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<br />Section 13 of Chapter 266 o~ the Session Laws of Colorado,
<br />1937, entitled, 11"'r, Act to Provide for the Organization of Water
<br />Conservanoy Districts and to Define the Purposes and Powers There-
<br />of," approved May 13, 1937, is hereby amended so as to read as
<br />follows, to-wit I
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<br />"(b) To take by appropriation, grant, purohase, bequest,
<br />devise or lease, and to hold and enjoy water, water works, water
<br />rights and sources of water supply and any and all real and
<br />personal property of any kind within or without the district
<br />necessary or convenient to the full exercise of its powers; and
<br />to sell, lease, encumber, alien or otherwise dispose of water,
<br />water works, water rights and sources of supply of water for use
<br />within the districts; also to acquire, oonstruot or operate,
<br />control and use any and all works, faoilities and means neoessary
<br />or convenient to the exercise of its power, both within and without
<br />the district for the purpose of providing for the use of suoh
<br />water within the district and to do and perform any and all things
<br />necessary or convenient to the full exercise of the powers herein
<br />granted; PROVIDED. HOWEVER, that any projeot development providing
<br />for the exportation of water from the natural basin of any river
<br />subjeot to the Colorado River Compact and the Boulder Canyon Pro-
<br />ject Aot, as amended, by any distriot created under this Aot shall
<br />be subjeot to the provisions of the Colorado River Compaot and the
<br />Boulder Canyon Projeot Act, including all amendments thereo~, and
<br />shall be designed, constructed and operated in such a manner that
<br />the present and prospective development within the natural basin
<br />in the State of Colorado from which the water is exported will be
<br />proteoted without cost to the water users within said natural
<br />basin."
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<br />The amendment sought to Sub-seotion'(b), Section 13 of Chapter 266 of
<br />above mentioned statute changed the "proviso portion." The proviso as it
<br />now appears in Sub-seotion (b), Section 13 in the Aot reads as follows:
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<br />PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that not to eX8eed an annual average amount of
<br />320,000 aore-feet of water, for any period of five oonsecutive years,
<br />reokoned in oontinuing progressive series, beginning with the first
<br />year of transmountain diversion of water, shall be transported fran.
<br />the watershed of any and all rivers subject to the Colorado River
<br />Compact and the Boulder Canon Aot. (U.S.C. Ti tl<:>43""S,eotions 617
<br />to 6l7-t) by all districts organized or to b~I!(irgan1zea:un.der this
<br />Aot, COlleotively, until suoh time as a div,i\!ion of lI8.ter'ltllocated
<br />to the several upper basin states under sa~d Compaot has been made
<br />under agreement between said states, or o~herwise determined.
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<br />Direotor Stone stated that recently he had a conferenoe with Commissioner
<br />Page and Chief Engineer Harper of the Recl8JllRtion-, Bureau oonoerning the matter.
<br />They had expressed their belief that some amendment to Section 13, 'above
<br />mentioned, should be effeotuated in the interest or-~pe develo~ent of the
<br />water resources of the state; that they were in sympathy"with'the principles
<br />involved and the intent of the proposed amendment; but that they believed
<br />there existed in the wording of the proposal an ambiguity which should .be
<br />oleared up. It was, therefore, suggested that a cammittee be appointed to
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