BOARD02250

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

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Conservation Board and its recommendations would ~ot be effective until approved by
that Board. The report on the project does not disclose what action was taken by the
Board nor does it contain all of the recommendations of the Policy and Review Committee.
~ome of the matters contained in the report of the committee are.not strictly concerned
with the project operation, but are rel~ted to, and constitute a material part of, such
"Operating Principles."

/The recommendations of the Policy and Review Committee were revised a~d approved I'
by the Colorado Water Conservation Board on February 22, 1951. (See letter with attach-
'~ents of the Director of the Colorado Water Conservation Board dated February 27,
1951, and addressed to the Director of Region 7, Bureau of Reclamation). Paragraph
74, pp. 27 to 33, both inclusive, of the report correctly sets forth that part of the
report of the Policy and Review Committee, designated Article II "Operating Principles"
as revised and approved by the Colorado Water Conservation Board, but it omits other
material portions of the Committee's report as revised and approved by the Board, namely:

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"The action of the Policy and Review Committee will be presented to the
Colorado Water Conservation Board for such action as' the Board deems proper.

"The action of the Colorado Water Conservation Board will be incorporated
in the official comments of the State of Colorado, made pursuant to Section 1
of the 1944 Flood Control Act.

"The authorization of the project will recognize the Operating Principles
approved by the Colorado Water Conservaticn Board.

"Prior to commencement of project construction, the follcrv{ing conditions
precedent must be satisfied;

II (a) There will be executed a payment contract between the
Eastern Colorado Conservancy District and the United States in which
will be incorporated the approved Operating Principles.

"(b) There will be executed such contract with the Twin Lakes
Reservoir and Canal Company as is necessary to make effective the
approved Operating Principles.

II(C)
itself to
Operating

The Eastern Colorado Conserva.ncy District will firmly bind
the operation of the project in accordance with the approved
Principles.

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"It is recommended that this project shall hereafter be referred to as the
Fryingpan-Arkansas Project. Approval of this provision by Eastern Colorado repre- I'
sentatives shall not be implied as an abandonment of their expressed intention
to obtain approval of a project from the Gunnison/River nor shall approval of
this provision by Western ColoradO representatives be construed as any consent on
their part to the authorization of a proJect for the exportation of' water from
the Gunnison River to Eastern Colorado.

"The Committee recognizes that the approval of this report is not to serve
as a precedent or example for the approval of any other transmountain diversion
of major proportions not heretofore authorized.