WSP09662

• File Number: 8210.120
• Description: Colorado River Basin States Committee ‎(AKA Colorado River Compact Commission)‎
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Date: 9/15/1952
• Author: CRBSC
• Title: Proceedings of the Meeting of the Colorado River Basin States Committee
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Publication

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is this'a new proposition?

CHAIRMAN STONE:

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Well the State of Colorado and the

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State of Wyoming has taken no action; neither has any other
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state of the Upper Basin.

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MR. TRACY: But in any contemplated action, didn't
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we at the last meeting discuss that very thing and go into
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that, and the State of Colorado and the St!j.te of Wyoming felt
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that they wouldn't care to take any part in it?
CHAIRMAN STONE: I don't think a~y d~finite deCiSioi
was made. That discussion I believe, Mr.' tracy, took place '
in the Upper Colorado River Commission whe~ the Commission I
adopted the resolution which'Mr. Will refe;red to this morn- I
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ing and under which he took the action in writing the Governo~
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of Arizona and California.

This Committee as such has never:taken any action
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and the only action taken was the resolutidn of the Upper
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Colorado River Commission which was taken-4when was that, Jeff
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MR. WILL: That was June a year ~go. In fairness
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to :Mr. TracY'Ithink this ought to be recalled, that during
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the course of the discussion of the resolu~ion that was adopte
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by the Commission at that time, Mr. Breite~stein discussed

the situation in which the respective stat~s found themselves;
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and it became clear I think, that in his j~dgment, the validi
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of the 1922 Compact could not be successfuily assailed unless

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both Colorado and wYoming were before the Court, since both
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Colorado and Wyoming are parties to that Cqmpact. That there-
fore, if they were not before the Court, t~e validity of the
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