Colorado State Water Plan 1974 ‎(Phase I)‎

• Year: 1974
• Title: Colorado State Water Plan
• CWCB Section: Agency-wide
• Publications - Doc Type: Historical

Introduction
AUTHORITY FOR REPORT
This report is authorized by the Water Resources Planning Act of 1965
(Public Law 89-80, 89th Congress), the Colorado River Project Act (Public
Law 90-537), and by the Federal Reclamation Laws (Act of June 17, 1902,
Stat. 388, and Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto). Amend-
ments to the basic legislation in 1967 provided for State participation and
cooperation in comprehensive water planning programs authorized in the Water
Resources Planning Act of 1965.
Authority was delegated to the Colorado Water Conservation Board to make
water resource investigations when the board was created by the Colorado General
Assembly in 1937. In 1967, the State assented to the provisions of the Federal
Water Resources Planning Act of 1965. Under this legislation, the board was
authorized, empowered, and directed to perform such acts as may be necessary
to the conduct and establishment of a comprehensive water planning program.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS •
Numerous reports by federal, State, and local agencies and universities
have furnished much information and data for this report. The report has
benefited greatly from the active participation by the Colorado State Study Team
in preparation of Colorado's portion of the Western U.S. Water Plan.
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