BOARD01755

• Board Meeting Date: 3/10/1947
• Description: Table of Contents and Minutes
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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The meeting weS oelled to order by the Chairmen, Governor
Lee Knous, at 10:30 A.M., Monday, March 10, 1947.

It was announoed Judge O'Rourke WaS ill at Merey Hospital,
and that L. Werd Bannister WaS ill at his home. Consent WaS given f<;>r
Dan Hunter to sit in for Jud. ge 0' Rourke and Glenn Saund ers to sit in
for Mr. Bannister.

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The Direotor reported thet one new it"1D, releting to the South
Platte Underground Water study, had been added to the egen~a of the
meeting, and wO'lllld be considered as a part of the secorn day's business
of the board when representatives of the Bureau of Reclamation and the
U. S. Geological Survey would be present.

GOvernor Knous presented a brief, informl statement to the
BOIl rd. He expressed keen intere st in water development, complimenting
the Board and its Direotor on their record and activi ties. The Governor
said he Was particularly concerned about the division of water of the
Co10redo river, end the stams of !SOme of "\he projeots. He urged adjust-
ment of the Colorado River Basin matter as early as possible.

The State's Chief Exeoutive said he, and the state in gerieral,
?IOuld depend greatly on the ded sions of the Board and the Director to
oarry .on the water development program. He urged that, as muoh as pos-.
sible, the general ppblic be it;rl'ormed about individual projects, to stimu-
late public interest in the State's. water progre.m.

The Director brought up the pending Rockwell Bill alld its rela-
tion to the Colorado -Big Thompson situation, saying that the matter must
be resolved in order to oontinue appropriations and make necessary adjust-
ments. He reported the oost of the projeot had gone to $128,000,000 and
that ther€l was need of some defini te detennination of a payment schedul e.

Governor Knous suggested the Board arrange to heer s spokesnan of
the Bureau of Reolamation. It was decided to ask ,the "Washington office
of the Bureau by telephone to designe te a Denver spokesman. Mr. Lee of
the Bureau's Danyer offioe WeS suggested as a possible spok€lsman, if
Washington approval could be obtained.

R. J. Tipton submi tted a background synopsi s of the Rockwell Bill
calling attention first to the 1939 Reclamation Act and explained
reasons for the Rockwell Bill following the opinions of the Solicitor
of the Department of the Interi9r on the interpretetion of the 1939 Act.

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Mr. Tipton further explained the Colorado-Big Thompson payoff
schedule 'by referring to charts and graphs, com paring detail s of the
recommeDdations of the National Reclamation Assooiation.

He e1so disoussed the Collbran projeot, a multiple use projeot
for irrigation, power end municipal water in the Grand Juno tion area.

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