BOARD01589

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

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the situation. At Santa Fe the other day,
the power credits were allocated on the
basis of 46 percent to Colorado, 21.5
percent to the State of Utah, 15.5 percent
to the State of New Mexico. That is
probably the best that Colorado can get in
the way of these credits. Mr. Delaney has
been working on this matter diligently and
he has 'had the assistance of Mr. Chilson
and Mr. Crawford. They know more about
the negotiations than I do as I was not
able to attend the meeting at Cheyenne or
the meeting at Santa Fe. Mr. Delaney has
'pressed the matter diligently and I am
sure that when he tells me that 46 percent is
the most he could get, then that is the .way
it is. I am in hopes that this Board will
come up with a resolution to be transmitted
to our delegation in the Congress ratifying
or approving, or in some way indicating,
that the 46 percent is acceptable to the
State of Colorado.

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In order to indicate approval, and you have
to start someplace, 'I have drafted a
resolution which seems to me would do the
job. I want to submit it to you, if I may,
for your consideration. I do not take any
pride in authorship and I do not take any
pri~e in this draft but at least it is a
beginning and I .am in hopes that the idea
may appeal to you."

Governor Johnson then read the following draft of
resolution to the Board:

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Resolved that the Colorado Water Conservation Board
most respectfully requests the Congress"of the United States
subject to repayment of construction costs, to allocate
all the power profits of Glen Canyon and other storage . I~ .
projects in the Upper Colorado River Basin as credits to
provide irrigation assistance in the repayment of
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.