BOARD01762

• Board Meeting Date: 1/14/1959
• Description: Minutes
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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MR. WHITTEN:
MR. SPARKS:

MR. WHITTEN:

MR. SPARKS:

MR. WHITTEN:

MR. NELSON:

MR. STAPLE'KiN:

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MR. WHITTEN:

Middle Rio Grande Basin and, as Jean
stated, the officials from the State of
New Mexico will meet with us here in
Denver on the 19th to see if we can iron
out those problems so that we withdraw
our objections to the proposed development
in that area.

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Mr. Whitten is the Compact Commis-
sioner from Colorado on the Rio Grande
and he is the one that actually has to
handle negotiations at the Compact meet-'
ing. The next Compact meeting, which is
an annual meeting, will be held at Santa
Fe, New Mexico and will probably be in
February - when?"

"February 20th."

"Mr. Barnard, Jr. acts as his advisor
and Mr. Moses and myself always attend
those meetings, representing this Board."

"Mr. Gildersleeve does most of the
pencil pushing for the Board."

"Mr. Gildersleeve is the engineering
advisor."

"He has taken over since Mr. Tipton
has been unable to give us much time in
recent years due to his activities abroad.
It has kind of fallen on Gil's shoulders
to take care of us which he is very able
to do and has done very admirably."

"Mr. Chairman, is there any action we
should take today on this?"

"I would think not, is there?"

"I don't think, Bill, we can give you
anything to operate on at this time until
we have this meeting with New Mexico.
The Texas Commissioner, Mr.Scott, has
tentatively agreed to pose no objections'
to the construction of these reservoirs,
the two that we are going to primarily
discuss, the Cochiti and the Galisteo,
if certain requirements are written into
the enabling legislation, and of course,
we feel too that they ought to spell it
out, not just leave it implied.

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