BOARD00226

• Board Meeting Date: 4/1/1970
• Description: Agenda or Table of Contents, Minutes, Memos
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

rather significant changes were made as I will
point out.

The comments from the Governors of the
Four Upper Basin states were requested to be
submitted today. The Upper Colorado River
Commission met here in Denver last Friday and
agreed upon the position of the Commission.
Governor Love participated in that meeting and
it was a result of certain aspects that he
pointed out in the criteria that some improve-
ment was made. About two weeks ago the
Advisory committee met here in Denver and dis-
cussed the proposed criteria at some length.
Mr. Fischer is here, chairman of the committee,
and will make a report on the subject this
morning.

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As the Board members will recall, the
upper Basin states insisted that some resolu-
tion be made pertaining to the long-range
operation of the Colorado River reservoirs,
particularly the integrated operation of Lake
Mead and Lake powell. It was at our insistence
that Section 602 was inserted in the Colorado
River Basin project Act, enacted by congress in
1968. That section directed the Secretary of
the Interior to promulgate long-range operating
criteria for the Colorado River reservoirs and
to publish them not later than July I, 1970.
The act also required that the Secretary submit
his proposed criteria to the Governors of the
seven Colorado River Basin states for their
comments and that the comments were to be sub-
mitted not later than April 1 of this year.

The Secretary did propose criteria and
submitted them to the Governors of all the
states involved in December of 1969. It is in 1-,
response to the proposed criteria by the Secre-
tary that a concerted effort on the part of the
four upper Basin states was made to resolve the
issue so that a common reply could be made to
the criteria.