BOARD01412

• Board Meeting Date: 2/16/1953
• Description: Minutes and Resolution
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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Mr. Breitenstein asked if the exportation of water from the
natural basin of the Colorado River (Region 4) to the Eastern Slope of
Colorado (Region 7) poses any problem as to the planning and authorization
of the Colorado River Storage Project.

Mr: Batson stated that it did not cause a barrier but the problem
of time would enter in. When asked if the Bureau had any method of 'in-
tegerating the efforts of the two regions, he replied there had been a
steering committee, headed by Judge Stone, which had been in operation for
about four years. The last meeting, he stated, was held when the Frying-
Pa~-Arkansas Project was being considered, about two years ago.

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Mr. Ammons asked if the 1946 report shows there is sufFicient
water for the Western Slope and the City of Denver.

Mr. Riter replied that the 1946 report was an inventory report
and since that time there have been other reports, sponsored by the War
Department and the Department of Mines, which shmvthe possibility of the
manufacture of synthetic fuels.

Mr. Breitenstein pointed out that Mr. Riter had said the 1946
report was a comprehensive report and that he also refers.to it as an
inventory report. If it is an inventory report, he stated, there is a
question as to whether it is a fulfillment of the Bou+der Canyon Project
Act, heretofore mentioned. Mr. Breitenstein asked if the other Colorado
River Basin States accepted the 1946 report as complete.

Mr. Larson explained that they had certain criteria to meet:
(1) The amount available for the job was ~1,500,000, (2) the request
of some of the Upper Basin States to come out vlith the best plan possible
to show potentialities so it could be divided among the states, and
(3) the Act of 1928 which has been mentioned previously. He added that,
in his opinion, the 1946 report is comprehensive as it covers irrigation,
minerals androther uses, to the degree of accuracy of data which was
available at that time. 1~. Larson called attention to the fact that
most of the delay in the completion of investir,ations is due to a lacl{ of
funds..

At this point, Vice-Chairman Bailey called on Frank Delaney of
Glenwood Springs to present the vie.'ls of the Western Slope in regard to
Denver's request to include the Denver project in the authorization bill
for the Colorado River Storage Project.

Mr. Delaney explained that because the representatives of the
Western Slope are from such widely separated communities, it is
difficult for them to organize. During the noon recess, however, he
stated, a tentative program was outlined. Mr. Delaney referred to a
pamphlet, sent out by the Colorado Water Conservation Board, regarding

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