BOARD01589

• Board Meeting Date: 1/11/1956
• Description: Minutes
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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After discussion, it was decided that Mr. CrawfoJCi:
should contact'the state of'Utah in regard to the DeBeque
Project. Also, it was decided that Mr. Crawford should
inform Mr. Larson that, while the Board concurs in the
program as outlined in his letter, there are a few we want
to hurry up; such as, Fruitland Mesa, Dallas Creek,
Troublesome, and Grand Mesa.

Considerable dis~u~sion'followed.

At this point Mr. Chilson returned to the meeting and
presented a draft of Re,solution to the Board.

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The resolution, as amended, is as follows:
Be 'it .Resolved that the Colorado Water Conservation
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Board most respectfully requests the Congress of ~he
Unitad States to allocate all the power profits of Glen Canyon
and other storage projects in the Upper Colorado River Basin
as credits to provide irrigation assistance in the repayment
of that part of ~he construction costs of participating
projects or any separate features thereof, in each of' the
four States of Utah, Wyoming,. New Mexico and Colorado, which
are beyond the ability of the water users in these States to
repay.

Be It Further Resolved that these credits, to provide
irrigation assistance, should be apportioned among the States;
that the apportionment adopted by the Upper Colorado River
Commission at Santa Fe, New Mexico, on January 5, 1956, is
fair and equitable and is hereby approved; that said appor-
tionment is as follows:

To the State of Colorado
To the State orUtah
To the State of Wyoming
To the State of New Mexico

46'l~ thereof
2L5"10 thereof
15.5"10 thereof
1710 thereof

Be It Further Resolved that. the development of the State
of Colorado's share of the water of the Colorado River requires I
that such apportionment be included in any legislation enacted
by Congress for the development of the Upper Colorado River
Ba'in, and fu,the, that ,uoh . p,ovi,ion in any 'uoh 'eg",.tion ..
is absolutely necessary to make such legislation for the develop-
ment of the Upper Colorado River Basin acceptable to the State
of Colorado.