First off you have to start with two premises. The first premise is 

 that coal mining in this part of the United States is here to stay. Coal 

 production is going to go up. We're going to have to live with that. 

 We're not going to dismantle towns like Gillette or Rock Springs or any of 

 the other boom towns that are now well under way to a permanent 

 existence in Wyoming. Okay, let's go on. I'll just show these slides 

 quickly as I can. As Larry told me, keep on schedule. 



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Okay, why don't we skip the rest of the slides. I want to go into 

 this legislative business. I'm going to hit this real quick because I think 

 it's important with reference to the reason I'm here--slurry pipelines in 

 your future. There is a publication by Roger McDaniel and this is 

 important because you ought to get a hold of a copy if your interested in 

 slurry pipelines. It's out of the NATURAL RESOURCE LAWYER, volume 

 12, number three. And he discusses the position of the states with 

 reference to exporting water. I intended to go into this and pick out the 

 important paragraphs but I think that it would be important for me just to 

 mention where he feels Montana might sit with reference to their particular 

 legislation saying no water use for coal slurry pipelines. Obviously any 

 absolute ban on water use falls on interstate customers. What he is saying 

 is that sooner or later, if there is not an effort made on the part of state 

 legislators to really address the water issue honestly .. .and what he 

 suggests as a final conclusion to it is that the water issues should be 

 addressed within the framework of present state water allocation laws and 

 not on a basis of legislation or political innuendo. And he cites many 

 examples where in the West this has worked out in a satisfactory way. 

 The article--l wish I could have spent more time on the article--is a 

 worthwhile article. By the way, Mr. McDaniels has not necessarily been a 

 very enthusiastic supporter of slurry pipelines so he comes into the 

 picture as, I think, one of our champions, but certainly with a very 

 objective approach to where state governments get into the act and 

 unnecessarily put themselves into the situation where they are inviting 

 federal intervention. Thank you very much. 



LARRY PETERMAN : "Water Priorities and Transportation" our next 

 panelist's topic, will be presented from another point of view by John 

 Willard, Burlington Northern's Regional Manager for Public Relations. 

 John. 



JOHN WILLARD : Thank you Larry. Does anyone in the back of the 



room have any difficulty hearing? If you do you can just sleep. It's my 

 privilege to have an opportunity to appear on the same platform of my 

 friend Fred over here. We've met before on similar occasions and I think 

 we have at least a good deal in common in interests, if not in viewpoint. 

 And I think to begin with, I do intend to comment on some of the points 

 which Fred has made here and Fred does a good job of representing the 

 best interest of his people. But I think to begin with I'd like to call 



