February 19S8 ALL MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF DIRmTORS 9 Colorado River Water Conservation Districto Gentlemen: Herewith is a draft of the Minutes for the F'irst Meeting of the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of The Colorado River Water Conservation District 9 held on February 8th, 1958, in the District Offices, First National Bank Building 1I Glenwood Springs Jl Colorado" If you have any suggestions for deletions or additions please advieeQ yours g .. SMITHS' PPSrebw Enel .. Secretary-Engineer .. .' MINUTES ---01--EyecutiVG Committee of BOARD OF DIRECTORS COLORADO RIVER WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICT February 8" 19$8 ** Pursuant to notice duly and properly given, the First Meeting of the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of The Colorado River Vater Conservation District for 19$8, was vened on February 8th, 19.58, in the Board Room of the District First National Bank Buildinr., Glenwood Springs, The following members of the Eyecutive Committee were presenta con- Cy T. Hansen, President, Allen Brown,Vice PreSident, Amos W. Hom, W., Jarrard Jones and Richard B.. tv11liams .. In addition, there were present: Philip Po Smith, Secretary-Engineer of the District 9 John Bo Barnard, Counsel of the District g and Bill E. Harris, Assistant Engineer of the District .. The meeting "6-1&0 Cy T. Hansen presiding., convened at 2: 00 PaM", with President President Hansen opened the meeting by calling for a dis"" eussion of pending comments to be made by the State at Colorado on the San Juan-Chama and Navajo Indian Projects reports.. Nr .. Smith that in accordance with Board authorization he and Mr" Barnard had met with representatives of the State Water the Southwestern District Board, and New Mexico officials, in Denver, on January 30th, 19,8.. He outlined the position taken by the Southwestern District, which conformed :in most respects to the presentation Mro C.. Ho Jex made before the January Board meeting of this District" lie further the poSition taken by New MexiCO" which, in summary, was (1) to the effect that they would not agree to an interstate compact between New Menco and Colorado because ot the that would be incurred, and because of the neces91t,y in obtaining immediate authorization for their two proposed·projects; (2) they were not in agreamentwith the position t&ten by the Southwestern District; and, (,3) that, whether favorable or not, they wanted comments from Colorado in the near future as they felt it was essential that the.y seek authorization in the current session ... 1 - of Congress" Mr .. Smith went on to explain that he and Mro Barnard had concluded that, in some respects» the position of the Southwestern 'District was based on fallacious assumptions and studies and that Mro Barnard, who made the comments for the District on the problems based his objections to the San Juan-Chama and Navajo Indian Projects reports on the threat of a pending decision of the United States Supreme Court that the consumptive use on Indian lands in the Navajo Project, amounting to about one quarter million acre feet might be held to be superior to allocation visionso! the Colorado River Compact and the Upper Colorado River Basin Compact .. r4ro Barnard then noted that Director Crawford of the Water Conservation Board had scheduled a meeting of the Board for the lL.th of February, to revise comments of the drafting committee of that which was scheduled to meet on February l3thQ However 11 Mr" Crawford had just advised that the meeting of the drafting committee would be at 9:00 A.MII on Februar:y 17th, and the Board would meet at 10:00 A.M. on the same day, to consider their suggested draft· of cammentse He eypressed the fear that this woald not allow the drafting ccmmrl.ttee time to properly analyze suggested comments from other agencies, and that the comments approved b.1 the vlater Board might, therefore, be prejudiced and not to the best interest of Colorado" Thereupon, 1'1r. Barnard read a suggested letter, prepared by himself, in collaboration with the Secretal7Engineer, wherein he outlined suggestions on the Statens comments he felt .the District should request" A copy of the suggested letter . is attached heretojl marked Appendix "Alf for identification and made a part of these minutes .. Thereupon, Mr" Smith read a draft of tentative comments prepared by Mr" Jex for the Southwestern He then pointed out that in J ex' water supply he had adopted a period of stuQy containing the driest cycles in the runoff records for the Colorado River and had completely ignored the smoothing effect an those dr.y c.ycles which would result from the approximate 35,000,000 acre feet of storage capacity which will be made available in main stem facilities of the Colorado River Storage He also pointed out that under the financial aspects of the Jex comments that the Basin Fund was devised as a revolving fund just as the Reclamation Fundjl and that, therefore g it appeared to hiJil that Jex was in err.or in stating that i f these two projects were authorized it would tie up New Merlco Q s full share in the Basin F1Dld for at least sivty yearso A copy of the tentative camnents prepared by Mr6 Je", are attached for by the Board members, marked Appendix liB" for identification and made a part of these minutes .. Following a lengthy discussion, it was decided to revisa the suggested comments prepared by Mro Barnard by changing the second recommendation at the end of his letter to recommendation number three and a new recommendation number two (as ra- fleeted in Appendix "A" hereto)" as follows: "That the aggregate consumptive use of Colorado River water in the State of New Manco, either by or for the benefit of Indian Tribes or lands, or for aqy other purpose or purposes, shall not exceed 11025% of the water apportioned to and physically available for use in the Upper Basin States under the provisions of the Upper Colorado River Basin Compact, and the Colorado Fiver Compact." Thereupon, Mro Jones foDVED that the letter from this Board, corrected to include the number two sugp,estion just discussed, be approved and fonfarded to the Cololado lvater Conservation Board" Upon second of this motion by Mro Williams, the motion was voted upon and passed unanimously 0 Mr. Barnard informed the committee that on Mondq, Febmar,y 10th, the District would present its case before a Referee in the Montrose County District Court, in support. of the of claim for that part of the Upper Gunnison Basin Proj act in vlater District Noo 620 ' Mro Barnard noted that his son John, Jr., in the Attorne,y General°s office, was agreeable to calling to the attention of the Governor and reviewing with him the filing prepared by the District for the Upper Gunnison Basin Project", He that i f the Governor favored the developments as proposed in 'the Upper Gunnison Basin plan, that he and Mr. Smith be authorized to present the filing and plan to the State Water Board at their next meeting in order to obtain that Boardis approval<> He stated that with the Governor vS approval it was unlikely the Hater Board would refuse to approve the project" He, further suggested that i f the approval of the State Water Board was obtained that a copy of the filing be to Regional Director Larson of the Bureau of Reclamation, stating that it had received approval of the Colorado Water Board. ,After some discussion, Mr. Williams· l.JOVED that the plan of procedure, . as suggested by Mr. Barnard, for submittal of the plan of develop.. ment for the Upper Gunnison Basin Project to Governor McNichols, then to the State Water Board, and then to Regional Director Larson, be followed Ii Upon second by Mro Hom, the motion was voted upon and passed . Mro Barnard related that on Januar,y 26, 1958" folloring the January meeting of the District Board, the western slope members of the revising Committee, in consultation with Judge Hughes, had redrawn the proposed platform tor the Colorado Water Congress, the revisions being in line with decisions reached at the January Board meeting., He stated these revisions largely involved the elimination of all references in the preamble to intrastate controversies., After this was accomplished he wrote Mr., Saunders, chairman of the executive committee of the State Water Committee, advising him of the - 3 U> changes and suggesting that they be reviewed by the revising mittee and then considered by the evecutive committee of the "Tater Committee.. NT" Barnard suggested that i f the platform, as revised, was accepted by the eyecutive committee of the lJater Committee that copies of same would be mailed to all members of the Board for The Colorado Fiver Water Conservation District, and that" perhaps, a special meeting should be held by that Board to consider approval of the same.. He stated that the "Yater Congress 'would probably not be called prior to 14arch 20, 19580 Mro Barnard then requested the Eyecutive CommitteeVs approva1'of a trip he felt that he and Mro Smith should make to familiarize themselves with present diversion and use of water in the lower basin, including a stuqy of the use of underground water, especially in Old After discussion, the Evecutive mittee decided to reserve approval of this request until they had had sufficient time to consider its merits, and that it could be considered at the neyt meeting of the Committee .. , President Hansen then discussed an observation he had made that there was too little known of the activities of the Colorado River Water Conserv:ation Dist,rict in several cOlDlties contained in the District, and that in these counties the District was most recognized as an agency contributing to the tax burden in th e counties He then outlined a plan he had thought of for the regular submission of articles concerning the District's activities to the newspapers and radio stations within the Districta Mr. Brown cammented that in the past year the District had been largely engaged in making water filings which they did' not want publicized mtil condi tiona! decrees had been obtained.. After discussion, President Hansan suggested that the matter be further discussed at the nevt meeting of the EY9Cutive Committee .. 0 Thereupon, Mr. Smith reported that he' 'Was disappointed with the interest of 1 .. 6% allowed on the last U.S o Treasury Bill purchased by the District as of February 8, 1958 He further reported that on a purchase in November the interest paid had been 3.. 6%" He stated he had reviewed this matter with Mro Cramp of the First NatiOnal. Bank and had been informed that the' changing poliey by the government on interest on such Bille led Mro Cramp to believe that it was quite unlikely that interest rates in excess of J% would be paid for sometime in the future.. NTo Smith stated he had reviewed possible investment of District funds with .. Cramp and. had learned the bank would pay J% interest, compounded semi-annu,ally J on a. sav:lngs accolDlto However withdravals between the periods July 1st to January 1st would not draw intereBt, He pointed out that his present directive tram the Board of Directors vas to' invest temporarily surplus funds of the District in United States Treasury Bills only" After discussion, Mro Jones made the following motion: "1 lIDVE that Mro Smith be instructed to investigate various programs for investing District funds in other institutions; keeping in mind t,he statutory limitations on our rights to invest flDlds, and report be,ck to the Eyecutive Committee 0 ... h :... of the Board at its ne ..'t meeting .. " Upon second by Mr. Will1amsjI the motion was voted upon and passed President Hansen then directed that the Secretary read the bills" Thereupon, Mr" Smith read a list of bills paid by the President and Secretar,y subsequent to the Januar,y 1958 Board meeting,requesting approval of these payments by the Eyecutive Committee" Mro Jones MOVED that the bills as paid by the President and Secretary subsequent to January 21st, 1958, be approved" Upon second by Mr .. Horn, the motion was voted upon and passed unanimously" . A copy of the list of bills paid by the President and Secretar,y to Januar,r 21st, 1958 is attached hereto B marked Appendix tIC" for identification and made a part of these minutes 0 Smith commented that before reading the current bills he would like to discuss one of the bills from Mr. Tom 1-1alker, for a telescopic alidade and plane table outfit, including twelve cloth backed plane table sheets, the total in the amount of $450.00 He stated that the Evecutive Committee of the Board might recall that at the January, 1951 meeting of the Board of Directors he had been p,iven authority to purchase such equipmentl' and tbat for plane tablG work he had performed last summer he had used the equip.1l1ent he proposed to nurchase from Mro i.rTalker on a loan basis; that since the equipment had never been used at the time he borrowed it from Mro "Talker it· was !I for all effects and purposes, new equipment" He stated the equipment had cost Mr. \-1alker in 1956 $Sll .. OO .. 0 Mr" Williams MOVED that !.Jr., Sudth Us purchase or the plane table equiprrleJlt» as described, from Mr. Walker be approved.. Upon second by Mr .. Hom, the motion was voted upon and passed unani·mous],y .. Thereupon, Mr .. Smith read the current bills, and Mro Horn MOVED that the current bills as read by 14r .. Smith be approved and warrants be drawn for payment of the same.. Upon second by' Mr .. the motion 'Was voted upon and passed unanimouslyo A copy of the list of current bills so approved is attached hereto, marked Appendix "D" for identification and made a part of theseruinuteso Mro Smith then coimnented that he had.l' with the assistance of Mro Nelson$) gone over the priority scoring sheet for estabUshing priorities for project planninr- investigations within the District and had those ready for review by the Evecutive Camm1ttee D if. "Iihay cared to make that review" Mr. Brown suggested that the review be held over for the full Board meeting in April D and this proposal was concurred in by the other members of the Thereupon, there being no further bus.1.ness to coms before the meeting» the meeting was adjourned at 4:30 President ATTEST. Secretary., F'ebruary Bj) 1958 Colorado Water Conservation Board, State Office Building, Denver II Coloradoo Gentlemen 1 The Colorado River Water Conservation District requests that the comments of the State ot Colorado, concerning reports ot the Bureau of .Reclamation and the Bureau of Indian Affair;!! relative to the San Juan-Chama and Navajo Indian Projects, include specific language$ as herein indicated, with regard to Bo-called preferred rights to the use of water for the benefit or Indian Tribes and lands" In order to clarify the reasons for this request" there are quoted herein excerpts from the Upper Colorado River Basin and from the feasibility report issued in January, 19S5 by the Bureau of Indlan Affairs at the Department of the Interior 1n connection with the Navajo Indian Project" Article VII or the Compact reads as followSJ nConsumptiveuse of water b.Y the United States of America or any of its agencies" instrumentalit.1es or wards shall be charged as a use by the state in use is made J -II- * *" Article "XIV (c) of the Compact reads as n(c) '!'he uses of the waters or the San Juan Rivexo and any of its tributaries within either state Wioh are dependent upon a cammon source of lTater and which ars not covered by (Q) hereof" shall in times of water shortages be reduced in web quantities that the reaulting consumptiva use in each state will bear the 88l1li9 proportionate relation to the consumptive USIa made 1D each state during times of average water supply &8 determined by the commissicmJ Providedl That any preferent1.a1 use of water to which the Indians are entitled under Article XIX shall be e::roluded in determining the amount of curtailment to be made under this paragraph .. " APPENDIX wAn - The applicable portion of Article XIX reads as follows 3 i1Nothing in this Compact shall be construed as (a) Affecting the obligations of the United States of America. to Indian tribes" to The feasibility report of the Bureau of Indian Affairs g dated January$ 1955 g contains the following provision, on page 48 RThe Indian Water Rights from the San J1l&.ia Hi vel' in New Mexico have not as yet baen defined by a Court decree.. A "Reserved" right of Indian tribsa to divert and use water flowing in riveX'" channels through Indian Reservations has been recog- nized by th® Supreme Court of the United states since 1908 9 (Winters UeSo (1908)9 207 u.S" 5640" The above quoted language must be considered 1n the light of the fact thatSl in the case of Arizona vs .. California", not3' pending in the United States Supreme Court, the United States cla:1ma that rights to the use of water for irrigation and other purposes 9 in connection with the so-called Indian lands $ vested upon the of Indian take precedence over all rights to the use of water of the Colorado River» and are superior to and free from the provisions of the Colorado R1:ver Comp&cto The strong possibil1ty ia thus presented that the United States tdl.l attempt to impress all water to be uti11zed s in connection vith tha Navajo Project, with such a preferred status as to impose aD unjustified burden upon the tributaries of the Colorado Dot diractly affected by the Navajo Project,!') for the purpose of mtpplying deficiencies at Lee Ferry which would l'0su1t from thcs application of "preferred stlitum Q formulae :in the administration of the affected water rights" . In order that this'may not be the result of the authorization of the Project$ the Colorado River Water Conservaticm District requests that ColoradoDs comments1} to be submitted to the Secratar,r of the Interior bearing upon the above.reportss contain appropriate language to the and that8 1., All uater consumpti used in connection with tll® Navaj 0 Indian Proj ect s for 8I'i:3' purpose shall be charged w ths share of '\Tater apportioned to the Sta.te of N6'I: Mexico by eo in the Upper Colorado River Campact D as providsd by Article VII thereof )pragardless of arr;r preferred or other statuSi righte j) to tlw use of water by or for the bSil0fit of Indian tribeta or ltm«:it;,g either by Act of Congress OT, by decisions of the #3, Colao Water Cons. 2" That the aggregate consumptive use of Colorado water in the State or New either by or for the benefit of Indian Tribes or lands, or for any other purpose or purposes, shall not exceed of the water apportioned to and actually physically available for use in the Upper Basin States under the provisions of the Upper Colorado River Basin Compact, and the Colorado River Compacto 3<1 The proviso which is a part of Article XIV (0) J of t!le Upper Colorado River Basin Compact, relating to the prerel"entia! use of water to which Indians or Indian lands are ent,1tled, under Article XIX of said Compact, shell. not apply to water con... sumptivel1 used in connection with the Navajo Indian Project, also regardless of Act of Congress or decisions at the courteo Yours very truly, COLORADO'RIVffi WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICT, By (Sign0d) CZ T.. Hansen Cy T. Hansen, President PPS aabw Piirp Po Sm1 , Sscreta.ry-Bhgineero - 3 ... SUGGESTED COMMENTS FOR STATB OF COLORADO ON SAN JUAN-CHAMA AND NAVAJO INDIAN PROJECTS REPORTS, PREPARED BY THE WATER CONS!!:RVATION DISTRICT BY CGR. JEX .. ... CHAMA .!!!2 .. ;.NA.. ;,V.;. ; .AJ;; . ;.O PROJECT REPORTS Colorado acknowledges receipt of letter of October 16, 1957, from the Secretary of Interior transmitting copy of coordinated report of the Department on the proposed San Juan - Chama Project and the Navajo Project; both proposed as participating projects of the authorized Colorado River Storage Project 0 Colorado also aclmowledges receipt of the following supporting reportss 1. Report of Regional Director, Bureau of Reclamation on the San Juan - Chama Project, Colorado - New Menco, dated November 2.$" 19.$.$0 - . 2a Supplemental Report of the Regional Director, Bureau ot Reclamation, on the Juan ... Chama Project, dated May 15, 1951., 3., Feasibility Report of Navajo Agenc;r, Bureau of Indian Affairs on the Navajo Project, New Menco, dated January; 19550 he Supplemental Report of Navajo Agency, Bureau of Indian Affairs on the Navajo Project, New l-1exico, dated' March, 1957 rJ BASIN PLANNING The proposed San Juan-Chama and the Navajo projects, along with the Navajo Reservoir as authorized for construction as a storage unit of the Colorado River Storap,e Project, form a basis on which the entire future development of the San Juan Fiver Basin in Colorado and New Meyico must be correlated.. The three projects are for the sole benefit of the State of Nw Meyico and involve water diversions from the natural runoff of the river approaching one-half of the historical nove The San Juan River Basin comprises a very important natural resource section of both The runoff' of the River originates 93% on the watersheds of Colorado.. Colorado feela not only a joint responsibility with tha State of New Menco 1n rmldering state assistance and gUidance in basin water deve1opmentj) but a responsibUity to the citisens of the basin ond also the national corporations endeavoring to develop the industrial resources at the basino It is Coloradoos earnest desire, in keeping with the announced national policy, that the future development of the water resources of APPENDn "13" the S&n Juan Basin be made only with a carefully plan of. basin development.. We urge the State of New l1ev ico and the Federal Government to also support the same polie.yo We cannot any longer close our eyes and permit piecemeal development of this all important In this regard 3 Colorado has not been advised either by Federal Agencies or the State of New Mevico of any overall analysis or planning for the San Juan Hiver Basin development. Our limited time of stuq,y and consideration of the reports indicates a complete disregard of basin planning and correlation of the proposed projects with the present of the basin and potential developments in the two States.. This matter inll be further referred to later in these commentso WATER SUPPlX .It iathe.policy and the earnest desire of Colorado that the States of the Colorado River Basin be permitted to realize full development of the water allocated by compacte Colorado respects this policy and aolicitatss the assurance of the other States ot the Basin that the same policy will guide their developmentso The authorization of the Colorado River Storage Project provideo a basin plan for an development of projects of the Upper Basin and an avenue for the construct:1on of projects for the use of the water allocated each State b.1 compacto An assured llater supply in keeping with compact and a basin plan of development is aparamom'lt consideration of any somel project developl!1Emt., In this regard the only data contained in the Stm Juan Chama and the Navaj·o Project Reports on the New Menco allocation end use of Colorado correlated with vater to be used b.r tha two proposed projects is a table found on page 4 of the Secretar,yoEiJ letter of August 2$ 1956, to Governor Simmal of New Ma:dco o The tabllB is qualified by the stat9Jilant: "The calculations of Nw MeYicoos usa of under the Colorado River Compacts were based on aasumptions that the Upper Basin depletion would average 1 9 SOO$OOO acre feet annually and that New MGYicovs share would average about acre feet annual1yo On that basiss> the uae of NaY 9 share was analy-ged aa fo110'l$0: CD 1»000 AuF .. New Mayico share of Upper Basin vater (11025% or 1$450$000 Uses of New Mexico Share Present (1951) developments Reserve for New Mexicoos share. of mainstsm Reservoir l09ses Reserve tor Hammond Project Reserve tor LaPlata Unit of Animas LaPlata Projeot . Reserve tor authorized extensions of Indiwn Proj ectlll Sub...total (reserved for Uses) 838 0 0 Balance AvSlilable for Future Usee Depletions by Navajo ProjlSct (includes Navajo Reservoir losses) Depletions by San Juan = Chama Project Sub=total Available for other Usee The table is further qu.al.if1ed by the follmri.ng atatsments8 "Ax\v changes in the above assumptions wou1OOO 69»000 (l) Includee Fruitland Hogback Extension and the authorizG:)d HaiiJilond Project (2) GleD Canyon,9 and Flaming GOr'gGClI IV The tabla is followed by thIS following statementg "FoX" the State of Nsu aSS'QliieQ tlmt e. depletion of 6.38 »000 &erG reet par Y0U' (11.,25% of 1.g450,pOOO) at sites of usa in Nw }.iarleo wU1 be pose1b10 under tha terme or tha Upper Colorado River The .f'1gur®s of the SecNtary regSll"ding Naw Menco pll"$£1ent USQ [) @Ollh... teplated and thIS ava3.labillty or undeX' connp.aot very little,\) i f any D corralation to the figures of th0 N/!M l'lsnco State &Q PSI' aSel1m!ptionso Thi,s is moat ccm.fusing and utterl;r fill&! to shaw BEIW information concerning the present USGS v the ccntemplmtsd or tile availability of water to the State of New Marl.co by' Ccmp&cto It should be added that, based on published figures of the Bureau of Reclamation, supplemented by data supplied by the office of the Upper Colorado River Commission on the estimated virgin average runoff of the Colorado River at Leeos Ferr,y for the 33 years 1924 to 19,6, inclusive, the New Menco allocation under compact would be about 692,,000 acre feet (11Q25% of 6,1,0,000)0 This is 146,000 acre feet less than the assumed figure of 838,000 of the Secretary and the Mevico State Engineero It is well realized that the published figures' on the estimated virgin runoff of the Colorado River at Ferr.r during the period prior to 1924 averaged somewhat hir,her than it did in the 33 year period 1924 1956., It seems unwise, both on the part of the Federal Government and the State of New Meyico to undertake the construction of a project involving hlD'ldreds of millions of dollars on the basis of a water supply' assUllled to be available but which actual runoff records show has not eYisted for a period of 33 years or the period of time beginning with the second year following the aiming of the Colorado River Compact of 19220 Fieures currently to Colorado on present and the contemplated use of water by the State of New Me-ico shows a complete disregard b.1 New MeYico development of the New Mev1co section of the AnimasLaPlata Project studied and reported on b,y the Bureau of Reclamation in November,19540 This project is still under intensive stuqyby the Bureau of Reclamation at considerable cost (1959 fiscal year of $113,421) both to local potential water users and the Federal Gover.nmento If the Bureau of Reclamation and the State of New He-ico have no intention of building the project, local,water users should be so If the project is to be built, a water for the same should be recognizedo It also appears to Colorado that the State of New Mexico has failed to provide any water for future inbasin use by industry and the several cities and towns in the San Juan River Basin in New l{exico.. The area is now under very rapid development.. Information to Colorado shows a large number of water use claims are now in the process of developmento Colorado feels it is not only proper but mandatory'that such claims be at least considered in a basin plan of development., We have always considered Federal Assistance in water development as an aid to proper, well planned development and not as a foreclosure of needed private develop. ment., COLORADO RIVER BASIN FUND at Tha best available to Colorado this time ooncerning anticipated reVsnue accumulations to the Colorado River Basin Fund for assistance of irrigatiaQ projects indicates that the required assistance as set out in the San J\W'l - Chama Project report, Initial Phase develop.. ment, along with the assistance needed b.Y the authorized Hammond Project in New Manco will require all funds apportioned for use by New Menoo Projects for a period of at least 60 years.. This analysis of the Basin Fund and ita use i3 concurred in by Nell Menco State Enpineer Reynolds" This would leave other New Me··ico projects and joint Colorado and New -4 ... Menco projects without means of finance except by use of accumula.. tions to the fund be.yond the projected year 2028 (year 1968 plus 60 '2028) c ' ' . ' , ' , This condition naturally raises the question concerning the reliability or present estimates on the accumulation of revenues to the fund for such a long period of yearso Should the estimate of accumulation of 'revenue be based on the estimated river nmoff conditions including 'the years prior to year 1924 as' discussed in preceding paragraphs, the actUal. accUmulation of revenues maY be somewhat less and thuB the Slin Juan 'Chama could tie up all NeW Mevicoosportion of 'the fund for an of years .. The 'nia.tter of the use of revenue frOm the Colorado niver ,Basin ,Fund , for the ass'istsnce' of' irri?ation oTojects thus ap,ain raises the question of proper basin for the development of projectso Due consideration should be eiven to sub-basin development in lip,ht of the overall qualification and limitations as set out by the authorizing legislation Fiver Storage '. . PHASE DEVELOPMENT Recommendation Noo 1 of Regional Director Jennings as given on page "32· of "the May, 1957, Supplemental Report on the San Juan - Chama Project states: "Congressional approval of the plan of development for a San Juan Chama Project providing for diversion of 235,000 acre feet of, San Juan River flows into the Rio Grande. Basin, as contemplated by the ultimate Development described in the report, be soughton The same report" on page 0, lists an allocated construction cost 8S a "deferred cost" ot $2$800,000 This cost is not included under the heading repayment" The report thus indicates that the Federal Government is requested to observe a construction cost in the reported, sum of $2,,800,,000 for,facilities"for 'ultimate' phase' development 0 0 :.' • • . Colorado feels obliged to point out that the water proposed for· 'diVersion for the ultimate 'phase is not included in NB11T Menco State 'Engineer tabulation of coritemplated uses but the Federal Govern'ment is called on to observe a $2$800,000 costo Due to the clouded conditionof New Meyico water for even the first phase of development, the lirnited avail.a'bility of Colorado River Basin, Fund as ailoeated for use in MeYico'andthe complete disreeard for basin of the San juan River Basin the development of the u1t1mate phase fiction with the Federal. GOvernment requested to pick up'the . . . . . . FISHERY'DAMAGE State Comments to be prepared br the Colorado Game and Fish Department" GO 5- INDIAN WATER CLAIMS State Comments to be prepared by John Barnard of the Colorado Fiver District", BILlS PAID BY THE PRESIDENT .AND SECREl'ARI SUBSEQUENT TO JANUARY 21$ 1958 MEETING OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS, SUBMITTED FOR APPROVAL BY THE EXECUTIVE COMMIT'l'EE ON FEBRUARY 8 11 1958 oWarrant Noo 2068» Voucher Noo 2191,9 dated January 22" 1958jl payable to Mountain States Tel.. & Teln COG for telephone services for District Office, statement Januar,y 10$ 1958 Warrant No" 2069.