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<br />~ <br /> <br />5. San Luis Valley Groundwater Study. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />6 Clear Creek Basin Study. <br /> <br />Aqenda Item 8 - Policies and Strateqies for Water Proiect <br />Development <br /> <br />Item postponed until June 1985 Board meeting. <br /> <br />Additional Item - Colorado River Floodwav Protection Act <br />(Appendix B) <br /> <br />Mr. McDonald discussed the background history of this item <br />and indicated that the Board had previously gone on record in <br />support of this legislation which has now been introduced as <br />H.R. 1286. He stated further that hearings on H.R. 1286 are <br />scheduled on Thursday, May 9, 1985, before the Water and Power. <br />Subcommittee, House Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. <br /> <br />Overall support for H.R. 1286 is considered soft in Arizona <br />and California. However, the Colorado River Board of <br />California has indicated it will take the lead in supporting <br />this legislation. Mr. Jerry Zimmerman, Executive director of <br />the Colorado River commission, will attend the hearing and lend <br />support to the Bill. <br /> <br />Mr. McDonald called attention to two technical changes in <br />sections 5 and 8 of the proposed bill. He recommended that the <br />Board adopt the proposed resolution attached to Appendix B. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Mr. Getches moved. seconded by Mr. smith, that the board <br />adopt the proposed resolution. Motion approved unanimously. <br /> <br />Aqenda Item 9 Endanqered Species Issues <br /> <br />a. Whoopinq Crain <br /> <br />No written material was prepared for this agenda item. Mr. <br />McDonald reported that following the March Board meeting, <br />another meeting involving Nevraska, Colorado, Wyoming, u.s. <br />Bureau of Reclamation, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and <br />several environmental and water user groups was held. The <br />meeting resulted in the establishment of formalized committees <br />on the Platte River similar to the one on the Colorado River, <br />Colorado will be represented by David Getches at the <br />Coordinating Committee level with Bill McDonald on the Steering <br />Committee. A "Statement of Purpose" for these committees was <br />also developed at the meeting. <br /> <br />The "Statement of Purpose" was divided into two phases as <br />requested by Colorado. The first phase is aimed mainly at <br />removing the jeopardy opinion on the Narrows Unit. The text . <br />for this purpose is almost verbatim to that for the Colorado <br /> <br />-4- <br />