BOARD02250

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

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"The policy of the State of Colorado as initiated in statewide meetinEs. held
under the auspices of the State Planning Commission at Denver and Grand Junction,
and as evidenced by resolutions dated June 15, 1935, and February 28, 1936, was
not adhered to because surveys of the character mentioned in said resolutions were
not available to the Committee. Nothing herein contained shall be deemed or con-
strued as a precedent for Federal projects not heretofore authorized until adequate
surveys have been made and the necessary data are available so that a general allo-
cation or apportionment of the waters of the Colorado River, allocated for con-
sumptive Use in the State of Colorado, under the Upper Colorado River Basin Compact,
may be made between Eastern Colorado aP~ Western Colorado, as distinguished from
an attempt to execute such State policy by a piecemenal or series of partial allo-
cations, any of which may seriously interfere vlith a complete, over-all State
program."

Paragraph 88 of the report under the heading "Recommendations," states:

"E. The project be operated under the direction of the Secretary
of the Interior in accordance with the OperatinE Principles set forth in
this report or as Principles may be modified in the future by agreement
between the Secretary and the Commission 8stablished by the State of Colorado."

It is understood that the Operating Principles, mentioned in this quotation from
the r8port, are those set forth in Paragraph 74, pp. 27 to 33, both inclusive, and that
the "Cormnission" mentioned therein is th8 Commission which may be created in the manner
and for the purpose set forth in Yara~raph 17 of the Operating Principles. (See p. 33
of the report.)

Colorado's approval of the plans set out in the report and of the authorization
of the project is conditioned upon compliance with the Operating Principles set forth
in the report (see Paragraph 74, pp 27 to 33, both inclUSive) and also full/recognition
and compliance with those portions of the Policy and Review Committee's report, as
revised and approved by the Colorado Jater Conservation Board, which are omitted from
the report and which are hereinabove set out; except that as to the name of the project,
it is recommended and urged that in an appropriate manner the project should hereafter
be known and referred to as the "Fryingpen-ArkansasProject." It is noted from the letter
of the Commissioner of ReclaDation to the Secretary of the Interior, contained in the
report, that it is stated:

"-IHHH}This development is designed as a self-contained unit, and its
construction would not imply a commitment for developing future water
supplies in the GUlU1ison River Basin for diversion to the Arkansas River Basin."

Colorado approves this statement but such a statement lends weight to the reason
for changing the name of the project as herein recormnended. Diversion from the Fryingpan
River to the Arkansas River has no relation to the Gunnison River. It is not proposed
under this "self contained" project to divem.water to the Arkansas Basin from the
G~~nison River. The identification of the project on the cover of the report and used
throughout the report -- "Initial Development, Gunnison-Arkansas Project, Roaring Fork
Diversion, Colorado" -- is a misnomer and misleading, and in the future may, in some
manner, lead to unwarranted implications. In addition to the recommended change in
projoct identification, Colorado request.s that the project be authorized as the"'Fryingpan-
Arkansas Project".

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