\1 Voucher No" 2192j) dated January 31g 1958$ payabla to F'ust National Bank, Glenwood Springs, Co10 • .11 for rent on District offices for February, 1958 0 0 0 0 • • • • 0 0 0 Warrant Noe· Voucher No" dated January 31, 1958; pqabl.e to Bernics Eo Sweitzer!) Clerk of District Court ot Montrose County$ for filing Claim Statement in Case No" 689.1, Water District No .. 62 ••• •• o"o • • • • • • • • • • o •••••• oooo CI • • • O • • Warrant Noo 2071» Voucher dated Januar,y 3lJ 1958 j to H'ume S. l.Jhitejl for fae and attending Board meeting on:Januar,y 21J 1958 " .................. .... o WAlTant No" 0.2072.\l°Voucher No'!> 2196, dated January 31, payable to Dan H.. HUghes.ll tor expenses attending Revising Committee meeting on State Water Congress matter on Januar,r 26 J) 1958.tl plus $15 GOO stenographic services involved in work Warrant Noc 2073.11 Voucher No", 2197.1l dated January 1958.1> pqable to John B. &mard ll for retairierfor less tay deductions OO • • • • • • • • • • • • • G • • ao • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • OO o 0 Voucher No .. 2198.0 dated January 31" payable to Philip Po SmithS' salary-°for Janu8.ry,l958,;"less Warrant No .. tax deductions •••• 0 2075, Voucher payable to Bill E .. Harriss WarrantNoo G " •••• o o salary for c •••• 692028 2199, dated Januar,y 31,1) 19S8» JaxiUaryj) 1958" less o o. O • • • • • • • O.OGo • • e • • o • • • • oo • • • • o • • • • • • • • o o tax deductions 31050 CiII 0 • 0 • 0 o • • • • 0 • • • '• • • • • • 0 00 ••••••••• 0 0 Warrant No .. 2016, VoUcher No;, 2200 91 dated January 31.1> 19S8$ . payable 0to Mary Jane 0 salary 0for 0January.ll °19,8!p 00 less tax deductions oo • • • o • • • • • • • • oO.O • • GOCillO • • • • O.O • • • • • • oc Warrant No" 2011 Voucher No" 2201 11 dated Janul117 31, 1958 9 0 payable to Edith Bo salaij' for 019,81' 00 less tav deductions January" O••• O.G • • • • • O • • • • O • • • • • • O • • O • • • • • • • • • • Warrant No .. 20181) Voucher No .. 2202.0 dated January pqable to John Pascal Smith.l' salary for January.ll lesa tay, deductidn o ••• o •••••••••••• 19S8J) • • • oa.o • • • • • • • • • o • • a.u APPENDIX "C" 207 .• 5S 8.• 80 Warrant Noo 2079,9 Voucher Noo 220.3, dated Jarruary 31j 19.58» payable to Federal Reserve 13ank of Kansas City» MissouriJ) transmittal of F'edera! Income Tax deduotions .for January» •• ooo.o ••• o.o • • • • • • • • • • • u $ 337090 2204» dated Januar;y 31» 19589 payable to County Clerk & Recorder, Montrose County1) tor f1llng 18 sheet map covering Upper Gunnison Basin Project 0 <> 1000 19S6$ far deposit Warrant No o 20801Sl VOlWher No o Warrant 2081.21 Voucher NOG dated January 31,1) 1958 9 payable to Intermountain Printing & Stationery for mise1 ... office supplies and lo1arrant Noo OODe • • • • • • o • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • o.Oo Voucher No" 2206,1) dated January 31, 1958, PSY'able to Betty Jo Lindauer, sa1 arr for January'» 19SB.\1 less taT deduction ••••• 4 . 0 • • 0 • • • • • • • oOCQ • • • • • O • • O • • • • • • • • • • • • • CURRENT BILLS APPROVED by the ,EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE THE COLORADO RIVER WATER CONSERVATION DISTR!CT Februar,y 8j 1958 ** Warrant Noo 2083 9 Voucher No o dated February 8, 19,8, pqab1e to Kendrick & Bel.la!r(y Co. J) for engineering supplies" $ 2Sa 6'8 20849 Voucher NO e 2208 s dated Februar,r 8 9 PBifab1e to Sachs-Lmflor COiilpaDy, for engraving LeRoy Guid® Warrant 2080 208,.t> Voucher NoO' 2209$1 dated February 8$1 1958.9 to Bureau of Lend J.lanagement" for tmmship plata H 19,,00 dated Febru.azy 8" 1958, payable to County Assessors Montrose County$ for postage on land plats previously furnished us '." <>90 No" vTarrant NO e 2086 9 Voucher No .. 0 0 •• 0 " 0 • " " " " ••• " • 0 " 0 0 " Warrsnt No.:- 2087$1 Voucher No" 2211, dated February 8" 1.9,8.9 pa;yable to County Clerk & Recorder 1) Gunnisan County.9 forr filing ape for Upper Gunnison Basin Project "0"" 0 0 " • " 0 .. 0 .... , Warrant No,. 2088J) Voucher No .. 2212" dated Fsbruary 8S) 19589 payable to County Clerk & Recordei'» Saguache County- for ' filing for Upper Gunnison Basin Project 015 00 • • • 00"000000 Warrant No .. 2089. Voucher No .. 2213.\> dated February 8 9 19.58 D payable to Glenwood Springs Electric SystemJl) January 319 ' 10u69 1958 statement for electric service for District offices , , ' Warrant No .. 2090; Voucher No .. 221431 dated February 8» 19,6" payable to, TOIi! Walker» for and 8Uppliss ",," 0 " 4,0,,00 .. 0 Warrant Voucher Nou 2215§ dated Februar,y 1958 9 payable to Petty C8.S!h for District offices!) to'replenish petty cash. fund as by thIS Board """ 0 • 0 " 0 0 0 •• " 0 " 015 Jh., S.," 0 8t 19'5/l. for sxpenses to FebruaI'1 HJ) ''iarrant No" 2092" Voucher' No o payable to Bj.n E .. incurred on district bueiness 38u2$ GOOO •• O.O""oo"oo.o • • Nco 209.3 10 Voucher Noo 22119 dated Feb:ruar7 8Jl 19581) payable to RUE{fos fOi" prints amQl !"eynooductiona iXL ccmnaction With.' Upper Gunnison BaBin Proc. ject . 2094, Voucher Noo 22J1.8j? dat less tax deduction" plus expense attending Executive Committee meeting on February 8 b 1958 01> . "......." . Mq 21!) 'lOs 1958 ALL MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF DllmCTORS 31 The Colorado River Water Conservation District .. Gentlemenll " President Hansen haa direoted that I notif)" you of a Special. Maeting of the Board of Directors for The Colorado River Water Conservation Distrlctj) to be hold in a room (number unkilmm)' at the Adams Hotel,tl 18th ad Welton S1i.nJets, Denwrg Colorado", aD. J'GJ18 3rd$ 19,6, begimWIg at 6.00 P",Heo This meeting w:Ul largel;r concern itself with preparation tor the G to be held in Adams Hotel" 18th end Welton streets» 8800, P.. Ho June 1151 1958 TOg MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS g Colc)rado River Water Conservation Districto Gentlemam There is enclosed a tentative draft of the minutes of s meeting of the Executive Committee or the Board of Direotors for The Colorado River Water Consar. vation held at the AdSms Denver$! ColoradoJ) em June 3rd,t 1958.., Please aMas if' there are GnY additiona, correctiona or deletionEl to be made to these minuteso There is also enclosed a copy of an address by Mr. John B. Barnard, Sro, made to t.hs Colorado Stats Watershed Conservation Association at their Semi-Annual Meeting!) held in Glemrood S-prings ll Colorado g on Mq 219 19580 yours 9 PPS:ebw Encls .. PH:rtl1P Pc, SMITH 51 MINUTES - - -01- -special r.reet1ng. by COLORADO RIVER WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICT BOARD OF DIRECTORS June 3j) 1958 Pursuant to notice duly and properly given» the Special Meeting of the Board of Directors of The Colorado River Conservation District was called to be held in the Adams DanverS! :Colorad0 Jl at 8:00 PoM$ on June 3l'd s 1958.. Th3 folloN... · ing members of the Board of Directors were presents Oy To Hansen» President ll At> Allen Brmm, Vics President» Amos \-1" HomS! W.. Jarrard Jones.9 Richard Bo \V1lliams and Oreet A. Gal"bas .. Mambers of the Board of absent: Robert DSlaney, Robert H.. GleasODJj Dan H. 'Hughes,; Ksrl H. KnoXT» Robart G. Porterjl Hume So \fults and Marlo Zadra. There llerealso in attendance II Philip P.. Srrdth# Secretary...EnginsBr for the District» John Bo Bamard.ll Counsel for the District» William H. Nelson, Associate Ed1tOTj) The Daily Sentinel» and Member of Colorado Water Conservation Boards Grand Jmct:to."ll' Colorado Jl John B.. Barnard, JroJj Assistant Attorney aw.i Goss&rd" representative of ths Axial Basin and Steamboat Springs The meeting l-laS called'to order at 8,00 PoM .. , tdth President Cy T.. Hansen prasidingc the full Thereupon, President Hansenj) 110ting that a qUOr\mi\ at of Directors not in attendances adjourned " the Special Meeting ot the Board ot Directors and., in view of the tact all members ot the E"·ecutive Committee were present, convened a meeting of that Committeso This action ,(",as in accordance wlt.h provisions of the By...Lawe whereby a meeting of the Eyecutive Committee may be convened without previous notice i t all members are present and approvsa " President Hansen requested the Secretar,yEngineer to review correspondence and news re1eascs relating to the Reao1ution on future reclamation development under the Storage Project Act, adopted by the Board of Directors at their April 15th, 19,8, meet1ng.t> comprising the drainages of the Roaring Fork and Eagle Rivers and the Colorado River between Gore and Glenwood Springs J Richard B.. 1-1iliiams s temporary chairman of District Hivel' Daain below Glenwood Springs) 16 II co:mprising the .- MrQ Cy To Hansen, te:mporaIY chairman of District l7$) comprising the Yampa River drainagej Nrc W. Jarrard Jonesj> temporaIY chairman of District 19, comprising the White River Basin", Mr" Barnard commented that caucuses of the districtsn representatives would be held at the beginning of the afternoon session of the Water Congress and that in order to familiarize the various caucuses with the activities of the committee aelsisting the Governor in organising the Congress that members of that committee. had been assigned to meet with the various caucuseso It was eyplained that at each caucus a member representing that district on the Rules Committee would be chosen .. In the general discussion that follcmed the hope was expressed that the Congress could be organized aa planned, but that i t eastern Colorado interes'l;s should attempt to abrogate the safegua,rds provided by the Rules Committee that western Colo-rado interests should be prepared to insist on, (1) mainta:i n :5 n g all of the proviSions of the current suggested platform, (2) reverSion to the western Colorado draft· of the suggested plat... form, or (3) .nthdra'tf from the Congress" Mr. .. Smith reported that. the survey forces of the Dis... trict were engaged in completing the surve.ys necessar,y to make a final filing for the D1strictOs Basalt Project} that work had been completed on the Bluestone the 1'1l1ng had been aubmitted to and accepted by the State Engineer!b and that he and Mr ...Bamard had presented the District vs claim in Judge Darrov ca court in Gleml7000 Springs on June He remarked that during the same adjudication proceeding the Chemical had asked for a direct flow diversion right from the Colorado River :in the amount of 200 second feet, .and that i f conditional decrees ware granted and perfected for all of the recent filingB macia by the District and other water intereats of western Colorado that no water was left in the Colorado and GunniBox.n River Baains for axport to eastern Coloradoo Mr.. Barnard stated that on the 1st of Mq he and the Secretary-Ehgineer had preeentsd further testimony in YtOntrOllt1 on the Upper Gtmn1son Basin Project filing, tmd that Mro Brown had presented testimony concerning the interest of the Ci V ot Dalta in the project, and that representatives of the Redlands Power Be Irrigation Company, as well as the City of Grand J1Dlct1on,l¥ had also presented testimony as to their interests and tbG theyvould with construction of the Upper Gunnison Projectu !IIr .. Smith then stated that he hB.d had a request from Mr" Hamar J u StocDrell.'Jl General Chaiman of the Colorado Agricul... '';' tural Eyperiment Station, Fort Collins,ij Colorado,p for a contri.. button to support the snow survey and water forecasting program carried on by his agencYq Mr.. noted that the Distriot had in previous years made contributions to that agency 0 Atter discussionJ) Mro Williams MOVED that the District contribute $50 .. 00 to the Colorado Agricultural Expariment Station at Fort Collins, Colorado"» for calendar year 1958, in support of their snov sUl'VSy' and water forecasting work" Upon second by Mro Horn, the motion was voted upon and passed unanimously., Mr

Colorado 'en Sth, 19S8" The meeting mn CODWlIl0 at '10gJ<) A.. M.. ' Ons ot too principal itsJ!W.I OD the will be coneldaration of a Resolution concerning Reclamation development and plamrl.ng activitieg in western Colorado" ot lou v.Ul recall' that Mr.. Da1mey $I at the April masting' tba Board of Il'lrectors J made iii. motion outJ :h:""ng the principles to be corttainl8Q in tho said Resolution!) and, at that tima,i; the District Counsel ancJl Secretary-Engineer were recommendations to the Congresa for fo? and construction worle ir.m conforndty theretdtRlI8 1" Law h8S to be The feasibility reports! vhich is required by Public made to the Congress by tha Department of tha Interior relative to the Curecanti Storage Project,9 should be givOO! prioritY' that said report will be completed a.t a. date not later than January.9 19S9 Upon the completion and submission of said report j) work of conBtI'lIDticm on said projsct should be schedi1l0d to CCEllUilfmC8 at the earliest possible dates andS) thereafter 9 COlil... struCtioD an said project should be carried fonrard with the construction of Glen Flaming Gorge and Navajo Storage 20 Ae to participating for which are and those upc:m '!Ihich tbG Dspartment of thQ Interior is required D by' the provisions of said to complate amd BUblt!1t Law h6Ss> reportSl5) not lese tha8ll 46% of f\md!;;J available for the completion of said plmming reports eMU bf3 apportioned to participating projecta in thIS State of Colorado" '0 As to tho construction of participating projElota autholr.'lsed for construction and designated for completion of plalm... Xl1ng reports in and by Publio Law 48S not leas th8!l! 46% of appropriated for such constructic:m shall be apportioned to participating proj acta witllrl.n the State of Colorado" BE IT AND IT IS FURTHER HEREBY RESOLVED that i f shill. be necessary!> :in ordar to. carry out the above outlined work soh0dulaf!,9 that thare a X'0aUgmaent of Regions of the Bureau of .ReclamatiOlQl ( ?V"i . ''10 .r'; . or of field offices within Regions" or an assignment or reassignment of responsibilities and authorities to proceed with said work withixn the Bureau of Reclama.tion.ll whereby responsibility and authority to proceed, with said schedule shall be imposed upon and granted to field such shall be done speedily and ef'fectivel;y Ao Allen Brown, Vice Presidents! ,Amos W.. Horn, W Jarrard Jones, Richard B. Williams, Q Robert Go Portor, Crest A Gerbaz 1) Karl H. Knorr, H. Gleason rmd Robert Delanq" 0 < Members of the Board of Directors absent: Dan ij. Hughes, Hunte S. White and Mario Zadra .. There were also' in attendance: Philip ·P .. Smith, Secretary-Engineer for too District, John Barnard, Counsel for the District, Bill E.. Harris, Assistant Engineer for the District, "toTillla.m HII Nelson, Associate Editor, The Sentinel" and Member of Colorado Water Conservation B081-d, Grand Junction, John B.. Barnard, Jro, Assistant Attorney General. .for the . State of Colorado and personal representative of the Governor at this Denver" Colorado g John A.. Hughes.., Attorney for the Tri...County Water CODservanc,y District, MOntrOS8 9 Co1orado v James Beatty, PreSident, Montrose County Chamber or Commerce!) . . George Ltodfelt, Member, Board of Directors, Montrose County Chamber of COJlD'llerce Jl and Carl Anderson, Member, 14ontrose County Chamber of The meeting was convened at 10100 AttN., with President Cy T. Hansen presiding" President Hansen called for consideration of tha Minutss of the Meeting of the Board of Directors for January 2lj) 1958.$1 and Minutes of Meetings of the Eyecutive Committee of tha Board of Directors on February 8th$) March Jrd and March 28th p 1958$ presentad at this time for approval.. Mr., Porter MOVED that ina.smuch as drafts! of the referred to had been furnished all members of th0 Board of Directors prior to this meeting that the reading of the be dispensed with· and they be approved as wr1ttEb"l.. Upon sscond b;y Mrc Gerbaz» the motion was voted upon and passed unanimouslf .. President Hansen noted that the AuditorOs Report calendar year 1951 had been set over from the Januar,y 2lst g 1958 meeting of the Board of Directors in order to giva the board meliberli!l1 sufficient time to stuqy the samee He mentioned that a copy of such Auditor's Report had been attached to the Minutes for tha meeting ot the Board of Directors on January 2lat Sl 1958,9 as Appendix can"", and sent to all members of the Board.. There being no discussionS) Mr .. Horn MOVED that the AuditorOs Report for calendar year 1951 be approved as prepared and presented to the Board", Upon second by NT" Gerbaz, the motion was voted upon and approved unanimouslyo President Hansen thereupon asked the Secretar.Y... for his report for the first quarter of 1958.. Mr .. Smi:th rea.d his report" covering the period Januar;y 22nd throueh April 14th, 19580 141-0 Porter inquired if Mr" Smith had not erroneouBlj' referred to Vater District No" 58 in his report ,instead of 59" Mr.. Smith agreed that this was in error and 11Tould be corrected., There being no ther correcti'on Or discussion, Mr t-Ti1l1ams NDVED that' the quarterl;y report of the as read and amended, be acceptecll and Upon second by Mr" Horn, the motion was voted upon and passed lD'lanimouslyo A cOW of said report, markad Appand:i:ll' I9A" for identification, is attached hereto and made a part of thsse <) Minutes" at the request pi President Hansen» the District Counsel read his report for the first quarter of 19580 Following the reading of CounselGs raport,'Mr" Delaney commented tha"t he l.ras interast.ed and concerned oval!" NT" Barnardos Buggestion that the Map and Statement Act be mmended to guarantee soccalled paper .filings as againatfilings basad em proposals to immediately apply water to use j) tlhich would apply in the case of Jl1m\r. small individual users ,dthin the District" Mr" Damard eyplained that what he had suggested was no more than the present Map and Statement Act implied v and followed a method of establishing water rights follwad in states such as California and ffuntmm.. He pointed out that ths method follmred in permit statsfJ 61lit3b as Utah would not be applicable in Coloradoo !ir., DslanEtV" statGd he thought th as mora and more of our undaveloptad water resources are put to use there will be' pressure to force compllaneQ with the statuta requiring ,construction work every two years and thIlt this may put the District v8 filings in jeoparqy" MY' <> Bamard said there ware thlrae X"easons why any conditional decrees granted the District under ita -p:resen'!:. filing pFOgram should be First 9 decisions by the State Suprema Court have been made to effect that attempting to secure financimg of irrigation development constitutes diligence; sacond9 at DistrictOs suggestion g the Act the District was amended in the last Legislature,!) which allowed tha District to make a levy md X"aisa funds to carry fortJard at least token construction work$ and.,9 third" the Bureau of Reclamation will be carrying out fW"thaii' inVt9Stigational and construction activities on at least at the jacts which we have made filings than, smounts The statute will confirm the filings heretofore made ixll. accordance with the Map and Statement La'f:1ti HowveX"jI i f U6 drop e Bill in the hopper and it goes to committas you donUt know what you will have for an amendmentc" to this.. Following soma further discussion; Mr-.. Brown MOVED that CounselDs report for the first quarter of 1958 be apprOVGda Upon second by MY'" Williams 31 . the motion was voted· upon end passed una.nimously A copy of said report of Counsel, marked Appendix IOBIO foX" identifica.., ti0Jll 9 is attached hereto and made a part, of these Minutae by rsi'0lrence thereto" Thereupon, President Hansel'll requested Mro Jolm A.. HugheS) of Montrose, Colorado$! to introduce the "Tintors from that are&h a Mr" Huehes then introduced himself» as attorney for the Trl ... County Watal!" Conservancy District; Mro James Beatty; as President of the Montrose County Chamber of Comerce; Mr" George Lindfelts) as a member or the Board or Directors of the Montros® County Chamber of COEmsX'CQ; m'lll . Mro Carl Anderson$! as a member of the 14:ontrose County Cheber of C0mmerce .. Mr .. Hughes thereupon related that the Tri-County Water Con"" sernmcy District and the l.fontrose County Chamber of COliiIJItGlrC6 hacll become concsrned over an article in the March 28:th iSlSUQ of the Grand Junct10llil Daily SentUlelj) tmich stated that the Bureau o£ ReollJD!9.tiOlm had sChedaled initiation of constl"UCtion for thG Cureeanti Res8lFVoiIr 1965 and that none or Coloradoos potential participating projscte were I!.lIcheciulad cOlIlstruction il!il theiF Finrumeie.l. md of the Colorado Riwr Storage Projeot with th81 exceptiClll of tiloS{;) orlzed in Public I£w h8S" He related that the ChaJii>er of Cammaroll .md thQ Tri-Count,r District felt that i f aomething ware not donG to get our projects under w8:f that some fifteen or twen"t1,v years f'l"Q1ill ncru tha - 3 - states of the Upper Basin would have most of their development under the Act completed or well under while Colorado, liho furnishes over 70% of the river run-off at Lee Ferry and is entitled to ' 46% of the Basin Fund provided by Congress to assist in·the construction of participating projects, would have only begun its develop. ment, and» therefores> not have the support of the other Upper Basin States in securing appropriations for Colorado He rea lated that, for this both organizations had passed a Resolution directed at correcting this inequitable condition, a copy of which had been furnished The Colorado River Water Conservation District, and that representativ'es of the Montrose County Chamber of Commerce and the Tri-County Water Conservancy District had met with I'1essrso Barnard and Smith to discuss the Following a reading of the Resolution, there was extended discussion v whereby it was pointed out to the visitors from Montrose that the District could not go along with opposition to appropriations for the main stem reservoirs such as Glen Canyon since it was essential that the net power earnings from 'these features were essential to the financing of participating projects, that ,the District did favor establishing an order of priority for tha construction of' participating projects in line with the allocation of water to Colorado from the share of the Upper Basin States in the Colorado Riverj) or in line with the apportionment of the Basin Fund among the states of the Upper Thereupon, NT" John B" Barnard» Jr . . introduced himself as the official representative of Govemor HcNicho1s, and pointed out the Governor was very much concerned over continuing good relations with the other states of the Upper Colorado River Basin and he felt the Resolution adopted by the Montrose groups would have an adverse effect on such relations., He pointed out that, in his opinion'» Colorado was at fault in not having more participating projects reaqy for authorization in that the other states of the Upper Basin had for years given financial assistance to the Bureau in preparation ot reports,i) whereas Colorado had and that western Colorado had allowed inequitable distribUtion of rec1mnation investigational funds whereby. she now had ver,y feW projects in line for authorization and construction appropriations.. He further poiD.ted out that i f we lose the legislntive support of the other reclamation states" and particularly a.ll ot the Upper Basin, our cause in the future will be hopelessa. , Following further discussion, wherein it was pointed out that i f New Manco got their San Junn..,Chsma Project, Utah its Central Utah Project, and \Vyom1ng its Seedskadee that they 110uld have large:Qr obligated their shara in the Basin Fund", whereas Colorado had no eytensive projects ready for authorization at this time.. By comthe Board general:Qr agreed that something must be done to establlsh equitable construction priorities among the states of the Upper Basin through provisions of ' the Storage Project Act with respeot to participating projects.. Mro Delaney lIDVED that a Resolution to the effect "The Congressional delegation of Colorado and Colorado representatives on interstate water matters be requested to take all possible steps to accelerate commencement of construction on Colorado projects withiJl1 the Upper Colorado Storage Project andf) particu... o larlyj) to attempt to secure an equitable apportionment of fundS hereafter appropriated whereb,y Colorado projects are allocated funds that will pem.."lt earlJr construction of the Curecant1 Project and the Paonia Pro.1ect, and that the funds for Colorado participat:ing proj ects will be allocated on a basis comparable to the apportion.. ment of credits in the Basin Fund," be adopted by the Board,,' Upon second by Mro Gerbaz g NT.. Porter MDVED that the Resolution proposed 1>7 .. Delaney be adopted in principle and that it be referred to the Evecutive Committee for revision and final approval at their nen. meeting" Nrc Jones seconded Mr6 Poner U8 motion" Thereupon Si Mr" Delaney withdrew his motion inasmuch as Mr .. PorterOs motion provided for its adoption in principle" aIld Mr .. Oerbaz withdrew his second thereto" Thereupon, Mr .. Porter# s motion was voted upon and passed unanimously" There followed a discussion on the redraft ot the Resolution and it was agreed that the Resolution Should be redrafted by the Secretary and Counsel for the Districtl and that such draft be furnished each member of the Board of Directors well in advance of the nen meeting of the Executive Committee, at which time it would be given final consideration for approval, and that Mr" DelBneT be to meet with the Executive Committee for such consideration" ' , President Hansen then asked for the Treasurer u s report for the fi't'st quarter of 1958.. Mr.. Sm1th thereupon read a SUIIllnation of the Treasurero 8 reports for the months of January, February and. Marcb, 1958.. Mr .. Williams MOVED that the summation report of the Treasurer vs reports for the first quarter of 1958 be approved as read by the Upon second by Mr. Hom.ll the motion lias voted upon and passed A copy of said summation report" marked Appendix "C", for identification, i8 attached hereto and made a part ot these, Minutes by reference President Hansen oalled for consideration or a revised iDvestigational priority sooring sheet for potential reclamation projects within the District" Mr .. Smith stated that at the January meeting of the Board of Directors he had been instructed to place , 'this matter on the agenda and to revise the sheets jn line with decisions made in that meeting" He pointed out that l-fr" Nelson had written him concerning the priorities in the Yampa..tVh1te Bas:i.nsjl which established hir,her priorities for the Wessels and Two Bar Projects than that for the Yellow Jacket Projeot, Mr. Nelsonos conoern being that the Yellow Jacket is specifically mentioned in Public Law h8S whereas the Wessels and Two Bar Projects are not, and for that reason the Stat,e Water Board might take exception to the priorities as suggested in the current scpring ,sheeto Mr .. Smith cODlll1ented that since this scoring had been made that the water users in the Yellow Jacket area had held a meeting in Meeker which he and Mr .. Barnard bad attended, and that in that meeting the water users had decided to organise a conservancy district and press for construction of the Yellow Jacket Project" Mro Jones stated he would like to see the prior1ty for the Yellow Jacket Unit advanced due to increase in local interest" Mr .. Gleason commented that the water users in the Wessels Project area were more interested in storage and use of water on the east side of the Yampa Valley rather than on the \-Test side as planned in the Wessels Project, and that for that reason local interest in the rlessels Project as now planned could be reduced.. Mr$ Smith stated that i f the local interest for the Wessels Project, scored as "2" on the scoring sheet \Ulder consideration, were changed to "1" and the Yellow Jacket scoring under local interest advanced from "1" to "2" that the priorities as established would be in line with the request of Nrc> Jones and 13uggestion of Mr. Nelson.. Presi.. dent Hansen·pointed out that there would no doubt be other future changes due to change in the attitude of local Mr .. Brow, thereupon ll MOVED that the scoring sheet.l'l as presented b.Y the Secretar,y, with the suggested revisions for the Wessels and Yellow Jacket Project priorities, be approvedo upon second by Mr .. Homj) the motion was voted upon and passed without dissenting voteo There follOwed a discussion or the Hook Frojecto Mr. Smith noted that the Board had discussed, but never instructed him to make a filing on the Pot Hook which is the storage feature of the project located in Co10ra!io", Nrc> Hansen stated that the interests had obtained a water right for the Saver" Rew servoiro Following a short discussions the matter was deferred for later action.. . President Hansen called upon NT .. Nelson foX' a report ha had agreed to nutke concerning a suggested program for the District" Thereupon, Mr .. Nelson reed a report he had prepared., Following discussion., it was decided that a copy of Mr Nelson 0 s report should be furnished each of the Board memberB along w1th the Minutes of this meeting for their and that the matter of a public relations program be put over for consideration at a later meeting.. A copy of NT Nelson Q s report 11 marked Appendix "D" for identification$ is attached hereto and made a part of these IUnutes by reference thereto 0 u 0 President Hansen then asked the Secretar.y-Engineer to read a suggested letter to the Ute' Water Distriot in support of their application for a loan from the Housing and Home Finanoe AgenC)" of the Federal Government to finance' detailed planniilg of their proposed domestic wa.ter distribution system" Thereupon, Mrlo SlD1th. read the letter referred to" Following a short diSCUSsion, Mr" loTilliams HJVED that tha letter as prepared by the Secretary-Engineer be approved and that it be mailed to Mr.. Fred Simpson, Chairma.D of the Board of Directors of the Ute Water Conservancy District., Upon second by Jones, ··the motion was voted upon and passed unan1mous11'. A copy of said letter, marked Appendix "E" for is attached hereto and made a part at these Minutes by referenoe thereto. President Hansen asked for consideration of the statUI!! of a suggested platform for the Colorado Water Congress Mr" Banmrd stated he would suggest that the District attempt to have the suggested platform as revised by the western Colorado committee adoptedo He g continued that it might be,necessar,y to make some minor changes in the present draft$ but that it lias essential, in view of statements made by Mr .. Saunders, that the position taken by lJ'estem Colorado should not be changed" He said he would suggest that the staft be authorized to continue work an a platform proposal acceptable to the state as a whole and that the E>recutive Committee be given authoriv to pass upon the revised draft.. There followed discussion in which the Board generally stated that the draft as prepared by the western Colorado committee was acceptable and that the principle expressed therein should not be changed.. Mr .. Gleason MOVED that the action suggested by Mr .. Barnard be approved., Upon second by Mr., Knorr, th e motion was voted upon and passed unanimously 6 President Hansen called for report by the Secretar.r and Counsel on their investigational trip into the lower baain.. Nr .. Smith suggested that., in view of the extensive agenda for this meetingjp he be allowed to send a report on this trip to the Board members along with the MinUtes for this nseting.. This suggestion was agreed to by the BoardQ President Hansen asked for a report on the status of the Mr .. Sndth reported that Governor McNichols had appointed John B.. Barnard, Jr" am the Colorado coordinator'on interstate water controversies and negotiations, and that John, Jr .. had called a meeting of a commission the Governor proposed tc;> appoint to study the' San Juan-Chama problem, in Montrose 9 on April 11th .. ' 'At this ltbich he and John B.. ' Barnard, Sro' had attendoo9 and' attended by R.. M. GildersleeveI' Clifford Jex» William Eakes$ J .. Ro \1illiams, Ray' Moses and Felix Sparks, John; Jr .. evpla1ned that although the GoVernor was V917 interested in s'e,elditg the advance of John &mud,. 