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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the water they wanted to and Arizona would9't have anything

to say about it." You may have somethin~ like that with
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you states up here before you get through with it.
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Let me say the Bureau officials ,n Washington appar-

ently don't agree with Mr. Coffey and they I think that the

states have got something to say about wheJe that water goes.

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But I think you are going to maybe sooner or later have to

kind of bac.k us up on that proposition, th~t the states have

got a right to say where the water that is jallocated to that

particular state is used, and that at least it is a compromise
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proposition, a two-way proposition, and th~t the Federal Gover -

ment should never issue a contract to use Jhat stored water
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except when it is approved by the state. I

Now that is the sum and substanCE of it.

CHAIRMAN STONE: That presents a very interesting

problem. I wonder if that isn't s, matter, based upon Mr.

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Moeur's explanation of it, that we. shouldn'it look into; and ii
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it is, is that a prOblem for the Upper Colorado River Commis-
sion or this Committee?

MR. WILL:

I just threw it out to you because we
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you are going to have it sooner or later..

May I say this--and I !Will admit, howeveI
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MR. MOEUR:

have got it now and

that I am shooting rrom the hip--the problem is one that is
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now immediatelY before Arizona and the Basin States Oommittee
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it is not one with which we ourselves are immediately faced.
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CHAIRMAN STONE: What do you meazl. by "we ourselves"
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MR. WILL: I mean the Upper Color\ado River Commissi

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