BOARD00380

• Board Meeting Date: 7/30/1958
• Description: Minutes and Resolution
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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Paragraph 5 above, the Board would have before it a comprehen-
sive report, and would then be able to best perform its func-
tion of determining the course to be followed as the official
policy of the State of Colorado.

The study programs listed in the recommendation made
to the Board on July 18th deal exclusively with the problems
on the Colorado River. As was explained this was done because
it appears that the most urgent of our inter-state problems at
this time revolve around the Colorado River and its tributaries.
If, at a later date, the Board should feel that the work of the
Commission should be broadened. it is anticipated that it will
undertake additional investigations at the direction of the
Board, and with such additional personnel on the Commission as
may be necessary to allow the full participation of representa-
tive local interests. We have in mind the fact that there are
matters involved in the Rio Grande River and the Rio Grande
Compact which should be given attention as soon as it is humanly
possible to do so. However, as indicated above, we feel that
certain extremely pressing aspects of the Colorado River ques-
tion require devotion of the time and energy of the Commission
to those problems at this time.

It is our feeling that work should be commenced immed-
iately on the various aspects and implications of the report to
be submitted by the Bureau of Reclamation and the Department of
the Interior to the Congress of the United States on the cri-
teria which will govern the operation of Glen Canyon Reservoir
during its filling period. In order to do so, a great deal of
basic work must be done which will be useful in the other phases
of the study mentioned in the statement presented to the Board
on July 18th. In addition, the Glen Canyon study will develop
basic information which will aid a special committee investi-
gating the effect on interests in Colorado of the San Juan-
Chama and Navajo Indian irrigation projects.

As additional phases of the study are proposed to be
undertaken in the future, such phases should properly be sub-
mitted to the Board for consideration prior to their initiation.

If it is the decision of the Colorado Water Conserva-
tion Board to proceed with the recommended study program, you
may be assured of the continued cooperation of these agencies,
and the nominees and alternates for the Investigation Commission.

Yours very truly,

Glenn G. Saunders, C. C. Fisk,
J. R. Barkley, John R. Clayton,
J. Sid Nichols, John B. Barnard, Sr.,
Philip P. Smith, Clifford H. Jex,
Mills E. Bunger, David J. Miller."