Glendo Project Correspondences 1950-1953

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Y Mr. Avery Batson Denver, Colorado -2- 6 -11 -51 or any feature thereof, until a definite plan report thereon has been completed, reviewed by the states of Nebraska, Wyoming, and Colorado, and approved by the Congress." A similar provision was contained in the 1951 Appropriation A -ct (Public Law 759) 81st Congress, 2d Session. We are in agreement concerning the desirability of a reservoir at the Glendo site for 1e storage of supplemental water in the amount of about 15,000 acre feet for use in eastern Wyoming and 25,000 acre feet for use in western Nebraska. 2.. Re- regulation of Pathfinder water. 3. Generation of hydro-electric power. 4. Retention of sediment. 5. Flood control. The present plan only proposes to take care of items 2 -3-.4 and 56 It takes some 4,000 irrigated acres out of production in Wyoming and makes no attempt to replace them. It displaces 27 Wyoming farm families and takes about 18,000 acres of land from our Wyoming tax rolls. Several miles of the Yellowstone highway must be removed and made longer and the grades steeper. This also applies to the Burlington railroad. As a. representative of Governor Barrett and as Director of the Wyoming Natural Resource Board, I deem it my duty to conclude my comments by saying that in my opinion Wyoming has little to gain and much to lose by construction of Glendo Reservoir, and I recoimizend that our Natural Resource Board oppose construction of Glendo Reservoir to any capacity until agreement has been negotiated between the states of Colorado, Nebraska and Wyoming concerning all features of this project and parti- cularly the height of the dam, and that Senators O'Mahoney and Hunt and Representative Harrison be advised of this action aid asked to use their influence in the Congress to stop any further expenditure of Federal funds on investigation or for construction of this project, Approved President Wyoming Natural Resource Board e c Director Wyoming Natural Resource Board i