BOARD01904

• Board Meeting Date: 8/8/1952
• Description: Minutes and Resolution
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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Item 7 on the agenda, "Report on status
River Storage Project," was, taken up ,next.

Director Stone stated that there was no material change in the
status of the report on the Colorado River Storage' Project and that
such report as yet had not been released by the Secretary of the
Interior to the Bureau of the Budget.

of report on Colorado

Vice-Chairman Bailey then asked Director Stone to report on Item
8 on the Agenda, "Activities of Upper Colorado River Commission and
Arkansas River Compact Administration."

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The Director stated that the Arkansas 'River Compact Administration
had found it necessary, under the Compact, to give notice that the
reservoir would be empty and at sucli time the State Engineer would
take over administration of the River as though John Martin Dam and
Reservoir did not exist. He said that the date was midnight June 11.
The Director explained that after certain meetings were held'in the
Arkansas Valley, an agreement was reached by the water right OI'ffiers
that 1200 acre-feet of water could be stored in John Martin Dam to
maintain fish life. Shortly after that was accomplished and shortly
after the Arkansas River Compact Administration stepped out of the
picture, he explained, certain questions were raised as to the authority
of the operation of the gates of John Martin Reservoir and who should
give orders'as to the regulation of the gates. The Director said the
entire matter had been referred to -t;he Operations Committee, consisting
of Mr. Leavitt, Mr. Mendenhall and General Kramer, and that such
'Commi ttee had a meeting scheduled for August 19 to consider the rratter.

The 'meeting recessed at 12:05 p.m. to reconvene at 1:30 p.m.

Afternoon Session
August 8, 1952

The meeting was called to order at 1:45 p.m. by Vice-Chairman
George J. Bailey,

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The Vice-Chairman asked Director Stone to report on Item 9(a) on
the agenda; "Ccillbran and Paonia Projects."

The Director stated that the Collbran Project was authorized during the
closing weeks of the present Congress; called attention to the fact
that Colorado was the only State of the seventeen Western States to get
a new authorization in the last session of Congress; and referred to
the provision in the bill authorizing the Collbran Project regarding I
the interest component, and explained that it was the first time this
repayment plan was ;Yritten into Federal law.

Referring to the Paonia Project, the Director reported that there
was no chance of getting an amended authorization of that project
during the present session of Congress.