BOARD01858

• Board Meeting Date: 1/12/1967
• Description: Agenda or Table of Contents, Minutes, Memos
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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ml.1st let flow in the yampa River past the
ford at Maybelle, colorado, 5 million acre-
feet of water to flow do\~ the river which
utah, of course, can use and is l.1sing and
will continue to use as their payment at Lee
Ferry to whatever obligation they may have
which is indeed small on the delivery of
water at Lee Ferry. colorado is said to pro-
vide 72 percent of all the water in the
colorado River and I think it is safe to say
that the state of wyoming delivers the rest
of the water that goes down the river to
Lee Ferry. So I think that Colorado delivers
72 percent and wyoming about 28 percent.
Therefore we have a keen interest in that de-
livery and under the Upper Basin Compact
we are going to be held strictly to account
on the amount of water that we deliver. \"le
are going to have to deliver the water. It
is stated in direct language, language that
cannot be evaded. that we will be compelled -
colorado will be compelled - to deliver that
water. Now that burden amounts to probably
three-fourths of the water that is produced
in Colorado that flows in the colorado River,
almost three-fourths. So this is an important
matter.

As I say, I want to make a record. I am
going to make a record in the records of the
congress of the United States and give the
State of Colorado all the assistance that I
can to go ahead with the leadership which
colorado has assumed with respect to this
matter.

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I am very grateful to the Advisory
Committee for the attention they have given
the matters which I had proposed to them.
They have made a careful study, they have
given me great support in doing what I could
to improve the language of Title VI. I think
Title VI now is a very well written, a very
well devised piece of legislation and the
Advisory committee, this Board in Colorado,
deserves a tremendous amount of credit for