8r.. :lI.n regard to these studies, he c1t.d not reel two members of the Barnard mould be on tha He further stated that the Governor felt that funds for the were'quite ltmited and that all the state could pay- the commissioners would be' $25.,,00 per diem plus actual travel e,rpenses<> Mr .. Smith continued, that members of the proposed commission had been handed copies of a contracts but that before aocept1Dg appointment he would like authorization of the Board to do so., Mr .. Sm1th was asked half much time would be consumed on the San Juan-Chama prabl.oS> and he stated it had. been estimated it would require about ' tweDt7 dqa of his time prior to July ls1i1? 19;8" Nrc» Smlth said he did not feel that it was too important :to the District that he serve on the San Jua'n-ChamSl. negotiation studies, but that he did teel it important that he participate in any studies werelJr the, state vould take an official position with reepect to water supply an&.:qs1a of the Colonido River system,.. which Might be construed as dat1rdng the Upper ;Bas1n States O share in the Colorado Rivero Nrc> B8l"Ilard aa1d )10 felt it was all important that Mr .. Smith serve on the cOJ!llll1sslon sincs'this work would no doubt be a forerunner to a ot interstate relations between Colorado and the other states of the Colorado River Basin.. Fonowing further diSCussion, in which it vas agreed that Mr s.Lth should accept appointment on the conmrission!p Hr. Porter tl1e Board give· their consent to the appointment of Mro San Juan-Chama and other interstate 0 Smith to the commission for studying the San Juan-Chama problemg and that f.fr .. Smith usa due regard to see that the other work of the District does not suffer too much by reason of his work on that commission.. Mrt'lBrOim.j) thereuponD seconded Mr.. PorterO s with the amendment that the Secretary be allOlfed to draw the aation paid by the state in addition to his salary from the Districto Mro Porter accepted Mr .. Brownos amendment, and$ thereupon,!) the was voted upon and passed unanimous:Qr" . , President Hansen cOl!l!lmentsd that the nevt item on the agenda Conwas discussion of possible reorganization of tho Colorado servation Board.. Mr., Barnard stated ,that a plcm had been under discussion for some time whereby the State Legislature would reorganize tba'Water Board theprimar.y objective of aliminating the ax- ' officio members of the Board and mald.ng them strictly staff to the Board$ and that it had also been discussed that instead of the Governor making appointments to the Board more or less on a political basis that he should fQake the appo:intments from lists of suggested furnished by water organisations such as this District" Mr .. Barnard continued» that recently ,he had been inf'omsd by Felix Sparks that Mr .. Sparks, as cOlD'lsel to the State Water Board, vas drafting, a 'Bill f9rravieian 9£ the legislation that established the Board .. ' Mr.,;, Barnard then suggested that this Board pass GI\Y aoticm concerning reorganization of the, State 'water Board until such time as Mr ... SparksQ px-oposal vas available for consd.deration... There being no objection$ President. Hansen stated the matter would be passed. until the proposal was Mrp Bamard thereupon pointed out that the matter or realignment of the regions ot: the Bureau of Reolamat1on had bean di8cussecl :in previous and that a Resolution had been adopted by this Board about a year ago, asking that the Secretary of the Intcar1oJ" establish a RagLoD 8 of the Bureau of to ce..rry tonmrd ilnbasin investigations and construction in the' natUral basin of the Uppar Colorado River.. He continued that he and Nrc> Smith had pressed this matter in the offices of the Sacretar,r of the Interior and the Commissioner ot Reclamation they were in Washington en the DistrictOs amendment to the Fr.ying Pan-Arkansas Project Authorization ,Acto He that there they, bad been informed that the proposal was impractical because the Congress in session at that time lias quite acoDOlI\Y m1nded and that establishment of another RegiOn would not be compatible td th such a policy., He continued that HI'" Crmuford of ths State Water Board had that the sctiml of the Distr1ct 1llll. adopting thil9 Resolution had to soma extent caused Region b ot the Bureau of Reclamation to change its attitude toward Oolorado development,:.; He also related that recently' Mr. F. M.. PetersOlllt) tile Gumaiaon representative on the State \oJ'ater Board, had proposed that westem Colorado be assigned to Region 1 of the Bureau of ReclamatiODJ that this proposal had baen discussed by the Committee of this Board and that it was decided that a !D.ore dasirable arrange... ment would be far the Region .3 office of the Bureau of Reclamation to be MOVed from. ita present location at Boulder C:1ty, Nevadalll to Pags.@ and that it be assigned ra2lponsibil1ty for all of the natural basin or the Colorado River, and that the lower California coastal areaf now a part of Region )" be assigned to Region 2 :lD SacramentoQ Mr. Delaney inquired if the District proposal had been carried to .the National Reclamation Association for support. Mro Smith replied that it had not$ but that he doubted that the organisation would support any opposition to the present line of authoritv" . and organization of the Bureau of Reclamation., Mr. Brown HOVED that Counsel draft a Resolution for consideration by this Board of Directors tn their Jul7; 19S8 g meet1ngl' to the general effect that a region of the Bureau of ReclamatioD be established to encompass the natural basin of the Colorado River.. Mr. Delaney seconded the motiOn" amended to the effect that Counsel os draft be prepared suffiCiently in advance or the meeting of the Board of Directors in order that the Board would have time to study same prior thereto", Mr" Brown agreed to ,Mr., DelaneyOs proposed amendment.. There being no further ccmmantD the motion", as amended, vas voted upon and passed unanimously .. President Hansen inquired of the Secretary what action should be taken at this time by the Board concerning the budget for the District for calendar yellf 19,9" Mr .. Smith replied that a suggested blclget should be presented to the Board for their consideration at the July'meeting, and that in preparation of that budget it was necessary to mow whether the Board planned to change the present mill lev," in support of the current budget" He also noted that 111 the last State Legislature the Act creating The Colorado River vlater Conservation District had bsen revised to allow the District to make a levy for construction ourposea up to 02 of a mill, and that some consideration should be given by the Board at this time as· to whether th87 'desired to make a levy under this provision for calendar year 19$90. Mr Gerbaz commented that Pitk1Ji County was in favor of estabUsbme'nt of· a construction fund... J.fr" Porter suggested that i f a construction levy was to be made that some reduction should be made in the levy provided for in the original District Act and now used for operational and administrative eypensss of the Districto Mr .. Porter continued that he did not think it would be wise to 1ncrease the overall levi for the'District at this time and that, i t a construction lev v8s to be mde, the general levy should be reduced by a like eaount.. )fro, Hansen supported Mr.. Porter °s posit4,on in this v1ev" (J }-tr" Barnard suggested that the Board members contact their respective Boards of County Commissioners and determine their attitude toward a construction levy for calendar year 19S90 Mr .. Porter atatad that it vas his 'Understanding that atter the District had ccmapleted its water filing program that the present mill lev could be reduoed" Mr .. Smith cOllJlllBnted that there were several filings he had been d1reoted by the Board to make which as yet had not been DlIlLde, and that IIlOst of the filings heretofore made were for quite extensive that n9cess1tated f111ngs in prel.1m:1nar:l form 1:0 order to with pl"Owo vis10na at the Map and Statement Acts and that the statements for th'ese f1l1ngs the District had agreed that more detailed amended filings would be made as soon as possible" Mr .. Smith continued that i f these amended f1l1ngs were made that the present survey program by' the District would necessarily continue for some timeo Mr. Gleason commented that he had noted in the current budget that a sum ot $19.000 had been carried over from calendal- year 1951 and that he was sure the people of the District would be dissatisfied v.I. th a mill levy increase wen the DistriCt was presentl3" raising f1mda considerabl1' in excessot their needs,. Mro Sm:1tb explained that $7,000 of this surplus resulted trO!lll maturi-tv of a Series E Bond purchased by District in 1946, and that the Distriot had in the past adopted a policy ot aasigtdng a fairly substantial sum to the Emergency and Contingent in view of indeterminate amounts required far this budgetary item" The question was then raised as to 'Whether the surplus funds could be assigned for construction purposes,,! Mr .. Barnard stated he',thought that funds raised UDder the general lev could nC?t be used for construction purposes, but that he would revicm' the Act creating the District snd ma.la:l'a later reportOl Mr .. ' Delaney commented that he was ot the opinion the Board should do some planning of a rather high order to see what 'V8 are going to do and how far we can go' with the funds avail.ab1e,fj and "I would sugr,est that the engineer and attorney work with the Eyecutive CCIIIIIl:1ttee and endeavor to have a report available and the1r recommendation of a program in July for that meeting,,11 , ' Tbereupon l' Mr .. Williams MADE A MOTION thllt the Secretar.v Prepare a suggested budget for calendar year 1959 on the basis ot a .. 2 mill levy.. tJPon second bY' }irQ Hom, the moM-em was voted upon and passsd 0 A discussion folIO-vied as to whether the Distriot Should advertise the' meeting wherein consideration of tb e budget for 19.59 would' be mad85} U' a paper of general circulation throughout the District» if' so, 1I1hat paper should be used fer that Arteadiscussion, Mr .. Wi1:llams mVED that the Secretary be instructed to arrange for advertising in conformity' with the statutes... 'l'he motion was seconded by Mr .. Delariay.. Upon vote the motion was passed unaD1mousl1'.. . Hansen inquired as to correspondence of lntereato Mr.. SlId.th thereupon mmounced that a meeting of the Colorado Water Oonservation Board would be held, in Denver on May 18th, 19S8 .. He then read a letter from the Middle Park Water CanaervaDa7 District, directed to the State Engineer, which expressed conoeI'D over the extent of carl7-over storage in the Oranb7 the l.:lmitad outlet capacity of that re(lervoilr, and the threat of damage that would result i t it became necGsl!la!7 to run water tbl"O'lJgb the reservoir spillVQ' during the spring floode Hr.. po1nted out that tba District had ms11ed a similar letter to the State F.Dgineer in JSDuSl7 of this yeui pointing out that if' the spring now should be heavier tb.aD anticipated there would be no choice but to _run i1; through the sp11l! "'" 10 .., VIII' and thus cause enansive flood damage immediately downstream from the damo Hr Smth e-,rplained that he had reviewed the April 1st forecast by the United States Weather Bureau and had also reviewed the extent of available storage capacity in Granby Reser-> voir$ Carter Lake and Horse Tooth Reservoir of the Colorado-Big Thompson Project g and that it appeared to him that i f the run-off forecast was reasonably accur&l.te it WOUld not be necessary to spill f'rom the Granby Reservoir this year e Q Hr. Smith then revieued a clipping from the Sentinel relative to a statement made by Nrc> Glenn SalUldsl'S at Forci,fl and Mr.. Gerbas v cOW or a letter ll1"1tten by Gleam Saunders to Congressman Aspinall1n reply theretoo Following some diecuss10n of this matter I !h-. Nelson inquired i f this Board had ever taken 8IJ3: pQait10n OD the- Narrow, e,,-plaining that it was originally considered by the Corps of Engineers for nood control, then became a part of the -Missouri Basin Project for flood control and irrigation and 'Jas to him at least, being brought up by the Dungeree, Mr. Smith e",la1ned constru.:ltion of the Reservoir concemed WJ 111 that it' might make m0¥'8 diversion throUgh the Colorado-Blg ThampaOD poasibloo !fro Barnard stated--ba thought the Bongers wanted to tie it 111 as Ii fa.cUity of the Bluo-8outh Platte Project, but doubted this Board hSd sufficient information to act on it 1ntelU.gentlT" However", MrG Barnard suggested Mro Nelson discuss the mtter with Frank HerrieU to determne i f the Board had prev1o-usq tatcen a stand in regard to or the Narrows Reservoiro Thereupon, }o{r" Smith called attention to a letter he had Written to Kro Leslie J .. Savage of Hotchldss, suggesting that ConfP'Gssman Aspinall should be urged to take a firmer stand on Colorado Projeotso - President Hansen reqttested ths reading of billa paid by the. President and Secretary, but as yet U!ilapproved b7 this Boardo Thereupon, I-h-.. Smith read a list of bills paid by the President and Secretary subsequent to March 3rd$ and requested approval. of such. Mr .. Williams r.!>VED that the billa so paid the President and Secretary subsequent to March 3rd1l 19S8 be Upon second by Mr. Gleason. the mot1m was voted upon and passed m8ldmousl1'" A coW of a list of S\1Dh bUls eo pa1d b;y tba President 8Ild Secretar.y and approved 1>7 this Board iB attached hereto $) marJ:ecl AppeII.db IfF" tor and made a part ot these MiDutes by' reference theretoo At the request of President Hansen, Mrcr Smith read a l1st of cUttEll'lt bills submitted for approval by tbe BOardQ After disouadon. Mr. Oerbsm J.IDVED· that the current bUls as read b7 the Searet817 be a110veci by the Board and that W&lT8Ilts be draw to cover the several amountso Hro Porter seconded the motiQ11" Upon vote, the JIlOtion vas passed <>on . . There baing no further business to coma before thl!il meet... ing Sl Mr. l'Tilliams MOVED the meeting be adjourned o Upon second by MrGl Gerbaz" the meeting liJaS adjourned at 483S PoKe Secretar,v ... 12 ... QuARTERLY REPORT of PHILIP Po. SMITH, SECRETARY... ENGINEER COLORADO RIVER HATER CONSEFiVArION DISTRICT April 15th}) 1958 . ** Since the last meeting of the full Board of Dire ct;ors on January 21, your E!ecutive Committee has held thre9 meetings During this interim your staff has continued work on preparation 'of water filings, compilation and printing of decree data, making field investigations relating to state and inter= state problems concerning '-.Tater D participating in meetinr,s relative to water resource development and caring for the routine functions of the officeo 0 this period we have como1eted all the field . 'Work and most of the drawings for our filing for the Blue Stone Project We have performed this work in accordance vith the suggestion of Mro Barnard, concurred in by the Evecutive Committee, that our Blue Stone filing include renewed filings on all of the features of the Red Cliff Project, namely the Iron Mountain Reservoir, the Pando Feeder Canal and the Gilman Conduit and POlier P1snto lvork on this· filing will be fully completed by MlW 15th, 19580 0 Compilation and printing of decree data for Water District 28 in Gunnison River Basin was completed in Februaryo . Copies of these data, as well as like data for Water Districts 59 and 62p are available i f desiredo On January 22ndI visited the Area Office of the Bureau of Reclamation in Grand Junction to obtain data on the Blue Stone Unit of the Cliff Divide Project, to be used in our Blue Stone Project filingo On January 26th Mr Barnard and I met with the Western Colorado Contingent of the Revising Committee on State Water Policy, with Judge Hughes as advisor., ThiS! meeting 1:1as held in the offices of the Daily Sentinel in Grand Junction and the proposal for a platform of the Colorado Water Congress was revised and has since been printed and mailed to of the members of this Boardo As you know this revision primarily deleted from the then current draft, all suggestions or an;y language which ndght be construed as acquiescence b,y Western interests to arbitration by : the Water Congress or State Reclamation Associa.tion of intrastate water controversies o The Southwestern District had two atives on this revision committseo 0 I was in Denver on January 29th where I met with officials APPENDIX tvA tv of the Sinclair Oil' Company concerning their possible interest and participation in the construction of our Red Cliff Project. They indicated they were interested in securing a firm water' supply but were not sure when they would have the time to study specific plana for firming up their present direct flow conditional decree for Colorado River water in the vicinity of DeBeque, Colorado .. I informed them I would be glad to assist them in any way I could when they fot around to making such studies. Also on January 29th, and the following day, Mr. Barnard and I met with representatives of the Southwestern Colorado Conservation District in Denver to discuss the position the Districts would take with respect to the interstate problem between New Mexico and Colorado in regard to Coloradoas comments to the Secretary of the Interior on the authorizing reports for the San Juan..Chama and the Navajo Indian Projects. On February 6th I had a further meeting with Clifford Jex in Grand Junction, Colorado 9 concerning this problem and on the following dB¥ I met with the Bureau of Reelamati9n on matters relating to the West Divide and Blue Stone Projects. Mr .. Barnard and I were in Hantrose on February 9th and 10th preparing for and presenting our claim for water rights for the Upper Gunnison Basin Project before Mr. Me Lain, referee in the adjudication proceedings for Water District 62. On Februar.y 11th we copied data from records in the Gunnison County Court House needed for ooening the adjudications in Water Districts 28 and 58 and for completing our decree data in Water District 28" On F'ebruary 14th I was in Grand Junction, Colorado securing data from the Soil Conservation Service on aerial photographic coverar,e of the Blue Stone Project. On February 16th, 17th, and 18th Mr. Barnard and I were in Denver where, on the 16th, we met with representatives of the Southwestern Colorado Water Conservation District. On the following day we attended a meeting of the Colorado Water Conservation Board and stated the District's position with respect to comments of the State of Colorado to the Secretary of on the San JuanChama and Navaj 0 Indien Proj ects authoriZing reports.. ,On February 18th we met with the Drafting Committee of the State l-Iater Committee in Denver and also met with officials of the UcS.G.S. Topographic Division at the Denver Federal Center concerning photographic coverage of the Blue Stone Projecto ' On the morning of. February 19th Hro Barnard and I tiere in the District Court at Eagle, Colorado at which time Judge LUby rendered his findinr,s relative to claims presented in his court,for water in adjudication proceedings in Water District 37, including our claim for' the Red Cliff Project. Mr. Barnard will report to you on these' findins and subsequent developments .. On February 20th Mr. Barnard, Mr. Harris and I met with the County Watershed of Rio Blanco County in the Meeker Court House where Mr. Barnard' and I gave talks concerning the activities of this District and the need for extended studies$ planning, action alertness with respect to Western Colorado wnter develooment. On the following day}ir. Barnard and I drove to Pueblo and from there, on February 22nd, attended a meeting of water officials of the Arkansas Basin in Rocky Ford, Colorado where Mr. Barnard and J.tr. Glenn Saunders addressed the meeting" A discussion of this.meeting was furnished the Board in the Minutes for the EY8cutive Committee meeting on March 3rd and since it will no doubt be further discussed in thi's meeting, due to a recent news cli'ppirig concerning this matter that I will read you later, I will not impose on your time with elaboration in this report. In retumirig from Rocky Ford, Hr. Barnard and I met with the full Drafting COllmlittee of State \'Jatar Committee in Denver, February 24th, at which time we emphasized that, in view of ,Mr. Saundersu uncompromising and partisan remarks at the Rocky Ford meeting, we would give no consideration whatsoever to moderation or changes in the proposal for a platform of a Colorado Water Congress as revised on January 26th by the rlestern Colorado Re.vising Committee .. on On February 26th I attended,. a regional meeting of the Rural Electrification Assoc:i.ation in Grand Junction. This meeting was called by Hmiard Scott, State Coordinator for R.E.A .. and former assistant in Congressman AspinallO s office. Representatives of R.E.A. groups from Western Colorado and Eastern Utah were . present. Also, in attendance ,Iere representatives of the Bureau of Reclamation from the Chief Engineergs Office and Region 40 I explained there the objectives and activities of this District in promoting waterresourc,ea development in Western Colorado and discussed the power aspects of some of our planned The principal topics of discussion were related to potential power generation, growth of power markets, and needed transmission systems. 'On February 28t.h, along with John 'Jr., John 'Duong Mark Shivers, Ben Stapleton:,.' Jr.· and' Bob Barkeley, ,I met with' Governor Mc Nichols and Attorne.y General Dunbar to discuse implementation of the legislative and eyecutive proposal that Colorado set up a commission to and negotiate interstate problema involving river compacts to which the State 1s At this Messrs. Stapleton, Shivers and Diyon strongly urged the 'Qovernor to appoint John Barnard, Jr. as full time cO,ordinator for the implementation of thes'e studies and negotiations. The Governor reouested that our ideas be Outlined in writing and, follONing receipt of the outline, on March 5th, he appointed John Barnardjl Jro as the State Coordinator for this program. In presenting this written outline in Denver on March 5th I, at that time, met with officials of -the Public Service Company of Colorado to report to them on Judge Luby's findings concerning oll!' Red Cliff Project filing. I showed ,Mr. Patterson, Chief Engineer for the Public Service 'Company, a qydrograph this office had prepared of the ..off of the Colorado River at the Shoshone Power Plant during the period 19$0 through 1954. It, showed that the construction of our Iron Mountain Reservoir of the Red CILff Project would increase power production at the Public Service s Shoshone Plant. I1r. Patterson was ver,y interested in this hydrograph and asked for a cop,y which was sup-olied him. They restate4 their position, that they were quite interested in the Red Cliff Proj ect power development; and would probably be agr-eeab1e to contributing to further study of, and token constructtQn on the project i f a conditional water right decree for same could be obtained. During the period March 7th through March 17th, Barnard and I were on an investigational trip in the Lower Colorado Basin studying the methods and eytent of of Colorado River water in that area. Since this SUbJect will be jointly discussed by Mr. Barnard and me later in tli1s meeting I Will make no further report at this time o On our return to Grand Junc1;.ion we met with Mr. Rubel, President, and other officials of Union Oil C,ompany, to determine their interest in in at least token construction on the Red Cliff Project, A report on this meeting is contained in the Uinutes the Committee meeting of March 28th. In brief, hwever, Mr. Rubel auggested that the District prepare a proSpe'ctus or report on the project 80 that he could personaily take the report to officials of other companies interested in oil shale deposits of Western Colorado; t'o ask their cooperation in financing at least token construction thereonG The Executive COmmittee authorized me to prepare this inoluding a report on the potential stage of water supply for an oil shale industry from its initial to ultimate development. I hope to this assignment earlY ' Dur:i,ng ITG" trip to the' towel\. Basin I had to pas's up a meeting, of the Southside Soil District in,the Divide Creek area, I U'8S invited to a.ttend.. loire Harris ab17, I understand from others in attendance, represented the District in'this meeting aa n:w alternate. At this meeting Mr. Harris outlined to those in attendance the District" a filing for the West Divide ?roject. . , On March 26th I met with the Board of DireCtors for the Ute Water Conservancy District in Grand J1.mction,· Colorado. In preparation for talk to this group I met with Wayne Chiesman, Superintendent of the Grand Valle.y Project and OrChard Mesa Irrigation District and then, in company "d.th tir. WilliamS, with City 11anager Cheever of Grand JunctioiJ. and Mro Burton the City Engineer, to determine and ideas concerning the objectives of the Ute District to bringing the high quality tailrace water of the LOWer Molina PoWer Plant of the Collbran Project into,tlle a domestic, municipai and industrial. watEir supply for both 'mal and \irbi!Jl areas 'of th'tl ChieSJDEm informed me thaiiJ) , in his opinion,' the irrigation 'interests he represented uould support to the Ute' District 'if it to obtain FederS! financing of its development, in so tar as the development .related to the potential rural users in the service areas of these irrigation interests., Mr Cheever stated he felt a more detailed analysis of the proposed development was needed before ths city could be expected to make a decision concerning its interest 41 Nro Burton e"'Pressed the opinion the City Council would ba willing to controbute to such a study I reported these opinions to the Ute Board and reviewed for them matters and conditione I felt they should take into consideration in their future negotiations and studies", The reading of a suggested letter, I was directed by the Executive Committee to prepare j) concerning this proposed development is on the Agenda for your later attent1ano 0 Enroute to Montrose on April 10th, Mr .. Barnard and I met. with Mr .. Clifford Jex and Mro Charles Traylor" in Grand Junction» Colo... concerning our filing for the Upper Gunnison Basin Projecte Mr", Trqlor1) attomey-agent for the RecUands Water & Power and Mr" Jex, as an agent of the City of Grand Junction, stated the entities they represented were contemplating making filings for their storage needs in the Curecanti Reservoir... NrC!> Barnard and I adv1.sed them they were, by action of the Board for our Districtjl entitled to participate in any rights decreed to the District when and i t the Rec.Uands and Grand oJ unction werG prepared to make development of the water, and that u;y rights they could obtain by maldng separate filings would certainly be jvnior to those decreed to our District.. Mr .. Traylor stated he would talk the matter over with the Grand Junction attorney 9 Gerald Aahby9 and decide whether or not to enter separate f11:1ngs" He stated that both the Redlands and Grand JmctioD would like to give testimony as to theilI" needs for additional water in further adjudications of our cla1ms tor the upper Gunnison Basin Projecto 0 In Montrose, on April lOth, Mr . . Barnard and I met with representatives otOthe MOntrose Chamber ot Commerce and the Board of Directors for the Tri-County Water Conservancy District, where we discussed Q Resolution passed by those two organizations, and discussed O\1lr Distrlct Os posi tion 1drl.ch somewhat parallels that e'1'reased in the subject Resolution.. A delegation from these two organizations is meeting with us todtv' for the purpose of presenting the Subject 0 o 0 The following day, April llth9 in Montross.$) Mr" Barnard and I met with Messrs", John Barnard, Jr", MoS9Sj) Eakes.\) Jex, Gildersleeve and Sparks, to discuss and set up the macb:1nery for studies needed by the State or Colorado to determine the position the State proposes to take in its scbeduled negotiations with New lfe:x1oo concerning the proposed authorization of the San Juan-Chama and Navajo Indian Projectso Tbie meet:lng was prelim:1nary' in nature.. Ass1gDments were made to members o£ the committee for the assambq of spec1.fic data, and a second meetq ot the group was set for April 23rd and 24th" 1n Durango, Colorado" Samples of the contract the State proposes to execute with Hsssrs .. Moses, Eakes; Jox and lQ'Self vere reViewed.. Pacause ot llm:l.ted available!) Governor McNichols proposes to l1m1t the dB.1q fees paid the members of the comm.ssicm to $25,,00 per dq pl118 actual travelling No con"" tracts have been negotiated to date .. It there are aD':J' questions concerning a:ny o£ the statements 111 this report I vlll attempt to answer them ... QUARTERU REPORT OF COUNSEL FOR THE COLORADO RIVER WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICT c April 15 9 19,80 ** It is practically impossible to reports) in ever,y detai1 9 on averyt.h.ing that has happened during the first of 19,8., I shallS) limit to giving you the with the suggeation that i f any Director has any question about any part of the report!) that question be asked at the hereof .. The Proposed Colorado Water It will be remembered that» during the la.st reM or 19,1 and!. the early part of 1958» n\ml.erou'1 J'leetings of individuru.a concerned with Colorado water problems 'W'ar J held for th(.;l PlllrPOse of areas of the various sectiong Qf the State D and for the foTEiil'lllaticm of a united policy of as to l'il!!!t tarS! upon which we could eJ.l agree 1) Blll leadilllg up w tllle Slo=cailed "7 ater Congress which the proposes to callo It was believsd thai;» i f Sllch a Wate:x- Congress trel"e call1Sd by thQ Governor D and if no preliminary basis of undl2rstanding oX' had been mora harm good woald result ito Aa a result of these m®etings$ a proposed State platform worked out$ which 'Wl\Sl submitted to e. C02mitte(Q to be placed in final form" That Committee coned.stq:)d 9f thres pargOnSl from Eaatem Colorado and four froliil Colorado" The Westem Colorado representatives met.\) with others,\) atGrmul1 in Februar,y and revised ths proposed platform to to whatJ) we fE-It» it must provide in order tha.t Wrastem Colora.do interests might be fully protectedo Our revision was not rube rrutted to the entire Revising Committee.\) by reasons of ewmt61 tranep1red after the revision madeo In February.