Colorado has a process that they just unveiled a couple of weeks ago 

 called the joint-review process. And it's hoped this joint review process 

 will be able to minimize and perhaps do away completely with the 

 requirement for the Energy Mobilization Board. This joint review process 

 is being tested on the AMAX molybdenum mine that's proposed near 

 Crested Butte. It is supposed to cut down on the preparation time for 

 putting a plant in. Sherman Harris, who is the outgoing director of 

 Natural Resources, says that it can cut the lead time by as much as 40 

 percent. It brings city, county, state and federal people all together at 

 once. They streamline the permitting process. They bring environmental 

 opponents and developmental proponents all together at one time. They 

 get their bitches out on the table and they go after them and try to arrive 

 at some kind of joint decision. So far the response has been very 

 favorable. AMAX has endorsed it, DOE has endorsed it--l don't know if 

 that's a blessing or a curse--environmental groups have endorsed it and so 

 has the state. DOE says if the joint-review process works there may be no 

 requirement for the Energy Mobilization Board, which is good because 

 you'd rather have the states calling the shots than having the federal 

 government ramming something down your throat like a 100,000 barrel a 

 day coal gasification or liquefaction plant. As Dr. Wambach said... he has 

 it all in a nutshell. We've got to come together and we've got to moderate 

 growth and call our shots. It involves everybody. It involves using a 

 common sense approach. As he said, "If we don't coalesce we'll loose the 

 whole damn ball game." He was worried about saying the curse word in 

 there. Well, I'm not. That's the way it is. Wednesday will be the 198th 

 day of captivity for the West and if we don't face up to it, we will be 

 captive forever. 



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DON BIANCHI : Mr. Hubert White will be our next speaker. He's a 

 member of the Montana Retail Association, the Montana Wood Products 

 Association, the Montana Water Development Association and served two 

 years as the president of the National Resources Association. He is here 

 today to speak to us about water and energy for agriculture. 



HUBERT WHITE : I probably don't belong in this group, but I think most 

 of you young people here are polite and you will probably respect age in 

 this case. But I'm real concerned about the same subjects that are 

 concerning you like the Elkhorns that Dr. Wambach mentioned. I sat on 

 the original advisory council of local people in the Helena area along with 

 people in the Fish and Game and wildlife people, environmental people and 

 I thought we produced a pretty good project and I thing we are still going 

 to get that same project. I think it perhaps is the same one that Dr. 

 Wambach mentioned. It's still up in the air. We don't know exactly what 

 we're going to get but the word that I get is that it still may be somewhat 

 along the lines of the original project that we came up with from the study 

 group. And there was a lot of give and take and I would say that a 

 coalition was reached at that point on that particular project. I couldn't 



