BOARD01582

• Board Meeting Date: 5/8/1957
• Description: Minutes and Resolution
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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WHEREAS, the Colorado River Storage Project and
Participating Projects Act, Public Law No. 485, has made
possible the full in-basin agricultural, industrial and econo- I
mic development of the Upper Colorado River Basin, by the
construction of (1) holdover storage reservoirs designed and
intended to provide for the impoundment of water in high .
water years to meet the commitment of the Upper Basin to de-
liver 75,000,000 acre feet of water in each ten year period,
and (2) storage, transmission and distribution facilities
in the upper reaches of the Colorado River designed and in-
tended to put to beneficial use the water apportioned to the
Upper Basin and the five States, portions of which are lo-
cated therein, by the Colorado River Compact and the Upper
Colorado River Basin Compact, which latter facilities are
designated as participating projects in Public Law 485, and

WHEREAS, the construction of all of the works and
facilities comprehended in said Public Law 485 will extend
over a period of many years and will involve the expenditure
of a greater amount of money than any other similar project
in the history of reclamation, and

It is obvious that the speediest and most effec-
tive and efficient construction of all said works and faci-
lities is in the National interest and was in the comtempla-
tion of the Congress and of the President when said Public
Law 485 was approved by them, and

WHEREAS, it is the opinion of the Board of Direc-
tors of the Colorado River Water Conservation District that
the speedy, effective and efficient construction of such of
said works and facilities as are designed for in-basin devel-
opment in the States of the Upper Basin can be brought about
only if the planning, designing and construction thereof are
placed under the charge of a region or department of the Bur-
eau of Reclamation upon which is imposed the exclusive respon-
sibility and duty of designing, planning and constructing xhe
works and facilities comprehended in said Public Law 485 as
are designed and intended for the agricultural, industrial
and economic development of the areas included within the
Upper Colorado River Basin; THEREFORE:

BE IT AND IT IS HEREBY RESOLVED by the Board of
Directors of the Colorado River Water Conservation District
this 21st day of March, 1957, that the Secretary of the
Interior be, and he is hereby, urgently requested to cause
to be set up, as expeditiously as possible, a region or de-
partment of the Bureau of Reclamation; and to vest said
region or department with full and exclusive power and

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