BOARD02203

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

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Mr. Sparks: The Front Range study again is a generalized study, looking
at the communities, and it is about completed. There is no conservancy
district at this time sponsoring the Front Range.

Mr. Stapleton: All right. The Chairman has a problem. We can't eat
in the cafeteria below here until 1:30. I would like to get as mucb of
the agenda out of the way as we can. The Senators will be here some-
time after two o'clock, when we reconvene. I guess that means you have
a choice of waiting until 1:30 around here and then only have 10 or 15
minutes here, or going over to the motel and getting bags, and so forth,
before coming back here.

I just want to let you know that we want to be reconvened here at two
o'clock, go for forty-five minutes, and conclude the meeting.

So, I am going to ask whether or not on the agenda item 2-c, something
called "Others", what is the others?

Mr. Sparks: Mr. Frank Cooley wanted to make a statement under that
particular item.

Mr. Coo1ev: Do I get to go until 1:30?

Mr. Stapleton: Frank, before you start, I wanted to say that the Closed
Basin I am keeping for two o'clock as an agenda item that we are taking
up at that time.

I think that citizen participation down there, attitude is interesting
to the Senators, and I want to keep it for that time.

Mr. coole!: Mr. Chairman, Members of the Board, I am Frank Cooley,
attorney or the Yellow Jacket Water Conservancy District. On my right -
on your left - is Mr. Harry Coleman, who is president of the Board of
the Yellow Jacket District, and he is a wheat and grain farmer in the
White River Valley.

I am speaking today mostly, however, for the Northwest Colorado Water
Council and its nine-man committee on matters concerning the Yampa and
White. And until the meeting of that committee and that council, we
did not plan to come to Washington. Some of the concerns I am going to
express, most of them in fact, are concerns of the council and generally
of Northwest Colorado.

I planned to limit myself in speaking extemporaneously, always wondering
what I was going to say. I think because of the comments in the
Governor's letter I have been scribbling furiously, and I think that is
maybe why you put me on this morning, rather than this afternoon because
another ten pages would have been ridiculous.

The Governor's message to the Board seems to raise doubt about the use
of Colorado's water for the development of energy resources in Colorado.
The benefits of development of the energy resources - particularly coal
and oil shale - will flow as much to the nation as to the State of

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