BOARD00269

• Board Meeting Date: 7/25/1940
• Description: Table of Contents and Minutes
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Minutes

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The minutes' of the meeting of February 1, 1940 vmre read and
upon the motion of Mr. Foster, seconded by Mr. Smith, duly approved
as read,

Vena Pointer tendered her resignation as Seoretary of the
Board, explaining that she had aooepted the secretaryship on a
temporary basis and stated suoh resignation had theretofore been
tendered and now asked the Board to take aotion upon it. it was
moved by General Rogers that, upon the insistanoe of Miss Pointer,
her resignation be accepted. The motion was seconded by Mr. Carpenter
and after discussion duly passed.

It was moved by General Rogers and seoonded by Mr. Hinderlider
that Director Clifford H. Stone be designated and appointed as
Seoretary of the Colcrado Water Conservation Board. The motion was
put by General Rogers and duly passed.

Director Stone stated that Commissioner John C. Fage of the
Bureau of Reclamation had invited all members of the Board to attend
the open house at the Bureau of Reclamation where a number of
interesting exhibits were on display.

It was moved by Mr. Smith and seconded by Mr. Carpenter that
the invitation be accepted and that Direotor Stone be instructed to
notify Mr. Page that the members of the Board would ma<e the trip
through the Bureau's exhibits at three o'clock, Friday, July 26,
1940. Motion passed.

Mr. Foster placed before the meeting the suggestion whioh has
been made by oertain federal agencies engaged in amall dam oonstruotion,
inoluding stockponds and soil erosion practices, that t.he Colorado
law respecting regulations and supervision by the State Engineer
covering the construction of suoh small dams be amended so as to
liberalize present statutory provisions.

After discussion it was moved by Mr. Carpenter and seoonded
by Mr. Foster that the Chair appoint a committee of four with State
Engineer Hinderlider and Director of the Planning Commission Foster
as members to study the proposal for modifioation of the present
statutory enactments covering the oonstruotion of small dams, and
report back to the board with reoommendations,

After further discussion the motion was unanimously passed
and approved.

Thereupon the Chair appointed F. R. Carpenter Chairman,
Judge John B, O'Rourke, M. C, Hinderlider and Ed. C, Foster and
suggested that the committee attempt to reach its conclusions and
report at the next meeting of the Board.

Thereupon it was moved by Mr. Smith, seconded by lliss Pointer
and Mr. Dille, that it is the sense of the Colorado Water
Conservation Board that in any proposed alterations of the state
laws with/f6ference to the supervision by the State Engineer of
reservoi~ structures, that no differentiation be made between the

federal government and any of its agencies as distinguished frOm
state agencies or individ1..la.ls. Upon a vote being taken the motion