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MR. MELVIN: I think so, too. I think these
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are very valuable to the Commission at this point. I am
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not prepared to answer them right now.
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THE CHAIRMAN: I don't think anybody is really
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prepared to answer them right now and that again is re-
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flected in the research questions that we have asked for
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and the value of that information once it is obtained,
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because it is going to be a matter of aiding. I think
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the help that we've gotten insofar as Mr. Ratchford and
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Mr. Thompson is concerned helps us along the line of
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eventually making these decisions which eventually we are
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going to have to make. However, again, I do feel, Ridge,
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it is important to us to keep the thinking of the Com-
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mission as a whole, the tenor of the thinking of the
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Commission, if for no other reason, that we get on stage
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for a little while and get the reasons from somebody here,
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somebody there, and somebody here.
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There are other valuable members on the Com-
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mittee, such as Mr. Thayer. His thinking and reaction to
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a lot of these questions would be important. He really to
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some extent is an expert in this field of local
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