BOARD02250

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

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"(b) In connection with such importation of water and its regu-
lation in the Arkansas River Valley by project works, the
re-regulation of native waters of the Arkansas River (the
term 'native waters', as herein used, being those waters
covered and defined by Art. III-B of the Arkansas River
Compact) .

"2. The' interstate water relations of Colorado and Kansas with respact
to the Arkansas River do not justify any objection to the proposed
project development for the importation of Colorado River water
(described in sub-paragraph (a) above).

"3. The re-regulation of native waters of the Arkansas River (native
waters being as above mentioned) concerns the Arkansas River
Compact Administration and both Colorado and Kansas in complying
with the provisions of the Arkansas River Compact and maintaining
the benefits and obligations of the two states under that Compact'.
To that end, it is recommended to the Governors of Colorado and
Kansas, and expressed as a policy of the ArkansaslRiver Compact
Administration, that the Initial Development, Gunnison-Arkansas
Project, Roaring Fork Diversion, Colorado, as set forth in Project
Planning Report No. 7-8a.49-1 of the Bureau of Reclamation, be
approved; provided, however, that there shall be no re-regulation
of native waters of the Arkansas River as proposed in such report
until a plan of operation, rules, regulations, procedures and agree-
ments in the furtherance thereOf, including any pertinent agreements
between the Corps. of Engineers and the Bureau of Reclamation, shall
have been submitt~d to, and approved by, the Arkansas River Co~pact
Administration and the affected water users.

"4. It is the purpose and intent of these recommendations that the
proposed project development shall not interfere with or defeat
the rights, interests and obligations of Colorado and Kansas under
the Arkapsas River Compact.

"be transmitted to the Governors of the States of Colorado and Kansas and such
Governors be and are hereby requested to submit the same to the Secretary of
Interior with their official State comments and recommendations upon said
proposed project and development."

Colorado interprets and understands that Paragraph three (3) of the Resolution of
the Arkansas River Compact Administration is controlled by Paragraph four (4) thereof;
and that the words "affected water users I,. in said Paragraph three (3) mean only water
users in the State of Colorado so long as Colorado complies with the terms of said
Compact.

7. Paragraph 74, pages 27 to 33, both inclusive, under the heading "Operating
Principles," contains the "Operating Principles''wbich the report explains were recom-
mended by a Policy and Review Committee set up by the Colorado Water Conservation Board
to study and review plans And reports on th~ first stage of the ~lV~1ison-ArkansaB Project.
This Committee was composed of representatives of the Board, the Colorado Game and Fish
Commission, Western Colorado, the Arkansas Valle~' and the City of Colorado Springs. The
report fails to explain that such committee was required to report to the Colorado Water