BOARD00171

• Board Meeting Date: 4/19/1955
• Description: Minutes and Resolution
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

MR. BAILEY:

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GOV. JOHNSON:

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"Thank you, Mr. McDaniel. Are there any
other members of your delegation who
wish to make a statement? Are there any
any questions?"

"I would like to make a statement. I
think every member of this Board knows
very well what my position is with
respect to participating projects and
it siinp.y is this--to get as many of
them as possible on the record. That
has been my position all the time.
That is the position I took before the
Upper Colorado River Commission and
that has been the position I took before
this Board heretofore; so, so far as I
am concerned, it is completely in line
with my policy to have this new project
included among the other projects in
Colorado to be considered by the Congress
for approval and I hope the Board does
include this project. I hope they approve
it along with the other participating
projects that they have approved. When it
comes to Congress, I am in hopes that an amendment
will be offered by someone in the Senate
and someone in the House to include it
with the Colorado projects. Of course
we realize that the Bill before Congress
may generate considerable opposition.
That is, the Congress is going to count
the dollars that are in the project and
there may be some reluctance to add any
more costs to the development of the
Upper Colorado River. Nevertheless, I
hope that this project may be added. If
it is not possible to add it to the eighteen
that are already in there, then I would
hope that as this project has a higher
rating of feasibility, it might substitute
for one of the projects we already have in
the list which does not have as favorable
a ratio, as this project has. The only
reason 1 think it was not in the group was
due entirely to the lateness of the report.