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<br />r <br />f <br />, <br />j <br />l <br />r <br />, <br /> <br />~ . <,I ,. <br />002532 <br /> <br />and food production if water is made available. This land is in <br />the southern half of the state, where the growing season is nearly <br />year-long and crop failures are nearly unknown. Without water, <br />these 9 million acres are, for all practical purposes, non-pro- <br />ductive. " <br /> <br />Dr. Tinney's indictment of the idea of interstate water <br />transfers turned out to be only one side of the story, and Arizona <br />. heard the other side just a few days later. At a. meeting in. <br />Scottsdale, a California consulting engineer said that such <br />transfers would become a reality despite opposition by some of. <br />the states. The speaker was Harvey O. Banks, San Francisco, <br />and he spoke at a convention of the Association of State and <br />Interstate Water Pollution Control Administrators. "We can <br />look forward in the next 25 years to very large 'projects for <br />the regional distribution of water resources," said Mr. Banks.' <br />He said the primary blocks to interstate redistribution of water <br />were "state jealousies" and traditional regional approaches to <br />water management. "Eventually these problems. must be over- <br />. come," said Mr. Banks. <br /> <br />New Strategy Mapped <br /> <br />On December 6 the curtain rose on a new phase of the <br />struggle for the Central Arizona Project. At the annua:! meeting <br />,of the Central Arizona Project Association, the' state's con- <br />. "gressional delegation made public its strategy fQr the coming <br />'session of Congress. It would introduce two bills, 'one in either <br />house, each tailored for its respective body and thus'different <br />froIll the other. The state also would move ahead with plans <br />for a state-financed CAP, based on obtaining a license from the <br />Federal Power Commission to build Marble Canyon Dam. Thus, <br />if the federal approach failed again, the state would be ready <br />to. proceed with a go-it-alone project. But Senator. Hayden, <br />. speaking at the CAP A meeting, said the delegation was now <br />convinced that if a state-financed project proved necessary, <br />Arizona still would have to "seek congressional action as a <br />prerequisite to (its) construction." "The efforts to obtain author- <br />ization on the federal level would provide a background which <br />would make it easier to obtain the authorizations needed for <br />a state-financed project," said Senator Hayden. "I hasten to <br />add that it is my hope Hnd belief that the need for these last- <br />named authorizations will never arise." <br /> <br />Congressman Udall said the bill introduced in Congress <br />would not include a 4.4-million-acre-foot guarantee to California. <br />He and Congressman Rhodes said Arizona had reached valuable <br />compromise agreements with other states in the Congress just <br />ended and they hoped for accords with as many House members <br />as possible in the Congress ahead. But they promised not to <br />let the new bill get loaded down with too many amendments. <br />"In the last session," said Mr. Rhodes, "everyone tried to use <br />our project as a cannon to win the whole war on water problems <br />of the West. We don't intend to let that happen again." Mr. <br /> <br />-31- <br />