BOARD01143

• Board Meeting Date: 12/11/1953
• Description: Minutes and Resolution
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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(The two resolutions mentioned in the foregoing motion are
attached hereto as Appendices D. and E.)

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"It was moved by. Judge Dan H. Hughes, and seconded
by C. J. McCormick, that the resolution submitted by
the Colorado Fiver Water Conservation District, be
accepted and approved as a policy by the Colorado Water
Conservation Board."

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"It was moved by Dan B. Hunter, and seconded by
John A. Cross, that the similar resolution submitted
by the Southwestern !'{ater Conservation Board, be
likewise accepted and approved as a policy of the
. Colorado Water Conservation Board."

APPENDIX "D"

A meeting of the Board of Directors of the Colorado River Water
Conservation District was held at Grand Junction, Colorado, on Feb-
ruary 19, 1951, at the request of Western Colorado members of the
Colorado Water Conservation Board to consider and discuss the pro-.
posed Fryingpan-Arkansas diversion project, formerly referred to as
the initial phase of the Gunnison-Arkansas project. All members of
the Board were present except Andrew Lindstrom.

The following resolution was offered by Charles R. Neill:

RESOLUTION

The Board of Directors of the Colorado River Water Conservation Dis-
trict in order to be cooperative in the furtherance of the policy of
the State of Colorado, hereby concurs in the complete report of the
Policy and Review Connnittee appointed to consider the Fryingpan-
Arkansas Diversion Project, which report as amended has been submitted
to the Colorado Water'Conservation Board, subject to the condition
that Section (Roman) IV be amended to read as follows:

IV

EFFECT OF APPROVAL
OF PROJECT REPORT

The Committee recognizes that the approval of this report is not to
serve as a precedent or example for the approval of any other trans-
mountain diversion of major proportions not heretofore authorized.
The policy of the State of Colorado as initiated in statewide meetings
held under the auspices of the State Planning Commission at Denver and
Grand Junction,.and as evidenced by resolution dated June 15, 1935,
and February 28, 1936, was not adhered to because surveys of the
character mentioned in the said resolutions were not available to the
Committee. Nothing herein contained shall be deemed or construed as
a precedent for Federal projects not heretofore authorized until ade-
quate surveys have been made and the necessary data are available so
that a general allocation or apportionment of the waters of the Colo-
rado River, allocated for consumptive use in the state of Colorado,

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