BOARD01192

• Board Meeting Date: 9/16/1942
• Description: Table of Contents and Minutes
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Minutes

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Considerable discussion ensued and it ,was pointed out that further
consideration of this by the Colorado River Basin States would probably
be taken within the next few months. It is a matter of extreme importanoe
to the State of Colorado, sinoe 90 per oent of the water produced in the
Upper Basin comes from this state and any allooation 1:;0 Mexioo in excess of
surpluses, under the provisions of the Colorado ,River Compaot, must be pro-
vided to the extent of one-half by the Upper Basin States and one-half by
the Lower Basin states.

The Board members, after discussion of the subjeot of the Colorado
River-United States-Mexioo situation, had no further recommendations nor
objection to the position taken by Colorado representatives on the Committee
of Fourteen with respeot to the matter.

Direotor stone reported to the Board concerning the status of con-
struction work on the Mancos projeot. He explained that this was a Wheeler
Case development which initially had emplcyed C.C.C. labor; that the C.C.C.
oamps whioh had been established at the project were not now funotioning
beoause of the cessation of the work of suoh camps in the present war emer-
gency; that equi:fXllent had been moved on to the projeot but that a portion of
the heavy equipment had been taken to the Pando project and he understood a
"freeze order" had been placed by the GoverIDllent on the balanoe of the
equipment; that the stripping of the dam site had been largely oompleted and
other work done; and that an effort had been made through his office and the
local interests to prooure the establishment' of a oonsoientious objeotors'
camp on the project. He stated that the matter would be followed up and
there was a possibility that either a oonscientious objeotors' camp or aside
camp of the War Relocation Authority would be cbtained.

The annual oonferenoe of the National Reolamation Assooiation whioh
will be held in Denver on October 14-16, 1942 Was then discussed. Direotor
Stone announced that a meeting of the Colorado convention committee had been
held and that some of the subcommittees had already met. He explained that
this 'Convention had been moved from Bakersfield, California, where it was
originally set, to Denver, Colorado and that a large measure of responsibility
rested on the Colorado people in properly preparing for'- and handling this con-
vention. He further ,explained that important questions of reolamation
polioies would be oonsidered at the convention.

Attention was then direoted to the fact that it was important in the
interest of Colorado that an effort be made in the next session of the Colo-
rado legislature to obtain amendment to Sub-seotion (b), Seotion 13 of
Chapter 266, SessiOn4aws of Colorado, 1937. entitledl "An Act to Provide
for the Organization of Water Conservancy Districts and to Define the Pur-
poses and Powers Thereof," approved May 13, 1937.

It was pointed out that prior to the convening of the last session
of the state legislature, representatives from the various seotions of Colo-
rado had, after several conferences, approved a form of suoh an amendment
for submission to the legislature. This amendment had been passed by the
House of Representatives, but in the Senate it failed to be reported by the
Calendar Committee. The amendment submitted at the last session of the legis-
lature was approved by the Colorado Water Conservation Board prior to its
submission and after agreement of interested parties in various seotions of
the state. The proposed amendment was as followsl