\l I invited by the officers of thla South.., eastern Water Users Association D a forerunner of the Colorado "latex- Conservancy District!) tA> dii3cusllll,9 at a mass meet-.o ing in the Arkansa.s Valley» the matter of ths amount of lmte/r available in the .Colorado River for beneficial ussJ) tho ustego X'lr)"" of Colorado D and ths dangers to the suppl;r X"0sulting from &ctivities and policies of othw I the invitation and at d&\V FebI'U1.1r,Jr 22nd" Mr" Glaxm G<.. S&unciars v attornC3l1 tOIr thIS Delllwer t,Tmter Bo:e.:rd 9 precsdad ma on that progTalilQ h(Q'l had to BtW'" was thereafteT by Mr" Smtth and t.@ ths E:vacutive and a copy of th@ XlMutes of tha meeting of the Committoo at l1hich that wa.e rn!\ds h&s been sent tn lSach oftha Board of It need not be MrQ Saunders ° remarks made it entirely olear, in my opinion, that the platform for the proposed Water Congress should provide that & Statewide Water Users proposed to be set up in Coloshould not conoern itself with, attempt to deoide or even to discuss intrastate controversies over the water of the Colorado River" The revislonof the proposed platform whioh was worked out in Grand Junotion was drafted to produce exactly that result .. Various individuals in Eastern Colorado had urged that the statewater organization be so set up that it could be used as a forum for the discussion of these intrastate I am now oonvinced that, i f such were done" ColoradD would soon be overwhelmingly outvoted, or would be cOMPelled to disassociate itself fram such statewide The result of the incident at Rocky Ford was that the revision of the proposed for the Water Congress stopped there., It is nOW' suggested that meetings be held promptly to attempt to agree upon a water platform which inclUdes the fundamental ideas drafted by the Western Slope revisors", I think that should be done, for this reason: . . The Governor and the Attorney General have approved e State program which would make the studies which are necessar,y to be made on the Colorado River, at the expense of the Stated These studies are to be carried out by engineers, hydrolOgists and lawyers in Colorado, who now represent local water entities such as our DistrlctJ and rather definite plans have been made for such studies.. The Governor insists that this program should not r,et \D'lder 'Way until it has been approved by the Water Congress to be held until and unless a platform to be submitted to . it be agreed upon in .advance" order to bring about this reO. sult$l which is something wh1chshould .have been done years ago, and upon which a Colorado State policy may be adopted", I believe we cooperate fully in an effort to formulate a platform . which· will contain the fundamental requirements of \'Testem Colo... rado, and will be acceptable to those in all areas of Colorado, who have been atter:rpting to draft it" . ADJUDICATION PROCE .IDINOS IN EAGLE 'COUNTY 0 On February 19, '19,8, Judge tub,- submitted findings of fact in these proceedings" Therein he found that the evidence submitted by and on behalf of the Metropol1tan Suburban rlater Users ASSOCiation, the City and County of Denver and the Colorado River \-Tater Conservation District was" in each 1nstance, insufficient upon which to base conditional decrees) and such decrees were denied.. The matter waa set for further hearing and the presentation of objections and exceptions to the f1nd1nga for April 3., I filed objections and eyeeptiona to the portion of the tind:1ngs relati'Je to the Red Cliff Project, and appeared before Judge Luby on April 3" After a considerable disoussioDj) Judge tub,- stated that he would submit revised findings of fact at a later date.. Insofar as the claim of the District to the Red Cliff Project is concerned, the folIo-wing developecb Judge Luby commented that he thought he had heard me argue in the Blue. River case that a priority date for a proposed appropriation of water could only be initiated by actual construction work on the ground» and asked me i f he was not correct in that recollection.. I told him he certainly was; but in the Blue River case, no map and statement which had been filed by Denver complied with the statutso He then remarked that as he remembered itj he denied conditional decrees ·to the Wheeler Resero voir and the Goose Pasture Reservoir, claim statements for which had been filed by the District, in those same proceedings, and asked me what distinction there was between those two claims and the one made in these proceedings for the Red Cliff Projecto I told him that it was recollection that there was no compliance with the map and statement statute in filing maps and statements for either of these twO reservoirs! and I then explained to him again our contention that compliance with the Map and Statement Act has the effect, under our statute» of establishing a priority date as of the data of commencement of work by survey.. Upon returning to Granbys I confirmed the fact that neither map and statement relating to the \-1heeler and Goose Pasture Reservoirs was filed within 60 days within the date of commencement of work by survey, which facta appeared on the face or these maps; and. I immediately wrote Judge LubY' to that effect, sending a copy of Jrty' letter to all other attorneys involvedo What Judge Luby will do I ·do not knowo I am. optim:l.stic enough to say to the Board that there is some reason to 1b:elieve that he rill grant our decreeo I am even more convinced then ever that he cazmot$l within the lm(» grant a decree either to the Metropolitan Association or to the 'City of Denver@ In view o£ the tact that Judge Luby apparentq did not the claimed effect of the Map and Statement Act,9· when the new findings are submitted, i.f a conditional de.. cree is not awarded to the Red Cliff Project, I propose to file not only a protest but, with the pemission of the Court, to file a. written memorandum in support thereof $I again pointing out the claim we make that our oompliance with the Map and Statement Act us to a conditional . The status o£ the proceedings in Eagle County have led . me .to the conclusion that, at the next session of the Legislature S1 . . a bill ·should be introduced to adopt a map and statement act,; re. vising· the present oned new act should pla.1D:q state that . compliance vith it tall give the appropriator the benefit of the doctrine of relation back to the date or commencement of work by' survq, as do the statutes ot most of the other 1rrigation states., The time for tiling a up and statement should be extended to possibly as much as six months from the date ot CODDl1encement ot survey, more than In addition, the statute should include a section, in affect confirming all maps and.. statements previously filed in compl1ance with the exlsting statute .. ADJUDICATION PROCEEDINGS IN OTHER WATER DISTRICTS. Water District No .. .381 As heretofore reported" we have submitted evidence to the District Court of Garfield COlDlty in support of our Basalt and West Divide Projects, the latter as to the sources of of water in that Districto Findings of fact have been submitted to the presiding judge", and Mr. Smith and I have gone over them carefully lnth him, making such revisions or corrections as he felt the evidence suggested or just1fiedlt We are infonned that these findings, as now revised" will be incorporated into the general decree to be entered in that Water Districto . Water District No .. 391 Time has not permitted the fil ... ing of a map ana statement for the Bluestone Project, the source of for which is the Colorado River within District 39 .. Consideration is being given to including the Iron Mountain voir of the Red Cliff Project in this map and statement J and the reason for so doing 1s contained. in Mr .. Smith°s report with regard ·to our conferences with Mr .. Rubel of the Union on Company., Water District No" 4S: We prepared our map and state... ment in Water District 45 in contom1ty with a map, previously prepared and distributed by the State Engineer, showing the bolmdaries of water· districts within the State" It vas called to our att.ention by Mro t. Co Finley, Division Ehgineer at Glenwood Springs, that this map is in error, and that the southerq boundar;r of Water District 45 is aotually the ,northerly boundar.r llne Qf Masa CountY''' Therefore J some of the sources of supplT which we originally thought were' in Water District 45 are nC7l'l found to be in Water District 1.2.. A revision of the filing map is indicated to show the portions of the sources of suppli which are actua14r vithin 42 and mistakenq located in Distriot 4S in the map and statement which has been filed., This will require uS to file claim statements in Water District 42 in adjudioation proceedings which are now therein .. lrlater Districts 28 and S9, It is necessary for the District to open adjudioation proceedings in these two Districts and we were direoted so to do by the January meeting of the Board of Directors .. However, it 'is desirable that statements of olaim for tha Upper Gunnison Basin Project should be filed with. the for adjudication in these Distrioteu 'These statements of claim have been prepared only in the and time has not permitted their being revised and ohecked for accuraar before being put in final form· so that they can be f11ed() This will be done as as possiblec Water Distriot No" 62. On FebruAl')" 8th we presented evidenoe in support Of' the Curecanti and Crystal Reservoirs Sl units of'the Upper Gunnison Basin Project, located in Water,District 62, to the Referee 'heretofore appointed by the District Court of County Findings based upon our statement of 0 -4 . . claim and the evidence supporting the same will be submitted as soon as they can be prepared and are needed by the Refereeo INVESTIGATIONS OF THE LOWER RIVER BY THE SECRETARYENGINEER AND COUNSELl> At another point in the agenda,!) Mr. Smith will make our jointly prepared statement giving the results of our hurried investigation of conditione on the Lower Colorado River which will" we believe, pose serious threats to Colorado, and particularly to the area included within the boundaries of this District .. PROPOSED REGION 8 OF THE BUREAU OF RECLAMATION .. It is m;y firm convict:1on,9 strengthened by events which have transpired within the past year, that the District should continue its efforts to bring about the establishment of' e. new region or the Bureau of Rec1amation Ji which will concern itself entireq and solely with projecte within the natural basin ot the Colorado River above Lee Ferry For example JI in a f'1nancial and economic analysis of the Colorado R1 var Storage Projects and Participating Projects issued b.Y the Bureau at Reclamation in Februarj, 1958 J commencement of construction on Curecanti is schedUled for fiscal year 1965", In the interim, construction work is scheduled on the other storaee reservoirs and on participating projects outside Golqrado" as I remember the tabulation of construction schedules set out in the analysis", The resultJl i t this schedule is carried out, will be that work an projects in Colorado will lag far behind vhat that work should be, if brought into' Une with the percentage of water apportion... ed to the State j 511) 7S%, or the proportion of Basin Fund credits apportioned to the State$ 46%>li 0 If Colorado is to keep pace nth other Upper Basin State's in the construction of projects under Public LawJD it seems now to be. clear:Q' apparent that two things are necessar.y: Firsta Our regional office must incorporate into its program of construction and the completion of planning reports as to Upper Basin Projects (both storage 8D:d participating)>> projects in the State of Colorado so that construction in our State will proceed in. 11lie witb Colorado 9 8 apportionment of the water of the Colorado River, and allocation of Basin Fund creditsQ It this can be accomplished 0017 bY' a realignment Regions of the Bureau, that shol!ld be done" Secondo We should attempt to induce the Committee OJ! Interior. and Insular Affairs and the Appropriations Committee ot Congress to adopt this formula as a policy to be followed in authoriming the construction of and appropriating funds for projects in the Upper Basino To this end, the cooperation of Con... -so. grassman the other members of the Colorado congreas!oD= al delegation, the Governor and the Water Conservation Board and the Upper Colorado River Commission should be SUMMATION of TREASURERv S REPORTS. lor FIRST QUARTER 1958 RECEIPTS,· JaDe 1" to Jano 31$1 1951h . .Feb .. 1, Feb., 28" 1958s . ,. . .. COtUlty Trea.irnrers o ·Tay remittances _ .... 00$ t,.o . COllllty Treiurorerso remittanc.8.t31 Cash received trem 1st Nat.ol Bank of .. Denver on 390.,)0 eamecl :interest em U.. So Treasury Bill aver 8nd.. above increased cost ot reinvestment in lmlBV " 0 • • • • • • 0 0 .. UcS" Treasury Bin ••• .·00 . • • • • • 0 to March 31«1> 1958:· . . . Mar; 1" ....: . :: . ·TOTAL. Dec .. .. ', Treasurers U tax rem:l:ttances 166 .. 96 4,9970)0 . . . . . . II .. " . . 40 .. 00 00........ 10,9)841 .. 98 16 »6S2" 24 " 1957 bal., and 1st Qtro Receipts $ 29,9604Cll!6 DISBlJRSElmNTS I Jan" 1, to Jan" 31, 19S8 ............... $ ';9l49G94 Febo I, to Feb .. 28" 1956 ••••• eo:. ............. eo" 1»269093 . 1, to Mar .. 1958 ..... ... o • • • • • • • • "" 0 •• .,00" BANK· ·CASH BALANCE MarCh 31, 19S8: Checldng AccOUD.'t It . . . . 0 .. " .. 0 • • • • 0 · . . • Savings Account .. oo • • • " ••• . . . . . . . •• • ... • • • • • • • • • o • • • • • oo 6,42306'; 1»000 0 00 38 618023 LESS Outstanding checks March 31, BOOK CASH BALANCE March .31, 19';83 CheCking Account •• •••••••.••. o • • • • • • _ •• o •• o Savi.Dga Aoc01Jllt HOTE! . 0 G . . . . 0 • • • • • • • • • • • ·0 • • o •••••• 0 '!'here is on hand one U.S. Treasury Serial Hoo S3704)9Sl cost $9960000:1 matur1t7 date _ 851 USB, maturitY value uuc>eo. . . . . . . . . . . . . APPENDIX "C" $ lQsOOO"OO THE DAILY SENTINEL GRAND JUNCTION - COLORADO April llj) 1958 PROPOSAL FOR' PUBLIC' RELATIONS PROGRAM COLORADO RIVER WATER CONSERVATION DIS'rRICT A special committee or your board several years ago proposed The reasons for starting such, a program are even more important now than than.. I .propose a gradual development of a public relations program which would be expanded over a period of several years<> ·mora emphasis on public relations", Several general suggestions ot a public relations program for the state have been madolC It is probable that either the Colorado Water Conservation Board or a state water association vill 1Di.tiate such a program within a year or two... both will do so This will make it, important for l"estern Colorado to be active in such an operationo Stepa which could be, taken in a public relations program follow: 11' Immed1ateqa Prepare and mail releases to all slope lI19Wspapars and radio stations in advance of meetings and folloving mSf!'tingSd Some releases should be seni; to APj) UPjJ 'and INSu 2.. This year. Prepare either semi-annual. or annual reports of acUvities to be mailed to all county conmtlssioners 111 the state representatives and state senators9 newspapers and radio stations, all three members of the state vatS!' board within the tbe,Soutbwestern district secretar.v» and possibly others.. Such reports would cover summaries o£ work done by the stafr B\11mIlaries of plans 1I brief financial reother pertinent 30 Indefinite.' Prepare series of feature articles g possibly with pictures, on work or the district, some projects on which work is in progress J and other explanato1'7 material., 40 Next year or latarl Prepare for general distribution to womenos clubs.!) service clubs" and any groups asldng for informatiODj) a booklet outllning organiza.tion, pol1C7, and work of the districto Plan and take a series of colored slides to be shown with talks on slides would cover reproductions of charts and maps illustrating plans,!) organization, lWd policies 51 scenes ot the starr at APPENDIX tlDh work in off'ice and field, scenes of lands to be served by projects, and dam sitee .. A further enension of this could be a film strip with recording which could be used in program presentationj) and the ultimate 'tTOuld be a movie" ' !)0 Eventually, it is possible that investment in a staff' member to handle public relations might be worth the money.. He would handle the releases, make speeches, make goodwill trips, etcD How to put the plap into operation. Temporarily, I could write the releases mentioned in suggesUon NoG' ,10 The advance releases should be mailed from the district office Wednesdq of' tbe week before a meeting to catch tTesltlies 'in advance of the sessiono Whether the program should cover both full board meetings and e"ecutive committee sessions or just the board meetings is a matter to, be detendned.. S01"m8 executi"ge sesSion l)roceedings would certainly be worth releases" I could type brief stories after meetings, possibly while the board considers bills, am the staff cOuld duplicate the releases in time to'mail the following morning .. Staff could prepare the reports mentioned in No" 2 with possible guidance and assistance fram a board committee" ,I mieht be able to help on' the series of feature articles I' de- pending upon circumstances.. There would be release date problems because of competitive news' situation in 14esa Coun't\V' .. Such articles iuip,ht also require some travel" and same arrangement for e;q,ensea would be necessar,ro . Contracting with a profeaaionalpublic relations and advertising fOr proposals J and Ri might be Wise.. Slides could be taken by .the staff'!D by' board members, by mel) or local photographers .. But preparing booklet, film Strip or movie would require the best professional skill available.. David Evans and Associates of Salt Lake City, Utah, is a. good firm for such work" firm Board members are limited in their appearances 19 but what they can do would help in the program" could also perform a servics to the district by is8U1Dg The statements on current nevs developments" Thq could be prepared the sams as the meeting articles and circulated b7 mail" Staff could prepare bricd' statGments and mail or the statement could be mailed to me fiJI" preparation in nevs style and ret\U"nad to the office to mail.. ' Sincerel1'9 (Sgd) William H.. Nelson William Ho Nelson WHim Associate Editor '!'HE COLORADO RIVER WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICT Glenwood Springs, Colorado April l5 s 1956. Mro Fred Simpson, Chairman, Board of' Directors, Ute lolater Conservancy District, Grand Junction, Colorado" Mr. SimPSoni The Colorado River Water Conservation District was organized under a special statute, adopted the Colorado Legislature in 1931, to. conserve and promote the development of the vater resources of the district for use in the districto It. is made up of tlrelve full cOlmties, including Mesa County, and over half of a thirteenth cOUfl1iyg all of which are located in NorthMestern and West Central Colorado .. The district lies entirely within the ColoradO River Basino To itate and the development of water resources within the district g we have supported and assisted in the organization of water conservancy districts, such as yours. whose objectives are aimed at developing and putting to beneficial use the unappropriated water resources within the districtD u.v The objective o.f the Ute Water Conservancy District in bringing to the Grand Valle;y the high quality water to be discharged from the lower Molina Power Plant of the Collbran Project is & very much needed and_worthwhile developmento Such development is especiallJ needed in the rural·areas of the Grand Valley as a source of domestic and livestock water.. Present domestic va·lier supplies for farms or the valley!l obtained almost Wholly by tank truck hauling to cis-lierms floom citjr supply- lines or the Grand Valley, are very expens1veo This tends to retard the use of dOmestic water an farms in the valley to the eY1ient necessar,y for operation of such modern facilities as automatic washing machines and garbage disposal lmitso Its) also, has precluded the installation of modern sanitaI7 faoilities in Ill8l'iW tarm homes of the valley,. - Water for livestock in the valley, now generall1' obtained from irrigation ditches and seepsj is not satisfactory due to the high mineral content of the vater available during a considerable portion or the yeare This is especialq true during the winter months when the flow of the Colorado River, source of the cena! aupplies s 18 low anel the dissolved mineral content. nOD...carbcmac1ous hsrdnes8 b of'ten exceeds 2»000 P.P.. No Tbis condition particularly tends to l1m1t, res.. trict, and make less profitable livestock feeding operations in the valleT area were an abundance of 11vestock feeds and feeder stock are readily" aVa1l.able" Runs of' winter water for livestock usea are APPENDn "En #29 Ute Water Conservanc.y generallJ" flushed through the canal systems at about two week intervalsc During the non-irrigation season the water thus delivered 1s generally temporarily stored by the fanner in earthen ponds or The solIs of which these tanks are generally built mainly derived from the Mancos shale and have a high mineral content" Storage of water in such tanks increases the dissolved mineral content of the water stored therainQ are L1 wstock$ like people, dislike alkallne water and when their water intake is reduced by impotab111ty so is their intake ot teed" These combined reductions naturally prevent their maldng optimum gains in teed lots and thus seriously detracts from the of the industry.. Alkaline water also causes the hair of cattle to take on a dull" appearance tha.t reduces their value on thfl marlcet" A further detriment of delivering winter vater through the mUined canal systems of. the VallS)" during the non-irrigation seasonsl} for supplying livestock water» is that such deliveries maintain an undesirable high water' table in 11I8n7 areas mere, if' such .deliveries were not made!, the water would recede during the nanGirrigatian season and thereby lessen the dra1i'1age problem during the gra-nng season and thus increase production from the ram lands so The water delivered by the Ute Water Conservancy District from the Collbran Project would also be available to the municipalities in the Grand Valley" espeoially Fruita.. If Fruita vere supplied by the Ute District its present water derived from the Glade Park Area, could then be r8ad11,y delivered b,y exchange to the Redlands area which is inacceaSible llJ due to elevation» to gravity delivery from other existing sources at domestic vater such as Grand Junotion, end wauld al:so be inaccessible for the same reason to water delivered by your Other exchanges could be made to serve other upland areas of the valley("f The Board. of Directors for the Oolorado River Water Conservation District Unanimously endorse the objectives of the nt.s Water ConBervancy District iii .developing for domestic use the power water of the Collbran ProjectG>. 1'h1s 'Water 'Would otherwise be commingled with the unpotable vater of lower Plateau Creek and 'the Colorado River and thereby lose its high value for domstic and livestock useJan-ant No .. ' 2129$ Voucher 2252, dated March 31", 1958.11 pa;yab1e to First Agency Company Jl for premium on Bond No", 17133--07-75-58 for CoO" Dever, Treasurer" $25uOO lees credit of $6",0 on cancellation of bond on J .. F .. Gregor,-" Warrant Noo Noo dated MarCh to First National Bank, Glemrood on District offices for month or April, 1956 Warrmt Voucher Noo 2254.0 dated March payable to John Bo 'retiliar' for' &TOOl' tay deductions· u 0 0 • 0 • • ., 0 • • • 0< . . . ,. 0 • 0 0 ..... 0 • • • • • •' 0 18 SO 1958$ 'for' Tent. 125,,00 'less 4) Q • 0 • 0 • 0 0 (J Warrant' NO;':,·2Jl.32, Voucher No .. 2255$ dated March 31$ 19583) payable to, Philip' p" Sm!tb." ' salary' for 'March ,1958 , leas' dedootloits' ... .: . .. ··0 • • • • • • • • • ,. • • • • • • • • • • • • • 0 • • .; 0 • ••••••••• 0 ,', Warrant NO,o',2;t33S) 'Voucher'No., 2256'11 dated March 31 .. 1958.\') payable to', BUl E. 'Harris" salary' for '1958; 'lass' , tay dedllCtiOOf'J .' '. 0 It CJ CI Ci) • • • • . ., • • CI C • • 0 ' . • • • • :. _ •••• 0 ••• 0 Warrant 2134» Voucher Nov 2251 s; dated payable to',Edith'B. Willimno; ta." ••••• e .••• 0 0 0 • 0 •• 0 u t) n " ••••••••••• 0 • March D ...... 1958.\1 'less ••••• 0 •• 0 0 Warrant"No", 213Sf' Voucher No" 22$8, dated March 31, 1958.91 to Mar,y'Jane'Kendall,'salar,y'£or March, less tax . : •• • • 0 0 0 6 0 • • • • 00Q • • dO.O • • • OO • • • • • . . , . , Warrant NOQ 2136, Voucher Nou 2259, dated March 31, 1958 9 pqable to 'John Pascal Stidth; salary for March.9i less ta,r dodu.ction . II G .0 'Ii • 0 • '" cJ 0 • C G • • • • 0 • APPENDIX "F" (II Q 0 8 II • • u 468 .. 12., 0 0 '" " 0 ••• I.' tit 207uSS Warrant ·2137 Voucher N0 0 22608' d&tad l-farch 1958d1 payable to Charles 0 0 Dsver,9 sa1ar,y for first quarter of less tax deduction • • • • • oo •• oo.ooo.qO •• OQ&.o.oeG Warrant NOe 2138., Voucher No,,.- 2261,,> dated March pa;yable to Mountain States Telco & Tel" Co .. 9 Glemrood for services for District March loth stateJilGIllt () ct • • • • • " e G'''. e'. tI". CJ" 00 ct. 41 (t ,,00 0 • • 0 fI 0 (I 0 " 6' 0 Ct • • ., 0,4 II Warrant NOG 2139 9 Voucher dated payable to State Treasurer of for Social Security contributions employees and 91llIployer for First Qu.arter of 19S8 0 0 q . . . 0 • • • G' • • • Ct 0 0 • It • 0 It . . . .' 0 G • ., t!J • 0 0 () • (J' 0' • " • • 0 • 0 • 0 () QI ., Warrant No.., 2140, Voucher No" 2263, dated 31.., 1958 9 payable to State Treasuror of Colors.do s Colorado Income Tax Withholding for First Quarter of 1958 Oa0.o • • • • ooo . . . . . eOG Warrant No .. 2141, Voucher NO Ill 226h}p dated March .31,I'J 1958.9 payable to Director of Intei"nI!U. Revenue j) Federal Withhold.. ing Tay month of March9 .<10 . . . . " . . . . 0 .. 0 " • . , 0 0 ... ., . . . 0 .... . Warrant No .. 2149$1 Vouchsr No., dated April 3:b 1958.91 paynble to Gleuwood'Spr1nga Electric for services for Office, 31st statement u ... ooaooooooooo Warrant No,. Voucher dated April .391 1956 9 payable to Intermountain' Printing' & . Sta.., Co .. 9 for office equipment supplies ••• • • OGOO.,.O.O • • O.O.OUOOO.OOOO . . . Warrant No o Voucher NOt! dated April 3$ JL958» payable to· Charles' BrUid.Dg . Inc JI for engineering supplies U Q •• 0 • • • • • ()-f:I 0 o· 0 0 ••• C) 0 cJ • • • • • • • 0 • • • • • • • • 0 ., II • • • 0 ell 0 CURRENT BILLS APPROVED . by BOARD OF DIRECTORS THE COLORADO RIVER WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICT April lSthl9 19>8 ** . Warrant 'No<:, 2152,1) Vouchsr No", 227S" dated AprU 15" payable to for engineering & 38 n6S 2153& Voucher Noo 22761) dated AprU IS" 1958 9 paiable to Bill E. Harria,t) expense fol" period 29 'tit> April 1958 ••••• QO • • • • • • • • o • • • • • • • • • • O • • • • • O • • • • • • • • • • • O Warrant Noo 2l$4p Voucher No., 2277" dated April lSI 1958,1' payable to Iris V.. for aeJ.ary as substitute . seoretary for period March .31 to April 141' 19S8» less tax deduCtions . OUGN • • OO • • • • 04.Q • •. • • • • • O • • • ••• O ••••••••• 9 21552> Voucher No, 227Bs dated April 19S8 1 payable to Oy T.. Hansenj) for 'Execut1w Committee sal.sr7 for April»' 19S8, less tax daduction, plus expense attending meat1ng ot· of Directors on. April IS 51 1956 u . . . . '" Warrant· No .. 0 GO " .. " ...... Horn, for Committee salar,y for . AprU", 19S8" less tax deduction» pluEl expense' attending meeting .of. Bosa.-d of OD. April. 1S,'II 1958 <>" •• e ••• " .. payable 0 .. 0 " • C> 2158$ Voucher Noo dated April IS 19 1958'Jl to W.. JQrrard JoneSjI tor Committee salar'3 for 1958" less tu daduction, plus' expense' attailci1ng' meeting of. Board of Directors on April 15 9 1958 O."UQ.OOO • • Warrant Noo Warrant No.. 2159@ VoUcher dated AprU lS,t) pqab1e to Richard B.. Williams,!) for' Executive Committee salary for Apr1l,'/) 1958 1P less tax plus' expense a.ttending meeting ot Board of on AprU 15 Sl 19S'8 "a 0 " ......... Warrant HOf; 2160, Voucher Noo 2283.9 dated April lSlii payable to Robert Delanq for fee for' ailttSDdi DB pf an April 19$8 ooo .. oo .. o .. meeting 0 of ••• Warrant Nov) Voucher No .. dated April 15.li payable to .Orest Ao Garbms g ' tor fea and erpmlse 1nourre4 attending meeting Board of Directors Oil Apr.i.l 1958 . ')"000 APPENDIX "0" $8 .. 8S Warrant Noo Voucher Noo dated April 15, payable to Robert Ho Gleason!) for tee and incurred attending meeting Board of Directors em April 15,0 1958 " •• " I't $ 40.,10 216.3 so Voucher Noo 2286,IJ dated AprU ISs> 1958.9 to Karl H" Knorr51 for fee and incurred attending meeting Board of Directors on April 159 19,a .. ",,<' 30.,50 Warrant No .. 2164.9 Voucher NO Colorado River lister Conservation District. Gentlemen: Herewith is a draft of the Minutes for the Fourth Meeting ot tha Committee of the Board of Direotors tor The Colorado River Water Conservation Dlstrl.ct" held in the District Offices, First Na.tional Bank Buildinfh Glenwood Springs, Colorado, on Mq 5tb ll 1958" If' you have any sugr,eetions for corrections (I deletions or adctl.tiona please advise. . For your information there is also attached a coW of a news release we prepared and sent to the newspapers within the District on May- 6th, 1958 .. , For your further 1nformatiou, in the meeting of the coJDllittee preparing the suggested platform for the Governor' a Water Congress» held in Denver on Mq 9th, a S1lgg8St.ion was made by Charles Biese that a dU'i'erent division be made ot the State for the selection of members of the Rules Committee than vas proposed in the earlier Grand JlD'lction meeting and reponed on page 2 ot the enclosed minutesa Biase's plan called tor establishing 19 districts. instead of 15 9 of which westem Colorado would have 9 with one from the North Platte drainage and or-a from the San Luis Valley <> Since this enhanced vastel"l1 Coloradoos posi:t;ion with respect to the Rules Committee, we from western Colorado made no objection" You will soon receive invitations to the l-Tater Ccngl"eSSs a cow of the reVised suggested platform" and a map showing the districts which have representation, on the Rules CollmJittee& I regret to infom. you that Mru MerrieU. former Secretary-Engineer of the DistrictSl reentered Mesa Memorial Hospital about the middle of last' week and is in quite serious ccmditiOl1o He is being given injections for maintaining his blood pressurs and intravenous f'eedingo At the time I visited bia last Sundq I was informed by' the hospital the;r did not eypect him tf) recover.. I will keep you advised of further developments .. MINUTES ---ot---EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE or BOARD OF DIRECTORS COLORADO RLVER \'lA'I'ER CONSERVATION DISTRICT 14q 5thSl 1958 . Pursuant to notice dul.y and properly givoo g the Fourth Meeting of the EY8CUtiV8 Committee ot the Board of Directors of The Colorado River lvater Conservation District for 19S8, was con·vened OlD. Sth.. 1958, in the Board Room of the District First National Bank Building, Glenwood Springs, Coloradoe 'l'be foUowing members of ths Executive COlillIldttee ware presenta Cy T. Hansen J) President .. A.. Allen Brown, Vice Presidentj!) Amos Wo Horn,3> W", Jarro.rd J one a and Richard B. WUUams .. :rn addition, there also prssentl Philip P. &11th, Secretary-Enginesr of the District, John B.. Barnard» Counsel ot the District il and H. Nelson, Associate Editor of The Da1l;y Sentinel and Member of the Colorado Water CODSerftt10n Boardll Grand Junction» Colorado .. The meeting 1mS Cy T. Hansen preSiding '" 'convened at 10&20 Ao M.. , with President r President Hansen requested the Secretary-Engineer to report on recent deVelopments regarding the proposed Water Congress" NrC! Smith stated that following the Saunders speech in Rocky Fordt) Colorado, on February coordina.ting work on a suggested platform for the planned Governorvs Wmter Congress WaB arrested due to the fact that eastern Colorado interests were not agreeable to fully accepting the veateX'D Colorado redraft of the suggested platfom.. On Mey 3rd, the original Commit;tes of i9,fi1 plUS one representativo trcm the Southwestern Distriot, met in the Chamber of Commerce Bu11dtllg in Orand Junction, to detel-m1ne 1£ some cCZ\prcmse could be l'eAChed em a platform for the plamed Water Callgrsss, which Oovemor McNichol" indicated he we prepared to call in the near future with or withoUt a coudttee 'accepted suggested. plat,om., Mro Smith reported that at the Grand Junction meeting representatives trom eastem and western Colorado ware not in agreement em SD ao- ceptable suggested It did not appear that aD agreement could 00 reached until John C. ClsQrtcm, attorney' for the Northam Colorado Water Conservancy District» suggested the following arrangements . lithe Water Congress, or the association formed therefrom, should as an integre.1 part of its orgm'lization,p s Rules Comndttee» the memberLiJhip of which should consimt ot one representativs of the following . One from the South Platte drainage basin upstream from Kersey" One fran the South Platte basin ciolmstream £rom Kerss.Yo . One tram the watershed which drains into Kmw One from the ArkanlJas ch·ainage bash upstream from Fowler" One tram the Arkansas drainaga dcnmatreem from FowleT . . One fram the City and County ot Denver" One from the Rio Grande drainage besine One frcm the North Platte drainage badn .. One· from the San Juan drdnage basin.:One from the Dolores drainage basin .. One from the Gunnison drainage basin .. One frOllD the Colorado drainage basin downstream tram Gleuwood Spr1ngse One fram the Colorado drainage basin upstrua troa GleDHOOd Springsu One from the Wh1te drainage One from ths Yampa drainage baain .. "It should be the function of the Rules C011I1dttee to adopt an agenda for the proceedings ot each general meet1rlg or the Water Congress or the association tonal therehom prior to said meeting" roPronsion should be made that no subject. may blS brought befora a general meeting for action or diSCU9Q sioIDI which does not appeal' on the agenda.. 