BOARD00941

• Board Meeting Date: 9/23/1966
• Description: Minutes
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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MR. MOSES:

MR. STAPLETON:

MR. MOSES:

concurrently with the federal agencies that
are preparing the prcject."

" Mr. Chairman."

IIMr. Moses."

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"It seems tc me that what Larry has said
is true. If we'd had a Colorado River com-
missicn, I think we would have been able to
expedite much of the work that has been dcne.
The way it cperates now, we cocrdinate cur
activities in the Upper Colcradc River Commis-
sion and then we have to negotiate with three
separate entities in the Lower Basin. There
is no reascn, without weakening the Upper Colo-
radc River Ccmmission a bit, but what you
could have a river ccmmission where ycu could
talk, where ycu cculd fcrm a ccncensus, in
one lccation.

I think we leek at this just the same way
we lock at the Upper Cclorado River commission.
I think much of the develcpment in the Colcradc
River Basin and in cclorado is attributable to
the fact that we had the unanimcus support of
the fcur upper Basin states and that the fcur
gcvernors, most of the time, went to the Con-
gress as cne voice to speak on these projects.
And this came about because the projects had
been thought cut, if you want to put it that
way, wcrked out in the Commissicn itself.

One cf the great problems I have enccun-
tered in my experience has been lack of ccmmuni-
caticn. Ycu just don't have a forum where you
can sit dcwn and discuss these things. Cer-
tainly ycu are not going to agree all of the
time but you need a place where you can talk
to them. The broader the geographical base,
it seems tc me, the better chance ycu have of
uniting people. If each person is parochial
and looks only at his cwn state, then he's got
to sell it tc 49 ether states. If ycu can
start off with having reached agreement with

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