BOARD01858

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

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MR. STAPLETON:

MR. SPARKS:

MR. RITER:

MR. SPARKS:

what they have done to improve Title VI. It's
a good job. The writing of this bill is a
good job. It is a difficult job and we are
going to have plenty of trouble, as you shall
see, before it becomes the law of the State
of colorado and we can't afford to have any
unnecessary disputes at the Colorado level.

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I thank you very much."

"Thank you, Governor.

Larry, can you comment at this time on
the provisions of Title VI, please?"

"Mr. Chairman, first, in light of Gover-
nor Johnson's observations, I'd like to point
out that a representative of the secretary of
the Interior is here, Mr. Randy Riter. Randy,
would you like to stand up and take a bow?"

"Thanks for your compliment, sir."

"What Commissioner Johnson has referred
to, that Utah and New Mexico have no burden
at Lee Ferry, is exactly correct. As he
pointed out, Colorado and Wyoming produce
virtually all of the water of the Colorado
River and the other five states divide it up.

I have a chart here that I would like to
refer to very briefly which emphasizes some-
thing that we have heard a great deal about
in the past few years. In recent years Mr.
Dave Brower of the Sierra club has been com-
plaining about the fact that when Glen Canyon
was constructed on the river it wasn't
necessary. And other people even here in
Colorado have taken up that cry, that we
really don't need all of these large holdover 1
reservoirs. Those people know not of which
they speak. The very simple and easily prov-
able matter, and it goes to the heart of
Section 602, is that the Upper Basin has no
water supply that it can depend upon without
the holdover storage at Glen Canyon,curecanti