'fhe agendm. only those subjects which have bean ape proved as a. part of such agenda by at least 13 membalNlJ of the Rules Committee voting either in person or b.v proJtY,.19 Mr" Smith then GY.plained that i f 1;J'sstem Colorado s 'tdth a total representation on the Rulee Committee or seven opposed the discussion of any controversial issue in opam. foX"m they would only be required to Muster the votas ot baeilil re"" prssentativas on the RulS9 Committee to preclude such the opinion that if' uestam Colorado did not bQV19 that much unity it llOuld be impossible to prepare a pla.tfom 1ng theu intereats-o Follm:ing soma discUElsion D Mr", Smit!l thcam. mmoU'l1llced that on 9th the drafting committee fOlf th(!!l Congraas platform would maet in Denver in 8l!l to 'iMork out a .final draft for the suggeatad platform£> incorporatilDg in th0 the ide@, of a Rules Comnrl.ttsa, as suggested by Mro Clqtcem.. It that at the t-later Jam B.. Bama:!"QlD J'i?e thought Governor would call for M9y 23ri,p tativge ot the various bams,fl having on the Rul®1S1 Committee, would hold calmUSaSJ following lwchsOlll Oll! that to select respective representatives on the RmlSQ COlIid'llitts9o The 11l9mbers of the EyecutiV'e ConmdtteG GlXb approval of this errmgemant noted that it would be vmry it\;tportant that western Colorado be well representeci at COXigl"l3QS rith peopl® informed on water matters" Mro Smith snd l'fro s5!P1dnecl that representatives from the cOmlIJ1ttse 1lrotWi IlI!UlJiGit im I2Ixpla.inirtlg thIS situation to the various cauouses", Mr .. W:lllliWW9 suggested that it would be wall for all or the Board of this Di2itriet '1:.0 diasemiln&l:te the 1ntormation relative to this suggested Rules CMmittee in their respective cO'Ul1tiea" Thera baing no further diBCUSlsion.ll Mr <> HanEJel1l that a draft of a Resolutiolll relatiWl to ReollUlVlt1on tiooe»!J) basad on a motion mada by' Mr.. Robert Delaney at. tlw Aprll 15th Board meting» be read", Mr.'" Barlllsrd explained that 00 Mi." ... Sm.th h!Qd pre:parad ths draft of Ra801utioo$J but that baceu® of cold hra had contracted he lTould auggeet that Mr", Smith t!lw Rssolutionv Thareupon s Smith read th.e draft of. Rf>lBoluticm,Sl m'J.tllP. 8lIll addma.dum which spec:tfiad tha officials to whmil the R0so1uoo tiOD should be furnishedo Nro B&mard axplaiMd tlmt eU1c0 prepareAt1cm of the draft of Unclei' discusfilimn he lmd paravapbs 2 md 3l em peg® 2 of amua v md the CommittGe eOi'll"" s1deratim:!l to hiE) for thlOse p.rurta oZ diSJouam.Olll,9J M'ro. mVED that d.l"af't of RGElolutiO'fl1ls> Q$ prepared lw Mamers" SlIdth am Bamard 9 with the substitution of "draft of paragraphs! 2 and 3 on page 2 of ths Rs8Dlutio:m,9 00 prepared by Mro B8l"'l1S.X'dj) be approved and adopted ae the official position of The Colorado River Water Conservation slIacond by MrQ Hom,l) the motion was "\Totrad upon and passed 'illl1S.id.<=> mouslyo A copy of said Resolution,9 as a.menood and adloptad,9 i@ markad Appendix UAfl for identification» attached hereto and b1.r reference thereto made a part P-ira Nelson inquired i f the Board him to Resolution to tha Colorado Water Conservation Board.. H® tbG neY't item on the agende had to do uith the nvised in"RIstig&=> tiona! 1.1st for projects within the District,f) md tht3:Q; tb0 E",ecutive Commi ttae .should conside;r whether tiwy b1m to present both the priority list and. the Resolution to the ooxt n.s®t.= ing cf the Bosrdl. or present a.t different timss" Mro Smitlh pomted out that the state Wa.ter Board met se it would not be prawtical w px"esent the Resolution snd priority list at dif'f'erent m6etixlgsJ" The general ccmCe!neus of tha Exscuti'Wil) Cc:mmi.tte0 11S.S that the priority list and. Resolution be pNsanted at th0 nen meeting of' the Colcrado trJ'atsr Conservaticm l3o.!m'dl ... to aypltdlll Thereupcm", President Hansen aslmd the Secrstary...EYn.gilmaer am read So ststGment he bad prepared for Pl"®sSlnts:Q;iOlDl be£'c1'\'9 tha· House SubcOlm'iilittae on Public Works! hearing 0llA appropr1@... tioui':i! fer thea Colorado River Storage echeduled for l\b;f 14J) 1958" . Mr .. Smith atatoo that Iwl Goslilm had calleld him fi'om requesting IS. statement frw the Distrlct 31 allld that hs had consulted ,lith Mr .. Bamarcll bet0Jr0 Preparing ths statGl!ment" Be thsrceupoo read the suggested statement", Mro Brmm. suggest i51 marked Appsll1dix wBn for idmtificaticm» attoohQd hereto 0 and by reference thareto a part hereofo Prosldent Hmlsen noted that the nm item on thGl waadil9cusa1dn of a propossd publicit;y progra· to b3 camed OEII by Ths qoloradt» River Water Conservation District.. Mrc> Smll.th that at th0 Apti.l meeting of the Board Ji1r", Nelson had maltiGl E!. 0!iIl Ms racomandatlona for & publicit,y progi'sm ad that s cOJW of that report had been attached to the MiImu1i$a of April meet:h1g end f'umisbed all Board Mamers.. Follmr.l.ng discuue1cm.l'l !lll which thG gmeral ccmCamlWfJ was that a publicity progX'Ul should be 1n1t1att:!di,!) Mro William51 ,cODiIiIlelilted that it would be to leaw to tmil of Secretary-Ehgineer and Attorney l11bich tba activities should be and that they should also determine what information should be released.. l-Ir .. l-lilliams continued that he felt that the Board members from. each county might request data from the Secretary-Engineer in preparing speeches for deliver.r in their l'espective counties" and that the Secretar,y... Ehgineer would. furnish data especis.lly applicable to the particular comltiesQ) Mr", Barnard inquired i t the Executive Commi:ttee thought the report on the t..ower Basm investigation, as furnished the Board members with the l-finutes for the April meeting, should be disseminated.. Mr" Brown and Mro Hanaen commented they thought the report would be of interest and contained informatiOD that people in the District should Mr.. Nelson IIThere ware two parts of the program I suggested. One is a spot nEnfiJ program and the other an educa.tional program.. You cannot handle both programs in the same "01' .. 11 He "I think a decision should be D18.da whether you want to consider making releases to newspapers at this time and add your educational material e.s it can be assembled" If }IIr" Hom cammented that he thought the District ehould start in a small at least publicizing its activities" After diSCUSsion, }fro Brown MOVED tha.t the Secretary-Engineer be authorized to initiate a publicity program w.Lth spot news releases, to comence as soon as poso1blo.l' and that the Secratary-Ehgineer be i'ulrtber authorized to negotiate with NT.. Nelson for his services in helping prepare such news releaeeso Upon second bY Mr.. Wi.Uiams» the motion was voted. upGG and passed .. President Hansen then asked the Sacreta17 to retad tha bills paid by the President and Secretary subsequent to April IS 1958Jl for approval by ths Eyecutive Cmmmittae.. Following the read.. :lng of said bills by Mr" Smith and. discussion thereof" Hr .. Hom MOVED that the payment of tha bills by the .President and SecretBr,y subsequent to April 15th, be approvedo Upon second by Mr" Brown» the motion was voted upon and passed U!l8.l'dmoualyo A cOJ7¥ of the list of bills so paid by the President and Secretary' subsequent to April 15th$! 1958 .., and. approved,!) .is marked Appendix "C· for identi£1cation 3 attached hereto and by reference thereto made a part hereof .. Thereu.pon,ll President Hansen called for the reading by the Secretary Engineer· of current billa for Following the reading of said bills by Nrc Smith, 1-fro Jonea H>VED that the bills as read be approved and. that warrants be draw for the several amountso Upon second by Mro the motion vas voted upon and passed unanimousq" A cOW of the list of current bills so approvad for payment is marked Appendix ltD" for 1dent1t1cmtian J attached hereto and b.1 referenca thereto made a part heraofc There being no further bus:1.ness to come before the meetthe meeting was adjourned at 1115 P"Mo ATTES'l't plrSsldant::. RESOLUTION __ c::sDc:::» _____ c.::t WHEREAS investigation and construction woX'k on projects and participating projects uncial' Colorado Storage Project and Participating Projscts Act p Public is presently being prosecuted in such a rrumner and according to such a schedule that the State ot Colorado j withdn whoas bordera almost thlree-=quarters of the waters of the upper Colorado Riwn" Systsm originates, has received far less than tha amount of' Erolcb. work to 'ta'hich it is equitably under said Public Lm1 485.9 and, WHEREAS in order ths t said schedule of wrk may b® on a fim and dependable basis of fairnesS! and squiWD mOO m.;y conform to the appol"tiomnent of' Basin. Fund credits made to the Nepsctive Upper Basin States by said Public LaM 48S D it 161 essential that there be an immediate and effective chamgs thtarefore BE IT RESOLVED by the Board. of Directors of The Colorado River Water Conservation Districts) this 15th dBiY of April" 19S'S 9 that the Colorado Water Conservation BoarciJ) the stat@s of th0 Upper Bas1n,l!) tha Upper Colorado River Commission" the Depa.rt!Iil.ant ot the Interior 9 the Bureau of Reclamation and Region 4 thereof's dlould urgantl;y request and recommtend to the that f'imcW be appropriated immediately for completion of construction o.f ths . Paoilil& Project 3i anell BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the following achedule and. program of both investigation and constructlan on aU storage projects and participating projects namsd in Public LaN Eilhould be approved. by the Colorado Water Conservation BoardD the states of the Upper Basin, the upper Colorado River the Department of th0' Interior!J the Bureau of Regioxa 4 thereof' andl9 theraaiter SJ said enti ties ami 8.gf3nci('S)t;J I&lhould base their requests and recommendations to the CongrsID£l for appropriations for invsljtigation mOl con8truction 'Ilrork or sawrall;r made» in 1" The fewbillt7 which requ1r0u to bGl to tba Congrsss by the DepartMent of the Inte!'ior relativa to xedill Curecgnt1 Storage by Public ba lmot Jmuar.r» 1959,. Upon completion ami submiSllliio:m of said raport" wrk of conBtruetiolll thQ;!i'GQQ1 (;lhculd bs to CQBEIl!1Ce and.\) thareP..'fter$ conrrliTUcticm em said project should be carried fOl'Ward concurrently vith the uonstlf1t'i)o:o ti01l!l of Glen CSllWOD!) Gorge and Navajo Storage APPENDIX "A" 2" As to participating projects which are authorized foX' com truction in and by Public Law 485 and those upon uhich the Department of tha Interior is therein required to clOliiplate and to submit planning reports$) funds for the cornpletiOltl of said planning reports Should be allocated, b.r the provisions of the Act making such appropriations» to each of the Upper Basm States in cc:mf'orm'LW with the percentage of Basin Fund credits to which each state is entitledlj} under the provisions of saicll Public Lm1 48S; andS} when so appropriated", funds en apportioned '00 sacRn state may not be diverted to any other atateor to an;y other purpose .. As to the COllstruCtiOZl of participating both thosa authorized for construction and those daaignatad folI" completion of planning reports in and by Public 1m5 485 SJ f'UlAQ1G for the construction thereof should be by ths pro= visions of the Aet making such to each the Upper Basin Statce :m accordance nth the peX'cant!\gs of Be:l!BiIm Fund credits apportioned to each state$ under the provieions of said Public L:aw 48S} when so a]J.(ooated3) funds so IS.\ppox-tioned to each :state lay not be diverted to SJtJ:3' other state Ol" W el!lW other purpose .. BE IT AND IT IS FURTHER HEREBY RESOLVED that Mt it shall be in order to carr,y out the abov® outlined that there be a realignment of Regions of the Bl.l!'e8U of Rsclametio1lll or of field offices within Region9» or an of b111tias and authorities to proceed ,,11th said work mth:KJm th® Bureau of Reclamation, 1Jmereby respo11lsibill.ty Sl!1d authorlty t(O proceed with said schedule shall be imposed upon aTlld grantstR field such should be dana speedily and BE IT AND IT IS HEREBY FURTHER RESOLVED that e coW of thiS! Resolution be sent 1;0 the follmdngg The Governor of the State of Colorado" • Ths Cololl'ado representativ0 on the Upper Colorarm Commissioxll" 'faa Colorado vTater Conservation Board and thereof .. eaoo Each msmber of the Colorado CongrsBrdonBl *** CERTIFICATE 19 Philip P.. Smiths> Secretary of tM Colorado Riv'0lr'V'amX'" ConGervat10l1 District l9 do heraby' cerlify that the above 8llW foli'@a. going is e. true and correct copy of a Resolution passad by said Board of Directors on April 195Be (SEAL) Q STATEMENT COLORADO RIVER WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICT to the SUBCOMMITTEE 0l\J PUBLIC WORKS D COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES RELATIVE TO THE COLORADO RIVER STORAGE PROJECT AND PARTICIPATDlG PROJECTS ACT D PUBLIC LAW 48S ( MQ'l1h 19S8 85th CONGRESSS) 2nd SESSION APPE NDIX "B" STATEl-iENT of 'th0 COWHAOO RIVER WATER CONSERVATIOi'lS DISTRIC'lt to thcs SUBCOMMITTEE ON PUBLIC WORKS, COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES RELATIVE TO THE COLORADO RIVER S'rORAGE PROJECT AND PARTICIPATING PROJECTS PUBLIC. LAW 485 May l.4 19S8 8Stb CONGRESS 2nd SESSION The Colorado River Water Conservation District 1&1 m political subdivision of the State of Colorado.. It was en&ood by a spscial statut. moX'\3 the entire worldo The District also contains vast deposits! of Mtund.lno'Wll coal£) as 'crall aa uraniUllil}) natws.1 petroleum and gae consSlMTl! the we-tell" This conservation will to tlw storage of the -cmtelZ' of ths Colorado River System eo thm.t 8 confStent and oosquata water supply nll be available at all t.:iJas5l" There Wfit be't:m.teT fo:r the induatryv as usU a.s for the and Jii'lmicipal miSS snell allied indutrias t. the oU shale» foX' of a large population which rill be mgagecll ernex-gy resourcas !MtY dswlop hurri®aq.. Tho need 0D1y 1mdell" px'\O<::> vieJione of t.b.a Colorado River Storage Plrojl3ot and Projects Act can thess nl!lsciad xosaarvoi!l'£I and diEJtr.1butiollh bel ccm.mruct0d in t1mra W GIlpply this 'ri.W imdustX'yD 1£ am should!. dewlop .. imreWi2.ent of mM.Gl oile m pe:rrfectmg It the point for tlw capttal 161 nero bdng NWC'UOrtl ot half of our arabIa Most of the develop:iiieilt resulted from the initiative of tha Naturally" the simplest and least costly mmers.. made t:reX'0 and todBjy agricw.tural expansion end economic are since furthar irrigation development is too virtually plex and costly to be accomplished by' the water users alone 0 It 19 that irrigaWci agricultUl1'9 in nfltam Colorado dos!lll eropl!B in any appreciable qumti tw that are sustained. by priae This area is one of livestock ranching, whsre 'th® irri= l'31llppo:r1is.. gated lanQla a.ra dwowd feed crops.. w the prcducticm of hq and other The area is also famous for tha fruit it producGlQJo p<2IwohstJ s app10a and chsXTiss are msrketad throughout Ita of th® Unitad States" lva» thsrefoT®, have by provi8ions ticip!.tintl of th® m.aixl ot 8Xl intenas interest in the Colorado River Public and 48SQ Our District cont6i.nEl storage relSlsrvoi'ir/QI of ths av:thorimsd pall'tieipating projactSl.. by tMt A@t S!l1d Allil yet,\) none of th7 Public Lmf haS achaduled for il§sua.ncs by thra Bureau of Reclamation in Jmuary, 19,90 3lrdo For the vigorous and cant,muous prosecutiOlll of thea work of preparing definite plan reporta fo7f' the Smith Fork Silt Participating and feasibility Reports on thCBl potential pmrtioi- named in Public BILLS PAID BY PRESIDENT AND SECRETARY SUBSEQUENT TO APRIL 15 1958 MEETING OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS, SUB}{ITTED FOR APPROVAL BY THE EXECUTIVE COMMI:TTEE OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS aN MAY 5 1958 .. Warrant Noo 216>J) Voucher No. 2288» dated April IS, 1958.1) payable to Richard T. Wagaman" tOr work as BUrVq tie1d assistant on Bluestone Unit, less tay deductj.ons ., ....... .. Voucher dated April 30, payable to Mountain States Tel.. & Tel'o Co. , GranbY', Colo., March and April long distance calls tor comsel co ...... c Ula16 , Warrant No.,· 2167 31 Voucher No" 2290, dated April 30 Jl 1958 payable to )!ountain States Tel ... & Tel .. Co.j) G1emvood Springs, Colo.,.Apri1 loth statement for District office Warrent No" 2168.'11 Voucher No" 2291" dated April ,301) 1958 j) , payGble to RIqmOX¥i' 8 Printirlg & StatiOnery, for ottice . . su.pplies. q 0._ • • • • ' • • '" • 0 ..- '0 _,0 . , . 0 • 0'" . • • '0: • • 0 ' • • 0 0 . '00 • • • 0 6 0 0 . 0 fI 0 (J Warrant .. 2169, Voucher No" 2292s dated April )0" 1956 11 P83'8ble to United Lumber & MercantilG Co., tor prints .ot map, of Lcnfttr Colorado River Basin ................. 0" .......... 0.' (J , , Warrant Noo 2110$ Voucher 229), dated April 3Oj) payable to FirEltNational Bank. Glenwcod Spr:lngsll for rent of District offices for month ot 1958 OOO.O.OO.O • • • Warrant Noo 2171, Voucher No .. 229h, dated April 3O,ti 19$851 payable to Philip Po foir riUllary for mcmth of Aprl.l, . 1958, less tay deductions ••••••••••• ••• O ••• O Warrant NOQ 2172$ 'Voucher Noo 22953> dated April )°11 19.$8» .payable to B. Barnardll for rit,uner for' month' Of' ... AprilJ) 1es9 tay deductions ..... o •••• o •••• "" .. c"' Warrant Noo 2113$Voucber'No" 229691 dated April 30,1) J>a1'able to BiU' 'Hams oolart' for . '19,8 .less .. tay dedllctions '0 0 e ;, • 0 0 .......... " 0 a • • • • • • • • • ci> 0 0 0 0 I) • • • • • • It If NOG 2114$1 Voucher No., 2297, d&ted April 1958$ payable to Muy Jane Kendall Sl for' salary' for mOnth' of ' .. Apr11$ laas tax deduction o.o • • a . . . . OGo • • ... O.D . . . . . Warrant No o 211S g Voucher 1'100 229B, dated April 30, 1958" , payable to Edith B. li:Uliams., for.·sa:J.aij·for·moniib·Qt· .' April, less tax deductions •• APPENDIX "C" 12010 'Warrant No", 2176,l) Voucher No .. 2299 9 dated April 30, 1958 9 pqable to John Pascal Smith, for salary for month ot April, 1958, less tay deduction & • • 0 • • 000 • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 0 Warrant 2177, Voucher No" dated April 30J) 1958" to Federal. Reserve Bank of Kansas 01ty, Missouri g NOQ for deposit of Federal vlithholding tB::O-'es for the month of Aprl.l, 1958 c •• 0 1St • • • • " • • • • • 0 • • • 0 • • _.0 • • • • 0 " • 0 • 0 0 • 0 • • • • • • • ct CURRENT BILLS APPROVED :by EXECUTIVE COMMIT'l'EE of BOARD OF DIRECTORS THE COLORADO RIVER WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICT Mlw ,th» 1958 Warrant No ... 2178", Vouchsr 23011) dated May 5, 19,8,1) pqab1e to Bellm Electrical Service for parts and labor on ligbtitlg. f17tUras Q*oc • • • o • • o • • • • • • o••••• a . 0 6 • • • 00 • • • • O • • • • • • • • • • sOOO 8 NOe 2302;9 dated MBy 5,9 imir'" able to Kendrick & Bel.l.alVCooD for drafting pens "0," ..... 00·<9.. 2 .. 33 dated May 5.0 19,a s pq.. to Glenwood Springs Electric System» for eleGtric services for April in Dis"tr.tc"t offices o<>.""""o<)oooOO •• oeo." 9 .. 0,$ Warrant No .. 21"9 9 Voucher Warrent NOi; 2180.s> Voucher No" Warrant NO(ll 5» 1958 9 pqaerl.al 2181$ VoucherNo.,2j049 ablate, Commodity Stabilization SerVices maps for Bluestone Project· ... .,.,.·,,".• '" .. UBDAs .fo&'" 0 0., . . . . . 0 • ., 0 . 0 " " .. 0 ., 0'" . ' 0 . , w:arrant No .. 2182.1) Voucher No" dated May 591 1958.9 peyable to John Bo Barnard,' for' ene";'half . dSy in CoUrt· at . Eagle 180lS oo .. o.o • • • o" •• o so 000 Voucher No,,"2)06j) dated May 5» 1956 9 'pqfor sxPenses' !riclilTSd .for' period . March 27th to April 30II 1958 " It 166 ..66 on "April 19S8 Warrmt Noo 2183 able to J: ohn B oo"oo.O'c» • • •• 9 '0 " " .; " " 0 .... " "" • 0 0 ,. . . . 0 " .. 0 U d' 0 .. 0 '" . Warrant Noo 2l84 J Voucher No., 2j07 J dated May 5B 19,8,9 pq.. able to Philip Po Sm!th II for' expenses' incurred' for' pariod Mar,,'27th to MI9' 5th, 1956 ;." •• " co c "c 0 .. 0 • • • ' 0 . " 0 " 201 00 Warrant No", 2185» Voucher dated Ma;y 59 pqable to Cy To HanseD s for expenses 'attending 5th maetinl 'of eyacutive committee and 8yecutive committee salary for .'Msf.$ 1958", 1ess'tay deduction e ..... 7.3081 0 " " 0" • "" " 0 " ' " • ., .. Q .. ., ••••• 0 0 • • • 0 0 • • • .; .. 0 0 War-rantNoo Voucher Noo dated 19,8» :able 'U! Ao Allen BrO'm,!! for Executive Coram1ttae sal&rT for. less tax PLUS expenses incurred·attend. on Mq 5th$! 19,8 "0 ". 0'0""" 0 <> committee dated MaY' 5.1'> 1958 3 PaYfor .Executive Committee salar;y foX. 1958» less tRY deduction» PLUS incurred attend.. ing eyecutive committee meeting $9 19,8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 " 0 _ 0 0 No .. 2187 s>' Voucher No" able to Amos W' o APPENDIX mDflI 77,,12 Warrant No" 2188 9 Voucher No" dated! 19,8» pq... able to Wo Jarrard Jonesj) for Executive Committee salar,v for 1958 p less tay deduction 9 PLUS sx;p9nsea incurred attending e7Scutive meeting on 5» 1956 GOO_OO t"arrant No" 2l89,l) Voucher dated May 5$ 1958.0 payable to Richard Bo Williams for Commi ttea sal817 for May, 1958 9 less tar- deduetion, PLUS expanses incurred attending IS" eeutive committee meeting on May 521 0"" 0'" $ "' . ", . ", .' ' , , ' ' .lj May TOg 21" 1958 MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS, Colorado 'River Water Conservation Districto OentleIl19ns Mr .. Barnard has informed me he was not supplied agenda for the State Watershed Association I!m to be Although ths held in Glenwood Springs on May 27th Bihd 28th" copy of agenda supplied mel-raG tentative and I know that ot!hslI" speakers have been added on the program since the agenda I ceived "rae ,prepared p I am enclosing for your information a coW of the same .. I TGceived a fraM Aspinall to 13th a coWell 1o."h1ch liTeS sent you" Fw your further informationj) a coW of Wa:ne Ds reply is' Emclosea" You tdll. note he did. not. state I},hen' it would be convenient him to meet with you asa as was suggested iml his first letter concerning' this matter", If he proposes So date fotr this meeting I will advise yOUo DV letter of May Sincere\y '" ' SMITH,!) PPSsebw Encls,1) , Secretary-Engineer " Agenda Colorado State Watershed Conservation Association Semi-Annual Meeting Hotel Colorado e Glenwood Springs 14a;f 27 & 28, 19;8 Session 9&00 Call to order.!) amlO\D'l.oements21 raview of agenda - Craig Goodwin anti..... Introduction of Sam Little , - .. Session Cha1nnan ' From 1952 to the preaentg, the WGstern Slope haa had seven Federal Projects authorized for conl9truct.ian within its One of these ?rssently being builtJ end i t the program which I have suggested were follmred" all sbr of the' others would be undsr construction within the nen four years§ and .five of them. would 'be' cv.ujJleWd 1d.thin the next seven years 0 , There is additional value which 1IlU8t be considered and that ill! the fact that the Dower -mit's -of tim tJppel" ColOl"aao River Storage Project W1u provide the means for reclamation construction in the next rut,' years; that bas never been equalled SIJ1Where in the l1orldo Thus I th1Dk we have, made considerable progress» especially of late years, and t, 87.J)ect that "e shall continue to do , , an :r , ' am m, DV 55tb ,.ear in .. _- the Western of Oolorado.. I have been working on and fighting' for water resource deve1opment"iD !IV home Co1orado m gensral and Western Colorado in part1cul8.r since 1921,. EveD' before 1921 I was stud.Y1ng' our problema .. , I am not an engineer.. I aocept Plr8sent s1tu&tic:ms without wasting time for criticism of actions ot JUT prectacessorsu Dl the very essence of things I shall BOon be A pradecessol' co But I prq that I m.ay live long enough to see the day OfSOli19 real and tangible accomplishment for the efforts of the countless thousands who have been engaged in this noble effort .. With best wisheS$) I am (S1gD8d) N .. Asp;1Dell July 8th I 1958 TOI ALL MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS" The Colorado Hiver Water Conservation District., Gentlemen a , Since preparing the agenda for your meeting an Jul7 15th, 1958$ a matter of' importance has arisen concern:ing our f1liiJ.g and'decree tor the Basalt Project .. Mf"o Barnard end I ware in Denver yssterdq» 9.1; a meei;.. ing of the subcommittee of the water Congress", to outline the scope and definite phms' for Colondo River studies, to be by the State of Colorado", DurJ.ng t.be couraa or our' conversationa at this meeting an arrangement was made b7 Hr c Gildersleeve, Aoting Director of the' water Conservation Board, for us to meet with him, John Barnard, Jro and the Go'Wmlor", tor the purpose of discUl9s1ng recent developments relative to the Basalt Project decree' 8ndito impact upon the' 'pending B1ll to 'authorize the constructiOn of the Frying Pan....ArkanSas Project... During our oem-nth the Governor it. became apparent that theN should be rather full discussion of" the subject at the £OJl"thCOlidng meeting of the Board of Directors an Jul7 ,lSth, 1958,,' It va8 1IUggested that the Governor meet with the BoardJ acco1"d1rlgQj/ he will be in Glenwood Springs at noOll of that dq9 and we haw arranged. tor a lmci1eon meeting of the Board of Directors 9 to' be Attended and addressed b7 GoWlmor McN1cholB, at the Hotol , AlSC.9) during the course of our cm-,;arsatiODB with the GovsrtLor s and at his John Jr" telepbonec1 Cemg'reOSJlllUll Aspinall" to ascertain wbats in hie op1n1an, would be the , effect of the entry of the Bualt,'Dacree 'Il.]lCill the act1ag of the full- Intarior and Insular COlilWittse on the Frying Pan Bill» vh1cb Mt1cm 18 scheduled to be te.kmA QD Wedneodq, 9th,. 19S8 . . We underl1tandthmii Ml'o ASpinall f01t that the Bill would be 'approved by the full OoDdt-tee., He qgeeted to John Bamard, Jr" tbat The Colorado River Wat0r Conr:8l"Wtion District cmwider MDdSDI h1Il a tGlegram em Jul:' l$th to the affect that the Distr1ct wuld, rmbOrd1M.te its BAsalt DecNe to cl.a.imtil for 'Water for the lI'ryiDg PaDoArkrmsaB Project on ccmd1tion that the latter project be l.1m.tted to 69,200 acre feet ot va'tl9r per YMX"J and we took that to mean as an average" W\lather or not auch a or a tdldlar ODe jI is santiu Q matter for the to 1129 Board of Directors. After discussing the matter thoroughl.y,9 Mr" Barnard and I have an alternate B'tlggsstion to make to the members of tba Board for their consideration" Last year we Ilsked that an amendment be attached to the Frying Pan-Arkansas Bill$) l1m:t.t.1.Dg aU tranamowtain diversions to not more tlum 20% ot the Colorado River water available to Colorado, for a period of 2) yearsI'! It is OUl" thoUght that it would be wall for· the Board to consider sending Congressman Aspinall a telegram adv.laing him that the District would subordinate its BasB..1t Decree to the Frying Pan.Arkansas Project on condition that that amendment be accepted b:y the sponsors and by' the committes sud remain a part of the Blll ult1mateq to be voted upon b;y the Congress" AIS you well &owJ,' our proposed amendment to the Frying Pm..,Arlams8IJ Authori.aation Bill. makes effective and enforceable the cond1.ticma, which in 19S1jj the District. attached to its approval of that projecta We further suggest. that it our rigbtIJ an the Frying Pan River are subordinated that present Fry1ng Pm Project plans should be· revised to 1ucludo subst1tuts Btorage for the Aspen Reservoir g with f'u.U conSideration being givan to the Iran Mountain Resarvoir on Eagle R1:vers and that vater suppl;y ad tao1lities for the irrigation or the Cattle Creek and Sopr1s areas ot our Basalt Project be provided" This information has been to you nth the idea that you WOUld like to g1'Ve it due conaidflrat1on prior to )'0111' lien week., . PFSaebw . RESOLUTION WHEREAS investigation and construction work on storage projects and participating projects under the Colorado River Storag" Project and Participating Projects Public Law 485" is presentl1' being prosecuted in such a manner and according to such a schedule . that the State of Colorado$' within whose borders almost threeqUarters ot the watera of the upper Colorado River systea or1giDates j is recipient of far less than the amount ot 'Work to which it i8 entitledJ) under said Public Law 485» and" WHEREAS in order that said schedule of work mq be placed OD. a fina basis of fairness and equity, and in conform.tq with the apportionment of Basin Fund cradits made to the Upper Basin states b7 said Public Law 485$1 it is essential that there be an :immediate and effective change therein lJ therefore BE IT RESOLVED by the Board of Directors of The Colorado River Water Conservation this 15th dq of April, 19S8» that the states of the Upper Basin,!) the Upper Colorado R:1.ver miss:Lon» the Department of tho Interior)!) the Bureau .of Reclamation and Region 4 thereof'!D should adopt a policy that funds should be appropriated 1mmed1ate17 for completion of construction of the Paonia and shollld sdd pol1C7 to the Congress of the 11Dited States" end m IT FUR'l'HER RESOLVED that tb.s following schedule and pro- gram of 1nvestigation aJtd construct:1on "york on all storage projects and part.icipating named in Public Law 48S 9 should be adopted 'b7 the states of the Uppal' Basin, the Upper Colorado ... ';.