BOARD00261

• Board Meeting Date: 5/13/1964
• Description: Table of Contents, Agenda, Minutes and Resolution
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

that Juniper would be made a part of 485.
'!'hey said they didn't know whether the
Juniper would be a participating project or
whether it would be a storage project but that
matter was something that would have to be
determined later.

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l1hen 485 came out, this is the paragraph
with respect to Juniper, it occurs on page 2
and it's the second paragraph of the copy
that I have of Public Law 485:

'The Secretary, concurrently with the
investigations directed by the preceding
paragraph', (and the preceding paragraph
names the projects that were mentioned in
485), 'shall also give priority to completion
of a planning report on the Juniper Project.'.

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The reconnaissance report of the Bureau,"
I think, came out in July of 1963. I want to
go back just a minute to the Upper Colorado
River Basin Compact that was made in 1948. It
was negotiated in 1948. In that compact, as
in all compacts, they had difficulty in getting
folks in agreement, and one of the things that
brought about the final agreement of the com-
pact was that they divided the water of the
Yampa River between Utah and Colorado. The
Yampa River is a river that is wholly within
the State of Colorado. It does not flow in
any other state. I took Clifford Stone, who
was a very popular, and deservedly popular,
water expert, I think it is right to call him
a good lawyer and very devoted to the direction
that Colorado might take with its water con-
servation program, in fact, he was a Director
of this Board, I took him to task for the pro-
vision in the Upper Colorado River Basin
Compact for awarding 5,000,000 acre-feet of
water to Utah out of the Yampa River in each
ten-year period. He said to me 'Well, that
was the price of the compact.'. And he said
he didn't think it was so bad because he
figured that that insured a reservoir would
be built at either Cross Mountain or Juniper