BOARD02167

• Board Meeting Date: 9/14/1962
• Description: Minutes and Resolution
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

gations; and the Basalt and Bluestone inves-
tigations were completed at the end of this
past fiscal year.

The Juniper report is moving along. We
hope to get that out this Fall. The recon-
naissance investigations on the Parshall
Project have been taken along about as far as
we plan to do it now and it shows that it
would be physically possible to develop a
small project there regardless of the outcome
of the current litigation that is underway.
We plan to issue a status report this Fall in
lieu of the reconnaissance report that we
originally scheduled and at a later date,
when the water rights situation is cleared up,
we can go ahead and complete the reconnaissance
report.

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Bob Jennings also has the reconnaissance
investigations underway in the Upper Gunnison
to look at all of those units up there that
can use Taylor Park Reservoir water that will
be available after completion of Blue Mesa
through the exchange process.

The Feasibility Investigations, this cor-
ner over here in Colorado has most of the
feasibility investigation progress reports.
The Animas-La Plata Project report has been
completed now and approved by the Commissioner.
The approval of the Secretary is the next step
in sending it out for review - formal review -
under the provisions of the '44 Flood Control
Act. That one you will see tomorrow; so I
won't take time to say much more about it
except it is one of our next largest partici-
pating projects coming up in Colorado.

Bill Crabtree has completed the first
draft of the Dolores project report. It is
being reviewed now by the Commissioner, by the
Denver office, by the other Federal agencies
and state agencies that worked with us. There
was a meeting held last wee}; down there with
Montezuma Valley people and I am gratified
with a report that I received back from our

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