BOARD01635

• Board Meeting Date: 3/26/1945
• Description: Table of Contents and Minutes
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Minutes

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for Wyoming and also a member of the Committee of, Fourteen of'
the Colorado River Basin. H. l1elvinRollins, a member of the"
Committee 'of Fourteen of the Colorado River Basin, Leeland uj
Grieve of SaverY; Wyoming, and Norman Barl_ of Cora, WYomi~
have been appointed Assistant Commissioners for the purpose'o~
negotiating this oompaot. '

Your" very truly,

/S/ Lester C. ll~t
Governor" "

AND, WHEREAS, Governor Vivian hiLs requested the Colorado Water
Conservation Board to oonsider said letter and an appropriate reply
thereto and Wlke its reoonmendatione to him;

NOW', THEREFORE, lIE IT RESOLVEIi by the Cfllorado Water Conservatl'
Board that the following representatlons and ,recilmlllendationll be submitt'
to Governor Vivian, to-wit:

1. That in the opinion ofthi8 Boai'd it does not appear at thll
time' from Wyoming's request that a oontroversy llIIlOng the four Upper
Basin States of the Colorado River Basin, as oontemplated by Article VI'
of the Colorado River Compaot, now exists; and that. aooordingly, the
request of Governor Hunt made pursuant to Artiole VI of' the Compact to
appoint oompaot' conunissioners ,with powel'" to oonsider and divide the
7.500,000 acre-feet of water apportioned by Ar'ticle III (a) of the
Colorado River eompaot for benefieial oonsumptive use annually in the
Upper Basin is 'inappropriately made at this time and do.... not obligate
the other three states of the Upper Basin of the Colorado River to ap-
point compaot commissioners. . '

2. Attention is oalled to a reeolution unanimoudy adopted at
a conference of representatives of the states of Colorado, New r1exico,
Utah and Wyoming and the Bureau of Reolamation, called by the Seoretary
'of the Interior at Denver, Colorado on June-29 lind'30, 1934, wherein it;
is stated:

"We favor the negotiation of an Intei'state Compaot
,among the four upper statee of the Colorado River Basin at the
earliest possible date. In";he m.e~tlm. it is our beli..f that
each state should go ahead with its development witho~t ob-
jeotion by other states, ascori'tem:p.lated by theCo~otado River
Compact, utilessthe'development. ~'addition to alroady exist-
ing water uses., would, in the opinion of Buoh other states or
any of them, be oonsidered aI approaohing too nearly the equi-
table share of Water that under oompact migRt eventually be
apportioned to suoh state out of the waters involved.-

It appears that. the aoti on taken, and supported by all the Upper
Basin states of the Colorado River in 1934~ as 'above stated, was ap-
propriate and applies to '\he oonditione as they nOlf exist in the Colorad