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• File Number: 8210.110.60
• Description: Colorado River Water Users Association
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Date: 12/6/1962
• Author: CRWUA
• Title: Proceedings of the 19th Annual Conference
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Annual Report

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and other purposes. (1) Blue Mesa Dam in the Curecanti unit of the Colorado
River storage project, Colorado. (2) Lemon Dam ',in the Florida project,
Colorado. (3) Hoover Dam. Arizona. (4) Navajo Dam in the Navajo unit of the
Colorado River storage project, Colorado and New Mexico. (5) Paonia Dam in
the Paonia project, Colorado. (6) Ruedi Dam in the F}'ying Pan-Arkansas project,
Colorado. In addition we are also investigating the possible operation of the follow-
ing ten Bureau of Reclamation reservoir projects for flood control as well as water
conservation. (1) Lyman project, Wyoming. (2) San Miguel project, Colorado.
(3) West Divide project, Colorado. (4) Dallas Creek, Colorado. (5) Battlement
Mesa project, Colorado. (6) Bluestone project, Colorado. (8) Yellow Jacket
project, Colorado. (9) Central Utah project, Utah. (10) Maxwell Reservoir,
Arizona.

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From this listing of the work currently being undertaken, you can readily see
that cooperative action is the key to sucessful planning. That is why I say. to
complete river basin plans, it is necessary that the expert services of all agencies
be coordinated and funds to prosecute the necessary studies be provided.

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Toward this end much was done during the year 1962. For example: In May
of this year, President Kennedy approved a document containing new policies,
standards and procedures for Federal use in the formulation, evaluation and re-
view of plans for use and development of water and related land resources. It is
identified as Senate Document No. 97 and was prepared under direction of the
President's Water Resources Council.

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Briefly it broadens our approach to the development of water and related
land resources, and thereby provides us with more flexibility to meet the needs of
the people in developing water resource projects and in recommending them for
authorization. In fact, it is a charter for river basin planning and, if you please,
outlines the approach to optimum development of water and related land resources.

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About Senate Document No. 97, Senator Clinton P. Anderson of New Mexico
said, "This action will place Federal water resource projects proposals in a
realistic and forward-looking context that will enable both the executive and the
legislative branches to make informed judgments of the merits and desirability of
the projects. Thus a significant advance has been made in the resources field.
As a consequence, it will be possible soundly to devise, authorize, and execute
the large programs that are urgently needed to match water supplies to the water
requirements of our rapidly growing population and expanding economy. Further.
more, State officials and the public will also be fully informed about proposed
projects.

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"The recommendations of the four Department heads (Army, Agriculture,
Health, Education, and Welfare, and Interior) and the President's approval of
them, are consistent with the established policies of the Senate. They are, in
fact, in compliance with requests of the Senate."

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It is timely and fortunate that Mr. Karl Lee, of the Bureau of Reclamation's
economics branch, will discuss Senate Document No. 97 in more detail later in
your program.

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The Flood Control Act of 1962 also contained important legislation applicable
to river basin planning. Our "Small Flood Control Project" suthority was broaden-
ed to include "Small projects for flood .control and related purposes." Added to

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