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or
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words, alternatively, would you confine it to the Legis-
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lature or political subdivisions?
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DEAN FORDHAM: I think both possibilities should
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be available. For example, the Legislature might want to
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cope with something that dealt with a whole river valley
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in the State which overlapped a lot of jurisdictional lines
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It might very well want to take the initiative on some
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problem of protection of water supply for human consumption
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or whatnot.
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THE CHAIRMAN: Mr. Melvin, have you any further
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questions you would like to ask of Dean Fordham?
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MR. MELVIN: Just one question. I am not really
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clear on it. That is, as I understand you, Dean Fordham,
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you feel the reason why it is dangerous or unwise to allow
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the Legislature to say what powers the local governments
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will have initially is the fear that they won't give them
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enough, and if they do give them powers, they can take
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them away?
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DEAN FORDHAM: No fear that they can take them
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away. There is the principal problem that the grant of
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power might not be broad enough in the first instance.
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