BOARD02425

• Board Meeting Date: 10/31/1957
• Description: Minutes
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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MR. CRAWFORD:

"I would like to make a report at
this time because some of the data I
have here will have a bearing on our
cooperation, financially, with the
Bureau of Reclamation on our Colorado
projects.

Four years ago at this time, the
State of Colorado found, for the first
time officially, that the Curecanti
would not be approved on the 940,000
acre-feet reservoir basis.

The total amount of money called
for in the five participating projects
came only to $26,000,000.

I should like to call your atten-
tion to pages 7, 8 and 9 of the copy of
the Director's report in your folders
entitled "Priorities of Colorado Recla-
mation Projects and Studies". This was
sent out to you about one month ago. On
Page 8, Participating Projects, Septem-
ber, 1959, shows the participating proj-
ects recommended for inclusion in Public
Law 485. Inasmuch as the Animas-La Plata
and Little Snake (Savery-Pot Hook) had
no feasibility reports at this time,
they were not included in P. L. 485.

Table I is a hypothetical series
of budgets covering the years 1958 to
1962."

Discussion and explanation was made by Dean Crawford
on Tables II and III of the Report. He went on to say that the
data contained in these tables should afford some basis of ar-
riving at a decision to cooperate financially on one or more
projects with the Bureau of Reclamation. (See Appendix A).

He called attention to an article in the last issue
of "Lamp", a publication of the Standard Oil of New Jersey,
by Professor Teller who is Assistant Director of the Radiation
Laboratory at the University of California, which gives some
data relative to the price of manufacturing power by atomic
energy. Professor Teller states that this could be done, at
the present time, for twelve mills per KWH and that power manu-
factured by other means would average, throughout the United