BOARD01352

• Board Meeting Date: 2/1/1966
• Description: Minutes
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

for the State of Colorado. I want to say in
the very beginning that when that decision has
been made, when the policy has been laid down,
when this Board has made the decision, then
so far as I am concerned the whole matter is
foreclosed from anything except ardent support.

However, until we reach that kind of a
conclusion and until we reach an official
position for the state of Colorado, I feel
that it is my responsibility, my personal
responsibility and my responsibility as a
member of the Upper Colorado River commission,
to plunk as hard as I lmo~l ho\., for the things
that I believe in, for the changes in this
legislation which I believe should be made.
Anyway, that is the course that I intend to
pursue and along that line, along with Dave
Miller, I did a little night work myself last
night and I drew up a one page statement that
I want to read to you. I have copies for the
members of the Board and some extra copies.

This is my statement, Hr. Chairman:

Jack Garner, the beloved legislative
philosopher and realist who understood this
Nation's government second to none, said:
'A weak law under able administration is far
better than a strong la~l under weak adminis-
tration. I

I

The February 1 version of H. R. 4671 is
a sound and constructive document with one
glaring exception. It authorizes projects
in both basins equitably and.realistically.
It expresses unanimous support of all seven
Colorado Basin states for the importation of
heavy drafts of water from sources outside its I
natural drainage basin into the Colorado River
System. It provides for reasonable, sensible,
and necessary storage of water in the Upper
Basin of the wild, erratic, and unpredictable
Colorado River. And, it stipulates and pro-
vides to the best of its ability for the