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COLORADO WATER CONSERVATION BOARD MEETING MINUTES Room 20F, Capitol Building Denver, Colorado August 16, 1972 I The meeting was called to order by Mr. Stapleton, Chairman, at 10:00 A.M. Mr. Stapleton: We will call the regularly scheduled meeting of the Colorado Water Conservation Board to order. Before we get into the agenda items, the minutes of our last meeting are not ready, so we won't have anything to review. I think it would be appropriate, Larry, on this first agenda item, if you would tell us why you think it was put on there. Mr. Sparks: I thought it was an appropriate time to review the status of projects which have been authorized pursuant to the Colorado River Storage Project Act. Considerable time has elapsed since some of these projects were authorized. The pending standards and principles announced by the Water Resources Council recommends a time limitation of five years on commencement of project construction. It behooves us to take a crtical look at all of these projects to determine what action should be taken to accelerate construction. The Curecanti project was authorized in 1956. Here we are almost twenty years later and the project has not been completed. The Savery-Pot Hook, Fruitland Mesa and Bostwick Park projects were authorized in 1964. Now eight years later construction has not started yet on the Savery-Pot Hook and Fruitland Mesa projects. The Bostwick Park project is essentially completed and will be almost totally completed within this current fiscal year. The remaining projects on the agenda were authorized in 1968, and now I five years later construction is not imminent on any of tho fivQ proj- ects. The two project managers involved with these projects are here today, Mr. Ed Wiscombe and Mr. J. W. Robins. Mr. Robins has all of those projects in the Gunnison, Colorado, and Yampa River baSins.