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183 Afternoon Session June 15, 1950 The meeting was called to order, and the session resumed at 1:30 o'clock I Announcement was made of a program dedicating the Federal Center near Denver, on July 17-20, and that L~ connection therewith a meeting of the Missouri Basin Inter-Agency Committee had been arranged. It was anl"lOunced that Commissioner Straus would attend the Denver dedication, and then fulfill speaking engagements in the State at Roc~ Ford on July 21 and at Montrose on July 22. The Jirector reported that South Platte Flood Control Project had been authorized, but no construction appropriations yet made. He said that Army En- gineers and the Bureau now recommended a restudy of the Chatfield Dam Project, to consider conservation storage facilities as well as flood control. Another authorization recently made by the Congress was for the Pueblo f;Lood control project, to permit additions to the present flood control system, at an estimated cost of $209,000. The Director announced that the Water Board staff was engaged in preparL"lg a comprehensive report on the State's water program, to be published in cooperation with the Colorado Development Council'. He said the report would be an authentic digest of water problems and programs, and a very valuable compilation for the in- formation of the citizens of the State. Explaining that under present plans it was anticipated the cost of print- ing will be borne by the Council, the Director said the Bureau of Reclamation was furnishing some maps, but that other maps and charts were being prepared by the staff of the Colorado \'fater Conservation Board, and the reproduction of these maps should be at Board expense. It was moved by John Beaty, and seconded by George Pughe that the Board approve such expense as may be neces- sary in the preparation of the maps and charts provided by the Board's staff for the report. On vote, the motion carried unanimously. I The Director reported that the books and printed materlals of the Colorado Water Conservation Board office had been indexed and cataloged, and placed in library shelving. He said the materials, accumulated over 13 years, provided what was probably one of the best collections of water information anywhere in the West. He said that a professional librarian had reorganized, classified, and cataloged the library, at a cost of about $970. It was reported that Official Record of the Upper eolorado River Hasin Com- pact Conunission had been prepared in the office of the Colorado Water Conservation Board, and that sets of the Record were available to all Board members. Jointly reporting on their efforts to draw up a resolution covering the Board's position in relation to projects contemplated for construction in National parks and monuments, Judge Dan H. Hughes moved the adoption, and Byron Rogers made the second, of the following resolution: