Board Meeting 07/13/1984

• Board Meeting Date: 7/13/1984
• Description: Minutes, Agenda, Memorandums July 13, 1984
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

• 4. Fiscal Year 1985 federal water and energy appropriations
bill.
5. Status of efforts by the State and Congressional
delegation to obtain federal funds to initiate
construction on the Animas-La Plata Project.
6. Status of Colorado River Floodway legislation being
considered by the Congress .
7 . Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Project
legislation.
8. Post 1989 general marketing criteria for Colorado River
Storage Project power.
9. Final actions by the 1984 General Assembly on
legislation applicable to the Board.
10. Board staff participation and assistance furnished to
Uncompahgre River water users in repairing flood
damage. As an outgrowth of this activity, staff members
will participate in a seminar sponsored by the U.S.
Corps of Engineers in Montrose on July 19, 1984.
11 . Mr. David Walker reported on the status of the
• activities under way on the South Platte River
Channelization Project.
12. Mr. Lang briefed the Board on the nature of the 1984
floods in Colorado, the extent of damage resulting from
these floods in various areas of the state, and the
staff' s participation in flood prevention activities .
Agenda Item 6 - Attorney General ' s Report
In the absence of Attorney General Duane Woodard, Bill
Paddock reported on the following items:
1) Taxpayer for Animas-La Plata Referendum versus Animas-La
Plata Water Conservancy District .
2) Closed Basin Landowners versus Rio Grande Water
Conservation District.
3) Colorado Versus New Mexico (Vermijo Case) .
4) Arkansas River Compact issues .
5) Special Meeting, Rio Grande Compact Commission .
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