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<br />" <br /> <br />>, <br /> <br />Aqenda Item 12 - Proposed Colorado River Floodwav Protection Act <br />. <br />(H. R. 5055. 98th Conqress) - Appendix F <br /> <br />At the May 4. 1984. meeting. the Board reviewed and <br />discussed H.R. 5055. a bill introduced by Congressman Cheney <br />(wyoming) and co-sponsored by Congressman Udall (Arizona). <br />This bill was intended to accomplish the following: <br /> <br />1. Formally designate a floodway for the Colorado River <br />between Hoover Dam and the U.S. - Mexico border. <br /> <br />2. Prohibit most forms of future federal financial <br />assistance to persons and developments in the designated <br />floodway. <br /> <br />3. Prohibit the lease of lands owned by the federal <br />government within the designated floodway. and <br /> <br />4. Establish a Colorado River Floodway Task Force that <br />would be charged with preparing recommendations for the <br />management of the Colorado River Floodway. including the means <br />of restoring a 40.000 cfs capacity floodway at Hoover Dam (and <br />correspondingly larger capacities downstream to reflect <br />tributary inflow) and the necessity for additional floodway <br />management legislation at local. state. and federal levels. <br /> <br />No action was taken on this bill during the past session. . <br />However. according to advice from Washington. the bill will be <br />introduced next year with the revisions which the Lower Basin <br />states believe are needed to avoid unintended effects on some <br />activities in the floodplain. <br /> <br />copies of the amended version of the proposed bill have <br />been received. No significant changes in the major features of <br />the bill have been made. Discussions by the Lower and Upper <br />Basin states on the proposed bill are expected to take place in <br />December. at which time a seven-state position on the bill will <br />be sought. <br /> <br />In a related matter. Senator DeConcini (Arizona) introduced <br />a bill (S 2918) late in the past session which would have done <br />nothing more than create a task force to study the problem of <br />restoring the floodway. <br /> <br />Mr. Lochhead moved. seconded by Mr. Getches. that the Board <br />approve the staff recommendations as follows: <br /> <br />(1) The Board reaffirm its support for the general <br />provisions of H.R. 5055. with the amendments proposed by the <br />Lower Basin states. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />-10- <br />