BOARD01845

• Board Meeting Date: 1/14/1954
• Description: Table of Contents, Minutes and Resolution
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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4. The Water Development Association of Southeastern
Colorado;

5. The Colorado Water Conservation Board; and

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WHEREAS, The Curecanti Dam has also been approved by the
.Upper Colorado River Commission and 'is designated for construction
as an initial phase of the Colorado River Storage Project in Senate
Bill S. 1555, endorsed by said Upper Colorado River. Commission and
introduced in Congress by Senator Eugene D. Millikin on April 2,
1953, which Bill is now pending before the Committee on Interior
and Insular Affairs; and

~~: The participating projects provided for in,the
Colorado StoI'age Project and enUlDerated in Senate Bill S. 1555 have
all been endorsed and approved by the agencies and associations
hereto mentioned; and

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inIEREAS, Additional storage other than Curecanti is also
needed for Colorado to utilize its full share of its allocated por-
tion of Colorado I/.iver water; therefor be it hereby

RESOLVED That this association hereby calls upon the Gover-
nor of this State, the Colorado Water Conservation Board and the
Congressional representatives of the State of Colorai 0,

1. To Reaffirm and standfast on Colorado's heretofore
enunciated position and demand that The Curecanti Dam and
the participating projects be construc.ted in the manner and
order presently provided for in Senate Bill S. 1555.

2. That Governor, The Colorado Conservation Board
and t.he congressional representatives of this State without
delay coordinate their efforts to see that additional storage
dams are constructed in Colorado ,mder the Colorado River
Storage Project at the earliest possible time, so that the
water stored can be utilized in Colorado for the benefit of
Colorado, and that where local objections are raised to any
proposed dam, that they coordinate their efforts to see that
the objections are fairly and equitably resolved at the
earliest possible time; and it is further

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RESOLVED, That a .copy of. this resolution. be sent to
Governor Dan Thornton, The Colorado Water Conservation Board,
The Upper Colorado River CommiSSion, The Honorable Eugene D.
1~llikin and the Honorable Edwin C. Johnson, United States
Senators for the State of Colorado, the Honorable Wayne N.
Aspinall, the Honorable Edgar Chenmveth, The Honorable Byron
G. Rogers and the Honorable William S. Hill, United States
Representatives for the State of Colorado, Secretary of the
Interior Douglas McKay' and O. E. Larson, Regional Director
of Region No, 4 of the Bureau of ~eclamation,