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. - - tS'B. The Committee, he said, appeared to be very much interested in the subject. Board Member A. E. Headlee sent a strong telegram in support of appropri- ations to continue t)1e surveys. This telegram was filed with the Com- mittee. Item 8 on the agenda "Report of J. G. :Yill, Secretary-General Counsel I of the Upper Colorado River Co~'nissRion, concerning the status of work of. . .' the Commission and of the Colorado iver Storage Project and Participating Projj'lcts plan" was taken up. Mr. Will reported the progress made through the unanimous agreement of the member States of the Commission on a draft of a bill to approve the Colorado River Storage Project and Participating Projects Plan and to authorize certain units thereof. He explained that this bill was a proposal to the members of the CongressionaJ delegation from Colorado, New Mexico,. Utah and Wyoming. The bill, he said, had not been introduced, but the Commission had recommended that it be jointly sponsored by the congressional delegations from the four states above mentioned, and introduced in Congress when these delegations unitedly agre~d on an appropriate time. It wa~ pointed out by 1lr. Will that the report on the Upper Colorado River Basin Comprehensive plan of development of the Bureau of Reclamation had not been released by the Secretary of the Interior to the Bureau of the Budget. Mr. Will reviewed interviews which he had with the Secretary in an effort to expedite such release of the report. He also briefly reviewed the hearing which vms held by a special committee of the Hcuse Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs on the Colorado River Storage Plan in Salt Lake City, Utah. Jean S. Breitenstein, Attorney for the Board, made a statement sup- plementing Item 17 (Rio Grande Compact Suit) of the Director's report. He also made a supplementary statement to Item 18 of the Director's report respecting the Costilla Compact controversy. The Director called attention to Item 22 of his report. This item, together with Appendix D attached to the report, covers the budget request which he had made to the State Comptroller, on behalf of the Colorado Water Conservati~n Board, for appropriation of money for. the activities of the. Colorado Water Conservation Board for the fiscal year July 1, 1952 to June 30, 1953. This budget request w~s reviewed and discussed by the Board. It was moved by 'A. E. Headlee and seconded by John W. Beaty that the budget request submitted to the State Comptroller by the Director, as a basis for appropriations to finance the activities of the Colorado Water Conservation Board for the fiscal year July 1, 1952 to June 30, 1953, be approved. I The motion carried unanimously and was declared adopted. Item 10 of the Agenda, "Consideration of Bill which has' been prepared to take care of emergency situation with respect to the manner o~ construc- tion of artesian wells", came up for conRideration.