BOARD00822

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

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Mr. Hunter stated that they would abide by the decision
of the Board on this matter.

Mr. Bailey then stated that in view of the explanation
he thought we had better pass this matter over until 3:30 or
4:00 o'clock when Mr. Moses would be here.

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2. Mr. Breitenstein next remarked that there was one
matter which he believed should be considered while Mr.
. Hunter ana Mr. Beaty were Aen; Item No. 8 on the agenda,
Delegation of Power by the Water Conservation Board to
the Colorado Conference Committee.

Mr. Crawford stated: At the meeting of the Water
Board on February 16-17, 1953,.a resolution was passed, setting
up the Conference Committee. In that resolution, the first part
says, "It was moved by E. L. Dutcher and seconded by George A.
Pughe that the Colorado Water Conservation Board submit the
matter concerning the request of the City and County of Denver
for federal funds with which to divert approximately 177,000 acre
feet of water from the Blue River in Western Colorado to a
Colorado Conference Committee, consisting of five members. . . "
That limits the duties of this Conference Committee to that area.
The bill, H. B. 457, which was ~ssed later, was much broader,
and uses the expression Western Olope, rather than the language of
this resolution. In delegating the power to the Conference
Committee, the resolution delegated power for a certain locality.
The Bill provided that the power of the Committee be broad enough
to take care of the entire Western Slope, rather than just the
Blue River in Western Colorado. In order to make this effective,
Mr. Saunders, at a meeting of the Conference Committee on
April 1st, submitted for approval, the following resolution:

WHEREAS this Board, on February 17, 1953, created the
Colorado Con~erence Committee.

vffiEREAS, subsequently thereto, H. B. 457 of the 39th
General Assembly of Colorado became law, said law being as
follows:

HOUSE BILL NO. 457

A B ILL

BY: Representatives Meaker
. McSaughlin, Keiry, Smartt, I
Sparks and Eckhardt.

AN ACT RELATING TO WATER DEVELOPMENT AND THE INVESTIGA~ING AND
REPORTING OF WATER RESOURCES AND USES, AND ~illKING AN APPROPRIATION
FOR CARRYING OUT THE PURPOSES OF THIS ACT.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of. the State of Colorado;