BOARD01663

• Board Meeting Date: 8/6/1969
• Description: Agenda or Table of Contents, Minutes, Memos
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

the state engineer will be preoccupied
with the courts for the next two or three
years at least. Whether he will have any
time for administration looks doubtful.

In any event, there is a definite
division of responsibility between this
Board and the state engineer. This is one I
of the problems that we fight with people
who like to take a generic term and say
that everything that comes under that term
should be under one division.

This is an internal matter and the
Board may have to actively participate in
this matter unless we are able to get
reason to prevail.

One other big item, I sent out a
memorandum last week which concerns the
operation of Colorado River reservoirs.
The battle is not over concerning the
operation of Glen Canyon and Lake Mead.
A preliminary meeting was held a few weeks
ago under the auspices of the Secretary
of the Interior to discuss his proposed
criteria under the act passed last year.
As you know, that criteria provides that
by January of the coming year the Secre-
tary shall submit to the governors of the
seven basin states his proposed criteria,
long-range criteria, for the operation of
the Colorado River reservoirs. This is
primarily Glen Canyon and Lake Mead. It
also includes Curecanti, Navajo and
Flaming Gorge.

He has now proposed an operating
criteria which was discussed at the meet-
ing two weeks ago. A series of meetings
will be held at which representatives of I
the various states will be present in
hopes that by November criteria can be
adopted Which will then be submitted to
the governors in January for their official