7901

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 7901
• Author: Upper Colorado River Commission.
• Title: Forty-Seventh Annual Report of the Upper Colorado River Commission.
• USFW Year: 1995.
• USFW - Doc Type: Salt Lake City, Utah.
• Copyright Material: NO

MEETINGS OF THE COMMISSION

During the Water Year ending September 30, 1995 the Commission
met three times as follows:

Meeting No. 228

December 9, 1994 Adjourned Annual
Meeting
Las Vegas, Nevada

Meeting No. 229

March 20, 1995 Regular Meeting
Salt Lake City, Utah

Meeting No. 230

July 18, 1995 Adjourned Regular
Meeting
Salt Lake City, Utah

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 VlIl(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 of the 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 environmental, 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 additional 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.

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