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R. H. BAILEY 

 Chairman. 



CHAIRMAN STEIN: Mr. Bailey, I just want 

 to indicate, I don't think in my position and I don't 

 think, speaking for the panel, in our position, since 

 we have spent our professional lives in this business, 

 that there is any question of compromise with clean water. 

 What I am talking about is a question of the parties 

 getting together and working out a reasonable operation, 

 because, as I have said many, many times, and I would 

 like to use the term generically about fish, you can't 

 fudge these requirements, because if you fudge them the 

 fish don't know it and they don't survive and they die. 



MR. BAILEY: Right. 



CHAIRMAN STEIN: You know, there was a time 

 when I was in the service and we used to have to move 

 fellows into the combat zones. For some reason or other 

 they wanted them to qualify on the range. They would 

 get the boys on the firing range, and seeing the great 

 future ahead of them, some of them wouldn't do so well. 

 We used to qualify a lot of them, as we said, by using 

 the pencil. That might work there. 



But I don't think in dealing with water 

 quality it works in this field. Either we have a quality 

 of water for specific uses or we don't. And if we don't 



