BOARD00374

• Board Meeting Date: 9/30/1957
• Description: Minutes
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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Mr. Williams then asked that of the $1,007,000
allotted to Region 4 for reclamation projects was it divided
between the states according to what each state was apportioned
in water.

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rm. LARSON:

MR. DEXHEIMER:

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MR. MILLER:

"It is not divided on the apportionment
of water. The money made available to
Region 4 with the Boulder Canyon Act in-
cluded $500,000 for investigations in the
Colorado River basins, $500,000 available
to the four states of the Upper Basin.
The Barrett Bill provided the $500,000 be
divided equally among the four Upper Basin
states. Last year and this year, the
Boulder Canyon Act appropriation shall be
spent.equitably between the Lower and Upper
Basin states."

"Funds are spread out for investiga-
tion studies which are made based upon
recommendations by this Board. If there
are other reports to be made and the Board
wishes to go ahead with them, they will
have to so advise us.

Now as to the Curecanti, I think
everyone should understand the law requires
the Secretary to submit a feasibility re-
port. If the feasibility report of that
project had been established at the time
there would not be this delay. In our fur-
ther investigation recently made, the feasi-
bility of the plan we originally presented
is questionable - so questionable we felt
that other alternates had to be investigated
because it might be impossible to sell the
power at a figure which would help pay for
the project. We don't say that even by
spending more money we can come up with a
feasible project for the Curecanti. We
have got to look into every possibility so
that we can come up with a feasibility re-
port on the Curecanti. But we still do not
guarantee that we are going to come up with
a feasible report on the Curecanti."

"I have a question - the 'original plan
on the Curecanti was for a 2,000,000 acre-