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<br />MR. DELANEY: <br /> <br />"I have a few suggestions. Mr. Chairman <br />and members of this Board, this resolution, <br />presented by the Colorado River Water Conserva- <br />tion District, has been a matter of some concern <br />to me. I confess that I sat in at the Board <br />meeting, listened to the deliberations, and was <br />a party, I presume, to the drafting of the reso- <br />lution. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />If you will pardon me, I want to go into a <br />little background in order to illustrate the <br />suggestions I am going to make. In October and <br />November of 1962, I was called upon to review <br />six or seven hundred pages of testimony that had <br />been presented by other attorneys in adjudication <br />proceedings pending in Routt and Grand counties. <br />Years ago, as you probably know, I had been <br />somewhat aptive in water matters and I thought <br />I knew something about the basis upon which the <br />Colorado-Big Thompson project had been author- <br />ized and the purposes attempted to be served by <br />a document that everybody recognizes as Senate <br />Document No. 80, and probably none of us are <br />exactly sure exactly what was contemplated by <br />that document. But in the course of reviewing <br />this testimony I found that it was proposed to <br />divert water by a very complicated scheme from <br />tributaries of the Yampa River in and around <br />Steamboat Springs and those waters were to be <br />exported into the North Platte Basin in Jackson <br />County and then, by a system of exchange, water <br />was to be taken back into the Colorado Basin <br />and carried to eastern Colorado by means of the <br />Adams Tunnel and the facilities of the Colorado- <br />Big Thompson Project. <br /> <br />Negotiations on that matter had reached a <br />point where a preliminary contract had been I <br />reached between the Bureau of Reclamation, <br />represented by Region 7, and the proponent of <br />the project--not a municipality, not a public - <br />agency, but a private corporation. To me that <br />posed a very definite threat to the performance <br />or recognition of agreements evidenced by Senate <br />Document No. 80 and other negotiations which had <br />taken effect because it seemed to me that if <br />there were other parties to the agreement at that <br />