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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The Director submitted a mimeographed document labeled "Report of the
Policy and Review Committee (First Fhase Gunnison-Arkansas Project) ", dated June
15, 1950, which he suggested be included in the record of the meeting. The mimeo-
graphed material consisted of three sections, as follows, (1) Report of the Policy
and Review Committee, signed by Clifford H. Stone as chairman, (2) Appendix "A",
Letter of Recommendations, dated January 24, 1950, arid (J) Appendix "B", Text of
Proposed Principles of Operation.

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Text of these materials is as follows:

Report of Policy and Review Conimittee
on First Stage of
Proposed Gunnison-Arkansas'Project

June 14, 1950

To: The Colorado Water Conservation Board

On September 1, 1948, the Director of Region 7, Bureau of Reclamation,
transmitted to the Governor of Colorado copies of a preliminary draft of a planning
report, with accompanying appendices, dated June 1948, on the first stage of the
proposed Gunnison-Arkansas Froject, Colorado. The Director of Region 7 requested
the State to review the report in its preliminary draft form and sul:Jni't informal
comments for consideration in the preparation of a report on such project in final
form for transmittal to the Commissioner of Reclamation and the Secretary of the
Interior.

Such report was referred to the Office of the Colorado Water Conservation,
Board. This Board, on September 28, 1948, in respect to such request of the Di-
rector of Region 7, took the follcming action:

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lilt was moved by Mr. Beaty, and dUly seconded, that the
Board authorize the creation of a Policy and Review Committee
for study of the Interim Report on the first stage of the pro-
posed Gunnison-Arkansas Project, and that such Committee be com-
posed of two representatives from the Arkansas Valley, two repre-
sentatives of the area in Western Colorado affected by the proposed
diversion program, two representatives of the Colorado Water Con-
servation Board designated as Director Stone and R. J. Tipton,
Consulting Engineer, and one representative of the City of Colorado
Springs; and further that John Beaty be responsible for securing the
'appointment of the Arkansas River Valley representatives and Director
Stone arrange for the awointment of representatives for Western
Colorado; that such cOllllllittee report from time to time to the
Colorado Water Conservation Board so that the Board may formulate
its final comments for submission to'the Bureau of Reclamation on
such proposed project development; and that such committee from
time to time meet With representatives of the Bureau of Reclamation."

The Policy and Review Committee, after appointments thereto had been com-
pleted, consisted of Clifford H. stone, Director of the Colorado Water Conservation
Board, Chairman; Royce J. Tipton, Consulting Engineer of the Board; Frank C. De-
laney and Judge Hume S. White, representing Western Colorado; Harold H. Christy and
Charles J. Beise, representing the Arkansas Valley; Fredri:ck T. Henry, representing
Colorado Springs (previously the City Manager of Colorado Springs served on the
Committee); and Cleland Feast, Commissioner of the Colorado Game and Fish Commis-
sion (Feast was added to the Committee when it became evident that fish and sild-
life features were involved in the proposed project.)