Theodore M.
two was to include studies of things like interagency relationships, economic
analysis, cost sharing, and agency responsibilities. This was really to be the
analytical part of the committee's work, which Ed Ackerman and I had looked
on as being the important part of the study. The background in phase one was
just to provide the data so you can do the analysis.
Senator Kerr had a fast airplane, I think it was a converted B-26 or some other
war surplus plane, that he used to travel back and forth from Washington to
Oklahoma on weekends. I guess it was the Kerr-McGee Company's plane.
Anyway, he took a copy of the draft of the staff report so he could read it on
the way down there. When he came back on Monday, I asked him what he
thought of the report. I almost fell out of the chair when he responded that he
felt that with a little editing it really did the job that needed to be done to
complete the committee's work.
I think I realized that if we had gone into phase two, we would have needed a
lot more time and money, and that it would be very controversial.
That report actually is fairly succinct and quite short, considering all the work
and background studies that had gone into it.
Yes, that's true and at that time it didn't have any recommendations.
It comes down to about 100 pages.
Let me say that the report that Senator Kerr liked so much was only about half
that long. The front part or summary was just 10 or 12 pages, and the
description of the studies was about pages.
How did you get into the recommendations?
At that time, I hadn't even thought about the recommendations. We didn't have
any recommendations in it, except maybe some recommendations for further
studies. The water supply/demand study was not yet completed, so I felt it was
premature to formulate recommendations.
Right.
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