-,' , , " Cc:mmdssion, the DepartMent of the Interior the Bureau of Reclamation and Region 4 thereof, andJ) thereafter, should base their recommendations to the Congress for appropriations for investigation and construction work in conformity" therewith. 1tl Law 48S to The feasibil:1ty report, Wich is required by Publio be Made to the Congress by the Department of the Interior relative to the Curecanti Storage Projects should be given such pr.1ori1i7 that said report will be completed at a date not later than JanU1U¥SI 19S9" Upon the completion and submission of !Said report, work of construction on said project should be scheduled to commence at the earliest possil:>le dateJ and, thereafter9 construction an said project should be carried forward concurrentll' nth the construction of Glen CImlYOD, Fl.am1ng Gorge and Nava30 Storage Reservoir (I 20 As to participating projects which are authorized for construction, and those upon "hich the Depart,ment of the reqlliNd ll by the provisions of sa1.d.Publio Lav 48S 9 to complete end submit plaming reports£) not less than 46% of funds for the completion of sud pJ ann:1ng reports shall be apportioned to participating projects in the State of ,,, As to the of participating projects authorimed for construction and desigDated for complet:Lon of plan", D1Dg reports :in and by Public Law 48S, not less than of the funds appropriated for such construction shall be apportioned to part1oipat1ng projects with1n the State of Colorado.., BE IT AND IT IS FURTHER HEREBY RESOLVED that i f it shall be necesS8l7, in order to, carr.r out the abow outlined work scheduled" that there a real.1gmnent of Regions of the Bureau of Reclamation or of field offices 'Withm Regions p or an assignment or of responsibilities and authorities to proceed with said nork tdthfuil the Bureau of ReclF.1m!\tlon,9 whereby responsibility and authority to proceed with said schedule shall be imposed upon and. granted to field offices.!) suoh shall be done spaedil;y and effectiveqo BE IT AND IT IS HEREBY FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of' this Resolution be sent to the f'ollmdDgs The Governor of the State of Colorado" Members or the Upper Colorado River Conmdssian.1 The Colorado 'vater Oonservation Board and each member thereof" Each msmber ot the Colorado Congressional DslGgatlDXlo ":'/' /. ',/ . ,.: tJNITBI) S'l'A1'ES DEPARTMENr OF THE INTERIOR BUREAU or LAND MANAOEMEHT c-02070S COLORADO C>RIJm PROVlDlNG FOR OPENING OF PUBLIC IANDS JUne 1958 1. In DA-40l.colozoado, isSlJ8d January 6, US8, the Federal PCMIl' COIIIIdssion vacated the w1t111drawal. 'created bJ' the filing on April 28, 1921, of an awl1cattcm for ' prel1m1Da.17 permit 111 POWI' Project No. l.63 atteot1Dc the toUow1Dc-desar1becl laJidsl 'Sixth Princ:l.pal Mer1d1aD, Q)lora40 T. 9 s., R. 82 w. sea. 6f lots 1, to S, inclusive, an! , ItEwt, and &lSI;; 1, lots 2, 3, am Ii, ml sec. 8" aao. 11, 8.,1. 880. SI!R4t, llwil EMS T. 8 S., R. 83W. aeo. 1, seo. 8, SE 8eO. 9, SA :{ -JfStrIt 8eo. 17, (lOt 2), SHiSBb sec. lB, NEt, NBiSE4' (lots 3, 4, S. 3D. 13, lL, alll port1ona f4 lots 2 aDd 8 1D 3'lt, NEt). sec. 21, 5E_!. 1'. 9 s., R. 83 w. ' , 8eo. 1, lDts 1, 2, and and seo. 2, lot 2, aDd SjHE4' am Slti sec. 11, REt, wiSEr. - i' seo. 12, SElREi. SHi, swiBBiJ • I: T. 8 s., R. 'tr.J. seo'. 12, ,SEiBEi (lote 1 and 2); sec. 16, T. 8 51) R. 8Sw. sec. 6, sec. 7, NE 4 NEt; sec. 8, Strawberr7 and Magenta Placers (MS 6372 and S298); sec. 9, Peachblow Placer (M) 6372)J sec. lD, lots ), 4, SEer, sec. ll, (lots II and 12}; seo. sec. ,T. 8 5., sec. sec. sec. sec. sec. ]3, 34, lot 1. w. lots 17, SiNEt, R. 86 2, 18, and lSJ 8, 9, lot l, wtIfif, lD, lots 1, 2, l, 11, lots 1 and :2. Pursuant to the t:1.nc:liJIg of the Federal Power COlIIIIds,siOD numbered' (1) in DA-4Ol-OOlo.l'&de, the OeologioaJL Survey, by Order of Janu.ar7' 31, 19S8,' (23 Federal Register 8S6), e&I1CIl.1.ed "1d!sw:tthdrawals created b7 Power Site Olassitieat1one Nos. 92, 245, lS4,382, and 431 so far as these olassittea'!" tiona affect the following descr:l.bed laftdSt Sixth Principal Meridiaa, Celerado T. 9 S .... R. 82 W. , sec. S, lots 2 and), and SEtsEi; sec. ts, sec. 9, sec. 10, SWiNE!, wisE!, aid NiSEi, aJ2d ; seo. 11&, Wp 3.. seo. lS, NWiNE; sec. 28, lots 1, 2, 3, and 21. T.9S.,R.88w. seo. 3.3, lots 4, 5, and 12. T. 10 S., R. 88 w. sec. 4, sec. 9 SWiNtrl;b seo. 17, sec. 31, seo • .32, 3 T. 11 5., R. 88 W. sec. 6, lots 2{ 3, 6, 71 9 10, and 11; 1 sec. 21, SW!Swt, and T. 6 S., R. 89 W. sec. 8, SWiM'Ji, and NWisEk; sec. 16, wiNW?, and sec. 17, NEt; sec. 21, Wi and SWk sEl; sec. 22, NEt, EiNWlr, and sec. 35, lot 9. T. 7 S., R. 89 W. sec. 1, lots 1, 8, 19, 26 and 27; sec. 12, lots 6, 13, 14 and 15. 3. In DA-401 Colorado, the Cotmdssion determined that the value of the following described lands reserved in Power Site Reserve No. 542 would not be injured or destroyed for purposes of power development by location, entr.y or selection under the public land laws, subject to the provisions of Section 24 of the Federal Power Act of June 10, 1920 (41 Stat. 1075; 16 U.S.C. 818), as amended: Sixth Principal Meridian, Colorado T. 8 S., R. 82 W. sec. 31, T. 7 5., R. 83 W. sWi and 5t'1!SElt. sec. 22, SEtSWt and sisE!; sec. 27, swk and NWisFi; sec. 28, sec. 34, T. 85., R. 83 w. , sec. 22, sec. 23, and NiSi; sec. 24, SEANwli and Ni, 4 , . T. 8 s., ,R. 84 w. sec. 16, sec. 17, T. 9 s., R. 88 w. sec. 20, seo. 21, see. 28 lot 1 am 1, wiNlrJi, SEilMi, NiSWt, and sec. 29, sec. 33, lot 16. T. 10 S., R. 88 W. ' sec. 4i lots and 4, and sec. 8, lot 1; WiSE 4 , 21 and 1..."-,1:.. :3 and .. 4' sec. 17, S2"M4' sec .. '18, SEA-HEX; sec. 30, and $Et; sec. 31, SEt:..... T. 11 S., R. 88 w. sec. 6, lots 13 to 18, inclusive!. and $!; sec. 7, lots 3, and 4, am and wiEiJ sec. 17, SWiNWt am SltJ!; sec. 18, lot 11 NEi, E2 NWi, and SEi; sec. 119, sec. 21, and SEiNtrJi; sec. 22" sW; sec. 25 lots 1 to 8, inclusiw, 1«11, 11, 14, and i sec. 26, lots 1 and 2; sec. 27, and sec. 28, lots 1 to 5, inclusive, and sec. 29" lot 1. sec. 9, , lotsl: EtS'-rt, , - Within the above described areas there are 15 ,,493 acres ot public lands. 4. 0 • o. o • ";:.: 0 With the following exceptions the lands described in paragraphs 1,2, and ) above are with:l.n the exterior boundaries of the River National Forest and are not subject to the provisions of the Act of Sept. 27, 19b4 (S8 Stat. 747; 43 U.S.C. 279-284), as amnded" gr-anting a preference right of application to veterans of \lIar II and others. Sixth Principal Meridian, Colorado T. 8 S., R. 86 w. 8;, sec. lots 1 to NWiSEt, and sec 0 10, lots 1, S, inclusive, 2, and ), stNt; sec. 21, lot J5; sec. 2S, lot lh) sec. 26, lots 17, 21 to 2" NWiSlo.Jt; aJld and and inclusive, and sec. 27, lots 18 and 19. T. 8 s., R• 87 t'l. . sec. 4, lots 16, 17, 19 to 2), inclusive, and lot 25; . sec. 12, lots 13, 2S to 29, inclusive. T. 7 s., R. 88 We sec. 7, lot 12; seo. 20$ .1ots ), 20, and 21; sec 21, sec. 27, sec. 28" lots 2, ), and 21 0 0 6 . ) '0 R. 89 w. sec. 8" strl?i-NrrII" sec" 16, 'oJiNt-' *, SW.!4; 1 sec. 17, NE4i sec. 21:, swFi; sec. 22, NE"4" E"2NWi, NWtsEi; sec. 35, lot 9 T. 75., R. 89W .. sec. 1, lota 1, 8, 19" 26, and 21) sec. l2, lots 6, 14, and 15'" T. 6 s., Of these lands, 4,,551 acres are public lands; 322 acres described below are patented, and are not subject to the provisions of the Act of' Sept. 27, 1944 (supra): Sixth Principal Meridian, Colo. T. 8 S., sec., sec. T. 7 5." sec. sec. T. 6 s., sec. R. 66Wo' 10, 26, lot 25. R. 88 w. 20, lot 20; 28" lot 21. Ro 89 Wo 17" NEt.. To 7 5." R. 89 w. sec. 12, lots 6, l3, ih, and 15. The public lands described in paragraph 4 abow lie adjacent to or are crossed by the Roaring Fork River or the Frying Pan Colorado. bet'tveen Aspen and Glenwood Springs, All of t,ha land is steep, with genera1lL7 north facing slopes wi"i:.il. (). cover of oakbrush and other shrubs, or south slopes witil a sparse cover' of jtmiper trees. so11 is shallow and rocity. The None of the land can be farmed. None of it is suitable for sr.la1:L. tracts. 7 . } • Pursuant to the authority delegated to me b,y the Colorado State Supervisor, Bureau of Land Management, effective February 19, 1958 (23 F.R. 1098) the lands described in paragraphs 1, 2, and 3 of this order are hereby opened, subject to valid existing rights and the requirensnts of applicable law, to filing of, applications, selections and locations in accordance with the following, provided, however, that this opening so far as it affects the lands in paragraph 3 hereat shall be subject to the provisions of Section 24 of the Power Act at June 10, 1920 (supra), and with respect to all the lands opened by this order, shall be subject to application by the State at Colorado for a period of 90 from date of this order for for public highways or as a source of material for the construction and maintenance of such highways, as provided by Section 24 of the Federal Power Act. ,No application for the lands described in paragraph 4 will be allowed under the homestead, desert land, small tract, or any other non-mineral public land law, unless the lands have already been classified as valuable, or suitable for such type at application, or shall be so classified upon / . 8 ., • consideration of an apPlication. Any apPlication that is filed 'Hill be considered on its merits. .The lands will not be subject to' occupancy or disposition untU they have been classified. Subject to any existing valid rights and the requirements of applicable law, the lands described above are hereby opened to filing of applications and selections in accordance with the following: a. Applications and selections under the non- m:ineral public land laws may be pre sented .to the Manager mentioned below, beginning on the date of this order. Such applications and selections will be considered as filed on the hour and respective dates shown for the various classes enumerated in the following paragraphs: (1) Applications by persons having prior existing valid settlement rights, preference rights conferred by existing laws, or equitable claims subject to allowance and confirmation will adjudicated on the facts presented in support of each claim or right. All applications presented by persons other than those referred to in this paragraph will be subject to the applications and claims mentioned in this paragralh. 9 (2) All valid applications under the Homestead, Desert Land, and Small Tract Laws by qualified veterans of World War II or of the Korean Conflict, and by others entitled to preference rights under the Act of September 27, 1944 (58 Stat. 747; 43 U.S.C. 279-284), as amended, presented prior to 10:00 a.m. on July 30, ili958 as simultaneously filed at that hour. will be considered Rights under such preference right applications filed after that hour and before 10:00 a.m. on October 29, 1958 will be governed by the time of filing. (3) All valid applications and selections under the nCl1-mineral public land laws, other than those coming under paragraphs (1) and (2) above, presented prior to 10;00 a.m. on October 29, 1958 as simultaneously filed at that hour. .will be considered Rights under such applications and selections filed after that hour will be governed by the time of filingo (b) The lands have been open to applications and offers under the mineral leasing laws. They have also been open to location under the United States Mining Laws pursuant to the Act of August 11, 1955 (66 Stat. 68'; 30 USC 621-625). 10 , ,f\ Persons claiming veteran's preference rights under Paragraph a(2) above must enclose with their applications proper evidence of military or naval service, preferably a complete photostatic copy of the certificate of honorable discharge. Persons claiming preference rights based upon valid settlement, statutory preference, or equitable claims must enClose properly corroborated statements in support of their applications, setting forth all facts relevant to their claims. Detailed rules and regulations governing applications which may be filed pursuant to this notice can 'be found in Title 43 of the Code of Federal Regulations. Inquiries concerning the se lands shall be addressed to the Land Office Manager, Bureau of Land Management, 371 New Custom House, P. O. Box 1018, Denver 1, Colorado. J. ELLIOTT HALL Lands & Minerals Officer July TOll 16 s 1958 ALL MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF DlRECTORS$ Colorado River Water Conservation Districto Gentlemans Herewith is So copy of the petition Mr .. Barnard filed with the Clerk of the District Court in Garfield County today, July 16th" 19,8.. We felt you would be it in this action and. have prepared to issuance of the minutes for your July 15th meatingo Sinoerely yours D 'L PPS:ebw EncJL. PHIIJ.P Po s)tITH ll ' IN THE DISTRICT COURT IN AND FOR THE ' COUNTY OF GARFIELD AND THE STATE OF COLORADO Civil Action Noc> 461.3 IN THE MATTER OF THE SUPPLEMENTAL ADJUDICATION OF THE PRIORITY APPROPRIATION OF WATER FOR ALL BENEFICIAL PURPOSES IN WATER DIs.. TRICT N0 9 , 38 IN THE STATE OF COLo... RADO) ROBERT L.. BRIDGES$) etc .. , at al.,:p PETITIONERS ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) ) PETITION , Comes now The Colorado River Water Conservation District which will be termed "District" harems> by its attomeys$) and respectful.li represents and shows to the Court, . 1.. Reference is hereby made to the certain "Petition" herein and heretofore filed by the District on the 11th day of July, 19,8, relative to a certain "Petition to Reopen Decree", herein and heretofore filed by and on behalf' of the Water Development Association of Southeastem Colorado) and said "Petition" herein and heretofore filed by the District, and each and every statement of fact therein contained, is and are hereby incorporated he;rein J by reference thereto 1) in like manner as i f set forth 1D full a . 2a On the 15th day of July, 19,8, the Board of Directors of the District held its regular meeting, which meeting L.. R.. McNichols, OoWrDOX" of Colorado, and the Honorable Felix L" Sparksi')' Director of the Colorado Conservation Board 9 among others., vas attended by the Honorable Stephen At said meeting a. Motion and Resolution was adopted by' said Board of Directors 9) reading as follows, AI move,9 that in connection with the conditional decree em'the Basalt Project and the request made to us 'b7 Governor, McNicholS$) that we honor the Oovernoros rsquast and appOint a committees consisting of the prse8nt Committee g our attorney and secretary,!) to meet with the Governor of the State' of Colorado and such partT or parties as determine$) for the purpose of f1ndiDg s i f pOBsibls.'ll a mutual ground upon which we em proceed with the present water adjudication in Garfield Comty., And, further" that our attomey be instructed to request the Court to delq proceedings on the petition for reopening the filjng in said proceeding until effortG to find a common ground of procedure has been exhausted,. And, further, that the Governor be given a copy of the Resolution at the earliest possible date$ with the request that he proceed to set up the meeting as suggested and requested by hh\J and that the attorney and secretar;r of this District be directed to take a copy of this Resolution to the Chairman of the Colorado Water Conservation Board at its meeting at Colorado, on July 17th, 19,8", R 40 The proposed meeting,!) mentioned in said Motion and Resolution" 1s one to be attended and participated in by said Com.. mittee of the District,\) the Governor of Colorado" the Director of the Colorado Water Conservation representatives of the Water Development Association of Southeastern Colorado:l) and other pr0ponents of the Frying Pan-Arkansas Project} and the purpose of said meeting is,'P as stated. in said Motion and Resolution, to attempt to 'Work out, by stip'Ulation or agreements methods of procedures, to avoid and obviate further intersectional and controversies regarding the subject matter of said npetition to Reopen and the Basalt Project" So The District doss not, by this petition or othe:rwise 9 or impl1.edly admit the val:1d11:r7 or "Petition to Reopen Dacree" $I that any grounds therefor enat s that its decree to the Basalt Project is deficient in· an;y manner or respeot.\) that said proceedings ahould be or that decree be entered to or for said Frying Pan-Arkansas Projecto Its sole purpose 111 presenting this petition to the Court is to make an effort to adjust controversies Uhich, if continued by litigation or otherwise» may seriously affect the rights to the use of the water of the Colorado River to which Colorado io enUt1ed,l) by users thereof' within the State of Coloradoo . . 6", By' the presentation of this petition to the the District does not intend or attempt to request the Court to disturb its procedures under the rules of this Court or under the Rules of Civil Procedure of the State of Colorado; it does Dot intend or attempt, or unjustif'1abq, to delaT" binder or· impede the Court in the prompt determination of the matters now befors the Court in sucb actiou§ but, on the contrA17» the District Board of Directors was impelled to adopt said Motion and Resolution,!) and to instruct its cO\Ulsel to present this peti ... tion solely' in the interests of bariD.Olly within and the welfare of the State of WHEREFORE" Petitioner prays tha Court as folIous a 1", That the Court set a date and hour$ as promptly as be at the convenience of the Courts) for the hearing and consideration of said petitionJ and that notice thereof be given to counsel for interested 20 That further proceedings relative to ths npetiiti.O!ll to Reopen Decree" herein and heretofore filed by tha Water Davelop.· for a ment Association of Southeastern Colorado s be able period of time in order that the purposes and objectives of the Motion and Resolution adopted by the Board of Direc'OOx-s at District on July 1,» be effectuated g i f Respectfully submitted., BARNARD AND BARNARD By' (Sgd) John Bo Barnard Attorne.ys for The Colorado River Water Conservation Districts) Granb.f, Telephone TUcker 7-))62s STATE OF COLORADO ) ) County of Garfield SEilo ) CY T HANSEN II being first dul;r mrom, on hi&i1 deposes md sayss That he is President of the District.\!l and is authorized by it to make verification on its that he has read the above and foregoing petition and that tlW matters and things stated are true to the best of hilS! knowledge$> information 8llld belief" dI (Signed) . Cy T' Allen Brown, Vice P.resident.9 .Amos 111., Horn, W" Jarrart:l Jones and Ricbard Bt1 W1ll1ama" In addit.i,on g there were present. Fb111P Po Smith, Secretary-Engineer of the Distinct» Jolm B" Barnard, Counsel of the District, Oren A resources development prograa., Hr" Smit.lhl then passed out Themofax copies of this ed1tor.lal taken tree the Grand Junotion Sentinel" For the Wormati01l of the a Themofa" COPT at tbe editorial is attached to these Hlm1tes", A oow of said edt.torial is marlmd Appendix "A" for attached hereto and made 4 part of these M1nuteso . 'the CClBldttee agraed that the Beoreta.l7-l!bgineBl" should work with Mr o:Fitch on the suggested radio broadcast", Thereupon.\'j a report was made by Messrs., HamSaDji Bamard and Smtlth on the Rules Committee meting of the Colorado W&W Congress in CD Juq11tb,9 and tha meeting ot '1'l1a Colorado Water Conservat1on Board 1D the same c:1t7 the following dqa It was suggested that the SecretBl7-Ebg1neer attempt to obta1n copies of the transcript for the State vtatsr Board iaeet1ng for d1IItribDtioD to the Board of Directors of 'lb.e Colorado R1ver Water Conser-. ' vat10n ll1strict . . The E:r8CUtive CoDnittee neyt took up the matter o£ a financial contr1butJ.cm to the Colorado Congress., Mro Smith reported that,the 1958 carried an item for Contr1but1cms to Other Agencies in the amount of $2;0000. tbat $lS0,,00 ot tb1e GD10'Ullt was our usual contribution to the llai10nal Reclamation Association.!) leaving $100000 avaUable· for other contribUtions.. He po.1nted out that if' a contribution in 8Y.C8SB of $lOOooo was decided upon it would be I18cesSU7 to transfer :funds tram the &nergeno;y 8& Cont:lng8D.a7 budget item. to Contributions to other Agencies Acoounto FoUowiDg discusa1on,\') Hr.. Brotm ltoVEl) that the Secretary-Engineer be authqriJaed to drmr a voucher for $100,,00 ill favor of the Colorado Water Congress as the Distriottl·s support to that agenC7 during calendar rear 1958., Upon second by !Ire W1l]iamBt) the motion was voted upm me! passed without dissenting voteo The Seeretary-Eng1neer ,then outlined to tb.a Board r.esulte of NCOJ\DS1 ssanoe surve;y work he had made for the Gore Power UJd.t CD the Colorado Rivel" aDd asked the Camm1ttee to direct )d.a wether or not to sulmS..t a filli1g en tMa project to the state. Engineerus Office", Thereupon, Mro WS]1iama that the Seoret&x7&1g1neer be dlrGcted to fUe em too water for the potential Gore Power Project :in the name of The Coiorado Rlver Watel' ConservatiOD Distr1ct& upon seoond b.r 21'0 JonesS) the mot1on vas voted upaD and passed 'IDlIDl1Itousl1' 0 !here tol.l.GWed discussion concem1ng a possible replace... JIlSl1t of Bill Eli Harris as an engineering assistant to the Distr1ct staff» but no decision vas reaohed/!> 'lhereupcnl» President HanSell called upon the Secret&r7Engineer to read the CUlTent After the reading, !lro BroNn K>VED that the bUla as read be approved and warrants be draw for 'the several amo'bnts" Upon second b7 Mrl'l WiJl'amsj) tbo moticm was voted upon am passed A cOW of ths said C'm'rent b:U18 1s markBd AppeIId1x liB" for identification» attachGd hereto snd made a part of these M1nutes., bGiq in(h the ATTES'l'. DO turthexo bUe1ness to come bafore the meet;.. meet.inS was adjoumed at 4100 P.. Ho THE DAILY SFl:TlNEL - July 20, 1958 -_._.. _. - - - . - .... : : - . ..-,- "_2') The Westerner Press Relea'ses Only Part Of Education ,Prpgram On Water B, WILLIAM R. Dally SeDtblel Aueclate Eelt.. , Need for a public education pro.ram on water 15 'yolct'J at a.most • tvll')' water meetlq. Tile tenns Ued are ulUally· pHlie 11If.m. • tIoD, but the Wes...". pnt. . to ehaDae term to, publlCl,..... rUID. (" nere II '. poeat dell . .enries IOcll a. tb. Colorado IUveI' Water ConlervaUon Dlstrld. the Colorado War Conservation Board, tM SGuUlwesta"ll Colorado eouervaUon Dlltrirt, aDd tile Up,.. 00IGrad0 Commisalon IIIoaIcI eeNiDJ) coopera l., II DOl ec.dId __ proJram. their aa.er or \ .r mta. . " _Ie OWL/ • '"" Ie JIUbIit Mucatlall net'ded! ! l • • • " , = 'l '" , It e • ,. r • ; • , r Readerablp 01 arUcles Iboul water III lower than many types of It oriel In neW6papers Ind mil'" al.... Maily rltlzeDs COftaider .tter a verY d17 to, use aD old elldle, and fhf'\' rail to take tbe time to be IlIformf'C1. Few reporten are ramlllar fDOUIlI with the hlllC!lJ, tlle terms' 11M f t. . . . . . . . . . and la.·' yen. and the barklround of prollleIn. t. do an job of coVerlllJ water 1lNI. The We!ler· Del' watH n,'wl &be )'ea,. 'but Innk· , t.. a .pitdalty 01 tt seven rears ICo, He read mall1 boob, &lid deetIlou alld aaked thou.aads , rI questJon. 01 meD and women ,I laYOlved In taw IVtta, servlDl on water and oIflclals refire· U!IIUn. various boards and agen· del )uat to t.., to learn what ir. peGPI. bow or eare mucb tmlDeou Mtall about . . . • 1011, as It roIIIes ..... Ii out .f their tap or bydrant to laIanutl.. water IMtr lawns and endens. " .... II• • • , '!'be mfmlta tbere I. a .bortale, wbo vole. eplnlo or the preilUre II down, lbe1 con· Ion. ab*t t b e tad IDdlvtdual1l wbo bave !)eell water problema and need thill' tbet aU It I.volva II cIIImaftd te bow wbJ tbe DftIIure to mall to new.. II • low tUt theJ eu't . .trr papen &lid Rdlo botb froid aad Nell IawDi at C1hH. atatlons prest Wattr II. faat becomblJ • trltl· about eal reaoun:e, aDd lbe publle must what Ie I beltn to realiu wb.It Ie bippllllq. lID abcMd. Actually. rrlN181 t. elty· eouJIdlI. and ",U • IMIItft.la!onnation program ....sp&pert tr r'" .satlll!l II water boardJ .f all d..mpUonl All '" • ....,., more GIllY a ISJD. . . . . . of wbllt .,u14 .•\lIt 'ave the 1UPPtJ1 all'" ,.bIle ena.url'llf' report· be d.e. 81u!it 'ta their _III. . . We .... .,.rat· era to .pend Ilnouah time on Wlllfr Pared to .Ive talkl at aerYlft IOJ UDder a republic.. fora of .,.•• te be alile to do 1111 adeljuat. m..u.,. aI wom.·1 lrPiBIIatlGDl lOY...... IIId die wi! of lb. Jab 01 '...,.nllll II III "ada fronI tM 1.-P' ....... II 1M to 1M JUbo .BeIDJ a repDrter l'equlrrq II smat. Womea 'Voten to 11e ....nt. Gelber _ . . . . . . tart.. 01 0( ilnowlrdill', Coiored'dJlln..ahoilid bI prtfS.... teer. wIIo II ,.,Ina a bit of com· aDd water abil· ed for lIlustraUall talb, ADd lDo- lDuaity.rviCe b1 serviA. - a to eomprebtJMI somrlhin'l about tioll pldurf" Ihould also _ to board 01' c:ommlsll!ln. law, eq1DetrIa" hydrr.lo/!y, poli. explalD tbe story of water.' Wbetber we tlke It or not, 101"ln. ties, farming, meleoro!ogy, and TIle onida) . .encla ....Id make our .ater problems will cUlt more ptyrholDl)'. formal reporta to boardI aI eOaaty IDO". ,Publle IlUpport II eaentllli One troublf .. Itb brin/! II "'lIll'r commissioners, city eouneill, ad iA ItttlllJ adequate ta. to reportrr II Ibat ... mil/hi find him· lit" It"lftf .. boards alld com· odler local .everaJlllDlll "..,." .. 1M Job. nnttees IS the \\'l'stfrnl'r did, In Wbo dlCNId eQDdue& , , , . . . . TIle pqWIt IIl'Ist alii' session, The Wrstf'rner \l'R' PJ'OIll'IID' ...M • .., etIOUIh tnfarlllaUOJl to lupport ere wba not ConJreU will pnbabJJ ee.IdIr fertl 01 &be water boarda la work· the only person II . out .... and reautaUans ated- eltber I lawyer or ....... a ....,1111. and cower. .... wed_ ... , eel for the eommoa ,*. b...... ;,' 1IaIi"-' .w fIreetJ". I'*"..... It, # . u... . . an lit. moner m APPENDIX "A" , ' ! : ; , CURRENT BILLS APPROVED by EXECUTIVE COMMlITTEE -BOARD OF DIRECTORS COLORADO RIVER WATER CONSERVATION DJISTRxCT 1958 July 11]110: War. No. ZZ84, Vou. No. 2407. dated July ZS, 1958, payable to Meeker Hcarald, publication of Notice as to Budget . . • • • • • $ 3.90 War. No. ZZ85. No. Z408. dated July ZS, 1958, pa.yable to Olathe Criterion, publication as to Budget 4.16 War. No. ZU6. Vou. No. Z409, dated July Z5, 1958, payable to kgle Valley Enterprise. publication Notice as to Budget 4. Z9 Wa&-. No. ZZ87. Vou. No. 2410, dated July Z5. 1958. payable to Mt. St. Tel. II Tel. • Diotrid Office £lervices, statement of 3uly 10. 1958 ... 54.85 War. No. ZZ88. You. No. Z411, dated July Z5, 1958, payable to Colo. Clipping Service, clipping service for June, 1958 .•• 13.50 War. No., 2289, Vou. No. Z41Z, ,dated July Z5, 1958. payab10 to Vehicles, Inc., jeep hire for .U:rvey crew •..•.•..•..... 53.16 0 0 0 •• 0 • 0 0 0 • ., • 0 •••••• It " ••• iIII • • •• ••• ............. . War. No. ZZ90. You. No. Z4J.3, dated July Z5" 1958, payable to Western Engineers, for directing on Gore Power Proj e ct .'. 0 • • • • • • • • .. • 0 • • • " • • • • " • 0 •.• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 0 • • 0 0 • WaX'. No. You. No. dated July 1958, paya.ble to Hume S. White, fee and expense attending Board. Meeting on .July 15th, 1958 .. 0 0 0 •• Go •• 0 0 • ,) " •• 0 •• APPENDIX liB" 0 0 0 0 0 • 0 •••••• 0 4 • •••• J.4.J.0 July U, 1958 Mr. Cedric Foster o . News Analyst. Mutual Broadcasting Company. Washington, Do C. Dear Mr. Foiter: I listened with great interest· to YOU!' commentary on Tuesday, July concerning the 1008 in liquid fuel J:e8ourcea the western free world would suffer if we were forced to withdra.w from .our present position in the Near East. I know that you have visited in western Colorado and are probably familiar with the oil shale depoeite of the Piceance Basin. lOlC&teci in the divide between the Colorado and White Riwers ·in the vicinity Grand Valley, Colorado. Recently the United Statea Geological Survey has released a report, baaed on field exploration. s1tatlns that this 'area contailll0 apprOximately one and one.quaner triUiOD barrels of shale oil .. The Oil and Gas Journal of December 31, 195(" lists the petroleum. reserves of the United Smtes as 9 billion barrels and of tbe.world a9 ZSI billion harrelo. which latter figure is less than one .. fifth of the oil contained in the Colorado abales. Reports by Union Oil·Company of California, and ethers who have performed research 'Work in the extra.ction of shale oil from ohale deposits. estimate that over one-half trillion barrels 0.£ oil from these shalee can be readily recovered at a. cost compa· titive with the production of natural erude olls within the continen-. tal United States. . of One factor that ie· retarding the pl"oduc:tion of oil from shale in this area is the large capital coetnecessar·y for the estab·. . , lishment of a commercial shale plant •. Another factol'p now under consideration in the United Stat$S Congress, is. that the depletion allowance in our tax structure . for developing oil from is not equitable with the allowance made for development of natural crudes. In view of the universal appeal of your broadcasts, and the iDfluence they carryp it hag occurred to me that this is a propitious time .for you, in your c:ommentarr. to point out this situation to your listening public and our Congress in order that they.may be . in., Mr. :Cedric Foeter induced.to.take the steps necessary·to make the production of Our' oil shale 8ufficientlyattractive to the oU indUstry to get this vast .potential 80Urce of liquid fuel. into production and thereby reduce our depep,cience on .the Near. East . . If you decide to gC)'illto I would be glad to assiet 'you in any way I can. in collection of data conce'rDhig oil shale and experimental production of oU from shale. I also you contact our Congressman from the Fourth CODgreslioDal rict of Colorado; Wayne N. Aspinall, who can either give, or direct you tO a extensive information on the 8ubject. .' I might note that ThfJColorado River Water CouE!m .. tion District is a poliUcal 8ubc.UViaion of the State of Coloratio, cb&i-ged in the statute creating the District with the responsibUity of inS and 8s8i"tilll in the development of the resources within the thirteen counties, of nortbwestem and weat central Colorado comp1"i8ing the District. , '.' . . , ' coQerv .. Sincerely yours, PHILIP P. SMITH, Secreta·rY .. • CC Hon. Wayne N. Aspinall,. M" C. t U. S. House of Representatives, Washington, D. C. BC Hon. Edwin C. JOhnsODo 1135 Grant St., Apartment 301, Denver, Colorado. BARNARD AND BARNARD ATTORNEYS AT LAW GRANBY. COLORADO ,JOHN B. BARNARD DUANE L. BARNARD Lugust 21,. 1958 of Colorado val' Controrva.... I prepared a ;fatttOr lonr:thy, po$sibly teo lo!1\;, DltlOrandun relativo to the possibility of the proponents 0:1: tho Frying Pan lirkanoos Projoct ohtain. ing (1 co!td!tio:tal th;;;reror, arld Ollcl.ose n 'Copy thoreof horeldth. for you to spare tlto tine to at least this :.IetlOrandutt a speoial miJct. ing of tho rk).ard of U1rootote on liuqust 26th, 1. think your. react.tons and,conclusiQns would be very helpful in considering the quaat10ns to be prosentod to U10 ;304%"d on .:that: date. :rf i i: is I sandinrr a oOPY of thin =:er:orandur:1. to oacl1 ox the ft1:torn.oys tttho tepreeent .tn-basin elaine .izl 'Uator District,'38, who probably w111 wish to file to thG c141n of the Project. AGENDA of BOARD OF DIRECTORS August Z8 0 1958 " Jt. 2. 