BOARD02250

• Board Meeting Date: 8/6/1951
• Description: Minutes and Resolution
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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It is also recommended that the authorization of the project include the Valley
as referred to in said report for the use and benefit of the various Valley

6. Colorado calls attention to the fact that the project, its operation, maintenance
and the use of Colorado River water thereunder, must be subject to the provisions of the
Colorado River Compact of November 24, 1922 (House Document 605, 67th Congress, Fourth I
Session), the Upper Colorado River Basin Compact of October 11, 1948 (Public Law 37,
81st Congress, First Session), and the Boulder Canyon Project Act of December 21, 1928
(45 Stat. 1057-1064). Further reference to this matter appears in these comments in
connection with the subject of "Operating Principles.1I The features bf the project and
their operation for the storage and re-regulation of the native waters of the Arkansas
River' are subject to the provisions of the Arkansas Hiver Compact of December 14, i948
(Public Law 82, Blst Congress, First Session) between Colorado and Kansas. On July 24,
1951, the. Arkansas River Compact Administration, an agency created by the Compact for
its administration, after a review of thejroject report and consideration of the effect
of the operation of the proposed project on the administration of the provisions of the
Compact, adopted the following resolution:

IIWHEREAS there has been submitted to the States of Colorado and Kansas
by the Secretary of the Interior, in accordance with provisions of Section 1
of the 1944 Flood Control Act, a report of the Bureau of Reclamation on the
proposed Initial Development, Gunnison-Arkansas Project, Roaring Fork Diver~ion,
Colorado (Project Planning Report No. 7-8a.49-1) and such states are required
to transmit to the Secretary of the Interior their respective official comments
and recommendations on the report, and proposed development;. and

IIWHEHEAS the Arkansas River Compact Administration, an official interstate
body created by the Arkansas River Compact and charged with the administration of
such Compact,'is interested in the proposed development to the extent tha~ its
construction and operation shall not interfere \11th the rights, interests. and
obligations of Colorado and Kansas under the Compact;

, "NOW BE IT RESOLVED by the Arkansas River Compact Administration that the
following comments and recorrnnendations relating to said report of the Secretary
of Interior, to wit:

"The Arkansas River Compact Administration submits these corrnnents and
recommendations to the Governors of Colorado and Kansas respectL~g the
proposed Initial Development, Gunnison-Arkansas Project, Hoaring Fork '
Diversion, Colorado, namely:

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"I. The Administration understands that the'project plan proposest

"(a) The impomtion by appropriate project works of approximately
70,000 acre-feet of water a year from the Colorado River Basin
to the Arkansas River Basin for supplemental'irrigation and
domestic water supplies in Colorado and for the production Qf
hydroelectric energy.

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