BOARD02033

• Board Meeting Date: 5/8/1963
• Description: Minutes
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

which I don't think you are going to; or you can
continue further consideration of this matter.
With that in view, I was going to make this sug-
gestion. I've read that document; I mean the
operating principles for the Fryingpan-Ark which I
I think are embodied in House Document No. 130
of the 87th Congress and there are some things I
don't understand about it but there is one thing
I think I do understand--that it was never con-
templated that there was to be any coordination
of the activities of this project with any other
project. It was worked out as a matter of com-
promise in those operating principles and in
that compromise, I am told by those who partici-
pated, that western slope interests, some of
whom at least I am representing at the present
time, were told that if they didn't make these
particular concessions that were asked in con-
nection with that Fryingpan-Ark authorization
that we never could expect to have any more
support or assistance from this Board or from
the congress in trying to secure an authorization
of any of the projects named in the Colorado
River storage Act and dependent upon the waters
of the main stem of the Colorado River and its
tributaries above Grand Junction.

We feel that we are under a sort of a man-
date under the provisions of the law creating'
the Colorado River 11ater Conservation District
and one of the provisions of that law was that
we were to do whatever could be legally done,
to file upon, perfect, and to secure a supply
of water from the Colorado River not only for
then existing needs but for reasonable future
needs. We feel in this instance that we do not
know what's going on; what kind of negotiations
are being conducted; and inasmuch as there was I
no mention at any time of this coordination of .;
facilities, we do not think that any step should
be made, or any step should result in any kind of
commitment, conditional or otherwise, until the
facts are placed before us.

You will remember, many of you were cer-
tainly more active in the negotiations and adop-
tion of those operating principles than I was,