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8. . That Colorado favor the construction of Curecanti re- servoir as a first phase project with such modification as might be necessary to assure its feasibility. I 9. That the Water Conservation Board approve the Hill Re- port as to availabilit~' of water supply. 10. That this CC!J1mittee approves construJing Denver's Blue River Transmountain Diversion within the limita- tions of total supply contained in the Hill Report, by Federal financing, whether such financing is provided in 'the current storage project bill or by some other means to be selected by the proponent of the project and that "Denver participate in regulation to meet de- mands at Lee Ferry or other Colorado River commi Uments to the full extent required to meet Denver's share of Lee Ferry or Colorado obligations .as ultimately deter- mined with reference ~o all adjudicated rights affected. 11. \'{e recommend to the Water Board that it be understood that the Water Board will make investigations of further plans for water use in Colorado when conditions change or additional data becomes available. The motion was seconded by I&-. Christ;}'. After discussion, was put to a volte and passed. Aye votes were Bailey, Christy and Petry; Nos - Delaney and Cory. Mr. Bailey: "The question is what are we going to tell Mr. Breiten- stein we want him to do?" I Mr. Delaney: "We wish our members to express their ideas on that question. I would like to say that we had hoped that we might have a unanimous decision. We regret t hat has not been possible. We also regret VI e were forced to vote against things we favored. Mr. Bailey has just read the resolution and I would like to say first that as far as the first eight paragraphs are concenred, we approve, but because we were denied the privilege of voting for each paragraph separately, we disapprove. We have not been attacking the Hill Re- port. Yesterday we presented a prospective figure to the Committee for their consideration. It was attacked, Which was certainly all right and proper. Mr. Riter offered to have the Committee take that matter into consideration, and take it back to the Committee. We think that it is of sufficient importance that it should be considered by the Water Board. Mr. Jex has prepared certain figures showing what would be the effect, assuming the 400 subsidy on the Slope. We simply ask that these facts be taken into consideration. We pointed out the Indian rights and the Mexican treaty rights. You have before you paragraph ten of this resolution, and I would like to call your attention specifically to the first phrase. We started out on the aSSUlllFtion that we 're to have 177,000 acre-feet on the Blue River. I ask you, gentlemen, to read that and see if you see any such limita- tion on it. 'The outset and throughout the proceedings of that Com- 312 ~