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as is the case today, can be ,used either for agriculture, can be used by the mines, and take the mines off the ground water basin. Consider- anle study has been made of that and tjlat seemed to be the direction the city was going until they got involved in negotiations with the Papago Reservation and I get the impression that the primary indication now is that the water, instead of going directly to the mines, will at ieast pass through the hands of the Papago Indian Reservation. I don't know. It hasn't been decided. We are trying to get the City to tell us what they are going to do so we can feed it into the water management study that we are making. We make an assumption and then they criticize us for what we assume and we can't get them to tell us what to put in it. Mr, Bernstein. Wes, does the augmentation you are talking about, would that be bringing the water down from California and swapping off or is that bringing the water directly from the Colorado System? Mr, Steiner, This is just a broad brush figure of what it would cost to bring Columbia River Water from say, below Bonneville. That's basically what I'm talking about, Diversion from one area of surplus, of course the Columbia contends they have no surplus. But that's one of the reasons we're talking about going so far down. They woul d have a much harder time proving that. But I don't know of anybody in the states in the Southwest that are really or have any hope are consider- ing in their planning efforts an augmentation from the Columbia River or the Missouri, Mississippi or anything like that. For the reasons I indicated earlier, they are just not within the relm of economic feasibility. They are certainly today not in the relm of political feasibility. I doubt very much they're in the relm of environmental feasibility, Until you can turn all those things around and I say that's not in the foreseeable future. At least it doesn't make any sense in my judgement to build that into a state water planning or regional water planning effort at this point in time. Now 1'm not at all distressed by the fact that the Senators and Congressmen from the Pacific Northwest for political reasons hung an amendment on the Bureau's Dam Safety Bill to extend the moritorium for another ten years. It's meaningless, there is no point going in and arguing with that, when you can't do anything in that area anyway. 10. Semiannual Reports ~ State of Wyoming Mr. Clement R, Lord, Interstate Stream Engineer. No additions or changes to the report as distributed. See PART C _ ATTACHMENTS. B-14