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<br /> <br />.The Bosrq resumed oonsideration Qf the .Colorado statement respeoting <br />the tentati~ereport of the Bureau of Recl~tion~prQviding for a plan of com- <br />rehensi~e develcpment or the Colorado River. This discussion cont1nued until <br />~ . <br />,:30 p.m. <br /> <br />\ Judge John B. O'Rourke, as chairman of the committee appointed to con- <br />~iderthe proposal. of Governor Hunt of Wyoming for the initiation of compact <br />negotiations $Rong the four Upper Basin States.of the Colorado River Basin, <br />..nnol!nced that this committee waa ready to report. He stated the.t the recom- <br />inendatione'were Qontained in a resolution for consideration of the Board. <br /> <br />1- <br />Ir <br /> <br />Thereupon he read the following resolution and moved it. <br />adoption: ' . <br /> <br />," " ,f: ~.~ ,,,. "" <br /> <br />WHEREAS, on the 22nd day of January, 1945, Governor John C. <br />Vi vian rererred to the Colorado Water Conservati-on Board a letter <br />dated January. 19, 1945.from :Go;yerMr I..8s~r. -C.. Hunt .01' Wyoming, which <br />reada as followa. <br /> <br />"Many years have now lapesd since the qolorado River <br />Compact _s ratlfied by the States and the Congress and signed <br />by the President. <br /> <br />There has been for someyeare past ,a desire on. the part <br />of the water users .ofthe Green and Little Snake River Basins <br />in my state for the.division of the wa'l;ers of the Colorado <br />among the Upper Basin States, and I suggest that the time has <br />a~~ived fo~ .the appo~tlonment of the 7.500,000 ao~e-feet of <br />water to the Upper Basin.States as provided for in Article III <br />ea) of the Colorado River Compaot. . <br /> <br />The people of ray state are fearful thl!t large trans- <br />mountain diversions proposed in Colorado and Utah, if eon- <br />aummatl!d, will deplete the flOW' at Lee. Ferry b!llOW'the ag- <br />.gregate of 1,500,000 acrll-r~et for the,coutlnui1lg ten-year <br />periods. So, that the states of the Upper B~sin m..yknow what <br />equi-tielf they have in the above apportionment, my people be- <br />l,ieve, and I am in agreement. that a compact shculd be nego- <br />tiated at the earliest possible date prcviding for the division <br />of 1;his allocation be~en the states. <br /> <br />In view of the . e,bove, and on, reo..endation of the <br />. members of the Committee cf Fourteen or.the Colorado River Basin <br />r~presenting Wyoming, 'I.respec~ruliy request~he Governors 01' <br />~he states of the Upper Basin. .as .prcvidedby Article VI of the <br />Colorado RiverCampact,to tOPth~~h appcintcommissioners with <br />power to consider and, divi9-1f the '1,500..000 sore-feet of water <br />per year apportioned ~o ~he tfpper Basin of' the Colorado River <br />by Article III,(a) of ,the Colo""<lo River Compact, subject to <br />ratificati~n by the legislature. 01' the states affected. <br /> <br />The State Engineer is Intarstate Streems; COlllIlissioner <br />