BOARD00231

• Board Meeting Date: 11/8/1961
• Description: Minutes
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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MR. KUIPER:

GOV. JOHNSON:

MR. KUIPER:

MR. STAPLETON:

MR. MC CANDLESS:

MR. KUIPER:

MR. D. MILLER:

"For membership in the organization. The
Governor did not want to take it upon himself
to approve the constitution and By-Laws without
approval of the Water Board first. He wanted a
recommendation from the Board that the Constitu-
tion and By-Laws be approved as submitted. We
commit ourselves to nothing if we approve them.
The other thing is that he would like recom-
mendations from the Board as to the appointment
of memberShip to this group."

"Have any other states approved this? Is
there any method whereby a state may withdraw
after they get in?"

IIYes."

"Yes, on six months notice."

"On six months notice."

"All of the other states have approved the
Constitution and By-Laws."

"Mr. Chairman, I'd like to comment on it in
this fashion. This appears to be an organiza-
tion of the states in the Colorado River Basin,
and I might state for whatever help it is, that
if Mr. Eakes should ask me the question about
what the Missouri River states Committee does,
I'd have to give the same answer that Mr.
Kuiper gave on this one. I have attended, with
one exception, every meeting for the last three
and a half years. You might expand that a
little bit and say, what do you accomplish by
the Pacific Southwest - let me limit it to the
Missouri Basin since this is one that I have
some familiarity with. If you ask me what the
Missouri Basin Inter-Agency Committee accom-
plishes I'd have to give about the same answer
that Len gave on this one.

This seems to me an approach to a problem
to which Mr. Aspinall's Bill on River Basins
attempts to reach a solution. Whether that's
the best one or not I do not know.