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S in the light of these developments, and with the favor­able preliminary report of the engineers in hand, and with enabling legislation on the Statute Boohs, the following recommendations are made and strongly urged for adoption as a comprehensive water program. It is recommended that steps be taken: 1. To immediately form a later District under the new enabling law and to organize and place the same in operation. 3. To exercise the authority of the District to conp serve the arteisan water supply of the District for use and ap­plication to the interests of the District, as a whole. 3. To authorize and finance a comprehensive engineer­ing study of all factors involved in suprlementing the water supply of the Valley with water from Lake Mead for domestic, industrial and irrigation use, in order to plan the constriction of and to utilize the necessary works to aooomplish the same. 4. To negotiate for the purchase by the District of the present water procurement and distrioution system now owned by the Las Vegas Land and Water Company at the most favorable terms possible, as a neoleus, now on an operating basis, of the District’s water procurement and distributing facilities. 5. To neogtiate with the State of Nevada or the authorities in control of the water facilities of the BMI for the purchase or lease of utilization in any manner agreed upon of those facilities, as a second acquisition of the Water District. 6. As the result of favorqble engineering reco.umendations to construct and maintain a connecting pipe line with pimping equipment from BMI to points of distribution where feasible aid - 4 -