3. Unapproved Minutes as foUowa: & •. Board of DiredolC'G Meeting D July 1.5 0 !958 b •. ExseuUve Committee. Meetingp July Z5 0 1953 1 c. ExecuUve Committee Meeting D' July 310 1958 Report of Executive Committee on Frying Pan .. AIfkaXllsas . Project. conc:elZ'ning possible r6villl!OllllCf «:he pIria1l:ion and sadjudic..Ation ft3tat\\tes 0 4. Repoi't by COWlecel on Upper Gunnison Baain Proj@lCtl: Bdjudi o caUon proce edingQ. 5. Report by Secretary and Counsel on Coll.olrado River atMdiee. 6. Request!: for Association. IlJUppOl't of National 7. Report by Secretaxy on suggested meeting with AspillhaU D JoMmon. a:Khd Goalin. 8. Bills paid and \l!WIl.pproved by Board of Dil'edoll'8. 9. Current bills. '- TO: ALL MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS!> Th13 Riv@l' Wa.iter ConlFJtSrvaUolll!. Diebic{t" Herewith. ia a dIl'aft ins of on tllie Minmtea tllia Spedt\ill M@C3t); ... fOll 180IDX'd of Director€!! of The ColoX'cMio RiveX' vatiolll BuiRdirmg n held ilItl COlleGE'''' Officeefl c Fil?lStt 2.8th.. R9S8. llf or &\d«llU:iolfAG OlIll you I,uggeefdorme fo!' {{!oli're{{!tions c pleame mdvieCil. . Acct the Dietrdcefl: provides Regular meetmg of of for ccallillDCal1:' yS&!' 19 v/ill be held on Oetober ZAat p 1958. Ae 'V@u will X'tBJI'o,"l\eiOIlA8 @f th4:l y@'I1l d@&lirre fm@ Oill hlB li!! Hume St. and Mario Ztadra.. Philip P. Smith. Secretary-Engineer for the District t John B. Barnard, Counsel for the District. and William H. Nelson, Associate Editor, The Sentmel. Orand Junction. Colorado, a.nd member of Colorado Water Coneervation Board. The meeting was dent Cy T. Hans.an presiding. at 10: 10 A. M .• with Presi- Hansen asked for consideration of the Minutes of the Board of Diredors' meeUng on July 15, 1958. and Executive Committee meetings on July Z5th and July 31st, 1958. There bemg no suggested corrections, additions OlL" deletiong. Mr. Williams MOVED that the Minutes for tha three meetings, a(J sub .. - 1 - mitted to all members of the Board of Dh'ectors previous to this meeting, stand approved alB Upon second by Mr. Porter, Mr. Delaney inquired if approval of the Minutes of the Executive Committee meeting in Denver on July 31 st 'Would consUtute approval of the seven principles the Executive Committee had agreed, during that meeting, to recommend to the full Board for adoption. Mr. Barnard pointed out that approval of the Minutes could not, in hie opinion, constitute approval of the principles, since this action would involve a policy decision that mU< be voted upon iudividually by the full Board. Thereupon, motion wa.s voted upon and pa.ssed without dissenting vote. Mr. Barnard then that all iu:'rangementa for opening adjudication in Wat0r Z8 and 59 had beeD completed and that counties involved agll"eed to share the expense of opening the adjudication on a pro rate. basis of the acreage to be benefittad in each county by the DistrictDe Upper GuDDison Basin Project, He Doted in 59 Saguache County will pay 47% of the cost and COWlty will pa.y In District ZS Gunnil10n County will pay 6Z% of the cost, Montrose County ZOo/I) and Delta County 1S%. He that Judge Hughes had signed the order for reopening of the adjudication a.nd a. certified copy of the order was sent to the EngiDeer and the County Commissioners the counties involved, and that the liot of who must be notified by certified mail of the adjudication will be forthcoming within 15 days, at which time the notices will be mailed and published. The date for opening has definitely "een set as November 1955. Mr. Barnard he wQuld like the Board to authorize him to engage Mr. Porter to handle 'certa'i,n routine matters re lating to the opening of the adjudication hearings that would elimiDate the necessity of hie making one or more five hundred mile trip. from Granby to Cunnison and remrn if he were to handle them. Mr. Porter stated tJ1at he would be glad the unless the work involvGd a considerable amo1.UAt of time. Thereupon, Mr. Brown MOVED that the Counsel be authorized to refer a part of the work leading to :reopening the, adjudicaUqn proceedings in Water Districts Z8 and S9 to Mr. Porter, on a of reasonable compensation. Upon oecond by Mr Delaney, thf.! motion was voted upon and pa.aaed una.nimously. with the exception of Mr. Porter, who abstained from voting. 0 Praeidelllt Hawlen called upon the Secretary-Enginaer to makeesion of the Board on their of what they consider "studies, \I as contained in a. suggestion by the Director of the Colorado Water Conservation Board that thG State Water Board ask the State Legislature lor $15, 000 to employ engineering help to complete "studies" of watar requirements in western Colorado. Mr. Nelson said that, as a. member of the Colorado Water Conservation Board, would Uke opinions cf the Board ef Directors of this District &Del 1U1e Southwestern District to guide his action CD the matter. Fellowing 0lriended discussion, Mr. Delaney MOVED that the SecretaryEngineer and Counstal be directed to prepare a definition cf the principle previously discussed, lIumH a.ll water use requirements in the natural basin cf the Colorado River, in Cclorado, should be and protected, II to 00 submitted to thio Board at its next meetmg. Mr. Nelson agreed that he would sUBgll'Jst to Stat0 Water Beard that they defer action en Mr. Sparks' proposal Wltil the Colorado River Water ConsEtrvatioD District report was avaib.ble. Upon second by Mr. Gel'baz, the motion was voted upon and passed unanimously. - 6 .. President Hansen then directed the Secretary-Engineer to read the bills paid by ilie President and Secretary subsequent fco the July 15th. 1958 meeUXlg of the Board of Directors aDd unapproved as yet by the Board or Executive Com.mittee. Mr. Smith read the unapproved bills referred to. Mr. Porter MOVED that they be approved as read. Upon second by Mr. Jones. the motion was voted upon and pa8sed unanimously. A list of such bills so approved is attached hereto as Appendix "C" and made a part hereof. President Hansen then asked the Secretary-Engineel' to read the current bills. Following the reading, Mr. Gerbaz MOVED that the billa as read be appl'ovl2d and that warrants be drawn for fue several amoWlts. Upon second by Mr. the motion wes voted upon and passed unanimously. A Hat of such current bills so approved is attached heX'eto as Appendix "DII and made a part hereof. The part of the meeting was devotad to a filing survay in progress for the Gore Project on the Colorado River near Kremmling. Colorado. The meeting was a.djourned at 4:00 P. M. President. ATTEST: Secl'etary. - 7 - of 'The policy of the Coloi'ado RiV$1' Wattel' Conservation Diet rict e having to do with the Project p haa not changed since Mayo when it gave that Project its conditional approval. The Ditttrid considers its approval of the Project o and the by Eastern Colorado and the Colorado Water Conserva.Uon Board in the conditions which fOll'med a pan of thaQ: m.piproval D as an agreement o embodying the following essential terms: "!. That wal!l the Fryingpan",Arkaullas Project al!l then designed and which W&1il csndoresed by the and that no substantial changes thereof would be made there after which would impo!1le a Breater burGen lIpon the water of the Colorado River than was then contemplated. c> liZ. Thatr. before commenC0ment of construction of the Frytngpan o Arlcana3m Project, thexo 0 ., 0 0 0 (I 0 iii 0 (I 0 0 • 0 0 0 0 0 0 (Iou (I 0 0 \I 0 0 0 0 0 • ., " 0 0 0 \) 0 0 0 0' 0 0 Q q 0 U b ., 0 0 • '. 00 '0 0 0 0 0 0 0 \) 0 It 0 0 • - ,. 0 (I 0 0 Q 0 War. No. Z303 D You. No. Z4Z6, dated JUly 31, 1958, payable ao Thomas Lester salary for July lese tax d(!Jduction i. co 0 0 eo •• (I 0 (I 0 t,_ f't 0 D 0 0 0 '3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 07 0 I) 0 0 0 0 " War. No. 2304 0 You. No., Z42,7 D dated July 310 19580 payable to First National Bank, rent for month of Allsuet., 1958 po. CI " 0 0 0 0 0 • 0 0 Q 0 '" 0 • D 0 0 4) Q • 0 0 0 .• 0 " Q 0 • 0 APPENDIX II e" ••• 0 • 0 ••• 0 • 0 ,. CI 0) 0 • 0 • 0, 0 Q Ct Waro Noo Z305 D You. Noo Z-iZ8 D dated July 310 1958 0 payable to RaymoadVs Printing &t Sttationery, for office suppliee for District office u •••••••• 0 0 711. 03 •• War. No. Z302 g Vou. No. 2425, dated July 1958 0 payable to Edith B. Williams". salary for July lese tax deduction a 0 0 dated July 1958, for Ju1ty less ta.x War. No. l301, Vou. No. ·Z4Z4 D· daft8d July 1958 D payable to Mary Jane Kendall;, salaFy for July lees tax deduction I) 0 t. Z4ZZ, dated July 3i, 1958,' .d@dudioDS for John Pascal Goo ft 0 No. War. No. ,Z99, Vou. salary for July lesl! Smith 0 a •• 0 , 145.51 Z48.32 85.94 lZ5.00 7. 15 ,f OF War. No. Vou. Nco Z4Z9, dated July 3I p 1958 p payable to The Glenwood Post. for. office supplies. 0 Wall'. Vou. No. dat0G July 31p 1958 0 payabltS to Modern Office MaE:hines g Inc' D for engin(!:eriDg supplies II' GO'" ., 0 I) 0 CI o. 0 (I 0 0 II' II' (!o CO'''' II' 0 0 ., Ct 0 0 Q II' " II' , •• n • • \) " II' 0 War. No. :U08 D You. No. datc;lQ Ju.ly 3l e lCJ50 0 payable to mtelrmoWltlldn Printing ax Stationery Co. {OK' office supplies 0 0 t) 0 '" II' 0 Q 0 Cl 0 0 0 ". II' 0 0 II' Co " " 0 0 0 0 (I II' (I Q I) 0' • Q 00 0 0 II' War. No. Vou. Nc. Z43Z, da,ied. July 31, 1958, payable to The Fruita Times o XOll' Notice as to Propostad Budget for 1959 C (J (1 ,0 ., 0 0 (" U • 0 0. 11 0 0 " 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Q 0 0 0 d 0 0 II' (1 0 I,) War. No. 2310 0 Vou. No. 2433" dated July 31, 1958, , payable to Feciel'al ReseIrve Bankv deposit of federal income tax deductions for mg,nth of July 1958 ',' ••••••• 0 0 • 0 • 0 0 Z9.35 0 II' 0 Q 0 Z3.Z5 4 16 (J 00. War. No. Vou. No. dated August 70 1958 u , payable to Glenwood Springs Elecftric System D services for DiflItX'ict Offiee for July 1958 .00 • • • • • • • • • • .0.0 $,3.30 0 No. Z311Z o You. No. dated August 1, 1958 9 payable to Colorado Wa.ter Congress, contribution au.thorized by: keeutive Committee on July 25. 1953......... 353.40 '8.21 100.00 , .. CURRENT BILLS APPROVED by . BOARD OF DIRECTORS COLORADO RIVER WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICT August Z8, 1958 ** War. No. Z313, You. No. U36. dated August 28, 1958, payable t.oColorado Agricultural Experiment Station, for contribution to anow survey program ... '..................... '. ............ . $ 50.00 War. No. 2314, Vou. No. 24:37, dated August 28, 1958. payabla to Kendrick-Bellamy Co., for engineering suppll.ies ..........• 41.10 War. No. 2315, Vou. No. Z438. dated August Z8, 1958, payable to Mt. States Tel. & Tel. Co., GlEinwood Springs, services for District office. August lOth ......... , .............. . 34.80 War. No. Z3!6, Vou. No. 2439, da:ted August p.ayable to JOlm.SOllloS Houee of Flowers, for funeral of Mra. McCoR'mick 1.50 War. No. 2317, Vouo No. •. dated August 1958. payable to M. R. Doyle. repair of Friden Calcula.tor in office ....... , . 10.50 War. No. 2318, You. No . dated August Z8, 1958, payable to RaymondOs Printing 8ft StationE!ry, office and engr. supplies .. 8.95 War. No. Z319, You. No. dated AUlUfJ9: 28, 1958, payable to Mt. States TaL & Tel. Co., Grlinby. Colco f eex-vicee fer August and July, 19 58. .. 0 • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • ZO WaR'. No.' Z3Z5. Vou. No. 2448. dated August 1958. payable: to PhUip P. Smith, expenees period July 16th. to Auguet 28, 1958 4:36.30. War. No. Z3Z8, You. No. Z45L daied Auguat 28, 1958. payabJle to Cy T. Haneen. AUgtl3t 1958 Comxruttee salary mnd e:penae Denver llneeting July 3lot aDd Glenwood meeting on August 28, 1958 •... .............. .. ......... . 125.1.7 No. Z329,' Vou. No. 245Z,datad August 28,. i958, payable to A. Allen Browne August Committee sala.ry and expeDse attending Denver meeting July Slet aDd Glenwood Springs meeting OD August 2.8, 1958. 117.48 War. No.· Z330 D Vou. No. Z453. August ZS, 1958. payable to.·Amos W. Horn, August p958 Executive Committee salary and eXpense attending Denver July 31st udGlenwood SpringS! on August 28, 19 58 .. i:, ••••• '•••• 88.49 0 .••• 0 0.0 •••••• • • ,0 . • 0 () 0 • 0' 0 •••••• •• 0 APPENDIX "D" 0 •• ••• 0 ....... 0 .. ••• .- . , . War. Nc. 2:331, You. No. Z4S.e D dated August 208, 1958, to W. JaE'ral'd Jones, August 1958· Executive salary and caxpenee Denver mel2ting July and Glenwood Springs August 28, 195G •............•..••.....•.... 138.37 War. No. Z332, Vou. No. dated Augumt 2.8. 1958. payablm to Richard B. Williama, August 1958 El:ecutive Committee salary a1O.ci attending Denver meetin3 July 31st and Glenwood Springe meeting August Z8 0 1958 .......•....•...... 109.34 War. No. 2.333, Vou. No. 2456, dated August Z8, 1958. payable to Robert Delaney. fee a.nd expeXlsaattending meeting sf Board of Directors on August 28. 1958 .... ' ........................ . 6.1Z War. No. 2334, Vou. No. 2457, dated .A'Aguet 28 p 1958. payable to A. Gerbaz. fee and expeulS attending of Board of Diredors on August Z8, 1958 ...•...........••.•.......... War. No. 2.335 0 Vou. No. dated AlAgust 2.8. 1958, payable to Roben G. Porter. fee and exp0n9S attending m.eeting of Boalrd of Directors en August lS, 1958 ...............•............. 67.10 War. No. Z337, You. Nc. 2460, dated August 28. 1<}58, payable to International Buoine6ls Machines Corp .• fort mM electl'ic typewriter for District offic<3 ..... ....' ....•...•.......... : .. 6Z5.00 War. No. Z340, You. No. dated Auguat Z9, 1958, payable to National Reclamatiolll A5sociat1;ion. apply on annual budget of NRA.. . . . " . . . . &I (10 • • • Q • • " • • • • 0, 0 • • • • • .,. • • ... II • .. ,. .. • ... ., • • • • • " • • a 0 .. • 150 . 00 ....' ", September 'ro: 1958 of Boal'd of Dil'ectol's. Collorado RiveIi!' Conservation Diehic:tJ There are submitted for YOllur conaid", eration the of a of the Executi'll"ce Committtcaed ox aciminiBtrafdora of GleEl filA if; to Call1\yoll'l Reservoir flow of the l'ivl2Jlr will praX'mit't the righta of upatlream 01' down.stzoeam Hehed bY' ttble Colon-ado Rivel" Comp&il.ct. with i1'.he Colorado Rivei' Compad re", Any othel" is the Uppel\" Colcu:ado Rivel\" Bo§&!!). Compac'(!;. B.E IT FURTHER RESOLVED tllllae the ing and llcagw..R eo of the Upper CoT(oA"aao RiveX' COmmiB61iOFA a51 ClIm Compact Lee Ferry fol' downstlream domeetic a.nd agrh:ullhl\l'alL pUR'p10aea. im thIG )'fight and duty W" aX'e Ration from CODgreasman Wl&yne Aspmall, which reacis as follows: "Endosed ilB a reprint from the Congressional conta1DiDg 'the lE&t"st WU4i!fti"neBtJ Bill proposaL!. It! wound'like to know the ll"e&cctioDs of your Board to this dowll1 veiOsioD &Dd whcati1el' the Board might aD, would make 8\1dllegielatioD " lie woWd me Ul&t the Wilderness BiU should be di0atSseci in 01.U· meeting with AmpinaAll. on November 14tlllD 1958. For your iDiol'matiollllJ there iel Elnc10ged a 1\'ll!lceni fE'om the Grand JUDction DaUy Sentinel coneemins Bill. of the WiAdernese BiU cOllletituttZl@ part of the the NaUou.ll Reclamation AssociaUon meetiDg in Houston 011 November 19 D and 1958 0 the Colormdo RiveI' Q Waeer Usel"IlD lIlIlt!etiDI in L...,.s Vegas Clil December 4th /mG Sth o No doubt ideas concerni,ng BUR wUll be brought out at tilose that C'Are not expressed in thcs editorial 01' in BOm4il $slicelmt pomts of BiU tbatt I will attempt. to outline illl the !oUowinti p&rsgi"&pho 1.01: The Wild.e%flll\ees BUI VlSS wlrod'USced JUDe 11" 19580 by SeDatoi' Humphlii!'eym of Milmt9sota. Thee BiU proposes the res,,"_tiOD of dcmaiDo whare it il2l G@emqjd acivisable o io!" pu'blie ll'ecreaUonaJi D wUll $:be ides of presen-ms meientific D edueaUoul o and hieteda! UIlle9 a J.0aving &!'e,aiJ ummp&ireG fer iutuE'e use and enjopnEtntD An a mtate of omS's! wilde .... DelilS The BiU pn-opoeee Natioul Wilderness Pi'0SerVaUoD b0 c2l"eatecio to of ta0 Sec2'etary of the lintftriOi'D the 0 ,. ,. ,y- No.2. Se«:retall'Y of AI!'icultu:rre., fue SecretaJPy of the Smith610Dian lD.tttute o and three citizen members to be appointed by the President. TIle CoUDell nan e$i"ve only as a !Sponsol" and coo!'di.DatOlr of surveys (!!ODcerDiDg the neede and eondit!oDS of wilderness ai"eas, dilsemiaUiDI iDiormationo &\Ild aeting ms a eltaal'illl house for such purpo8es. WUdel'l'iWCils Bureaa in the Dational foreets wiD be designated by the Secretary of AIl"ic\lltul"e o aDd in the Dationa! parit alreas o vUcUife remses" OD range lands and iDdiaD' I'flservaUoD8 by the Secretary of IDtQtrio!'o It appM1'1J there Q!'8 no limitatiollls whatilloc ever upeD the extent of the designations. The use of i'Ab"Cl'afto motor the Il"azllmg of UV0stockg etc. in desiglM.ted wildelmeea area. mllhto but would not be eOJl!&ue4:l iD areal!B where. such practice .. are presemly estQbUuedo A special!. provision of the BW ill all followS!: "Within Datlond foremt 8!'eae inc!udcad ill the wilder .. DeBIt!) the President wiWn tA aDd accord&DC!:e witb eueh l'$gUaUOIllll as be mal' deem. authorime pnGpedinlo the establiehmeDt 01" ma.iDtl8unce of reeQl"voiaas and water t1:0Insea-yatloD .workal o II) \\pOll himi det«armiaatioll that such. use ill the speeifie Area .,W b"tter serve tbG intell'eots of tlIle UDited States and the peoPle the.reef than will its demallo 01 This provision appeare to me to serias!y jeopa.l'dime furihe:r water resources development in the recJ.GIlQ&ti@D in that the rights of way and wate,r righte rec!amation development be denied by the executive branch of loverwraeDt ill desiguatecl wilderness liu'easo even thoup theae rights were ElsaeDtial to project . stuely it in t1:oPJo I have OUY ODe copy of the Bill. If aDy of you degbe to please ucl I will Nl'aUsh you a Thermofax Wilderness Bills r 'Heariql on' Bill!! will bf held in Lake tlty, Utah. land Albuquerque, N.M,. Nov. 12 and 14 ftapeCtively. Western Colorado organllll· tions should C>ppOa8 these biJJs and those in a position ' to send delepthms to either hearing do so. " The wflderneu biJI8 are a bold attempt by ealltem Intere8ta to hamstring the Wellt by creation of areas development of any kin,d "7"" rellervoir'S, • minmg. 01' gruinr - .111 posRible. The promotei'll, would block out VIst I rea I! of the Wellt ot for enjoyment i anall minority of CitIZens anc! prevent deftlopment. ' .. . We lalftt that ullBightJ), resorb!, hambul'lrer' joints, aJ)d.'dives should be baiTed from seenie snit!!. But, we 'falt .to camprehtnd the reDllonlftg behind moves to block lID· development arid to ban even motor vehfclj" 1i'am vut Ilreb, .: " . The::'IJ'OVet'nment has ereated !lOme wlldemefl8 areas In other !!tatelil. and; do not believe that these be extended. l\,fultlple UKe of a.nd other fe!!ource!! ot the Went IIhould be'the objective of conse-rvatton, nut complete hilit to development. Reservoirs. man-made lake!!. often add to the beauty and utility of a mountain region. To block building dams may me-an lo!\!\ of wI,ter, which iii becoming more valuable each year. \ . / MINUTES of FOURTH REGULAR MEETING FOR 1958 by C9LORADO RiVER WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICT BOARD OF DIRECTORS October 1958 Pursuant notiee duly and properly Fqunh Regular Meeting for 1958 of the Board of Directors of The Colo ... rado Rive!' Water Conservation District was held on October Zlo 1958 in the Board R.oom of the District Offi:tol? of the Coloradq Wat0li" ... A '" Board, ilm Denver, last week D also attend(l')c.i bV Charles Bie8Q and Philip Smith, Directoa" Sparke had inform.ed them it would be at least days studies for a.lternative replacement and coulpcansatory storass for the Frying Pan",Al?kaneas Project could be completed by tbtill Water Board aDd Bureau engineers; that followinl this couerence he and Mr. Sieee had-contacted Judge Darllrow., who was liD DeDver at the time., and suggested that the be cODtinuec:l {or mppl'oxim£teRy mnety days, to which Judge Darl'ow had a5r8eGo m tbe disc"'lSsion that followed Mr. Barnardhi statement. it was pointed out that the other claimants in thee &djudieatiom Wected to lteep infoX'med on the mattsl' and th&t if the Diso tl'ict could ccnt&'ibute to the inspection that be was i1l.uthorimed to make zuch contribution ae he advisablca. The members of the Executive Committee then diecussed the scbeduled meetings of the Colozoado Asoociaticm inDenveu- IOn December 6th and the Colorado Wliter Congn-ees ill that city on the 7th aDd 8th. Meslu's Smith anel Ba.rnard iQiol'med. the ComBnittee that a concerted effoll't would be made at these two ings to combine tha ttsllIociatioD. and the CODgresl5. Following dim .. it wae decided that the Executive Committee and staff 0bould attempt to inciu(:e a.s 1&l'ge an attendaDce born westeIrI1 Colorado as possible. 0 The Committee then discu.ssed scheduled annual con" of the National Reclamation Association; at Houaton o Texas o 011 Novembelr 19 0 ;ao and Zl, 1958. Durins the cliecQGoion it was ds'cided that Me/uro. Williams aDd Smith, both membere of stand", inl c;ommittees of the 8asociatioDD would attend as rQpreoent&tivee of 'h0 District. There followed' a brief discussion of scheduled meet: ml.g of Colorado RiVcaF Water Usorso A9fJOciatioD II in Las on oitb aDd 5th, 1958. Mr. Williams MOVED that the prepare a motion to be cOll9idered by the full their meeting on November A4tho 19580 to the effoct t1ih&t expent3@s of Board members to the Colorado River Us 0 ll.'6 0 AllIsociatioD convention in Las Vegas would be to lodging£, meeds aned a!.ctual automobile ex:prl:lnea. This was seconded by Mr. Horn" antio upon vote, "vas passed u_nimously by the Com", . foX' 'Ule The Executive ComInitt00 then a tentative 14th, 1958" meeUlll3 of, fulU,Board.. . President Hansen the Seeretalr}ToEngilleer to A"e&@ the biUe paid by the President ",nc! $ecA"etalrf 19ubsequf:ntt to Augu.et 1958, that bad not received prio!' approval of tho Beard or Executive Committee. Mr. Smith the bills unapproved but paid by the President and Secretary subsequent to August M:ro Williams MOVED that tbl9biUa a8 paid be allowed alld approved. Mr. Horn seconded the motion and o UpOIl vote, tln4t motioD was palilsCBd Wlammously. A Us', of said billa 50 p&id by the President aDd Seercamuy s\lbsequent to Augu.st 28tb aDd approvecll by the is atta\cbed hereto, m8l"kC9d Appendix "A" for icielltifie&.tion awl made a part of these Minutes. Thtu"e1ll.pon. Mao. Smith read the bills foi" appi'oval. Mr. Horn MOVED that the bills as read be approved and paid. Upon second by Mr. Jones the IlI'AOtiOIll was voted upon and unanimously. A liiSt of bUb liDO read aDd approved is attached liB" for identification and mad$ a part of tbeile Minuteso There beiDa lUO furtber business to come betore the Com .. mittee o the meotiDI was at l:.eO P. M. , ATTEST: Secretary. BILLS PAID BY PRESIDENT AND SECRETARY SUBSEQUENT TO AUGUST 1953 SPECIAL MEET .. ING OF BOARD OF DIRECTORS UNAPPROVED o SUBMITTED FOR APPROVAL BY EXECUTIVE, COMMITTEE ON NOVEMBER 3 0 1958 $0$ War. No. Z320 q You. No. 2443 0 dated Au.go 30 D A958 0 payable to First National Glenwood Spdngso rent for SeptemblSr o A958 on Dist!"ictOffic81lJ 0 ••••• 0·.0" • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 0 • • • •• $ 125 .. 00 '. . . . '. :.:. War. No. i3ii o··Vou. No. Z444 o ··da,·tedAug. 30, 1958 D payable to John B. Bal'D&rdD retainer io&' 19580 lesa tax deduc .. itions "0. 0 0 0 Co 0 • f) 0 " • 0 () 0 0 0 0 (' 0 0 0 0 • n 0 0 0 0 0 0' " (' 0 0 0 0 0' 0 loP 0 0 C' Q .' 0 0' 0 () 0 0 0 519 34 0 War. No. 2322 0 You. No'. Z445 D dated Aug. 30 D 1958 a payable to Phillip P. Smith,,' ealaxy tOl? Au.gll1st D 1958 0 lese tax dedudione 711. 03 War. No. 2323 0 ' No. 2446 0 "dateci Aug. 30 0 1958a payahlle to Edith B. Williams, salary fo;r"AugQst n' '1958, leell tax deductiOD.aJ r;; v '0 po. Z480 3Z 0 0 0 0 0 0 • I) 0 0 Q 9' (II " 0 0 0 '0 0 0 • 0 0 Q 0 Q 0 CI 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 War. No. Vou. No. Z",47o d&ted Aug •. 30 0 1958 D payable to Gilbert Heciticb, salary foZ' AU3\lll!Ji 18th to and indt!ciing AUI. 31, 1958 D lese tax'dedulCtiolll61 •.•••••. '.·0 •• " . · . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . War. No. 2.3i6 o YoU. No. 24490' dated Aug. 30 p 1958, to John Paecal 1958, as survey assistant 0 less taa deducUoftFJ, plulS field expense Aug. 19th through A"loQ Z40 1958 o'-i u• a 0' 0 ' 0 OJ Q' 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 • 0 O' Q 06:00 Q' 0 " 0 • 0 0 0 0 00 CI' 0 0 0 0 c) War. No. 2327 Vou. No. 2450 0 dated Aug. 30 a 1953 D payable to Mary Jane Kendall, salary for AUPlJtv 1958 0 Ieee tax deductiona o· c o o coo e u a () 87.41 200u 01 Q 0 II 0 0 0 0 0 0 " 0 0 0 (p 0 0 0 Q, 0 (I 0 0 U Q I) 0 Q P • 0 0 0 0 0 • 0 0,1 0 () War. No. 2336, VbUo No. Z4SCJ p ;'dated Aug. 19D 19506 payable to We8ltern EDllneers c survey work on (8ol'e with expenses e t\ (I •• 0) '0 0 " 0 " 0 0 0 I) I,) a 0 0 0 Qat' 0 0 0 0 I) A 0 0 fl Q 0 0 0 " •• II 0 0 67.46 5750 50 0 War, No. i338 0 'You. No. Z461 0 dated Aug. 30 0 A956 0 payable to James VI eala3'y IOi' lC)S3 n as 8111rveyassist .. ant 0 less tu dedudions o plus field expense foX' Aug. 19th thl'ough AU8 zap,) 1958 o • ., v o· a m• " • 0 0 p ,., 0 0 0 0 Q 0 0 0 .• 0·" 0 110 0 0 0 0 0 ('I 0 " 0 GOO (> 0 , 0 Wal< No. i339 0 You. No. AUg. 30 1958, payabAe to Gilbert Hedrie:h o two days addittional tiine OD Aug. 1938 e!alary omitted from original Auiust salary' together with l'eimbui'sem0iit expense on survey It!l!'ew Aug. 19th Aug 28 D 19 sa 0 Zl 70 34 p 0 0 '0 0 0 0 0 to ,0 ." '0 0 Cl c o o u r. " <." 0 0 '0 U 0 '0 0 '0 ') 0 0 0 ,0 0 C to n 0' U 0 " U 0 0 57 5 Z t\ Waro No. Z341 D You. No. Z464 p dated Augo 30 D 1958 0 paya.ble to Federal Reserve Banko deposit of federal· income tal,es for Augusto 1958 0 Q' 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ('I 0 C (\ 0 0 I) 0 0 0 0 • 0 0 " 0 \I 0 0 0 0 \) 0 0 0 0 0 $ 316.90 0 War. No. Z34Z o Vou. Noo Z465 0 dated Sept. Z,nd o 1958 0 payable to Glenwood Springs Elec. System p statement for Augusto 1958 for Disti'i4:t Office serncee ••. o. • • • • • • • 0 ••••••••••••••••• 0 War. No. Vou. No. Z410 0 dated Sept. ZZo 1958 0 payable to w. HOl'fDo Com. f!lalary for Sept. 1958 0 less tax deciu!CtioDo ·plue ezp. attending meeting' on Sept. 1 5th o 1958 0 and trip to LaIlJ Nan/. Sept. 1 Zth as member Board of Diredors Color lUv. Wstar Ullel'S ASllmn ••••• 0.0.0 •• 0••• 0••• 0 n 0 •••• " • • 8.87 A78. 3Z No. Z3480 Vou. No. Z4710 dated Sept. payable to Richarci B. Willll.iams o Exec. Com. ealaIry for Sept. 19580 leea tax dedudiolflo plus expo attendinl Sept. A5th meeftilllg •• 96.6Z War. Noo 2349, VOla. No. elated Sept. to A. ARlen B1!'OWD& Exec Com.. salary for Sept. deductioD o plum expo attending Sept. 1 Sth meeting •• 99.69 0 • 0 leae tax 0 0 0 • • • • • • • • War. No. 2350 0 You. Noo dated Sept. Z2, 1958. payable to W. JalL"rard Jonel3l o Exec. Com. salary foR' Sept. 1958. tax cieduction. plue exp. attending Sept. l!.5th meeting ••••.. 0 •• 0 • • • US. 2.7 War. No. 2351. Vou. No. 2474. dated Sept. 22, 1958. payable to Mto St. Tel. and Tel. Co. 0 statement Septp ! 9th for District Offices 0 c> 0 Q 0 CI C (I 0 0 0 0 (I 0 (I 0 0 0 0 '" '" 0 0 0 9 0 0 0 (I 0 0 " 0 0 0 t' 0 paynbA@ $ o •• 0 0 1 «). 2.9 Wa:lI.'. No. Z3690 Vou" No. 24r9Z o &\ted OdD 3Ao 19561 0 p8YBbRe tel!) Fh'st N&Uonai Banko E'ent OD Dist&'id 9lficea November o 1958 0 I' CP 0 0> .) n q 0 '0' o. " 0 0 0'0 War. No. "ouo Middle Park Jun.e 26,c 1958 " eo . . ".' . 0.' II 0 II 0 U 0> 0 '0 0 P '0 n 0 Cot \• .., 0 00 0 0 (I . 0 0 " . 0 (I coo 0 (I 0 0 0 0 0 0 Q U (I 0 0 0 0> 0 " 0 0 0 ••• 0 •••••••• 0 Z495 v dated:J?d. i9§!l. Co. 0 ior/ida'iprints •••••. aHiCi:$.upo CarciweAl •. Z497. C9i.o.o . . ..o Tel. I) o'Q • G 0 Q 12$.00 0 • 0 0 Q 0 0 , •••••• 00 •• (., ' 14035 0 GOO 0 '() ", 0 tJ 0 0 , • ',' •••.•. £01" Wall'o ·No •. 0 0 Z496 0 dat ,.' You. No. 2311.; 0 Z493 n SAD 1958 0 payabJJ.e publia::&Uon;':p'l'opoaed 19 5

