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• Board Meeting Date: 1/18/1973
• Description: Agenda or Table of Contents, Minutes, Memos
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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APPENDIX C

COLORADO WATER CONSERVATION BOARD
102 Columbine Building
1845 Sherman Street
Denver, Colorado 80203

January 18, 1973

RES 0 ~ U T X 0 N

A RESOLUTION CONCERNING FEDERAL WATER CLAUIS IN THE STATE OF COLORADO.

WHEREAS, the federal government has now filed numerous claims

for water rights in the State of Colorado, in both the federal and

state courts, seeking to establish federal claims to much of the water

originating in Colorado, for the appointment of a federal water master,

and for other relief; and

WHEREAS, the federal government is claiming an unspecified

and unknown amount of water for such purposes; and

WHEREAS, the granting of the claims sought by the United

States could seriously jeopardize the existing system of water rights

within the State of Colorado, could create a dual system of administra-

tion and decrees, could require water users needlessly to re-adjudicate

rights already acquired and decreed under state law, could adversely

affect Colorado's rights under the Colorado River Compact and the Upper

Colorado River Basin Compact, and will cast an almost impossible burden

upon the citizens of this state in attempting to protect their individual

water rights;

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Colorado Water Conserva-

tion Board in regular session assembled at Denver, Colorado, this 18th