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L.,JV investigation of the Sump Drain, a possible feature of the San Luis Valley project. It was pointed out that the Sump Drain had long been considered as a part of the San Luis Valley project but had not been included in the original a.uthorization. A Board of Pevimv has been set up in connection with this imTestigation~ This Board of Review consists of one representative from the Bureau of Reclamation, one from the U. S. Geological Survey and one from the Cclorado l~~a.ter Conservation Board. Mr. E. B. Jebler, Director of he0ion 7, Bureau of Reolamation, was next called upon to report on the status of investi['"ations of projects under his jurisdiction. His report covered principally investigation of the two large, proposed transmountain diversions, namely, the Blue-South Platte and the Gunn:.son-Arkansas projects. He stated that an effort was being made to pro- duce a report on each of these projects sometime during the early part of 1946. These reports, he said, would be based on the best information then available, and the work wo"ld go on, the idea being that the tentative reports would place before the interested people, other Federal agencies and the Colorado Water Conservation Board the project plans which the Bureau of Reclamation consider to be best adapted to the situation. He further stated that the Bureau recognized that it would be confronted before long wifh the demand for an active construction program and that he was prooeeding to the end that suffioient information would be seoured and incorporated into reports which would enable the ~ureau to proceed with construction on some part of each of the projects. He said that the Bureau was not in a position at the present time to recolr.mend any route for the Blue-South Platte transmountain diversion aoross the Continental Divide. di we U B, aJ o U c Charles L. ?atterson, Chief Engineer of the Colorado Water Conservation Board, was called upon to give the report of the specia.l com..rnittee, appointed at the last meetins c~ the Board, to prepare and submit the cow.ments of Colo- rado on the flood control plans of the Corps of Army Engineers for the upper South Platte River. He called attention to the report which heretofore had been prepared and submitted, a copy of whioh had been made available to the members of the Board. He stated that the Am' Engineers had in their report incorporated substantially all of the suggestions made by the ,Colorado nater Conservation Board. The director made a report of the meeting with the Governor of Wyoming and the water officials of that State respecting the recuest heretofore made by the ';;yoming governor for the initiation of compact negotiations 'among the Four Upper Colorado River Basin States for the equitable apportionment of Upper Colorado River water. This report was w~de pursuant to a resolution heretofore passed by the Board directi,~ the directcr of the Board and the Attorney General to confer with Gcvernor Hunt ofiiyoming and the water of- ficials of his State resFectini'; :olorado's'views on the matter of initiation of compact nei';otiations on the Colorado River. The director reported that because there were two other water matters in which both Wyoming and Colorado were interested, na~ely, cuestions with respect to the final decree in the North Platte caSG (Nebraska vs. r"'yorning and Colorado, United States, Inter- vener), and the Question of the initiation of compact negotiations bet-'Neen Co] orado and Wyom.ing O"ler the v.-aters of the Little Snake River, Mr. Brei ten- ste:n, attorne;/ fer th.e Colorado -1-;ater Conservation Board, Mr. Patterson, chief engineer, and Mr. FuGhe, a me~ber of t~e Board, representin~ the north- western ,part of tl:e S~ate, had all participated in the confere!''cces with Gover~or Hunt anc his water officials at Cheyenne, on July 23, 1945. The ll_ ,