BOARD01741

• Board Meeting Date: 6/20/1955
• Description: Minutes and Resolution
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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MR. MOSES:

"I saw Mr. Tipton's report this morning
for the first time. Although I am not
an engineer, I understand that the three
things which he requests are not major
matters that would take another two years
but that they could be done in a relatively
short time and with minor alterations to the
report. I asked him about the propriety of
getting Board approval of the report subject
to the compliance of the first three recom-
mendations, thereby avoiding the fourth--
that is, resubmitting the report for review
after the first three recommendations had
been done. He said he saw absolutely no
objection to t:li.at provided that the approval
of the Board was conditioned upon showing
that the project would be operated within
the terms of the Rio Grande Compact. He
thought also that the official action of the
Board should say that actual construction of
the project should not take place until a
repayment contract had been executed between
some political entity--I presume the District--
and the" United States, and until consent
agreements with the owners of the local water
rights had been executed. Regardless of what
the Board did, I am sure the Bureau would say
that no actual work would begin until these
things had been done. In the report there is
a time schedule. I think we could surmise
from the report that the actual construction,
even under the best estimates, would not
start until 1957-1958. I think that these
consent agreements could be executed between
the time: this report comes out and the
scheduled date of commencement of construction.

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"Speaking for the local people, they
would like to have the Board approve the
report subject to the condition that the
project be operated within the terms of
the Compact, which would satisfy Mr. Tipton
on the first and second of his recommendations.

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