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<br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Project. The Lower Division was further assured in this regard by <br /> <br />the statement of Assistant Secretary Smith at the meeting of the <br /> <br />Federal-State representatives at Denver, Colorado, on July 25, 1969. <br /> <br />It was not until the repeated attempts by representatives of the <br /> <br />Upper Division during subsequent meetings of the Federal-State Task <br /> <br />Force and the formal statement of the Engineering Committee of the <br /> <br />Upper Colorado River Commission presented at the Federal-State Task <br /> <br />Force meeting in Denver, Colorado, on November 24, 1969, that the <br /> <br />Lower Division realized that the Upper Division had launched a <br /> <br />determined campaign to terminate the Filling Criteria and the Hoover <br /> <br />power defiCiency allowances currently being paid by the Secretary to <br /> <br />the Hoover power contractors under the Filling Criteria. This conduct <br /> <br />by the Upper Division constitutes a complete repudiation of the Seven- <br /> <br />State Agreement. <br /> <br />B. Foreseeable Consequences of <br />JLJ2I>er Division's Repudiation <br /> <br />The long and frustrating negotiations which led to <br /> <br />the enactment of P. L. 90-537 are well known. The background of this <br /> <br />legislation was well stated by the Honorable Wayne N. Aspinall, <br /> <br />Chairman of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs of the <br /> <br />House of Representatives, in his opening statement to the House <br /> <br />of Representatives during its consideration of H.R. 3300 on May 15, <br /> <br />1968. Page H 3776 of the Congressional Record of that date reports <br /> <br />-17- <br />