BOARD01700

• Board Meeting Date: 9/22/1961
• Description: Minutes and Resolution
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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Now remember Arizona is not a participating
state in our Basin Project. Through a series
of conferences with Arizona, and with the help
of our power people from the State of Colorado
and from the Public service company, in our
office downstairs we agreed with the State of
Arizona on certain marketing arrangements of
project power. We in effect agreed to request
the Secretary to make an allocation of a sub-
stantial amount of project power to Arizona.
They wanted it desperately in the phoenix area.
We reached an amiable agreement with the Stat~
of Arizona on that proposition, so that they po
get substantial power from the Project.

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Now, at this time, there are certain in-
terests in the State of Arizona who say 'We'll
take the power but now we want you and the
states in the Upper Basin to pay us taxes on it'.
There have been cartoons and other articles
appearing in the Arizona newspapers belaboring
us because we are now not willing to pay them'
taxes. Taxes, of course, come out of the Basin
Fund. Any taxes which are paid to anyone can
only come from one source - the Basin Fund.
That's the campaign, and it's very effective.
You approach the County Commissioners and they
say 'Oh, yes, we'd like to have some more mon~y'.
Well, we would like to have some more money i~
Colorado too. '

That brings me to a further illustration:
I think that at some time the people of Colorado
are going to have to draw a line concerning their
rights. We started out in 1922 with 60 perce~t
of the flow of the Colorado River at the Inter-
national Boundary at Mexico. vfuen we got ~
through with the Colorado River Compact and the
Upper Colorado River Compact, we had 22 perce~t
left. I'll turn to another proposition. The
Upper Colorado River Compact is purely among the
Upper Basin States. The virgin flow at Lee
Ferry (this does not involve the Lower Basin)
but at Lee Ferry only, as among the Upper Basin
States, we contribute 70 percent of the flow.
Then when we got into a compact in 1948, we com-
promised and accepted 52 percent of the water. .

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