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<br />106 <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />;'IHSREAS: i1e are advised by water authorities that <br />projects for the development of Vi ater for municipal and <br />industrial purposes are not eligible under the 1939 Act of <br />Congress as participating projects under federal holdover <br />storage programs, and . <br /> <br />WHEREAS: Water officials and water users in <br />Vies tern Colorado have been led to believe by representatives <br />of the City and County of Denver that no further requests for <br />transmountain diversions will be made until the above mentioned <br />surveys have been completed and quantities and uses determined, <br />and <br /> <br />,nfErlEAS: It appears to us that if Denver persists in <br />its present requect it will, in effect, revoke the conditions <br />upon ;':hich the Colorado Nater Conservation Board gave its <br />unanimous cons'3nt to the Fryingpan-Arkansas Transmountain <br />Diversion Project and that the conditions canrlOt be revoked <br />vdthout revoking consent to the said project. <br /> <br />NOW, THEd0'0~E, 3E IT RESOLVED that we respectfully <br />request each and every member of the Colorado Water Conservation <br />Board to abide by the above mentioned resolution adopted by <br />it as the official position of the State of Colorado that <br />there shall be no further federally financed transmountain <br />diversions approved unless and until surveys of water resources <br />and needs of Western Colorado have been completed, and that <br />this board deny the petition of the City and County of <br />Denver, requesting the Denver Blue River plan for a holdover <br />storage program on the Upper Colorado River. <br /> <br />AND BE IT FUR7HFR RFSOLVED that copies of this <br />resolution be furnished to each member of the Colorado Water <br />Board and His Excellency Gov. Dan Thornton, Governor of the <br />State of Colorado. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />Certified as a true and correct copy of this <br />resolution adopted on Monday, Fel;>.2, 1953. <br /> <br />}~. Delaney then called on C. R. Neill, of the North Fork <br />Water Conservancy District. <br /> <br />llr. Neill stated that members of t he Board of Directors <br />of the North Fork Viater Conservancy District were of the opinion that <br />the Denver plan was to become a participating project, and were very much <br />