WSP08906

• File Number: 8220.101.03
• Description: Glen Canyon Dam/Lake Powell
• State: AZ
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Date: 5/8/1990
• Title: CWCB Agenda Item #11b, May 17-18-1990-Board Meeting - CRSP Matters and H.R. 4498
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Board Memo

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Agenda Item llb
May 8, 1990

Query, does this expression of intent conflict with
and override the statement of multiple purposes found
in section 1 of the CRSP Act?

(3) Section 3 of the bill directs the Secretary of the
Interior to promulgate "emergency interim operating
criteria"'for Glen Canyon Dam within 90 days after the
date of enactment of the bill.

(4) Section 4(a) of the bill directs the Secretary to
complete the EIS within three years, rather than the
two years proposed by Reclamation, and further directs
what evaluations, at a minimum, shall be included in
the EIS.

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(5) Section 4(b) of the bill directs the Secretary to
adopt new "long-term operating criteria" for Glen
Canyon Dam Qased upon the findings and conclusions of
the EIS, which new criteria are, "at a minimum, [to]
ensure that Glen Canyon Dam is operated in a manner
consistent with the requirements" of the amended
sections 1 and 2 of the CRSP Act (see (2) above).

Hearinas on H.R. 4498

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The Seven Colorado River Basin States wrote Secretary Lujan
on April 23rd urging him to announce that he would implement
interim power operations within 90 days after completion of the
ongoing test flow program which is a part of the GCES and EIS
(i.e., towards the end of 1991) and that the EIS would
encompass the evaluations set forth in Section 4(a) of
bill. The Seven States further urged the Secretary to
position, if he did make the above announcements, that
legislation was not needed and should therefore not be
upon. This letter was provided to you previously.

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In essence, the Department of the Interior did decide to
take the position recommended by the States. In this regard,
the Commissioner of Reclamation was scheduled to testify at the
April 26 hearing on Interior's behalf. However, as the hearing
opened, Congressman Miller alleged that he had requested, and
had been advised, that Interior would be represented not only
by the Bureau of Reclamation, but also by the National Park
Service and the Fish and Wildlife Service. The Congressman
further alieged that Interior had refused to allow
representatives of the two Services to testify. With that,
Congressman Miller summarily announced that he would refuse to
recognize and call upon any Administration witnesses to testify
even though they were seated in the front row. He went on at

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