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• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 7041
• Author: Upper Colorado River Commission.
• Title: Forty-Third Annual Report of the Upper Colorado River Commission
• USFW Year: 1991.
• USFW - Doc Type: Colorado River Storage Project and Participating Projects.
• Copyright Material: NO

3. LEGISLATION

In the First Session of the 1 02nd eongress (without regard to the water
year), Congress enacted the following statutes that are important to the
Upper eolorado River Basin States:

Public Law 102-154, approved November 13, 1991, making appro-
priations for the Department of the Interior and related agencies for the
fiscal year ending September 30, 1992.

Public Law 102-142, approved October 28,1991, making appropria-
tions for Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administra-
tion and Related Agencies programs for the fiscal year ending September
30, 1992.

Public Law 102-104, approved August 17, 1991, Energy and Water
Development Appropriations Act, 1992.

C. EDUCATION-INFORMATION

1. GENERAL COOPERATION

The Upper Colorado River Commission has directed its Education
and Information program toward promoting interstate cooperation,
harmony, and united efforts; developing an understanding in other
sections of the United States of the problems of the Upper Colorado River
Basin; and the creation of a favorable attitude on the part of eongress with
respect to the development of the industrial and agricultural resources of
the Upper eolorado River Basin.

The Commission has continued to cooperate with members of the
Congressional delegations from the Upper Colorado River Basin States
and with officials of the Department of the Interior and the Bureau of
Reclamation in seeking appropriations of funds by the eongress for the
construction of the Storage Units and participating projects authorized
for construction, as well as funds for the investigations of additional
participating projects that are given priority in planning in the eolorado
River Storage Project Act. As part of this cooperation, the eommission's
Executive Director has been in Washington, D. e. at intermittent periods,
acting as liaison between the Congress and the States and various
departments of government, supplying information, arranging and taking
part in eongressional hearings, and providing other assistance requested.

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