BOARD00343

• Board Meeting Date: 10/27/1959
• Description: Minutes
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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MR. STAPLETON:

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MR. PETERSON:

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some comments to make upon this plan pro-
posed by the private companies.

That essentially was the plan that
was presented to us. I don't know what
action can be taken on it by the Board at
this time. I know that the Board members
will undoubtedly have some comments or
questions." '

"Before we get into any comments, as
you know, at our me,eting in Grand Junction,
we asked the Colorado Water Investigation
Committee to work on this problem and we
have a report from Mr. J. R. Barkley, Chair-
man, which states that they met on October
22nd. The following is their report:

'The Committee is expediting the col-
lection of potential load and resource data
in the effort to determine tentative power
allocations and, thereby, arrive at a posi-
tion which may justify a request for alloca-
tion from the Secretary of the Interior.

Meanwhil~,the Committee studies have
progressed sufficiently to permit a recom-
mendation which will not compromise Colora-
do's basic position of primary interest in
the power revenues which may be derived from
the Storage Project. Based upon those studies
to date, the Investigation Commission recom-
mends that the Colorado Water Conservation
Board, in conjunction with the other States
of the Upper Division, forward to the Secre-
tary of the Interior a request that the four
Upper Division States be designated as the
primary market area for Colorado River Stor-
age Project power.'

With that in mind, I will entertain
comments from the Board at this time.

Mr. Peterson."

"I also attended that meeting at Salt
Lake and I have some comments concerning
the presentation that was made at that meet-
ing that I would like to state now.

After the presentation by the private
power companies at the Salt Lake meeting,