Board Meeting 01/05/1984

• Board Meeting Date: 2/5/1984
• Description: Minutes, Agenda, Memorandums January 5,6, 1984
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

be distributed to the members on the second day of the meeting
(January 6) for review and comments . Minutes of both of these
two meetings would be presented for approval at the March 15-16,
1984 Board meeting.
Agenda Item 4 - Director 's Report
Mr. McDonald reported on several items which are summarized
below:
1 . Status of Appropriations, Narrows Unit and Animas-La
Plata Project
Funds for both projects were included in the FY 1984
supplemental appropriations bill. The House passed the
bill, including funds for both projects, before Congress
adjourned in November 1983. The Bill was sent to the Senate
in that month. No Senate action was taken before adjourn-
ment but during hearings by the Senate Appropriations Com-
mittee, funds for Animas-La Plata were retained but funds
for Narrows were deleted.
Since this action was taken, Mr. McDonald has been in
close communication with the Congressional delegation to
ascertain what action should be taken about the Narrows
unit. He indicated also that some members of the Lower
South Platte Water Conservancy District Board had met with •
Senator Armstrong and based on these discussions, the Sena-
tor questioned the strategy of seeking funds for both proj-
ects and whether to attempt to add Narrows in the Senate
Conference Committee if and when hearings are resumed. In a
subsequent meeting among the Senator and Messrs. McDonald,
Getches and Woodard, the Senator expressed the opinion that
no further action would be taken by the Senate and that the
matter will be handled through the regular appropriation
process for FY 1985 which will commence after the President
submits his budget request to Congress. Mr. McDonald point-
ed out that he has been unable to learn whether the Presi-
dent ' s budget will contain funds for new starts but is
apprehensive of this approach because the Administration has
not resolved its position on cost sharing because of the
basic difference of this policy as between the Department of
Interior and the Army Corps of Engineers . In conclusion, he
stated that he would keep in touch with the Washington
proceedings and he and the local sponsors of the two
projects will continue to press for funds for both projects
in the FY 1985 federal budget.
2. Closed Basin Project
Mr. McDonald briefed the members on the status of the
contract between the state and the United States (Bureau of •
Reclamation) for repayment of fish and wildlife enhancement
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