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<br />January 24, 1950 <br /> <br />I.Jr. Avery Batson <br />Director, Region VII <br />U. S. Bureau of Recla~ation <br />New Customhouse <br />Denver, Colorado <br /> <br />Dear IJr. Batson: <br /> <br />On Septe~ber 1, 1948, you transmitted to the Governor of Colorado <br /> <br />copies of a preli~inary draft of planning report and appendices dated June <br /> <br /> <br />1948, on the potential Gunnison-Arkansas Project, Colorado. *t that time <br /> <br /> <br />you requested the State to review the report in its present form and favor <br /> <br />you with its comments in order that they could be considered together with <br /> <br />comments by the various Bureau of Reclamation offices to assist you in the <br /> <br />preparation of the report in final fer~ for trans~ittal to the Commissioner <br /> <br />of Reclamation and the Secretal"'J of the Interior. <br /> <br />Pursuant to action of the Colorado Water Conservation Board, a <br /> <br />Policy and Revievr Committee Vias organized on Nover.1bcr 24, 1948, to review <br /> <br />the draft of report. This Committee has rret at various times to consider <br /> <br />the report, its appendices and the subsequent studies made available by your <br /> <br /> <br />organization. Sufficient agreement had been reached by the Committee on <br /> <br />certain factual matters that at its meeting on January 3 and 4, 1950, the <br /> <br />Committee decided to recornmend that your report be prepared in final form and <br /> <br />that it incorporate the suggestions contained in this letter. <br /> <br />During the cour.se of review you also r.1ade available to the Committee <br /> <br />a draft of a special report dated September 1949 which incorporated changes <br />made in the June 1948 draft of r<:.port due to studiea conducted subsequently <br /> <br />by the Bureau. That special report has been reviewed also by the Commit.tee. . To <br /> <br />0653 <br />