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MEETINGS OF THE COMMISSION During the Water Year ending September 30, 1996 the Commission met two times as follows: Meeting No. 231 March 18, 1996 Regular Meeting Salt Lake City, Utah Meeting No. 232 July 18, 1996 Adjourned Regular Meeting Denver, Colorado ACTIVITIES OF THE COMMISSION Within the scope and limitations of Article I(a) of the Upper Colorado River Basin Compact and under the powers conferred upon the Commission by Article VIII(d), the principal activities of the Commission have consisted of: (A) research and studies of an engineering and hydrologic nature of various facets of the water resources of the Colorado River Basin especially as related to operation ofthe Colorado River reservoirs; (B) collection and compilation of documents for a legal library relating to the utilization of waters of the Colorado River System for domestic, industrial and agricultural purposes, and the generation of hydroelectric power; (C) legal analyses of associated laws, court decisions, reports and problems; (D) participation in activities and providing comments on proposals that would increase the beneficial consumptive uses in the Upper Basin, including envi- ronmental, fish and wildlife, endangered species and water quality activities to the extent that they might impair Upper Basin development; (E) cooperation with water resources agencies of the Colorado River Basin States on water and water-related problems; (F) an education and information program designed to aid in securing appropriations of funds by the United States Congress for the construction, planning and investigation of storage dams, reservoirs and water resource development projects of the Colorado River Storage Project that have been authorized for construction and to secure authorization for the construction of adcfllional participating projects as the essential investigations and planning are completed; and (G) a legislative program consisting of the analysis and study of water resource bills introduced in the U.S. Congress for enactment, the preparation of evidence and argument and the presentation of testimony before the Committees of the Congress. I 7