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<br />this came up before this Board in 1951, <br />and such a resolution was adopted by the <br />Board at that time. Following that resolu- <br />tion, the engineering firm of Leeds, Hill <br />and Jewett, Los Angeles, California, was <br />employed to make a study of Western Slope <br />water resources. <br /> <br />This study was made. It has considerable <br />value. However it was not a particularly <br />detailed study to allow planning in the <br />various sections of western Colorado. It <br />was an overall report, received with some <br />controversy, and the matter at that time <br />was dropped for all practical purposes. <br />Nothing further was done concerning this <br />i'lestern Slope study. <br /> <br />Last year this Board authorized the <br />reinstitution of that study to be carried <br />on under the direction of the staff of this <br />Board. The study is now currently under way, <br />However, it will take us in the neighborhood <br />of five years to complete that study because <br />it is on a basin to basin basis and will be <br />far more complete than the Hill report, al- <br />though we are consulting the Hill report in <br />connection with this study. We cannot state <br />that we have any basic disagreement with <br />that report at this time. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />As a practical matter, we have no proj- <br />ects now under contemplation for transmountain <br />diversions with the exception of the Frying- <br />pan-Arkansas. Undoubtedly other projects <br />will come about and this Board, I think, will <br />be obligated to make certain studies in con- <br />nection with possible transmountain diver~ <br />sions. It is the duty and the function of <br />this Board to investigate all possible plans. <br />But as a practical matter it will be a period <br />of several years before ~his Board approves <br />any such study. It will be several years <br />before the Bureau of Reclamation will have I <br />any investigation funds allocated for that <br />purpose, so the only conclusion that I <br />can make at this time is that such a reso~ <br />lution, similar to the one offered by the <br />Colorado River Water Conservation District <br />Board, if adopted, must contain certain <br />stipulations. First, I think this Board <br />