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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MR. METZGER: Can'twe~et around that'
MR. STONE: Our Congress would have to. say that the
Estes Park soenlo values are ln the natlonal lnterest and
this ~dditlonal oOst wl11 be written off, in whloh event the
taxpayers will pay the cost. It ls anybody's guess .what Con~
grsss would do if the matter were plaoed squarely betore Con~
gl'sss. But the 11nes are undel' OOl'lstruotlon. The Bureau, I
presume, will make a decls10n soon.
MR. METZGER: Can't we get at 1t by l'at1fy1ng your
decis10n'
MR. BEATY: Do you want a motion approv1ng your action'
MR. CROSS: Most of these lines are outside of the
Nat10nal Park.
MR. STONE: None of them ln the Nat10nal Park.
HR. HUGHES: Ith1nkwe ought to take a mot10n on thls
Nat10~al Park situation. Yesterday I signed a right-of-way
for six ml1es ofA. E. A. line. I didn't want to have a llne
thel'e, but good :Lord, why should I stand 11'1 the way of it,
MR. PUGHE: Were these lines originally designed 11'1
the Colorado-Big Thompson proJeot or 1s it something new'
MR.. STONE: We11, they wel'e originally deslgned w1th
the project.
MR. CROSS: I move that this Board endorse the actlon
taken by the Direotor ln presenting ~he matter at the hearing
1i1 Estes Park on Apr11 26.