BOARD02022

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

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has not led to a different conclusion
but has thoroughly solidified the con-
clusion we reached and that is that the
resolution of this Board, adopted in
September of 1958, in advance of the in-
formation which the Board should then
have had, exactly states an accurate
position upon which Colorado can stand,
upon which we believe it must stand,
and which, we believe is supported by
all of the studies that have been made.

Now another little preliminary
comment. The studies in connection with
the Colorado River, and particularly the
Glen Canyon filling, were not the end
objective of the setting up of the In-
vestigatio~ Commission. It was a task
which was felt by everyone should be
tackled at once, in view of the fact
that at the present time it is the orit-
ioal problem for the State of Colorado.
Until this time we had assumed, and I
thi~ we are safe in assuming, that we
will have controversies with other states
involving conferences among their offi-
oials, hearings before the appropriate
oommittees of Congress and, perhaps, in
the Supreme Court of the United States,
and it was in an effort to prepare for
those eventualities that we have attempted
to hurry up this work and to arrive at
our oonclusions.

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Therefore, the plan that we have in
mind at this time is this. Mr. Kuiper
and Mr. Gildersleeve and the other members
of the staff of the Water Conservation
Board have had in hand the hydrologioal
studies and I want to take this ocoasion
to say that they have done a mighty good
job in their analysis. As stated before,
Mr. McClellan, Mr. Millen and Mr. Patter-
son have had in their charge the elec-
trical studies and they have done an
equally good job. Their reports are now
not complete, but in a form to be made
oomplete if you understand what I mean.
We propose now to submit a final report
to the Board consisting of two parts:
first is what I will term the text of the