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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Following brief review of the minutes of the Board mee,j;ing of December 16-
17, 1949, there were no corrections or additions offered, and Governor Johnson
ordered the minutes stand approved.as presented.

Copies of the report of the Policy and Review Committee, on the proposed
Frying Pan-Arkansas Project, were distributed to Board members. On suggestion of
the Director, consideration of the report was laid over to the afternoon session to
afford Board members additional time to become familiar with the text of the re-
port, and to prepare questions they might wish answered.

The Director's report, in mimeographed copies, was taken up for con.sidera-
tion, with the Director explaining and cOlllJllenting upon the various topics con-
tained in the Table of Contents, as follows:

1. Appropriations,' Fiscal 1951 for Federal Projects in
Colorado.
2. Appropriations for Surveys and Investigations
3. Colorado River Storage Project
4. Echo Park Hearing .
5. Frying Pan-~rkansas Proposed Transmountain Diversion
Project
6. Narrows Reservoir
7. Collbran Project
8. Paonia Project
Sa. Transmission Lines in Vicinity of Estes Park
9. Upper Colorado River Commission
10. Compact Gaging Stations
li. President's Resources Policy Connnission
12. Missouri Basin Inter-Agency Committee
13. South Platte Flood Control Project
14. Pueblo Flood Control Project
15. Platoro Project
16. Colorado Water Resources. Report
17. Colorado Water Conservation Board Library
18. Upper "olorado Hi ver Compact Record
19. Board Finances

Appendix
Ilirector's .Memorandum on Narrows Reservoir

The Director reported that Federal appropriations for ~olorado water de-
velopment projects for fiscal 1951 (July 1, 1950 to June 30, 1951) which have
been approved, or expected to be approved, by the present session of the .Con-
gress will approximate $25,808,600.

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Referring to surveys and appropriations, the Director said that Congress
had not decided the amount to be available for general investigations, but that the
reclamation West was anxious to secure as large a fund as possible for such pur-
poses. He said the Bureau of Reclamation had proposed that $12,000,000 should be
provided.

The Director stated that the Region 4 report on the Colorado River Storage
Project plan, incorporating suggested preliminary views made by the various Upper
Basin States, was being revised in the Salt Lake City office, but that the report