BOARD00736

• Board Meeting Date: 7/18/1958
• Description: Minutes and Resolution
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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c. To determine the beneficial consumptive use and
headgate diversion requirements, within the natural basin of
the Colorado River in Colorado, to meet demands of presently
vested rights, and to provide water. for projected water uses,
including water for the Participating Projects which are ,author-
ized and designated for planning reports in Public Law 485, and
for existing and projected depletions by reason of transmountain
diversions.

d. To determine the amount of holdover storage required
in order that the State of Colorado may make the fullest possi-
ble beneficial use of the Colorado River water to which the State
is entitled, under the Colorado River Compact, the Upper Colo-
rado River Basin Compact, the Mexican Treaty, and other public
acts pertinent to the inquiry, giving full consideration to
evaporation, channel and other losses and depletions properly
chargeable to Colorado. The effect of Public Law 485 on the
subject of this inquiry should be fully evaluated.

e. To establish a formulae or criteria for the impounding
of water in Glen Canyon and other holdover storage reservoirs,
within the requirements of the Colorado River Compact, the
California self-limitation Act, the Boulder Canyon Project Act,
the Mexican Treaty, and other pertinent compacts and agreements,
and also the Colorado River Storage Project and Participating
Projects Act.

f. To work out, formulate and recommend for adoption as
Colorado's official policy and position, an interpretation of
the Colorado River Compact, the Upper Colorado River Basin Com-
pact, the Mexican Treaty, and all other interstate and inter-
national agreements pertinent or relative to, or affecting the
beneficial consumptive use in Colorado, of the water of the Colo-
rado River and its tributaries.

g. To determine the extent to which, if at all, an in-
creased burden is placed on the upper basin states to deliver
water at Lee Ferry and at the international boundary by desilt-
ing, pumping and other changing practices, with immediate em-
phasis on the matter of pumping of underground water in the
lower reaches of the Colorado River in Arizona, California and
the Republic of Mexico.

h. To determine, from an engineering, hydrological and
legal standpoint, the extent to which, if at all, present and
future rights to the beneficial consumptive use of water of the
Colorado River in Colorado are or may be infringed upon or en-
dangered by any decision which may be rendered in the case of
Arizona vs. California in the Supreme Court of the United States.
This inquiry should be directed, not only to the issues between
the two states as framed by their respective pleadings, but also
to the question of the preference or supremacy which the United
States contends should be given to the so-called Indian rights.