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<br />I <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />.l':f: L.tJ. <br /> <br />transmountain diversion plans or projects until all water <br />use requirements in the natural basin of the Colorado River <br />in Colorado shall be determined and protected. <br /> <br />The Resolution is hereby submitted for your considera~ <br />tion and action. <br /> <br />Yours very truly, <br /> <br />PPS:Ebw <br /> <br />/ s / PHILIP P. SMITH <br />Philip P. Smith <br />Secretary-Engineer' <br /> <br />I wanted to bring this matter into dis- <br />cussion before we have any motion on it. I <br />wonder if the Director would have any com- <br />ments on the proposed resolution. He attended <br />that meeting and I would like his comments." <br /> <br />MR. SPARKS: <br /> <br />"To go back, Governor McNichols some <br />months ago requested representatives of the <br />Colorado River Water Conservation Board and <br />of the Southeastern Colorado Water Conser- <br />vancy District to meet here in Denver to <br />discuss the possibility of reopening nego- <br />tiations and reconstituting the Policy and <br />Review Committee on the Fryingpan-Arkansas <br />Project. The meeting took place in the <br />Capitol. At that time seven conditions were <br />set forth concerning the project. Those <br />seven conditions were mimeographed and sent <br />to the Board members. <br /> <br />Following that meeting I prepared that <br />memorandum of August 21, 1958, which I sent <br />to the Board members following that meeting <br />of July 15, 1958, at the request of Governor <br />McNichols. That is this memorandum of August <br />21, 1958. <br /> <br />I went into a bit of history on page <br />three of that memorandum, paragraph three - <br />'The approval of the Colorado River Water <br />Conservation District as set forth above, is <br />contingent upon the adoption of a policy by <br />the Colorado Water Conservation Board that <br />they will not approve any further federally <br />financed transmountain diversions, plans or <br />projects until all water use requirements in <br />the natural basin of the Colorado River in <br />Colorado shall be determined and protected'. <br />I think we are all familiar with the fact <br />