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<br />I <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />877 <br /> <br />The motion was unanimously passed. <br /> <br />Dean Crawford said there was a second portion of the <br />work which the Committee had discussed in regard to the comments <br />and this involved the status of the Indian rights. He thought <br />it might be just as well if he read a letter received from the <br />Colorado River Water Conservation District regarding this <br />question. This letter follows: <br /> <br />THE COWRADO RIVER <br />WATER CONSERVATION DISTRICT <br /> <br />First National Bank Bldg., <br />Glenwood Springs, Colorado <br /> <br />February 8, 1958 <br /> <br />Colorado Water Conservation Board, <br />State Office Building, <br />Denver, Colorado <br /> <br />Gentlemen: <br /> <br />The Colorado River Water Conservation District requests <br />that the comments of the State of Colorado, concerning reports <br />of the Bureau of Reclamation and the Bureau of Indian Affairs <br />relative to the San Juan-Chama and Navajo Indian Projects, include <br />specific language, as herein indicated, with regard to so-called <br />preferred rights to the use of water for the benefit of Indian <br />Tribes and lands. In order to clarify the reasons for this <br />request, there are quoted herein excerpts from the Upper Colorado <br />River Basin Compact, and from the feasibility report issued in <br />January, 1955 by the Bureau of Indian Affairs of the Department <br />of the Interior in connection with the Navajo Indian Project. <br /> <br />Article VII of the Compact reads as follows: <br /> <br />"Consumptive use of water by the United States of America <br />or any of its agencies, instrumentalities or wards shall be <br />charged as a use by the state in which the use is made; * * * *" <br /> <br />Article XIV (c) of the Compact reads as follows: <br /> <br />"(c) The uses of the waters of the San Juan River and <br />any of its tributaries within either state which are dependent <br />upon a common source of water and which are not covered by (a) <br />hereof, shall in times of water shortages be reduced in such <br />quantities that the resulting consumptive use in each state <br />will bear the same proportionate relation to the consumptive <br />use made in each state during times of average water supply as <br />