BOARD01190

• Board Meeting Date: 12/10/1948
• Description: Minutes and Resolution
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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,A,;ji!U:r, ~ Judge Stone submitted a copy of the resolution of the Arkansas Valley
/ ,,," tHch Association for inclusion in the official minutes of the Board, as
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BE IT RESOLVED by the Executive Committee of the Arkansas
Valley Ditch Association in meeting assembled at Pueblo, 13010rado,
this Jrd day of December, 1948, that the proposed Compact between
the States of Colorado and Kansas, for the distribution of water
from John.Martin Reservoir.Project, as the sa~e is set out in the
mimeographed draft thereof of date November 10, 1948, be and the
same is hereby approved, provided

(a) Paragraph F of Article V is subject to
such revisions as may be unanimouslJ" .agreed to by
the Colorado Compact Commissioners.

(b) That the word "materially" be inserted
on page 5 of said draft, before the word "depleted"
in the third line from the bottom of Paragraph D of
Article IV thereof.

(c) That the words "and reservoirs" be in-
serted on page 7 of :said draft, after the word "ditches"
in the second line from the bottom of Paragraph D of
Article V thereof.

BE IT FURTHER RESOL'TED, That the Colorado members of said
Commission be and they are hereby requested to sign said Compact,
after the editing of paragraph F of Article V, and the insertion
of the words "materially" and "and reservoirs", as hereinabove
set forth; to the end that said Compact may be submitted for
ratification at the next session of the legislatures of the
State:s of Colorado and Kansas, and thereafter to the Congress
of the United States.

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It was decided that water users of the Valley and the Colorado Commis-
sioners should work together in rewriting Article F of the Compact, on a
.basis that would fulfill all the suggestions made through the Ditch associa-
tion and other sources. John Beaty suggested that the exact language be
left to the discretion of the Commissioners. Chairman Bailey announced that
-further consideration of the Compact would be delayed to the following day,
to give the Colorado Commissioners and others time to work on the recommended
revision of wording.

The Board took up the topic of the report on the activities of the Policy
and Review Committee, set up. to study the first stage of the proposed Gunnison-
Arkansas Project. Director Stone reported that the Policy and Review Committee
had been set up, as instructed bv the Board. He explained the membership and
personnel of the Committee. He discussed the municipal interest of Colorado
Springs. The Committee's work, he stated, is being dove-tailed with similar
studies of the Steering Committee.