BOARD00284

• Board Meeting Date: 1/12/1971
• Description: Agenda or Table of Contents, Minutes, Memos
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

suffered considerably from the withholding of
funds that were appropriated by the Congress.
The Central Arizona Project has $I,200,OOO
being held in budgetary reserve for that
project at the present time.

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As I informed the Board members in Decem-
ber, we had a rather large delegation from
Colorado go back to meet with members of
Congress concerning this situation. We had a
very fruitful meeting with Senator Allott and
his staff. All of the districts in Colorado
that were affected by the budgetary reserve
were represented at that meeting. Most com-
forting was the fact that the members of our
legislature are taking a very active interest
in this matter. There were about seven or
eight members of the legislature who accom-
panied the group and made important contribu-
tions to the various meetings that we had.

Senator Allott is pushing the matter and
he is in a position to do so since he is a
member, a very influential member, of the
Senate Appropriations Committee. The Senator
did have a personal conference with the Presi-
dent on this matter.

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All I can report at this time is that we
will not know anything definitive until the
President's Budget Message is released. That
budget message will not only reflect what will
be requested for the coming year but also has
a bearing upon what was appropriated this year.
in that the Office of Management and Budget
stated that they would not release these frozen
funds or make any final policy decisions con-
cerning the funds for this fiscal year until
the President's Budget Message was released.
This will be probably early in February. So
we won't know until that time what the status
of the funds are for this fiscal year as well
as the requested funding for next fiscal year.

Concerning the Yampa River which is very