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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Grand Junction, and as evidenced by resolutions dated June 15, 1935, and
February 2B, 1936, was not adhered to because surveys of the character
mentioned in said resolutions were not available to the Committee. Nothing
herein contained shall be deemed or construed as a precedent for Federal
projects not heretofore authorized until adequate surveys have been made
and the necessary data are available so that a general allocation or
apportionment of the waters of the Colorado River, allocated for consumptive
use in the State of Colorado, under the Upper Colorado River Basin Compact,
may be made between Eastern Colorado and Uestern Colorado, as distinguished
from an attempt to execute such State policy by a piecemeal or series of
partial allocations, any of which may seriously interfere with a complete,
over-all State proeram."

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Paragraph BB of the report under the heading "Recommendations," states:

"E. The project be operated under the direction of the Secretary
of the Interior in accordance "~th the Operating Principles set forth
in this report or as Principles may be modified in the future by agree-
ment beh'men the Secretary and the Commission established by the State
of Colorado."

It is understood that the Operating Principles, mentioned in this quO-
tation from the report, are those set forth in Paragraph 74, pp. 27 to 33,
both inclusive, and that the. "Commission" mentioned therein is the Commission
which may be created in the ~4nner and for the purpose set forth in Paragraph 17
of the Operating Principles. (See p. 33 of the report.)

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Colorado's approval of the plans set out in the report and of the authori-
zation of the project is conditioned upon compliance TIith the Operating Prin-
ciples set forth in the 'report (see Paragraph 74, pp. 27 to 33, both inclusive)
and also full recognition and compliance VQth those portions of the Policy and
Review Co&rnittee's report, as revised and approved by the Colorado Water Con-
servation Board, which are omitted from the report and which are hereinabove
set out; except that as to the name of the project, it is recommended and urged
that in an appropriate manner the project should hereafter be known and referred
to as the "Fryingpan-Arkansas Project." It is noted from the letter of the
Commissioner of Reclamation to the Secretary of the Interior, contained in the
report, that it is stated:

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" * * * * This development is designed as a self-contained
unit, and its construction -,7ould not imply a commitment for
developing future water supplies in the Gunnison ~iver Basin
for diversion to the Arkansas River Basin."

Colorado approves this statement but such a statement lends weight to
the reason for changing the name of the project as herein recommended. Diver-
sion from the Fryingpan River to the Arkansas River has no relation to the
Gunnis on River. It is not proposed under this "self contained" project to
divert water to the Arkansas Basin from the Gunnison River. The identification
of the project on the cover of the report and used throughout the report --