BOARD01980

• Board Meeting Date: 2/5/1982
• Description: CWCB Meeting
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

COLORADO WATER CONSERVATION BOARD
823 State Centennial Building
1313 Sherman Street
Denver, Colorado 80203

February 5, 1982

RES 0 L UTI 0 N

WHERE~S, the State of Colorado is faced with an enormous
task as a result of the successful joinder of the United States
under the McCarran Amendment in water rights determination
proceedings throughout the State; and

WHEREAS, the long-awaited adjudication of federal water
rights and the integration of those rights into the Colorado
priority system has the potential for great benefit to the State
of Colorado and its water users; and

WHEREAS, federal water claims must be carefully
investigated, and opposed where necessary, in order that vested
water rights in Colorado are not seriously jeopardized to the
detriment of existing Colorado water users; and

WHEREAS, in 1973 the Colorado.General Assembly passed Senate
Joint Resolution No. 11 which declared:

. . . it to be in the interest of the State
of Colorado that all appropriate steps be
taken to defend against the water claims of
the United States of America, . . .

and which provided

that the Governor, the Attorney General, and
all other appropriate executive agencies are
hereby directed to take all necessary steps
. . . to defend in all reasonable and
necessary ways against the aforementioned
water claims asserted by the federal
government."; and

WHEREAS, the Attorney General has now recommeded that
$'5,000,000 be appropriate"! to defend against federal water rights
claims;

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RSSOLVED by the Colorado Water
Conservation Board in regular session assembled at Grand
Junction, Colorado, this 5th day of February, 1982, that it does
hereby support the recommendation of the Attorney General that
S6,000,000 be appropriated to defend against federal water rights
claims; and