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- - -o&a-~ 9 2 we should serve notice that any commitment made in the past by us is now being restudied to determine whether or not it will in the future advance the primary interests of Arizona." Four Courses to Choose From Where to from here? The congressmen suggested four possible routes for Arizona: (1) Go it alone, with state devel- opment and financing, either through a bond issue or using revenues from the two dams; (2) go for a bare-bones CAP without the dams; (3) support a modified regional Colorado River bill "deferring basin action on some of the large and controversial components of the present bill," or (4) try again with the same bill in the next session. There were withal some gains, said the congressmen. The bill had passed the House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs in 1966 where it hadn't in 1951. The House and the nation at large were now aware of Arizona's water plight. Com- munication had been opened among the seven Basin states. And Arizona had put together an exceptional team of expert law- yers, engineers and technicians which, said the congressmen, "must be kept together." Simultaneously with the issuance of the congressmen's "white paper," Governor Goddard made known that the state was now exploring the possibility of going it alone. He, said he had asked the Arizona Interstate Stream Commission, and the Arizona Power Authority to embark on a feasibility study. How- ever, this did not mean that Arizona had given up its effort to obtain a federal reclamation project. Actually. said the governor, he had been consulting with officials of the two agencies for several months on possible altern.atives. "It would have been short~sighted not to have considered the need for alternatives, while at the same time focusing the state's total resources on the pursuit of a federally-funded project," said Governor God- nard. He went on to explain that the state was studying not only the possibility' of building the two dams itself but also financing CAP some other way if the FPC refused to license the dams. The chief executive said the two agencies had been asked tc;> work together and bring back a feasibility report by the end of the year. Senator Hayden Criticized and Defended The post-mortems, meantime, went on apace. Speaking before the Sun Valley Kiwanis Club in Phoenix, Lawrence Mehren, chairman of the board of the Central Arizona Project Association, blamed the death of CAP on the "selfishness, short- sightedness and duplicity of California." He also startled Ari- zonans by leveling criticism at Senator Hayden. "Unfortunately," said Mr. Mehren, "Senator Hayden has chosen to be of no help for a year and a half, to my knowledge, despite the, influence -21- ',8':i;~n:'::::~);;~:j'~,;:.::;:r -.-:. '-:' . ::. .......:,.:.......-. . ",' .... ".' ....-....-.. .;-....... .. '" .. ......:::; ..:".-;.:.;. -:::: !_y~~J~ ""- ,..>:.......-..;.: ". . .,.. . . ...;. A..'...... ~~l:,~~~J;{~:~;~\ -- .... :..~_. :::~ .;:~ .,'::'~'. :::..:..,.:.~:~t::_:~::.>:_~..~;:c. . . . - .' ,".. ~~~:. .:....... . ::., ",.,:::~:'~;.:': "'<>'::::.:...:.: '. ...::.; :';. ...:.:~ }'..: ~:.:':.:;' ,.,:.:':.~.~~~7<:;'(>~.' .... .. . .. .'. . ..,....:;.::.;. '. .',- '. .. '." .:. .:.':.;-..-. ;::" .:".::;" ,. . . .. ....'. . ........ ::.:' '..: -'~: ' .' .'- ~ " .:..' ..-- .... '.. :" ~ ........ .