BOARD02203

• Board Meeting Date: 3/20/1975
• Description: Agenda or Table of Contents, Minutes, Resolution
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

the problems that we have in our part of the State of Colorado.

As we all know, the energy crisis did not arise overnight, it has had
a 'long history of connnencement, and we are now getting into the same
position with the matter of food shortage. We submit that the develop-
ment of these projects that we are talking about contribute substan-
tially to the solution of both energy and food production.

Now, these projects have their cost, not only money, but also in the
development of resources themselves. We do want to make it clear to
our Congressional Delegation and to the people interested, that these
funds are investments. January 1st of this year I had occasion to
stand in front of the Grand Coulee Dam where they have a large elec-
trical computer, it was a constantly revolving thing. It was established
from January 1, 1975 to July 1, 1975 that the energy output of that
project contributed the sum of over $9,800,000 to the United States
Treasury.

Now, we find that these projects, our Curecanti, the Bostwick Park
and the Uncompahgre Projects, some of which were substantially pro-
moted by one Larry Sparks and his law practice in our area, are doing
the same thing. They not only contribute to the solution of these
problems, but they produce agricultural products, which in turn are
subject to income tax, and do contribute substantially to the welfare
of the United States of America.

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Thank you very much.

Mr. Stapleton: Senator Noble?

Senator Noble: Mr. Chairman, members of the Colorado Water Conservation
Board, Congressman Aspinall, and Congressman Rogers, my name is Dan
Noble, and here representing the southwestern corner of Colorado
primarily, western Colorado, and Colorado in general, I hope.

I am a member of the San Miguel Water Conservancy District Board, and
a member of the Colorado State Senate. I am very glad to hear some of
the same comments today that I have heard since 1952 - 1968 through
the authorization of the Colorado River Basin Act. Those memories are
good ones, and I hope we can continue to go forward.

I bring to you today Senate Memorial No.1, as an expression of the
Colorado Senate's feelings on fundings for Colorado's authorized
Reclamation Projects, as well as writing in for the construction funds
for the Dolores Project. If I might take the time, I~ld like to
read that Memorial for the record.

I~morializing the Congress of the United States to appropriate
funds for the fiscal year 1976 pursuant to the request of the President
which specified certain Federal Reclamation Projects in Colorado, and
requesting Congress to include the Dolores Project as one of high
priority for the future of western Colorado.

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