one question, Mr. Bennett. <br />The compact itself provides that electricity may be generated in the <br />upper basin States so long as it does not unreasonably interfere with <br />the use of the water by lower basin States for agriculture or other <br />domestic purposes. <br /> <br />It must naturally follow then from such a statement that the upper <br />basin States would have the right to store the water for that purpose; <br />does it not? <br /> <br />MR. BENNETT. Correct, sir. That is the burden of the statement I <br />made this afternoon. That is our interpretation of article III (e) of <br />the compact. <br /> <br />SENATOR BARRETT. And storing it for that purpose does not make <br />surplus water? <br /> <br />MR. BENNETT. Not a bit, sir, under our interpretation. <br /> <br />SENATOR ANDERSON. We will be in recess. Just a moment. We will <br />start at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning. The Honorable Val Peterson, <br />Civil Defense Administrator, has a short statement to make. Congress- <br />man Dempsey who has been here this afternoon for a long time will be <br />given an opportunity. Then welcome to the Wyoming spokesmen, the Utah <br />spokesmen and some other groups we have asked to appear. I think that <br />Mr. MacDonald was here today and probably Mr. Fain. We will try to <br />get to them tomorrow. <br /> <br />I think this is probably as far as we should go this" afternoon." We <br />will recess until 10 o'clock here tomorrow morning. <br /> <br />(Thereupon, at 4:30 p. m., the subcommittee recessed to reconvene <br />at 10 a. m., Wednesday, March 2, 1955). <br /> <br />Copied: CWCB/lk <br /> <br />14 <br />