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ME! ;QRANDUM January 31, 1951 -I FROM: Clifford H. Stone, Director of Colorado Water Conservation Board SuaiECT.: Gunnison River and Colorado Storage Heports by Bureau of Reclama- tion and Hearings Thereon to be Conducted b:Y the Colorado Water Conservation Board. , Information reaching the office of the Colorado Water Conservation Board, through letters and otherwise, indicates that it is desirable to 9ut- line the procedure planned by this office for the consideration by the State and affected local interests of a status report on Gunnison River de- velopment and the final report on the Colorado River Storage Project. To aid in an understanding of procedure in this matter, the follm~ ing is submitted: 1. Arran~ements have been made whereby E. O. Larson, Director of Region 4 of the Bureau of Reclamation, Trill make avai. lable to the Colorado ~ater Conservation Board a number of copies of the status report on the po- tential Gunnison River development. These will be preliminary reports for the purpose of study and review. This office vall send copies of these reports to various interested groups and individuals in Colorado. The report will also be studied and reviewed b~ the staff of the Board. It is expected that these reports will be made available shortly after the 15th of February. Z. According to the best available information, it is expected that the final report on the Colorado River Storage Project \7111 be sent to the Colorado Water Conservation Board early in February. A sufficient number of copies of this report will be sent to this office so that they may be distribu- ted to various interested groups and individuals in Colorado. As soon as they are received by this office, such distribution will be made. 3. About thirty days will be allmyed for study and review of the above-mentioned reports (and they should be considered together) before the hearings authorized by the Colorado Water Conservation Board, to be held at Durango, Gunnison, Delta and Meeker. Representatives of Region 4, Bureau cf Reclamation, and some of the members of the Colorado Uater Conservation Board (including the Director and other members of the staff) will participate in these hearings. The above-mentioned project reports will be reviewed from an engineering point of view and othervrise by the staff of the Board so that as much help and assistance as possible may be given at the hearings. Precise dates of the hearings cannot be fixed at this time, but under the above procedure, the hearings nill not be held before the 19th of L;arch, 1951. Notice of these dates will be mailed out from this office and published in the newspapers. G{;TI