BOARD00225

• Board Meeting Date: 6/28/1943
• Description: Table of Contents and Minutes
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Minutes

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The Direotor made a re port to the Board oonoerning:the lifting or stop
orders by the War Produotion Board On reolamation projects' in the State of
Colorado. He explained that the stop or~rs had been lined for the' Colorado-
Big Thompson projeot and the Manoos projeot and stated that the La PUi:;I.,
paonia and San Lu~s Valley projeots are under consideration ror oonstruotion
during the war period. He also reviewed the limited amount of money appropri-
ated to the Bureau of Reolamation to carryon projeot investigations for
postwar construction program, he made partioular referenoe to the fail ure
of the Bureau of the Budget to reoommend and the Congress to appropriate from
the, DeViEll-epmentFund provided by the Boulder Canyon Projeot Adjustment Aot.
The total amount appropriated by Congress for the next Federal fisoal year
for investigations was $625,000 and this ,amount is inadequate to maintain the
present limited investigation staff of the Bureau of Reclamation.

Judge John B. O'Rourke suggested that something should be done to induoe
the Bureau of Reclamation to oomplete oertain projeot reports whioh have been
under preparation for a long time, in some oaseS for years.

Moti on was made by Mr. Pughe and seoonded by Mr. Bailey that
the Direotor prepare a resolution requesting the Bureau to expedite
projeot investigations in the State of Colorado arid complete at the
earliest possible date project reports now under preparation.

The mot,ion was unanimously carried and declared passed.

In compliance with the.motion the Direotor prepared, and there is in-
serted herein the following resolution,

WHERE!S, the Bureau or Reclamation has been investigating
project dev~lopment of water resouroes within the State of Colo-
'ra\io, and reports on a number of Colorado reports have been under
preparation for many years, resulting, in most.oases, in no fin~l
projeot plan or recommendation upon which the State or Colorado,
and the proponents of suoh projeots, may prooeed to obtain author-
izati on for construoti on; and

WHEREAS, every effort should be made by the Colore-do Water
Conservation Board to encourage and to assist, through its .taff
and by oontaots with its Congressional delegation, to formulate a
postwar water development program in the State of Colorado; and

WHEREAS, the Boulder Canyon Projeot Adjustment Act provided
for $1,500,000, being aooruals from power revenues at Boulder Dam
for the investigation of proposed projeot development of the Colo-
rado River and for use in determining a oomprehensive plan of de-
velopment in the Colorado River Basin, that it appears that ap-
proxilll/l.tely $1,500,000 has aoorued to the Colorado River Develop-
ment Fund, set up by the Boulder Canyon Project Adjustment Aot for
such investigations; that only a part or money acorued to this De-
velopment Fund has been appropriated, ne-mely, approximately $850,000;
and that there is an ~pparent polioy of the Bureau of the Budget
and other governmental offioials and agenoies of impounding and
freezing this investigational fund in tl).e Treasury with no effort
on the part of these federal agencies to make the same available at
this time for the purpose for which it was intended; and