BOARD01323

• Board Meeting Date: 7/11/1978
• Description: Agenda, Minutes, Resolution
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

communities of Erie and Superior, are caught in between
one side and the Denver metropolitan area on the other.
obviously ripe for expansion, and the area is expanding

Boulder on
They are
very rapidly.

Looking at the land use pattern, what Louisville and Lafayette, par-
ticularly, had planned to take into the city eventually, we allocated I
that water supply. We said, "If that,agricultural land is coming in,
the water must come with it." Therefore, whatever land was included
in the master plan, we said, "Whatever agricultural water is there,'it
must come in with the land."

MR. STAPLETON: Are there any other questions from members of the
board? (No response.) Members of the audience, do you have "any
questions of Larry? (No response.) If not, thank you, very much,
Larry Nelson.

MR. NELSON: Thank you.

MR. STAPLETON: Now, we come to the continuing discussion of the
proposed federal water policy. And inasmuch as Mr. Sparks has a fine
crystal ball, we only think 'it proper that you initiate the discussion
of this crystalizedmatter.

MR. SPARKS: The board and the audience will recall that shortly after
the President took office last year, he first announced a hit list,
which involved virtually every reclamation project in the Western
United States and a hundred percent of those in Colorado. Following
the outcry about this arbitrary action, the President decided that
some public hearings would be held, and he announced that he was going
to formulate a new water policy. A number of so-called "option papers"
were released and hearings were held throughout the United States on
those option papers.

Eventually, the State of Colorad6 put together its response to those
option papers. Subsequent to that, further meetings have been held.
The Colorado congressional delegation, along with others, have been
particularly active in this field, protesting many of the proposals in
the new water policy. ,Governor Lamm has taken a personal interest in
it and has had a number of meetings with the President and his people
with reference to that water policy.

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The original policy was supposed to be announced last November. Because
of the pressure brought by Congress and the governors, the President
delayed that announcement. It was finally made on June 6, just last
month. That policy was broken into four major categories. The first
one was improvement of federal water resource programs. Under this
heading, the President proposed new criteria for the computation' of

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