BOARD02022

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

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the Colorado River Compact, the Boulder
Canyon Project Act, the Boulder Canyon
Project.Adjustment Act and the power con-
tracts at Hoover Dam. That work had
progressed to the point where, at your
last meeting, the preliminary document was
made available to you. We suggested at
that time that you authorize your Direc-
tor to utilize the services of Mr. McClellan
as the consultant to carry the study one
step further in the analysis of the power
contracts and particularly as those might
relate to the position which has been taken
by California in reference to the reduction
of power through the construction of Glen
Canyon Dam on the Colorado River.

The stage of that has now reached this
point. The final copies have not yet been
distributed to the Investigation Commission
so that the Commission as a whole has had
opportunity to go through the document in
full. Your committee has continued its
work. Mr. McClellan, the staff of your own
Board on the hydrology, together with Mr.
Millen from the Public Service Company of
Colorado, ~ave pressed on with the analysis
of these power elements that were involved
in the question and have arrived at the
stage now where at least in terms of your
own discussion and prior to the opportunity
for you gentlemen to have a look at the re-
port itself, I think I can safely make this
promise. We feel that you will have avail-
able to you a document which covers histori-
cally the things that have gone into the
makeup of the Colorado River Compact and the
various documents to which I have referred,
that gives to this Board an historical treatise
which lets you know what the position of Colo-
rado should be. I think there is no question
that it supports the resolution which the
Board suggested to the Colorado Commissioner
for presentation to the Upper Basin Commis-
sion.

I feel there is a good possibility that
the Board will want to consider the publica-
tion and wide distribution of that report
since it is put together pretty largely in
laymen.'s language so that people of the

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