BOARD01502

• Board Meeting Date: 4/22/1948
• Description: Minutes and Resolution
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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The motion was duly seconded, carried and declared passed.

.The Director commented on the progress of the 'work which has been
undertaken by what is known as the Steeillng Committee. He supplemented
previous reports made by him concerning the activities of this committee.
He again called attention to the fact that the committee, which had been
functioning for over a year, was made up of the Director of Region 7,
Director of Region 4 and the Chief of the Branch of Hydrology, all of the
Bureau of Reclamation, and the Director of the Colorado Water Conservation
Board. Frequent meetings had. been held, generally every two months and
engineering advisers to the members of the committee participated in such
meetings. The function of the committee is to correlate the activities
of Region 4 and 7 in the investigation of projects development in Eastern
and Western Colorado, particularly with reference to the proposed Gunnison-
Arkansas and Blue-South Platte projects. He suggested that it was clear
to him that the reports by the Bureau of Reclamation on the Gunnison-
Arkansas and Blue-3outh Platte projects should be issued in the form of
interim reports for study and review by the Colorado Water Conservation
Board and affected interests; and that no final reports designed as a basis
for authorization of s~ch projects and for submission in conformity with
Section I of the 1944 blood Control Act should be prepared and issued by
the Bureau of Reclamation until after such s'tudy and review, and an oppor-
tunity had been given to the Board and affected interests to offer comments,
suggestions and criticisms based on the .original draft .report. He further
stated that such procedure had been discussed by him with the Steering
Committee.

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Mr. Smith and Mr. Dutcnerexpressed their approval of such a pro-
cedure, and explained that they had felt uninformed regarding the activities
of the Steering Committee. They suggested that arrangements should be ma.de
so that the Board menibers would receive copies of the minutes of the meet-
ing s and a summarization of the activ1ties of the Steering Committee. .

Mr. Batson, a member of the Steering Committee and Director of
Region 7, Bureau of Reclamation, stated that he could see no reason why "the
request of Messrs. Smith and Dutcher should not be carried out.

Thereupon it was moved by Mr. Dutcher that the Director re-
quest the Steering Committee to make available to the members
of the Colorado Water Conservation Board copies of its minutes,
past 'and future, and a summarization from time to time of its
activities, such minutes to be forwarded to the members of the
Colorado Water Conservation Board by the Director as soon as the
same are prepared following each meeting.

The motion was seconded, carried, and declared passed.

The Director announced that he would submit the request of the B card
at the next meeting of the Steering Committee.

It was moved by Mr. Dille that the minutes of the Colorado
Water Conservation Board of August 14-15, 1947, be approved
as prepared and submitted to the Board.

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The motion was seconded, carried, and declared passed.