BOARD02109

• Board Meeting Date: 6/15/1950
• Description: Table of Contents, Minutes and Resolutions. Volumes I and II of Transcription of Meeting
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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First Phase of the Gunnison-Arkansas Project, be approved
and aoopted by this Board with the understanding that we
are not finally approving the project as to feasibility
and a, t'il)ance standpoint.

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The motion was seconded by John Beaty, and also
seconded by George Pughe.

On vote, all members of the Board responded "aye",
wi th the exception of Mr. McCormick who. voted "no". The
motion was declared carried.

Mr. McCormick explained that his "no" vote was not an objection to the
report, but that as a new member of the Board he did not wish to state a positive
position until he had opportunity to study the matter in detail and confer with
some West .:>lope interests. )I

Director Batson said his office welcomed the State's comments and recom-
mendations on the matters set forth in the Policy a'1d Review Committee report
and tilat they would be incorporated in the Regional Director's report on the
project to Washington. All affected states, including Colorado, he said, will
have opport~'1ity to review and comment upon the final project report issued qy
the Secretary of the Interior.

Judge Dan Hughes moved that the Board express its
appreciation and thanks to the Policy and Review "'omrnittee
for the work done in preparing a schedule of operating
principles for the Fir"lt Fhase of the Gunnison-Arkansas
Project.

The motion was sec<onded by Mr. Cross and Mr. Beaty.
On vote, the motion carried unanimOUSly.

On lLr. Beaty's inquiry as to whether the Policy and. Review Committee should
be continued or discharged, the Director recommended that the Committee not be
discharged, at least until after the Water Hoard had considered and acted upon the
final report from the Secretary of the Interior. He said that the Committee,
having drawn the basis of the state's preliminary comments, should be available
for counsel and advice.

Mr. Beaty moved that the Policy and Review eommittee
remain intact for'such matters as may be referred to it by
the Board in the future. The motion was seconded by Mr. Pughe.

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On vote, the motion carried unanimously.

The Director announced that wire recordings, taken at the meeting of the
Policy and Review Qommittee, at which its report to the Board was prepared, and
the proceedings of the current meeting of the Water Board, which approved the
Committee's report, would be kept in the Regional Office as a permanent record
and for reference, if needed.

The Director commented that in 13 years of the Board's existence, there
had been no inspection by the Board as a whole of water projects in the State.
He suggested that the next meeting of the- Board be for two days, wi th one day
devoted to business and the other d~ to a tour of the Colorado-Big Thompson
Project. He said transportation would be arranged by Region 7, of the Bureau
of Reclamation.