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161 I It ~as moved and seconded that Mr. Gildersleeve's appoint- ment as Chief Engineer for the Board, in accordance with provisions set up by the' Civil: SerVice Coinmi.s si on, be "approved by th~ Colorado Water Conservation Board, and that the Director be authorized to proceed with such appointment. On vote, the motion carried and was declared adopted. The Board resumed discussion of the Colorado River Storage Project report of the fureau of Reclamation. The Director stated that pertinent factors of the overall plan were already known to the Board members. He announced that the exact details of the proposed Gunnison River Development, contained in the report, would not be formulated until further studies had been made and local viewpoints con- sidered. Congressman Wayne Aspinall announced that the Collbran Project, on the west slope near Grand Junction, was being considered independently from the Colo- rado River Storage Project, inasmuch as it would be self-liquidating and would not be issued soon. f Gordon Weller appeared before the Board on the subject of the access road to the proposed Echo Park darn site, from the Vicinity of Artesia, Colorado. He discussed the various advantages to accrue to Colorado by such a road. It was moved by Mr. Cross, and seconded by Mr. Smith, that Mr. Weller be requested to suggest revised phraseology of Paragraph 10 of the proposed State Comments on the Colorado River Storage Project 'report, to include the points emphasized in his discussion. On vote, the motion was carried. The Board adjourned at 5:20 o'clock, to reconvene at 9 o'clock Saturday morning. FORENOON SESSION December 17, 1949 The meetine was called to order at;9 :}O 0' clock by Vice Chairman Bailey. The Board proceeded to consider the report of the Bureau' of Reclamation on the proposed Fine River Project and Extension project, and the State's official comments thereon. Spokesman for the Pine River group was A. lA. Emigh, attorney, who submitted the following prepared statement for the record: "MEMORANDUM I "Concerning Comments of the State on the Pine River Project And Extension Submitted by the Pine River Irrigation District "We suggest that Paragr-aph 4 be amended to read as follOl~s: "The project as descri bed in the proposed report is desirable in that it would make possible the irrigation of 15,150 acres of land in Colorado and New Mexico now idle, which are part of the original service area for which the Vallecito ReservOir was built. It is particularly necessary that this project be constructed as soon as possible for the reason that the vast majority of the lands which are to be benefitted by the extension are noW paying assessments for the rep8<fment of the cost of the Vallecito Reservoir and are receiving no benefj,ts whatsoever from the storage. Such pay- ments have been made since 1942 and some of this land is now in de- fault. Considerable more acreage within the area would be in default