0 tI a' 0 .' 'War? No. Z3?5. VOU •. !'JOo l498 0 datetfOiet.,':U o Mt. St. '1l'eR. and.' Tel.:..Co. 0 Glenwood SpriolPJ •.Oct. !Otb 6ltata", . fer DiatllJ:cl1::0!flce. c." , , Wa'If. No. . , , '.0:',0 U 0 00 C 0 Q (I Q Zl Wall'o No. (.:rn" A. Allan Bl1'o'WU p , No·. teA 0 f) 0.0 to Jl)aym.blle tto nees tta:rz 0 • 0 •••• 0 o ••••••• payeble D' ]. 0 Zlat adjolai'ned 3i D 1951l1 D D 0 n lase O(!!f;. Noo. l502 dated enfci' eta of the Bcei'd. of Dbectol"IB on Augu.st 2.8tho the CoJ:lCAmiUe0 meeting OD September 15th and loth" 1958 0 and the Fourih Regular meetin.g for 1958 of the BCQlrd of Dil'"do:u on Odobe&' Zhla" 1958, adjoull"ued. for lack of Q quorum o haa been pr@viouoAy iUl?llliliJhea to aU of the Board memb02rs. He c:ommelllted that if there WCU"4!I DO Guggerutad or altel'&tioDIlt) l/l. motion for their approved waG in Ord0l'. Mr. PortelL" MOVED the approval of the Mill1ute!Jl &&l defin.ed by Preoident Upon second by Mr. the motion wm-a voted "pon and pa61sed without difllgent .. ins which is prssently and has for quite a. cO!lleidelfable tiLme t&ken a great d@:!',n of int0l"est in s:he GGl:velopmerat of tbe UPPIi'.lA" Colo7rado Rive&and also the of the Color'Mio River, eop®ciaUy tfuiose in the ColoIr&do Rivs&". I a.m mOll"x-y indeed GOVOi'lil.'.o:rr .VOhlllSOJil been tak'D.od. And with that understAnding of what 'lil,e we1\"4'!l up anci with the knowledge dn3t the! Sta.tee SellM1te had taken ¢b&t Bill and bad p&IUOG it over to the Houe;e 2nd had a9!ted the Houece to 'WCA"k its will on whieh had nofdling in it at &11 iCl)X' Cololfado o GO$1illll c Mr. McFarland of my staff in WarDlningtoD o and myself, meeting in Reno o Nevadll\, out wbat we V/QS f./&lidy good fO!'llnula for the divieion fun.cle o some .. thiDa that was enth-ely new 35 fa.r e.e anythiDg that ever taken place Congree0 wali concerJ1ed. Ae &19 we had arrived 8oM0thbag that we WaG f&irly equitable we immediatGly get in toucb wittl1 OovlSrllo!' of Colorado. Tbe Governor ()f Coiolradoo ' assuming his 7lespoDsibUity foll' Ule first mind you o 'WcUI wilUul to "AlE'iglat. if that i211 the way it is we just wonDt pa.e$ any BiU o you WODOt let lany sppa-oval for for th0 lAutboriz.&tioJU of upper in , Colorado River PB'oject unless it has some kind of eqw.table of thta net powel' revenues from river." And he to Santa. Fe. and out of that tJituation grew tile Santa Fe Accord, out of that: grew the 46% division of funds to the Smte of Colol'&do. Anlli witl3. 416% of the Ill!t power reVeD"eS met C\sida irA the future for Colorado Pl'OjtBCt8 p VIla S$ometiAing there to us in our use of the watexos of the River. Now. if we had not hSd tb&to 113 exactly what would have hAppeneci. You ba.Y0 eo \,)iUioD plroj caUl' feasible ll but feaoible \Uldor the exilJting law. The eame thing holds the San . 1 wOll1ld like to at!llt m que£ltioDo Mro is there it over very l Presic!ceDt& if pleaseo fA this Relllolution ., you have co which fUDS I. •. to wut we are attempting to accomp1iDh, ill there &aythina in there that im objectionable to the program of the of fUJrlc!ls and the work to be aone? AmpiDall: Yeso ther«l are several things in there objectionable and eevei'al thiDl5 that canOt be GODe. ODe is that you ask ill We Resolution that the fuDdG be &let &side to the credit of the states. I can &8InU'e you l'illht now that UDcle Sam is not loins to set asicla any fUlule to any aZoncy. or to any COila trollillll body within the State to do the Job that UDcle Sam i8 loins do UDder P\llbllic La",485. Thcell"8 are soing to be no division of those funds far alB the BaeiD Fund is CODCe1'Ded. Those funcis are goinS fto be held ill the BaBin Fwad anel they Qi'e BOiDS to be credited to the state. as each project i. autO ... orized alul constructed. '0 Barura: Now t let me iDte l'l'Upt the re. Then, sun I right when 1 aseume from what you say assv.ming that the Central Utah Vaney Project were authorized Aspiaall: c> ..... Lete doaOt assume l'iometiaiDi thct canOt tmke p!e.ce fOJl an iaclefiDite period. Barnard: ! still want to a.ssume fol' the p1Izpose of my Cl"eetioD that theA the operation of the provisions of the Act would. mean @:hat Utah theno for that project, would get 90 much money UDti! they had reached the limit of. wlaat is it (dieculisioa) 21 1/'1.%7 . AepiimaU: That is all they haclo Meaawhile our projects would be siWnl here not built, but therra would be no allocation of our 46% '" .. ... Aspinall: WGt broke that. We eelabliohed the principle wheD got Paonia., whell we got mODey for Paonia and money foll' VerDsl. We estabU,dled principle that you donOt uve to wait until the moneys in the Basin Fund o but aU that you have to do is to be au!'e that your authorizations are within the percentage limite which are Wlder Public Law 485. NOD I WI2U c this Ref;Solutioza wse deaigneclo 611 is appcurolllto to lw.ve the .construction of participatiq pl'ojeet. in th was adopted o apparently the appol'tiomnent to Colorado ll uncler that aeeoDd paraguoapb ll as you sayo would have beeD 51 % instead of 46,.,. tiOD Azpinall: Not necessArily. And here again! have 1Il0 criticism. The late Judge Stone into 1.\ different kind of formula. and you know it as woU as I dOe and he divided the funds a little bit differently., eo that you have sot precedent on the other W&Ye on the other side of the question. No o DG o I am for ibil8; I em fOIr what you have ill mind., but I say it is not neceollary aDd it win aroUS0 questiollt3 which we do not Deed to arouse au should not al'oues in the Wilds of our cooperatora and neighbors at the present timeo HaDlen: A.-e there aDY fUlfthelr questiolUl? If not, we ove with U8 today Mro Ivai Engine01'c>Secretary of the Upper Colorado River Commismioll. We would like to heAr your eommeJ&ts. Goolin: membere of the Boel'do ConglrEls&lmall Aspinall p blenda, 1 think our Congressman covered the subject of the Resolution very thoroughly. 00 I am not goinl to go into that matter unlausG there are !Dome quemtioDa tbaQ some ... oaae wish to saZe in i'0sard to it. I do wish to eay that I thiDk he is 0ntirely ebe right taoack. This matte!' 01 coopQlr&tion in Do Coo amoug our etateo and OD the 'Commission is verY important. It is more I thiDkD tha&\ most of can realize until '10\& have with tbese variolls gl?cupe and entities with respect to CODo Mlro .. 13 co I.; " troveraial subjectsD alld just about allY tiine that you start workiDg with water you a1l'EI working with e controversial subject. 1 ¢hilalt you 'Rill agree with that IInO matter Vlhat position you oecupy. X would liklB to talk just a little bit about this ma&tel' of coope r&tion in Washington and how important it can be. And ODe of the best ways to talk about it aDci aot eveD involve directly our three simt01' states - there hHl commieeiolll .,. but let m0 tel! you whaa happened in this yellr when we were trying to set appropriations. ! wen1t back to Washington with approval of our cOQlreBsional lAnd of Mr. in particular" Qnd of the Commission" to do whatt 1 could do there ",.til our frienc\G «and please notice the wOlrd "fri toward setting appropriations fo'll Olen CaDyono Flaming GorgGo the Navajo Resei"Voir. and the Paonia and the Verui Nowo here ie tM situation &s it stood lest Janwny. It was pl'etty blsu. The PreeidentOs budget messageo if you will rememberecame out and it had nothing in there for thee PaoDia Pll"oJect. Ihothinl for the VerDa1 Project, work was to stop completely OIl dle Navajo Dam o the work at Flaming Gorge was to slow down to a wallc o there was ineu!", .ficientmoney for Glen CanyoDo and thiD8GJ. looked bad. But 1 want you to understand what we were facing. There was eo bucigeto ae I recall ito of some $761 0 000 0 000 for construc .. tion of Bureau of Reclamation projects, and when we had our eharre of herG! in the Uppel' Colorado River B815in we had about a fourih of it we had about a fourth of the COIUDtl'U«:'" mODey for the entire seventeen western cftateso On the basis of the budget itself we didnOt have very much to stand Ola in the way of argument. The OAe thing that we could tie into wae the itf.9m of start projects. We had two of themo one of them extremely important to western Colo2'ado .. that was the Paonia Project. About the first thing that I did in WashbagtoDo a.feer C:OD3ulting with our Congressman hore, and t1levanlothers o people of the Department, and the Bureau of the Btndgeto was to fiDei out from thqj Depal"trncnt o Oil a confi '" d no .. AS '" c> are the Smith Fork Project &Dd the CurerenU s'orege unit. 1 thilak that 'W$ should g tiOD helr$ and wanted to put U\6 on the spot. AapinaU: BrOWll: They wanted All funds wIthheld from other stAtes untU our projects were started. including Glen Canyon. Goeliia: Mr. Chairmano J wow.a like to mdci another wON hero. Coqresamall AepiDilll mentioned but I want to make it pel'i0Ctly clear that 611 far as I am peli'sonaUy cODcernfld o U thiDk CODgremsmall ABpiCilll said the same thiDa). the objecaive. of your Resolution as written/) we hAve 110 quazorel with ito The onJly thins we W"li'e c1ieturbecl a.bout were the metbod.s inculcated ill ehe.t Reeolutioll to to accompliah the objective. i hOp0 tMt I have m&de myself clear with respect to that POiJlIt. ..: AspiDall: J thiAk we reaUseo geDt!eme1!l., that we here iA the westel'D elates havenOt got the popuiatioD; we have lot to stay tOle .. ther Ito 8et QJ1ytbing in. CongreslI. We just canOt afford to set to figbtbag amona ourselves. ABd here is a question 1 would like to ask. ! donUt kAow the llDSWel'; that ie why 1 am a.kiDS. AS8uming that this Boant decided later tbnt it was a mlst&ke to pass this RaI&lolutioQ ba its preaaeDt form. TJae Resolution DO bGten passecio hae Bone to StG.te Water Board, baa aOlle to th® delegation in COD3i'estJ aDd various people. Is tb0re aDY way the dammltS call be mitigated 01' obliterated? dOli °e Walt there ie a&\y damage tbat haa been dOAO am thel'o is DO policy that UfD baeD established yeto 11\ othel" wONao you stl\ted YOUI' wimhes and we are in 81reement with them, but if thiQl bita the Upper Colo:rrado Commission and they come!) out with sometbillg like this 01' don °t come out witb ito then you have lot tl'oubb,. If Ws should hit the Coloracio Water BoaI'd and they eilould out with tb!SII then YOll have got trouble in YOUI' fou!' st4tee. J Sparks: AcpiDall: Aspinall: You see, what isnOt apparently by the peop!" of the .U·0&. .. ther!! just 190 m1Ach mone,. for and there iG j\UlIt so much of that we caD expect to We S,I'SlL o 6\nd if you keep that UDder cOllsideration that there is jumt GO Dlll«:h mODC!Y we will have year by V_I" if we Now/) we ere bu1!diDS GleD Canyon" we have !lot to build .. 17 '" 'I Flaming Gorge. we want and whetbell' W0 lUte it 01' IlOt we haVGI Navlil.joo And you C&1ll pick those at a certain time (And that only leave6 you fa few milliOD dollars for your: participating projects. And YOUlr p&.rticipating p2'ojeacts cannot comp\&te with the construction of those main st0m umBo We have got to keep timt in mind b8 a cause you could have participating pi"oj0tCta and DO main stem ulna comple2ced ana yOU2' whole would go to the But if you. get your fouX' main stem umso 01' just three!> project is bound to So "" there just iSDOt any other way of itD provided All of us pay just a Uttlq: bit of attention to what we are cloingo pnyiding that we oppoae CeaUral Valley of Utah waUl WGl can b0 8sliuand tut it will come within that iU A/l'/M formula for Utah. Or the sam49 tbing with the San Juan-Chama .. they Mve got to come to it. There ilB no ci:hell' way out of ito if they cannot ahow ie8tBibUity they ci.,DOt get tile,. Just donGt get the How is .CeDtral Utah; its IilOt fe&sible then? Aspinall: I thiok that will &lye to be detei'min$cl iD the futUl'0. Weave liveD oae of d2e tndeso Oll1$ of the campa-owae. with Utah. Here again with a. given ute w00re to to it that they got the I'fllvenuG3 from thei r own power plants. ill l.\ we count have any fias.l fitJUI'El9 Olllo aobocly knowe it., but most th()y are not goi1ll8 to be m 0\ pol!lition wbel'G they. C&D compote with the othera' main 4QmliJ D tb.nt is the Mmso GleDo Canyon and Ciol"ge '" they are Dot going to jIZlOpm.lfdi&0 tbolic. So that makoa .it possible for us the Ilext yea.l'e 0 at least" to 1'0o.t very well securo in our positioDo Has anyone eatimated the C\!1l"Ve of will etart: to Aapinall: 1961 0 tim0 wbon the Det lrElV03lil\AeS availabll!? «Mt". GosUn rG!ier6 to some They just do;mOt to accept. dOJ\Ot waiU to afCcept the fQct that Wti!) dcmOt Mve wn!S \.UllU thoiPe l',weit\les 6ltlAn comins iIlao Ii we withm any sene4blo approach to dle am.O\lct of moeey that will be available we doaut h&ve to waito Now 0 Wyoming alrem.cly bas the EdeDo thQ little Edell Project is a!r(lle.dy .. pan of this Co!ol'lAdo lUger Projed o anc! it is alo I'oad, completed as fair ae thae is coneernecio alad withiD ten years die usera wiU bcJgiu pay 011 U D aDd by that timo we expect that there will b. mOllae, out 01 th0 Basin. Fund to help pay til" pari the US4U'm tage allowed to Wyoming. e:&ilOt pay within the Goslin: The WAS about nnet revenues". Now" reveD'" ueG wiU become &trtAilable from. &be storage project, ob" 8omet:ime between" dopending on the etol"ecd wnt01' and, you klaowo how much I'Ab:alall we have" 80me p!&ce between eay '65 &Ad 010 0 just l'ougb!y. Now tlmt ie revenue. Those first revenuee o boweyer" under the term&! of thl8 BiAlo &U have to go toward. payinS eff the capita! 4!osta of th pOlle of your motioDD but I did want to bring that to youZ' attention so it could. be considered in what you doo Hansen: We have a motion before Smith: Mr. Chairman/) I would. euuest tilat "ilace Mr. Sparklllo and he does, have to le&ve lright after lunch,' ailld he waa to make some reDuu'ks eoncel'iUDI this tidng o that before the ReGloluQ tion is cOllsidered that vIe bear from Mro Sparkeo ' Han90n: «To Mro Delaney» Would that be acceptable to you? Ulllo Delaney: Browo: Ha!U)cn: Alript Mro Felix Spalflt6., Dhractor of the Water Conserva., don Board. We will bave ecmment8J from MI'. Spazok5 at this timo. Sparks: 1 will make my i'enmrks briefo ! listened with great intel'eet to what CoAlres!lman AspiDaU bad to .aYD and Ivai Gosline J have to work with them in these matte I'D ! concu-:t' in what abey bad to say This 1\e801utioDo as such!) was to our BcaM and V-ie took DO actiOD OD it. all you anD tbel'e is no action not that we werellQt in with ! thiDk. tbis cam@ e.bout as a result of mmny Y ar;:yc!'4e. We have !lOacis 110 demandii 01' cllBimo UpOD the Bureau of Reclamation. We have m&de that am a to the propotBa! that has beeD. made by the lowell" hAUaB! states. Ae.d we &1"9 ut Jobag to c!l3velopm@m an@ fo,vo1labl\a pq!)l&itiola wh!ch Il10W And the Cormgu-selsmnn MID beelIll abcut the naUoms! level. WG hnve bc;en wOi-lang 2S baIl'G OD the aiat£e lovelo The Govea-Dore of tbOS0 four upper fMsin haVG m0t bequetnU" the past few yes !" 5 Yi(!) Amve had @uabut we have wways reo tllaosca diUert»lllccQ aDd II am confident we will COD" eo do 80 in the iuNlle. The State govenamcnto ill the ii_I a_lyais o must pide our COD8i"eseiona! &etioll. 1 think I am tB&€e ira oayiag that with referlDJace to the Paonia Project • DOW tat proJect, tile fo!" that project secured by CoDillesllm&lIl AmpioU. No question it. N'cavcenbe!tulIB o 0 0 c· I venhu"" to Bay we have eomeWns eigbt0ea COD... gresSlional maumatol!'S and eongreeilmen. approximately that" bom the upPQllr basin statcall. I venture to eay that if ollle of tholSt) eighteen people had it would Dot have gone thl'cugho And ceri.la.iwy 1 will eay. without aoy resenati01l8 o that if one from Coloraclo had opposed it it would not hsva gone tbrougbo So the impori&Dce of ma.!ntaiDiD.g some equilibrium among thelia) upper b&SiD stat4UJ is INlr&mount to all other cODsideratioM, with the .xceptioD that the righte of ColoIt'aao muet be prcaoorved. ADd I clonat mean that we have to ineimt on it being filled to", We have this pi-ogram gOiDg and it is a long range prop09iti@Do And! thiDk the Coasreo61man .-stated tbat there i. DO d:ilance of getting ether pli"ojeds DOt Ustecl in 485 for at next twenty years o eo OUi" effonCil should be dedicated to other pl'cjecto now authorized 01' now men .. ¢loned aAoAg the way. Now the WQ!I have in tbis State, the we have and f'&eeCJ the same tidDle is trying to m&inmin a Wlited State And New has faced that aam0 proposition. in fact bas that same problem a.s CQloll'm.do doee with its dive!'SiODS But unless we keep the problema in hand then we will 0 Mro Barnarrd has made reference to .the Frying Pan-AlrkruaSlao Again, we larre dOiDS everythilllg wiWlIll our power to reconcile the differences Oil that project. Tbe sole purposo being to provide Che most IItoRge to we8" t&m Coloi'&do mOD0V will make possible. Now what we are for is a that will comt eOlDotbbag in DGigbboTfhood of dpt or nine million doUal'$o which will the greatest. amount of We are Qot through wiUh by a long The A"esol'voir sites we have so far" have not comp!lDted the planning, but we will COlllc\u"l'enUy tU(i)· up And eo tJw.i end pl't the staff of Watliu' Board win come over to conVQmenC0 Mr. Smitho very shortly to loo!t at other possible so that we caD hil.ve malAY pIA/!lS to plreS0nt to you as we can POfHlibAy with thal $75 0 000 we had 101" that pUlpC!!tD. aU 10990 as Now. along with the Water Board hao the employmtDrU of & in we.ten Colol'ado. That is by the Wli&1aturo, 90 It tll'Ust: thq) hers will mke Dote of that etate· inC.. We ialend ao employ t\...,o additional engineere. one of will be a !lItre. Before we our eqineer vIe woul!i veiY muc.il to uve tb0 OJ!" i'&lf:ommu!u;'da{ciCDli)o 'fl"om We BQ.all!d. WEI would lilte ¢o two OZl" thiDkiX&8 is f:ut Jwu:iti(l)!!l\o The 0 aim neighbolrhood of And X \'!1Qwd like for andl) if you can OlI' (jiIro&@l m xUn® ye&.li"o lScs&'d ao o f\o me.kel OUR' Bami'd ifol'f mmp1l.cyment of I 0iaZl" eD$inesr winA ealall."Y 'Il'J'ill prooobAy Glllgin It am VI alfC fOll plI'opC»sed Aspon R@lDeR'voi1f1l 10 rnellatedmllC3@1 se s mUtt @f tlmEl F1l"ying Pan ... AX'lml'Asas aioEll. Il:ommanlted it A6Jl1elil i6 Aot Co\\u:».ty wUR have eo illlg n i"0ll}tu'Vci1f th0!S'0 if} me poi1llJ.t if AD enist. 10 (C!!cutiBllumg' Thei'fD 10 aUtttRa diU@l:'01I1ItS lrm'fbc· 111m WliAy it 19l Now 0 XCl!Olm°t MOW wAne \!p ShlZiIi"G iol1 OPA3t11silBg at@lrage. Thae is the quewUolin 1 bave. I (!Q&\Ut ltD-OW. whQ ie cppcsinB ne mu(t&.Now I, "J ! am DOt: criticizing; I am juet aakiq. because I donUt know who they are. Do you, Bob? And after readiDS that X dOD °t know. m&y be. Nebol!: Gllurbaz: Not altoletilezoo no. As I Und0i'se&Dd ito olle of the sites that W$e s,urveyedo the Difficult ., iOIl °t that the upper reaches of the Aspen They lSay It feaaible. Why iSDOt the upper reaches fQiaeible and the 10Vler is? We never diG WDk the Aspen RcuJe1M7oir \val) & proper site fOff &. c1amo because they have to puts ce>Jnem iloo!' OD bottom to bold it. It is the 81UD.0 at the upper end. U it iBDOt feasible up it is Aot below.· Theoe are the queeti.ODIS asked me up there. Sparka: ! can th&t quite .easily. We have tried to got some the RcariAg Fork for the SalvaUoa. Ditch. not that it"io necessary ti1ta Frying Pan ..Arkansas plan aa such., be. cause the Salvation Ditch could bca eDlar."ged to its .. I think it bAa 4ecree for something Uke 90 aDd ia DOW omy taldog about 30 And that water is simply not avaUable, in of low QOWIJ .a61 yeu know. With acme it would be available. It would be scine Gtor&8e for the Town of Aspen. Tlael' jecfsC1l the plC'es0rmt fdme onyffhilll\g QQlme dowlllI iml NebI?aaltc\o so COlll'M!I up a 6uitabl@ eIre just .Qt3 amtictw 0.0 Th B7f@st disUkQ; to the Aspei'a ReGe1fvo!r c> iOlr 4 Ge1"jh,,s!.3: /7 ]I you will fl}(!lQo .. ., 0113 OUlr Con8U'@t:J5x:n&lCI to ClAI? 1@134!.1 ]1 wnl3 my OWia wioh0S times t'Co ha.'\7e neve!' C;GG&ified against et07l'al6 ile eo gJma1 cr:ouAdnoa take ahe OXil. a miE1u(t@, 'lntt as hG payo buck n SestHi@d 1t 1lIlO. X it WCllln\°t Jr the re is t;1n.y ... ... • that Mll"o Gerbms. U thla AetOs aaeume is flrom mv mod VOl! my job o a!l«llt il.1lXl fOU 1 thimk itG vita! this a&1ltta that be bwUt. JI ".Would like to of to haV(3 cO\!lnav c> now c> a momen&o be 0 ·He bas AfJpilllBU 1-110 is gOilllg I llt.cpeo Z9 .. AO X Porter: Aepiimll; I am 10iDI 80 ! can stay on the Atomic: Energy Commillsion; it ia nn &oDigmnerat on the Atomic Energy Commission. HaDsen: Ha.e you finiehed o Felix? I a.m sorry to interrupt you. Spark€): I have got to be OD that train. too. Mr. Gel'bas p if the oppositioD of Pitkin County is directed 801ely to the tl"all1smountain cUv81'&9ioD. and that I can uncierstand, if that is the Bole objection .... Lete assume !hat the transo mountain diversion would take place Would you then v/ant theetoragES at the Aapen site? Gel'baz: I would have to talk with those peopla up there at Allpeno I wono, &Jav they like the £lite. I .wonOt "lty they will like it. but we &I"e going to have to bave storage whether we have diveJr8ion or not. We a.re going to need storage without - .. Barnard: ThatDB alright. C> Mro Cbnil'm&D. may I Qsk Mr. Sparks Q question? I think I ebo answer; ! tbiDk he has already answered it. it to DOW that a further illuQtntioD is a little imma., As I UJlcermtaAd it, Mlr. whatever the Bureau alld the Water Board .come up with in the way of available and appal'.eDtI;' feasible sites will be laid before this . Boai"C for consideratio!l. which will include' the HomiIDsiake propoMl& posoiblya m.ore complete repqrt OD Ruedi siteo aDd PQseibiliiy of storag fai' a.s the State is concell'D0d &nd 30 fall' as the Bureau im we have not thrown out the ASpcaD site. is ODS aile that we could go ahead with and construct. We l\:illow that BlOW. These otncrso we will (:ome up with altel'nate sites o but 1. say. as my ibm that tbeE'e will Dever be any 8tora.ge OIl the RcariD8 Fork UW as a project of Region 4. Resion 4 has ita projec:tG cut out for" ZO years. If they had the money they could do it SOODor without killing themeelv4Ils u and therfJ iGDOt enough money. If we caD get olae project a year it would take over 20 years to get these proJecta ,oiDg. and we are Qot to let olle project a yeaI'. We ar. airni.Dg at onc at least every two If we can get two a year 01' four yea I· • we are ",oIDS to we are 10iD! to "Y Oft of them, but we are Dot IOiDI to t ..em d9nee I tltink." a co :n p .: 12.:2.0 PoM. The meetilfl8 wafi rec:oDv(Qlneci at 1:30 P.M. D with Preei .. dent Cy T. Hanzcan President Hansen caU/ac! att0ntion to a pendiDl motion made by Mr. Delaney and seconcied by Mr. Brown. Judse Hushes commented that was highly in favor of dispoGing of the Resolution under cODBicieration. but could not agree with that part of Mr. Delaney's motion relating to accomplishment of objective.. He, therefore, suggested all amended or substitute motion. ae follows; "I MOVE that DO funber action be taken on the Resolution of thia Boardg adopted OD April 15th, 1958." Following Borne discus.ion. Ml' .. GltlasoD seconded Judge Hushl\teo motioD. Mr .. DelaDOY wiUadrew hie origiDal motion and Mr. Brown withdrew hie second of motion. The motion was then voted upcm and pa.eecl without clisoentilll8 vote. Mr. PeteItlSon thereupon requested that a report OD the action just taken be referred to the Colorado Water ConaeJ'vatioD BoalL"G. The Board instructed the Secl"etary .. Engillear to iDiol"ln aU of the April 15th, 1958 ResolutioD of the action takeD Jl.ldge Hughes 0 motion. President HaDS"'D theD caUflc1 to the attention of tbc8 Board the request of Mr. Sparks lrelatins to the District makin, l"e ture at tble eita 'Would I'esult in emoDsilv. railroad l'e!ocaUODo Kremmling Reservoir i8 Pl'imal"Uy dlisilAed to c1iuJ'D&! l"elea0ee from the MounmiD aDd WiUiamll Fork Reaervoirs" Retelues bom the KremmliDs Reservoil' aad c1irect now c1iver.iou from the Colo,ado Rive&" at the Klremmlins dam site would bCl conveyed through the Gore power cOAduit 8 ill 1enlthtl wbich would baYe a e&rryinl capacity of 1000 lSeeond feet Water (toAveyed in the Oore power conduit would be througb a "tatic head of ZZO feet to the Ciore Power Plaut. This plaid would Bye an installed capacity of 18 0 000 K. W 9 Tail water from the Power Plant would flow into the upper end of the Azure The Asare Rellei'Voi!' would be by a clam ZOO feet in heilbto located on the Colorado Rivelr &pproximatcdy " 1/1. mnee dowutl'tlam from the 001'0 Plant and Z milea upstream from the to\VD of Tbe lles01'co 'IIoil' woulet_vEt a t!:apndty of 90 D 000 feQ!lt. bC)m the Azure ResCll"voil' would be dis({:erged thl'OUp the Azure Power Plant UIldei' a maximum static head feet. This plant would also hayo aD iastaUed Qpacity of lap 000 K. W. 801lcrated at tIleae two plaDt. caulcl be to load centere ta both ea.te ...., and weston Coloatado throuab eaistiq power tl'anemllelon faCilities of the Colol"aclooJUg TholDpson Tbe lIoacaUed oak Croek t!'nDli'misiiioll line &be Colorado River In. that project' &1"8a. 'nae Gore Project filiilg w&s ac@opted by the State 'Oil September IlthD 1958. 0 0' em the 11th day of Oetobsl'o 19580 a Valley for the Eagle w•• submitted to the State Engineer. AI the llUIle APPENDIX IIA" this project is located in the valley of the Eaglce Rivei' in the vidnity of the towns of Eagle and OypSUlD o Coloradoo The proje0schec fA sfUlge wher80 in my opimono we can DOW center O\U' att0fintlon on a program for the White and Yampa River Baaina aDd to finali&iDg our filing foIl' the Uppeli' Gumdaon Basin ProJeceto You will be interemted to bow that John Elllliotto th0 engineer who ma.de the on the ,Eagle RiveI'D which confli 8torage sites for Frying Pan",ArMlIlsae P'!CIIJe@t repllael8'" ment and foot per annum fo!' the WfAter provided. In my opinioDo even though t be users in the area seem to be agreeable to such a chargeo they would find it to on from present land uaage in the area. AnotheR' 566 projed in our Db ... trict o known ae the Storm Mountain Projed o is on fdle Yampa River tributaries e8at of Steamboat Springs. The Elliott filing 9 previo".!y mentioned in this repono is in conQict in re8pect to water .upply with the Storm Mountain Proj"(!:t. Public Law 566 was designed a water3hed and flood pre .. vention measure and is mu MVtl !Act p1l'ogrlZJsfiSsd as :rcpidly as we ehou.ll.d have deGiireci o principally of thctt f&et that 6&e Eogmeen- in tat Irl'igati@D Division hael lMt yet E3uppnied 1!.iSlt of users in those which h0 180 waC0Ir tbe 8nci W1dexr the orders the Dietl'll§t Couri o 1'0qun!'eci, to provide and lUe with tthe Cleought about UI. proo gram to be folAowed by the Color&do Wate2r Coau;el"Vatien re= ll.ative Cl»lcii'ado designed to the wmtel'S of that fer ill! this As it. of that program win be II dlDtt01l'W:au&tiO!!l of the amoWlt of water which will! probably ba {Olf' nlll d.evelopment in WeeterD Colormdo; f,\ud thi!lo with the end m of a State polley wllUeh will prote«:t Western eolorad4'j in its uae of a.U of the \?;7atel' of the stream whidl im eo TbslSe Qn be aD engineerinso aad 10salo Xt i!4 C!.\ study which. should have bee"n made mAny yean's &gc; wad erutire a.nd. pnrUculady CoAoo ,_ )i raco D have boeD plac0d &t Go VCl'y distinct dis advantage by reamon of the fact that it was not made and. long agoo The eDgineering &nc hyci1fologic&i lSwdiea are beilCl3 made by tbe sm.U of the Colomdo Wnter BcmraD aided by & Watel' JnvGstigmtioJa of the Co!oi"6do Water CongretHllo Vlhieh ConuEll!63sioG reprer&eatntives from ths major w&tei""" shed &1'-'8 of th0 Repa-es0ntiDg tho Colorodo River Water COD8fJrvatioD Dist:lrid on th&t' CommilllsioD are 1141\"0 Smith &zul myselfo Thlit leg&! smdi01ll a.re b0mg made by three ationleyso employed {Oft tha.t put-pOS\!! by thl!: Cc!ore.cd@ CouCI"Vfi.tio1ll Board These Mro Frank D&sneYII MIl"o Glenn Sau!aders and myse1fo Tb!s lielal reeo&re:h" ilS a mQDullnl8ntal tasko is being made rapicUy &.aI time will permit. We &l: that We ,poliey smtemem is elllti:rely "oucci: mild Colonco shewd not I'tlltre§?t il'om. it iD any 0 B should be stated that the and expenees of tb pearaci eo be DeC8SfiI&rty m ce4tmin of the decisioDs which uvo beeD haDded down by tribuulo Litcti'sUV hWlcllt'&ci of mape acd emtee> melllte .ve beeD filed ill the offiee o.f tile State Engineero Thoma which the District Me filea h£\",o always complied wieh the 60 c4ay l"equiremeDto But tile CCDtlri Milt vet to 92yo that eomplia1l1ce witln the msnutoay of the Map 61u:l State .. ment &s to the time of filing gives the ci&im..&Dt the right to fix llis pricl'ity date as of the ut tory treqwremeDts 38 to filing of of i.eDtion to appropriate or obt.bwlg penntt from the proper of.ficial!') gives the claimant the benefit of tIls ciodrme ox sII\4 iizee hie priority as of the date of ccmpliancfl with the stawte I am convinced tbat tat was intention of tbe Legiamttlre in adopting OU1i' Map and St&tement Ado Howevei'o the d00s lllot specifically ett.v &0; heilf:(fio iDstead of I strongly l'c(;oxnmending Ito the Bm\rd that iC authOrize the aubmissiolm to the 1959 -BeDsioD of the GeDelfa! A.saembly a biU amending the Map e.nd Act in order thD.t may be ilC furt.her questi@!ill GS to its meaDingo Oaaly by $0 aoinl" and by c statutory ccmfirmatiolll of filings hea-etofore made in compUallcG with the emsting Acto caD tho recordfl be cAea!'0d of the e!@'4!QS upcm lUle dgnt to the U@/f.l of wateR" ouch as that c2I'amted e 0 by Ws EAUott iUiD!o Firse o The mm0BamueD! n'lay be al!::ecmpTiished in one of prCs®Dt M&p m1i!.y be ewe» WilY"; Ire o ,_ )i viDea to for thlC liling D in taeD offiee of the State Engiaeel" and the County Clerk and Recorder. of & notice of intention to appl"oplfiate watero This BotleD muet be within six months/) by the filing of a map a.nd statement of tho p1lopooCBd pro ... Jec!:to Withm three years after date of the filing -0£ is ever do Q\\d:1 4:eD ever he initiated. unfli! aeeu&! wovk the gr'oundo It is meoneeivable anyone will ' cowaac;t1GJl Wltb that project ulliU it is autholl"is04 by CODgl"ees; QDd X to @J0!!t how Coagl"G5e call be inc:> to cMa.thoriae it in the fal.\:l9 of the DieCItic::t°g d0crce to the Wai0i" of Fl")'iDg PaD Rivero !f the statute is amended so that iii de«:ree alB be obtainedo mill a which wiil bl& juDioa' to thAt of the B&wt Projed o therl3 ('.an be e. subo!'diu o tioD of the of the 12tt0l" p:&>G»ject the ju!Uor rights of the FryiDS Pan projecto to that Pll'ojQ)ct I should like to uve specific taken on this re)com n mendation by Board of Di!'eeto:ral at Ws mei9tinso - ..... .................. - -- -- -- SUMMATION of . REPORTS . 101'. JULY;. AUGUSTo SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER 195:8 SA VINGS CHECKING: AceT" ACCT. TOTAL BALANCE o Banl, Caeh BaAca.nee JUDe ]0 p A9 58 RECEIPTS: to •••• RemiUaXll.0 •••• '0,o,oo APPENDIX "0' 0 Ac;pe11l City C01lJl.IU:U of C@lol'aelo Rivei' Dast:a-i@t Booa'd Ml'n 01le®t )Alro R@b,," DGiJa,ncy' I Elltldcoe with Ws ti.OIlt 'by e!a0 Oet@b0!' 130 19580 Q. cG)i"tWed copy of a Ut.ility BcarPd at its mee((iAg Tha UtiU@;y Bo&3rd is deeii"ous of ezpl!.orilltJ all p09Bib1l0 means of of waleI\' 1"ighto Ie to aU i"tuFa of @l@ City of No one fully gll'owth Ampe». wUl bs sncl aU pe!'9cu on the &zr0 men unUmft.ll.i&!' with t-hat would ll'@qu.b.'t)d iD OU3' lOQI. wat0l' lUld the tMt m&y 'be fOlr the Aspen :!.r UJms tJ.U po2sible mealllfl and methods &9 will pc:tl'l'lllit an efficient optelt'&tioD of m&id. hydl'celedrill: plant wiaaout engel' from snow o!' diri elides and are deoil"oue of investigating what would be neC91J" eeuy to rebebWw.te said plant8 said Beard is eloo deElilroU9 of invostigating thl3 poesibiUty of cODstnu:tion of a. dam on. Roaz.-im.g Fork River below· the eonilUctDCe of Castle Creek a\nd Ma:rOOlll Credlt with ROQ!'ing Fork for the pU!'poae of gODsre", tiCllD of elodrieaty and plrovicUng WiAtel\' fore irl'igation pUrpOesC9 im the Roaring c'"ork VcUeyo NOW 0 THEREFORE!? iT lU':SOLVED &B follows: That dtle Manager of tbe Municipal Electi'il!: Dee> parUnGllnt bel) aXld he is heli'ebyo authorime41 and db:eet*d to tho of the Colore-de Rival" CoDsel'Vation DAeE:!ict Bc'ard to l?caqueet Mid Boord to in investigtAting feaaibWty of the of n on thi! Rearing F02'k River below the of castle Creek MaI'OCD Creek for the of pltO o, 'ridbag elletttrie powell' iei' the City of Aep®n and watei" 101" irriga.Uon be;\ow dam &m.d to determine U 0 pt'ojQ)cto if faeiblc q cOlllld quUIY the Sm&ll AC!t of the FederalOovernmeDt. <1_ "that the MaMgeao of the Aspen Mumc:ipal Dlio psrimelllt is hellCGby authot"iged to <{londuet &BUm inv@sti2ation8 &8 he d6@ms to bel to deeOl:'micfl @f wcrrk timt is to effi(;i0iht operation of the 1imeting hydl'?oo el tlu\G; electrie eQ0lt'gy (iM!! ell ttimIBlB &vaUab!e to City of Ampen ilu!.d igs iDhabitQats midering pll.'a90W; i'ate of growth alild electric 0m1S!?gy !ncl'e£6silD.g demand lo!' 30 'fhet cr:opie6'J of the Cit,y Cowaeil of the City of Asp@no thtB aDd! bflt 0 to of the Colorado River C0l!18fln&tiolD Die2rict Oreet Gelrbag o membsu of scUd. laoo.rd fOI" P!tldD 2nd Roben Deiantlyo member of said. Bwu:d 1£Tt'om G&rfielld Cowaty 0 CERTIFICA l'E -ttrr:;== .., Ito SC1"lI\ml\'d Popieb o fol." the U&Wty Boe.rd o de hen-eby certify the Rem@iutioll is a true IllmG <.t:or%1'ed copy of the Relill@bation cco!WI.bu;}G in Mmutem ot the D'Ml0tmg held .October /) 19580 'by the ASp0D UeUity Boma-Go Bea-ard Po Popish ,, Secretary Q 3 ..... , "-J.. RESOLUTION Wldelr budget i*emm of Expen@o cf Committ peetive amountGf) &8 followa: EzpeU8 of Dire plus expense attendeo ing meeting Novembe r 14, 1958 ••• 0 • 0 • 0 " 0 •• 0 ••••••• 0 •• 0 77· ..·01 66 . 80.67 0 War. 2.41060 VOUo 252.90 dated Nov. 14, 19Sa, payable to Roben De1aneyo fee and. expense &ttendiq meeting Novembel' 140 1958 dated Nov. 14, A9S8 o payable to Warn 2.407 0 Vou.. Orest Ao Ge1l'D&13 o fee and expenee attl1lndirag meeting November'14, 1958 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 . 0 0 0 0 Coo 0 0 0 0 C\I 0 0 0 0 0 " 0 0 0 0 ,,000 Q Wal/'o 2.408" Vouo Z531" dated Novo 14D payable to Robert H. Olea,ollo fee and expense attA"0pQX'0d.by Con.Sttll?= CUll' fo'fl t1m$ Natiom">R Re is m ennbdivi({)iQIlI of the eountieo in of of the pUlfPooe of 01£ C:ol iii! OUIi' itm e. C.bSD ; 1t <1m WIt!t .. IBt1"6&mS of the intex-mC1JlllltlAbl &Fea of ing l1ienre ll'cl&tiv{!3!Y stel!llp t\lmd o eztendilrAg from the pointe of on fths Ito 12.lf&bAI7J a::rllll gensIu:'.U.y bigh Olm the wm,!llGY sJ).cpeo GIlA most of tllne lands e:sllU.\b Xn ©eriii!J.Un pIt@c> 1I?'(2QGivt!) water U£HU'!jl in GUlf D.!"ta cism.onet8'aailill(! @alB,. 0 O!.bund.'Alll* yield!;) of b.igful vel!.ue e@olO.Qm.i«:aU., lUlnGa owy mSIm@nt if iOff llMl:fol's be@i'A Il!cmside&-ed su.itable fon." usca &6 Plal?o by etudiss ,@ompiAed all1d of bW ftllsideuraM

  • te1" &ti'e&so c:ontr.oA of et«:, 0 Of( that t>Jlesqj lil\ot P0ItUU&U' @u.:r or we imtalS''' mllad o is! bceing tL:Eurl!fied ora by we will benelHt bGm Il:he !aboI!'atol?aee 0 W(iJ Ulrgtl} alTAd will mpp:£'04:i&te your m'\f@li.'ab1l.e of CUi' need foll.' OllA eoili am.c! wat,,!? cOlilserva.tion COLORADO RIVER WATER CONSERVAT!ON D1!STlUCT o ______- = PAUip Po SmiU1 D 0