BOARD00100

• Board Meeting Date: 5/11/1960
• Description: Minutes
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

Colorado to approve this bill and to testify
for it in the Congress. We realize, and I
am very friendly with Mrl Sparks, he is a very
dIose friend of mine and has been for years,
we realize that you are trying to help us but
don't help us to death.

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Thank you very much."

MR. NELSON:

"Does any other member of the Southwest-
ern Board wish to make any statement? Does
Mr. Barnard of the Colorado River District
have anything to say at this time?"

MR. BARNARD, SR.: "Mr. Chairman, I hesitate to discuss'the
matter and do so only because it is one which
is of so great an importance to not only the
Southwestern Conservation District but also
to the Colorado River Water Conservation
District which I represent.

I have studied over, in the brief time
that has been available since I had a copy
of it, the draft of the bill that has now,"
as I understand it, been assented to by New
Mexico. Is that right, ~~. Sparks?"

MR. SPARKS:

"That's correct."

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MR. BARNARD, SR.: "I think I had better preface my remarks
by saying that it has always been my opinion,
and still is, that Colorado was subjected to
second card and bottom card dealing when the
Upper Basin Compact was formulated. It has
also been my opinion that we were subjected
to a political pressure which, at least,
approached a state of political blackmail when
the Storage Project Act was passed and in-
cluded, as a main stem facility, the Navajo
Reservoir. Which it isn't. It is strictly
and distinctly a New Mexico facility for its
benefit. And I have resented deeply the
policies of the State of New Mexico as
reflected by the statements of their two
Senators in connection with the proposed
appropriations incorporated in the'61 budget
for the Curecanti and the Florida Projects.

I might say also, that what I am saying
here today has not been subjected to scrutiny
by the Board of Directors of the Colorado
River Water Conservation District. These are