COLORADO RIVER MANAGEMENT OVERSIGHT HEARINGS BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON NINETY-EIGHTH CONGRESS FIRST SESSION ON COLORADO RIVER MANAGEMENT HEARINGS HELD: Serial No. 98-20 Printed for the use of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs COMMITTEE ON INTERIOR AND INSULAR AFFAIRS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES MORRIS K. UDALL, Arizona, Chairman ABRAHAM KAZEN, JR., Texas MANUEL LUJAN, JR., New Mexico JOHN F. SEIBERLING, Ohio Ranking Republican Member ANTONIO BORJA WON PAT, Guam DON YOUNG, Alaska JAMES WEAVER, Oregon ROBERT J. LAGOMARSINO, California JAMES J. FLORIO, New Jersey DAN MARRIOTT, Utah PHILIP R. SHARP, Indiana RON MARLENEE, Montana EDWARD J. MARKEY, Massachusetts RICHARD B. CHENEY, Wyoming BALTASAR CORRADA, Puerto Rico CHARLES PASHAYAN, JR., California AUSTIN J. MURPHY, Pennsylvania LARRY CRAIG, Idaho NICK JOE RAHALL II, West Virginia HANK BROWN, Colorado BRUCE F. VENTO, Minnesota DENNY SMITH, Oregon JERRY HUCKABY, Louisiana JAMES V. HANSEN, Utah JERRY M. PATTERSON, California BILL EMERÜƏN, Missouri RAY KOGOVSEK, Colorado JOHN MCCAIN, Arizona BARBARA VUCANOVICH, Nevada STANLEY SCOVILLE, Staff Director and Counsel Roy JONES, Associate Staff Director DEBORAH SLIZ, Counsel (IT) CONTENTS Babbitt, Hon. Bruce, Governor of the State of Arizona. DeConcini, Hon. Dennis, a U.S. Senator from the State of Arizona; pre Hon. Robert N. Broadbent, Commissioner, Bureau of Reclamation, U.S. Department of the Interior ...., Lt. Col. Roger Higbee, deputy district commander, Los Angeles dis- trict, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ....... Wesley Steiner, director, Arizona Department of Water Resources .... 36, 318 William McDonald, director, Colorado Water Conservation Board ..... 39, 325 Daniel Lawrence, director, Utah Division of Water Resources. 42, 332 Panel from the city of Yuma, Ariz., consisting of: Larry E. Hunt, director, public services. Benny Gonzales, director, development services. Robert B. Tanguy, director, Arizona Division of Emergency Serv. Dr. Jon Counts, director, Arizona Department of Health Services 62 Harry Lafoon, vice chairman, Colorado River Indian Tribes. Vincent Harvier, president, Quechan Indian Tribe.. 73 75 Philip Younis, resort operator ...... Gwen Robinson, representing Yuma Crossing Park Council, Inc. 78, 371 Gerald W. Hunt, town attorney, Parker, Ariz.. 79 81 Lloyd Allen, director, Imperial Irrigation District ..... Tom Choules, representing Southwest Arizona Flood Control Asso Virgil Jones, legislative representative, Palo Verde Irrigation Dis- James W. Ferguson, president, North Gila Valley Irrigation Dis- James W. Cuming, president, Yuma County Water Users Associa- 79 |