BOARD00296

• Board Meeting Date: 6/22/1948
• Description: Table of Contents and Minutes
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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Director offered the following motion:

"I move that the Vice Chairman appoint a committee of four to
initiate and carry on discussions with interested Federal and
State interests for the purpose of formulating a policy and rules
and regulations respecting recreational facilities made available
by reclamation project development. II

The motion was duly seconded and upon vote being taken unani-
mously carried and declared passed.

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Thereupon the Vice Chairman appointed the following members .of the
Board authorized by the foregoing motion:

Director Stone, Ed C. Dutcher, J. M. D:ille, George A. Pughe

The Director made a further report concerning the procedure for the
submission of project reports by the Bureau of Reclamation on the Gunnison-
"rkansas and Blue-South Plat~e Projects. He stated that he had submitted to
the Steering Committee the recollUDendations made at the last meeting of the
Board and that such recommendations concerning such reports were approved.

There then ensued a further presentation by the Ditrector and Mr.
Tipton concerning the San Luis Vall,ey and proposed developments on the Middle
Rio Grande. The Director pointed out that efforts had been made by certain
local interests in the San Luis Valley to initiate a separate and indepehdent
survey by the :/trmy Engineers .in the San Luis Valley contrary to the fact that
the San Luis Valley Project had been authorized for construction by the
Bureau of Reclamation, and that all studies in connection therewith had been
made, and would continue to be carned on by the Bureau of Reclamation; that
flood control studies are now being continued by the Bureau of Reclamation
with the advice, and in certain instances, participation by the Army Engineers;
and that any separate survey by the Army Engineers authorized at this time
would result in confusion, delay and perhaps policies inconsistent with the
program which had been heretofore. adopted for the San Luis Valley. The Director
stated that he had advised against the authorization of such independent surveys
by the Army Engineers and was told by officials of the Army Engineers that 8I'CJ
such surveys would be contrary to the understanding betweE1I1 the Bureau of
Reclamation and the Army Engineers.

Royce J.. Tipton supported the position taken by the Director, and
made further explanation of the situation which existed between the San Luis
Valley Project and the Middle Rio Grande Project, which had been recently
authorized by Congress in confonnity with the agreement between the States of
eolorado, New Mexico and Texas, and the Army Engineers and the Bureau of
Reclamation.

Thereupon Mr. Dille made .the following motion.

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I move that the position taken by the Director in connection
with a proposed independent flood control survey by the Army
Engineers in the San Luis Valley be approved by the Board; and
that the Board approve the agreement recently entered into be-
tween the States of Colorado, New Mexico and Texas, the Army
Engineers and the Bureau of Reclamation, which agreement is .
incorporated in the recent authorization of the Middle Rio Grande
Project, New Mexico.