Board Meeting 01/05/1984

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

• Additional contract proposals are being considered
and being put out for bid.
b. A motion for summary judgement will be filed in
the Dinosaur case concerning the purposes of the
reservation.
c. Naval Oil Shale - Judge Ossola has granted the
U.S. claim to include non-appurtenant uses, but
held that the priority of those claimed water
rights could not be antedated. Result is that if
decreed, they will have a 1983 priority and the
U.S. may appeal.
d. Sierra Club suit against the U.S. and the State
Engineer
(1) Filed in U.S. District Court January 3, 1984,
(2) Against the United States to file reserved
rights claims in Wilderness Areas and to
increase claims for Rocky Mountain National
Park and Mesa Verde National Park.
(3) The claim against the State Engineer is that
he should recognize these yet unclaimed and
• undecreed water rights;
e. Mineral Springs claims by the U.S . around Glenwood
Springs have been withdrawn by the United States
and as a result dismissed by the Court.
4. Colorado v. Mexico - Oral argument before the Supreme
Court on January 9, 1984 on the Special Master 's re-
vised findings and recommendations .
5. "Huston" Case
a. Petitions for rehearing denied on November 9,
1983.
b. Ruling modified - prospective only portion of
ruling is deleted (S .B. 439 purports to validate
previous non-tributary ground water decrees ) .
c. Court notes S.B . 439, but refuses to pass on its
validity.
Mr. Woodard discussed the Riverside versus Stipo Case which
involved the Riverside Reservoir proposed for construction on
Wildcat Creek. As discussed in previous meetings the Corps of
Engineers refused to grant a 404 permit under its authority by
• the Clean Water Act. In subsequent litigation the District Judge
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