WSP10281

• File Number: 8278.300
• Description: Title I - Mexican Treaty
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Date: 9/1/1991
• Author: Anne DeMarsay CRBSCF
• Title: The Brownell Task Force and the Mexican Salinity Problem - A Narrative Chronology of Events
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Publication

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Interviews with Committee of Fourteen Members

After the Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Forum reviewed the draft of this report, the
members asked the author to interview six former members of the Committee of Fourteen who
had taken an active role in advising the Brownell and his Task Force in 1972-73:

. Floyd A. Bishop, who served as Wyoming State Engineer from 1963-74.

. Myron B. Holburt, who joined the Colorado River Board of California in 1965 and
served as its Chief Engineer from 1968-84.

. Daniel F. Lawrence, former Director of the Division of Water Resources, State of
Utah, a position he held from 1967 until his retirement in 1985.

. Raphael J. Moses, who became a member of the Colorado River Water Conservation
Board of Colorado in 1952 and served as its Attorney from 1959-76.

. Steve Reynolds, State Engineer and Secretary of the New Mexico Interstate Stream
Commission from 1955 until his death in 1990.

. Wesley Steiner, Director of the Arizona Department of Water Resources (and its
predecessor agencies) from 1969 to 1985, and Chairman of the Committee of Fourteen
during the Brownell era.

The interviews were to elicit their reactions to the draft report and their recollections of the
events that led up to the negotiation of Minute No. 242 and the passage of the Colorado River
Basin Salinity Control Act.

Sadly, Steve Reynolds died before we could arrange an interview, although he had seen the draft
report and made handwritten notes. I have reproduced these all-too-brief notes in this Appendix,
with references to points in the report indicated.

Phone interviews with the other five former Committee members, ranging in length from 35
minutes to 1-1/4 hours, were conducted in May-July 1991. The interviews were semi-
structured, as the Forum had suggested a number of open-ended questions, but our discussions
ranged over a variety of topics. On the following pages, I have recorded my notes of these
interviews in narrative form, using each person's words as much as possible. Each one has
reviewed his narrative for accuracy; any remaining errors are the fault of the author.

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