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Show Simultaneously, the commission was obtaining, at a cost of $11,500, a 62-year summary of the work in Arizona of the United States Geological Survey, a compilation of data never before available, for study in connection with the commission's own technical findings. On January 1, 1953, the Underground Water Commission submitted to the 21st Legislature a 174-page printed summary of its work, its findings, and its recommendations, and the First Regular Session of this Legislature, by Chapter 42 of its laws, extended the life of the commission and directed it to prepare a code of laws, in accordance with its recommendations, for the consideration of the Second Regular session, now in progress. The most careful kind of work went into the preparation of this code, which was seen and studied in advance of its presentation by attorneys representing every known type of water user in Arizona. It was presented to the Legislature on February 1st after 10 months of study and drafting, which thus are added to the 9y2 months used in the preparations of the study and recommendations upon which the code was based. As presented, it represented an investment by the taxpayers of Arizona, at the direct order of the Legislature of Arizona, of $128,000. Of this total, it is interesting to note that technical advice and reports have cost $37,600; legal services have cost $25,000; and the U. S. G. S. and other cooperating agencies, including the University of Arizona, have received $15,500. By contrast, and illustrating better than anything the type of service given by the 24 members of the Commission, |