WSP09741

• File Number: 8111.800
• Description: Arkansas River Compact Administration
• Basin: Arkansas
• Water Division: 2
• Date: 8/1/1951
• Title: Official Comments and Recommendations of the State of Colorado on the Initial Development - Gunnison-Ark Project - Roaring Fork Diversion- Colorado
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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their respective official comments and recommendations on the
report and proposed development; and

''\'!HEREAS the Arkansas River Compact AdLJinistration, an
official interstate body created by the Arkansas River Compact
and charGed "ith the administration of such Compact, is interested
in the proposed development to the extent that its construction
and operation shall not interfere ~ath the riGhts, interests and
obligations of Colorado and Kansas under the Compact;

"Hal BE IT RESOLVED by the Arkansas River Compact Administration
that the following comments and recommendations relating to said
report of the Secretary of Interior, to wit:

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"The Arkansas River Compact Administration submits these comments
and recommendations to the Governors of Colorado and Kansas re-
specting the proposed Initial Development, Gunnison-Arkansas Pro-
ject, Roaring Fork Diversion, Colorado, namely:

"1. The Administration understands that the project plan proposes:

"(a.) The importation by appropriate project works of approxi-
mate}y 70,000 acre-feet of water a year from the Colorado
River Basin to the Arkansas River Basin for supplemental
irrigation and domestic water supplies in Colorado and
for the production of hydroelectric energy.

"(b) In connection with such importation of water al\d ij:.s
reGUlation in the Arkansas River Valley by project
works, the re-regulation of native waters of the
Arkansas River (the term 'native waters,' as here~
used, being those waters covered and defined by
Art. III-B of the ,\rkansas !liver Compact).

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"2. The interstate ~ater relations of Colora~o and Kansas with
respect to the Arkansas River do not justify any objection
to the proposed project development for the importation of
Colorado River water (described in sub-para~raph (a) above).

"3. The re-regulation of l1ative waters of the Arkansas River
(native waters being :,5 above mentioned) concerns the
Arkansas River Compaet Administration and both Colorado
and Kansas in complying with the provisions of the Arkansas
River Compact and maintaining the benefits and obligations
of the two states under that Compact. To that end, it is
recommended to the G),'ernors of Colorado and Kansas, and
expressed as a policJ ~f the Arkansas River Compact Adminis-
tration, that the InL ial Development, GUIL'lison-Arkansas
Project, Roaring Fork Diversion, Colorado, as set forth in