mr. ogsbury. i believe perhaps we need more flexibility and management ability at the local and state level. mr. ogsbury, do you think extra flexibility would be preferable to more control at the federal level over water projects. >> members of the committee, the western governors have adopted policy resolution 2014-03 water resource management in the west with the chairman's permission i'd like to submit that for the record. and it is very emphatic about the governors' -- about the state primacy over water management authority. >> and thank you. one of the challenges we see is it's taken almost a dozen year for chatfield reservoir in colorado which was army corps of engineers project to receive the approvals that it needed to move forward. in northern colorado where the flooding is occurring, we have another water storage project that started in 2004, the nisp project which can store tens of thousands of acre feet of water. yet we still don't have the necessary permits for that project. is there

mr. james ogsbury. so giving us the view from the western states there. mr. cannon michael is the president of bows farm on behalf of the family farm alliance welcome to the committee. and wrapping up the panel is miss betsy cody who is a natural resource policy specialist at crs. so we welcome all of you. and with that mr. connor we will lead off with you. and when the vote is called you will see various members of the committee leaving but i would ask that we just move through the system here this morning. i know that you have a hard stop at noon, so we want to try to accommodate that. so five minutes testimony and full written statement will be incorporated as part of the record. mr. connor welcome. >> thank you chairman, members of the economy tee. i'm mike connor, deputy secretary of the department of interior. thank you for inviting me to testify on the serious water resource issues effecting much of the west. i will briefly lyly summarize my testimony. the department is acutely aware of the worries concerning families, farmers tribes, businesses, citie