BOARD00330

• Board Meeting Date: 3/27/1968
• Description: Agenda or Table of Contents, Minutes, Memos
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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MR. STAPLETON:

MR. INGLES:

MR. STAPLETON:

MR. CRANDALL:

completed the contract. The contractor com-
pleted final cleanup operations, and continued
the seeding of the right-of-way.

The contract for Midway Substation I
(Stage 01) was awarded on December 8, 1967
to Ets-Hokin Corporation of San Francisco,
California zor $511,218.18. The contractor
has completed 9.8 percent of that contract.
He has used 24.1 percent of the contract time.
The completed work includes the excavation
of the substation yard and the installation
of drain pipes and sewer lines. Placement
of concrete for structures was started.

On the Upper Arkansas River Basin, the
survey by the Colorado State University was
completed for determining the extent of the
woody phreatophytes in the flood plains of
the Arkansas River and its major tributaries
and the report on the findings of this survey
will be available within the next few weeks.

That completes our report."

"Thank you, Jim. Do any members of the
Board have any questions of Mr. Ingles on
the report of Region 7? Do any members of
the audience have any questions they'd like
to raise on the report? Thank you very much,
Jim. 11

"Thank you."

"Next, Dave Crandall for Region 4. Dave."

"Mr. Chairman, members of the Board, and
gentlemen, you may have noted in the paper
that Robert Jennings, who has headed our
Grand Junction Project Office for many years,
is retiring. It is a little disappointing
that some of these young vigorous fellows
are leaving Reclamation but he is going to
a very challenging and interesting assign-
ment in Lahore with the Harza Company. Need-
less to say, speaking both personally and for

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