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the House Appropriations Committee said this about the Westwide plan of study: "Considering that over $250 million has been expended for water and related land resource studies in the Western states involved by federal and state agencies, the Committee continues to believe that the proposed study plan, estimated to cost about $24 million, is too broad and detailed in scope. It is requested that a revised plan be developed for Committee approval which limits investigation to the essential elements required to meet the study objectives of assessment of water needs and development of plans to meet these requirements. The Committee has transferred to the study the budgeted amounts for development of the state water plans for Colorado, Montana, and New Mexico to assure full coordination of the planning effort. (The amounts budgeted for the states in 1972 FY were $363,000 for Colorado, $106,500 for Montana and $200,000 for New Mexico.) "The Committee has also transferred from the Western u.s. water plan study item the $300,000 budgeted for geothermal resources investi- gations in line with its action of establishing a separate study for this purpose. The Committee has provided $500,000 in addition to expedite the study in FY 1972" of geothermal resources, i.e., heat and water from the interior of the earth. The $500,000 increase pro- vided includes $350,000 for drilling a test well: $50,000 for testing and production, and $100,000 for related facilities and expenses," the report stated. Congress voted $2,067,400 for continuing the Westwide study plan in FY 1972 at approximately the same level as 1971 "pending further review of the scope of the study plan." The Bureau of Reclamation has a coordinating staff in Denver to do the Westwide study. It is headed by Wallace R. Christensen, a veteran Bureau engineer, who has a staff'of 10, five engineers, two economists, one environmental spe- cialist and two secretaries. In addition, four other Interior Depart- ment agencies have a man each assigned to work with the Bureau on the study. They are the Bureau of Land Management, the Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife, the Bureau of Outdoor Recreation and the Office of Saline Water. U. S. Department of Agriculture has seven assigned to help the Bureau with the study in the Denver office, including three from the Soil Conservation Service, two from the Economic Research Service and two from the Forest Service. A representative from the Environmental Protection Agency also keeps close liaison with the Bureau study group in Denver. Assistant Commissioner Warren D. Fairchild, who has been in charge of the study for the Bureau, told this correspondent on Aug. 25, "We are noW making an intensive reanalysis of the Westwide water plan, -4-