BOARD02250

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

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'with particular reference to the amount of Federal money that may be made available for
investigations in Colorado. He read from the Legislative Digest of the National Recla-
mation Association which indicated that final action had not been taken in Congress
on these appropriations but that it gave some indication as to the amount of money that
may be made available to the Bureau of Reclamation a.'1d the Corps of Army Engineers for
use in Colorado during the next fiscal year. He stated that he hoped to have these
final figures available to report to the Board either at the next meeting or in a I
special memorandum which would be distributed to the Board members. In this connection,
the Director called attention to a motion of the Board instructing him to make arrange-
ments as soon as figures are available regarding allocation of Federal funds for investi-
gational work by the Bureau,to have E. O. Larson, Director of Region 4, Bureau of
Reclamation, to appear before the Board and make a report on the status of the investi-
gation program in that portion of his region which lies in Colorado. It was suggested
to M~. C. B. Jacobson, of Mr. Larson's Office, who was present at the meeting, that he
ascertain whether Mr.Larson would be able to appear at the next Board meeting, assuming
that the allocation of money for investigations for the next fiscal year had been made'
by that time. The hope was also expressed that J. R. Riter, head of the Branch of the
Hydrology Division of Project Planning, Bureau of Reclamation, wocld also attend the
Board meeting when this matter is considered.

The next order of business' was Item 5 em the agenda, "Consideration of Proposed
Legislation in Congress for Amendment of the Water Power Act and Relating Activities
of the Federal Power Commission."

The Director said that this subject had been a matter of concern to the City and
County of Denver and that Glenn G. Saunders, attorney for the Denver Board of Water
Commissioners, had had occasion in connection vdth certain works proposed for con-
struction by the Denver Board of Water Commissioners, to deal with the Federal Power
Commission on matters within its jurisdiction ~'1der the existL'1g law. The Director
also stated that Mr. Saunders had been active in cooperation with the National Recla-
mation Association and various interested states in the West in the drafting of a bill
for introduction in Congress to amend the Federal Water Power Act.

Thereupon the Vice Chairman asked Mr. Saunders to discuss this matter.

Mr. Saunders made a general explanation of the Federal Water Pmrer Act and its
present provisions. He referred to the resolution passed by the National Reclamation
Association in support of amendments to the Act and reviewed the proposed legislation
for this purpose and steps that had been taken to put it in form for introduction in
the Congress. He expressed a view that the proposed bill was set and .if the bill is
'approved by the Board, he would like to vrork with the Director and Attorney of the
Board looking toward the improvement of some of the ,J.anguage of the pr'oposed bill. He
stated that the bill, as introduced, is numbered as S-1789.

Thereupon John W. Beaty offered and moved the adoption of the follovdng
resolution:

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YffiEREAS, The National Reclamation Association at its 1950 convention
unanimously adopted a resolution favoring the enactment of federal legislation to
limit the control of the Federal Power Commission over po\wr projects o.filed and operated
by states or mlIDidipalitBs; and

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