BOARD02022

• Board Meeting Date: 3/11/1959
• Description: Minutes
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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national reclamation laws, we felt at that
time that that was a matter of immediate
urgency. It now turns out it is not quite,
in terms of time, as urgent as it then ap-
peared. We had the opportunity, in the
last week of January, of discussing with the
Under Secretary of the Interior and the
Solicitor of the Bureau of Reclamation the
matter of giving some aid to this Board in
shortening the time necessary to review that
rather voluminous mass of material that it
takes for codification and revision of the
entire body of reclamation law. It turns
out that most of the leg work for that codi-
fication committee of the National Reclama-
tion Association has been very largely done
by the Solicitor of the Bureau of Reclama-
tion, one Mr. Edward Fisher.

Periodically it is necessary for Mr.
Fisher to come to Denver any way and both
the Under Secretary and Mr. Fisher, himself,
indicated that he would be very happy at a
time convenient to him when he will be in
Denver within the next month or two, to take
a day or two and spend it with the attorneys
whom we recommended that this Board employ
for a few days' time to go through that body
of material and prepare, in your behalf, the
official comments of the State of Colorado.

I understand from him that that is a
matter that he can cover with those four
gentlemen, (you will recall that we suggested
Hatfield Chilson, Jack Hughes, Jack Clayton
and Charles Beise)all because those four are
very familiar at the outset with some of the
work involved in that particular item and I
think you can anticipate that it can be done
at far less cost in the manner suggested.
We are very appreciative of the fact that the
Interior Department will give you that much
of their time and aid in getting the job done.

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The second item the Investigation Com-
mission has to refer to - you will recall at
your last meeting that you had distributed
to you a copy of a preliminary document
which was prepared by your special legal com-
mittee which you employed at the instance of
the Investigation Commission, in reviewing