Minutes of Arkansas River Compact Administration Meeting December 14 1993

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ARCA Annual Meeting 23 December 14, 1993 S 1 MR. HAYZLETT: Pope. 2 CHAIRMAN COOLEY: Pope. You did such a good job I thought it fitted you 3 there. The Operations Committee, who will be chairman? 4 MR. ROGERS: Randy. Randy will chair. 5 CHAIRMAN COOLEY: Mr. Hayzlett will chair. 6 MR. ROGERS: And I am the other one. 7 CHAIRMAN COOLEY: And Mr. Rogers will go along. 8 So the respective chairs will be Mr. Lile, Mr. Genova and Mr. Hayzlett of the three committees. 9 Does any comment need to be made or any further action taken on that? They are 10 appointed. I would think that would do it according to the tradition. 11 Assuming that the draft report by the Special Master is given prior to December 11112 10, 1993, we would have a delicious, intense synthesis or discussion of the status of Kansas vs. 13 Colorado. I take it that that would not be highly appropriate but at the same time for the benefit 14 of all here, Mr. Draper, would you be kind enough in a paragraph or two to say where we are in 15 the litigation? 16 JOHN DRAPER: Yes, I would be glad to. Just to review briefly what's 17 happened in the litigation since the last annual meeting. The presentation of evidence was 18 completed last December, and between that time and the end of May the parties filed briefs with 19 the Special Master. Later in the summer the parties addressed certain questions that the Master 20 had after the briefing. We are concluding some final evidentiary questions that are unresolved 21 but are essentially housekeeping matters and the case has been submitted and we're simply 22 waiting now for a draft report. We expect a draft report from the Special Master, after which he .23 would hear‘the comments and argument of the parties before finalizing that and submitting it to 24 the Supreme Court. So that's about where things sit at the moment.