BOARD01660

• Board Meeting Date: 10/14/1954
• Description: Minutes and Resolution
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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Mr. Dutcher:

in detail, both at the meeting of the Upper
Colorado River Commission and at this meeting
of the Legislation Committee.

.Consideration of all available facts and
in addition the opinions of members of our
Congressional group leads the Committee
to unanimously recommend:

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(1) That the Echo Park Project remain
in the Upper Colorado River Storage Project Bill.

(2) That it is undesirable to retain a
highly paid advertising agency at this time to
carry out an extended advertising campaign in
connection with the Upper Colorado River Storage
Bill to be presented to the 84th Congress~

(3) That ,the Upper Colorado River Commission
is urged to expand its staff within its present
financial limitations, so as to more effectively
aid in procuring the passage of the Colorado,
River Storage Project Bill.

The Committee meeting adjourned at 1:15 P. M.

Ivan C. Crawford
Chairman

ICC:mfd

"Mr. Chairman, the meeting at Grand Junction of
the Upper Colorado River Commission was quite
well attended. People from Colorado, New
Mexico and Wyoming were present. Also in
attendance were some people from the 'Bureau of
Reclamation. Prac~ically the entire meeting
was devoted to an analysis of the failure of
the 84th Congress to pass the Upper Colorado
River Storage Bill. Considerable discussion
took place, not only by the members, but by
others in attendance. It was the intention of
the Commission to try to analyze the reasons
for the failure of the Bill in the last Congress
and then to try to correct weaknesses whatever
they may be; to go into the matter with a
Ii ttle more experience and more vigor in the
next Congress. I am not going to go into all
of those various things. They can be grouped
in six or eight heads. The size of the bill
had something to do with its failure to pass.
-There was a direct attack on the economic
feature of the bill. Many Congressmen just could

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