BOARD01589

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

b
"'351

I

The Upper Colorado River Commission at
Santa Fe on January 5, 1956, has adopted a fair
equitable formula and stipulation for said division
of these power credits to all four States upon which
we can and do hereby agree.

Here is the allocation that was determined at
Santa Fe:

To the State
To the State
To the State
To the State

of Colorado,
of Utah,
f F' .
o "yonnng,
of New Mexico

46'/0 thereof
21.5"/0 thereof
15.5"/0 thereof
17'l0 thereof

Colorado insists that such an allocation be
written into any legislation enacted by Congress
for the development of the Upper Colorado River
Basin, and furthermore that such a provision in an
Act of Congress is absolutely necessary to make
pending legislation for the development of the
Upper Colorado River Basin acceptable to the State
of Colorado.

GOV. JOHNSON:

I

"That is the resolution. It doubtless
needs working over and cha~ged to fit
into your ideas but that expresses my
thinking on the subject.

I want to say this: Unless in the
legislation Colorado is ~iven an
equitable share of the power credits
at Glen Canyon, and, by the way,
Glen Canyon is about the only storage
project on the river that develops any
power profits, I think 51,75 percent
is the least we should get. I realize
that you can't always get everything
you go after, so I have agreed that 46
percent is acceptable--but unless we
do get at least 46 percent of these
credits, and I can't speak for anybody.
but myself, I will oppose the Upper Colo-
rado River development plan before the
Congress and do everything that I can to
defeat it because I think Colorado has
been overly generous with its neighboring
states with the division of water and in
our whole attitude towards the develop-
ment of the Upper Colorado River.