BOARD00822

• Board Meeting Date: 4/27/1953
• Description: Minutes and Resolution
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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regular members.
correct. Why not
the two groups.

Mr. 0utcher remarked he did not think we are ready to
name the alternates. Mr. Saunders said he would want to
talk to Harold Christy and all the Eastern Slope people.
~;ight make recommendations later.

Start out ona basis which is theoretically
name the alternate? Four men for each of

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Mr. Delaney made the following statement at this point;
From the manner in which the resolution was passed on
February 17, and the effect on this of legislation subsequently
passed, I have considered that legislation quite carefully
and I think it is capable of carrying with it a very strong
implication that the legislative department has determined
that the investigations with respect to the possibility of
exporting water from one water shed to another, etc. is to
be made by the expenditure of this $100,000, and that is to
be the end of it. In other words, the act implies that after
$100,000 has been spent, this Committee of your agency set up
by the Water Board is to make a report to embody the purpose
of the Act to determine how much water, and where to be
exported. That broadens this investigation discussed here by
this Board on February 17, from more or less localized activity.
The importance of that I think, may be could be somewhat
illustrated by certain items in the report from the Commissioner
of Reclamation sent to your Director who was kind enough to
send the information out. Bureau of Reclamation investigation
to determine land classifications, water stream measurements,
availability of water, and some other general matters cost
$112,000. Mr. Riter can probably tell us if all of those funds
came out of Colorado River Diversion Fund, or whether there
were other expenses out of general fund. The main stem of
Colorado River Report, Cliffs Divide, has cost the Bureau of
Reclamation the sum of $143,000. This thing, as it has now
been shaped and mo~lded by the legislature, reaches much farther
than just the two areas on the Western Slope. Mr. Breitenstein
has suggested here that so far as humanly possible at this
time, this Committee should be so instituted that it arrive at
a conclusion as fast as possible in all parts of the State.

As the main stream of the Colorado is to be depleted to
some extent for oil shale development on the White River, Yampa
and North, Platte and certain areas in Wyoming, I believe that
this Board should seriously consider whether certain sections
of this state are adequately represented on this Committee.
If not, before you take final action, I suggest that phase of the