BOARD01433

• Board Meeting Date: 12/18/1950
• Description: Minutes and Resolution
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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development. Discussion of the places where such hearings should be held
followed. Gordon Weller, Secretary of the Meeker Chamber of Commerce, ex-
tended an invitation that one of them be held at Meeker and urged that that
was an appropriate place where all matters concerning the Echo Park unit of
.the Colorado River Storage Project might be considered.

It was moved by Judge Hughes and seconded by Mr. Cross '
that a series of .hearings on the West Slope be authorized by
the Board, the dates to be deCided upon when the Colorado
River Storage Project is available, together with a report
on the Gunnison River development; that adequate public.
notice be given of such hearings; and that they be held at
Durango, Gunnison, Delta, and Meeker, Colorado.

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On vote being taken, the motion unanimously carried
and was declared adopted.

Consulting Engineer Tipton reported concerning the further investiga-
tions and studies made on the .proposed Narrows Reservoir. He stated that fur-
ther studies by the' Bureau of Reclamation favored the Narrws site, in prefer-
I ence to the so-called Fort Mor2;an site, and .that reservoir plans were being
materially c[1anged to mal!:e a more accepta:ble project.. tne Director announced
t;'1at meetings were being arranged on this subject between members of the staff
of the Colorado Water Conservation Board, representatives of the Bureau of
Reclamation, and interested local groups.

Attorney Breitenstein reported on several meetings which had been held
since the last meeting of the Board on the matter of securing acceptable arrange-
ments between in-basin and out-of-basin users in Colorado of Laramie River water
,as a basis for making some future. adjustment with Wyoming for modification of the
provisions of the decrees of the United States Supreme Court. He reviewed the
present discussions which are being held with meadowland water users in the
basin and transmountain diversionists, and explained that if both groups of water
users were able to reach an agreement, then an approach would be made to Wyoming
to suggest a modification of the United States Supreme Court decree. These dis-
cussions, he explained, would be continued and a later report made to the Board.

Attorney Breitenstein reported that there were no new developments on
the proposed Glendo Project on the North Platte, but that the Bureau lad indicated
i.ts report, which will be considered by the States of Colorado, Wyoming, and
Nebraska, would be ready in a few weeks.

Attorney Breitenstein reported that there were no new developments re-
garding the removal of the Federal excess land limitations as they r elate to the
San Luis Valley Project. He explained that it was noted at the recent convention
of the National Reclamation Association that some states which had formerly
evidenced no interest in the matter were now expressing concern with respect to
the application of the land limitation provision of the Federal Reclamation laws.

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The Director reported concerning Colorado's participation in the program
of investigations for formulation of a basin-wide development plan in the
Arkansas-White-Red River Basins. He explained that these investigations were
progressing rapidly and that the staff of the Water Conservation Board was
called to participate on a number of technic~ subcommittees, as well as in
meetings of the Inter-Agency Committee which has been set up to supervise thesformulation of policies related to these investigations. He stated, however,