BOARD02498

• Board Meeting Date: 6/11/1951
• Description: Minutes and Resolution
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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amount of power and energy that can be sold at fir:n power and energy rates.
The Secretary of the Interior should, so far as practicable, make contracts
for furnishing firm power and energy at firm power and energy rates from such
plants and other federal parler plants on the Colorado River operated con-'
jointly. -Provision should be made for the termination, upon a reasonable
notice, of all contracts relating to the disposition for use, outside the
Upper Division States and outside that portion of the State of Arizona within
and from which waters naturally drain into the Colorado River System above
Lee Ferry, of power and energy generated at such plants to the extent that
the power and energy so contracted for is required to satisfy the need of
consumers in the mentioned areas.

9. Colorado approves the recommendations made in the Commissioner's
letter of December 22, 1950, relating to the establishment of a fund from
which money may be appropriated for studies and investigations relating
to the development of the waters of the Upper Colorado River Basin. The
State points out, however, that it will be a number of years before the
necessary funds will be accumulated to finance needed investigations. In
the meantime, investigations on a large scale should be carried forward to
provide information concerning prospective participating projects. Colo-
rado recommends and urges that the report be revised so as to include
authorization by Congress of the creation of a special fund as a basis for
future appropriations to carry on investigations in the Upper Colorado River
Basin in that period prior to the time when money vnll become available under
the plan for the creation of an investigational fund recommended by the report.

la. Since much of the area of the Upper ColoradO River Basin is devoted
to the raising of livestock at high altitudes, Colorado recommends that
consideration be given to revision of the present law relative to excess lands
so that the principle of family operation may be retained in ths mountain
area.

ll. COlorado recommends that the interested states should be given
opportunity to conunent, from time to time, on proposed development units
under the general plan, submitted by the report for the Upper Colorado
'Hiver, Basiq.,iljo that there may be the most complete cooperation between the
states and/r~eral Government to the end that a great natural resource may
be best developed.

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On vote being taken, the motion unanimously carried and was declared
adopted. _'/

It was moved by Judge Dan H. Hughes and sec~nded by John W. Beaty that'
the ColoradO Water Conservation Board authorize the creation of a Policy and
Review Committee to make further studies on, and consider policies in re-
lation to, storage in the Gunnison River Basin and the location of storage
units in that basin, as a part of the Colorado River Storage Project plan,
such committee to consist of one representative each from the Counties of
Gunnison, Montrose and Delta, one representative appointed by the Colorado River
Water Conservation District Board, the Director of the Colorado'Game and
Fish Commission, and the Director, Attorney, Consulting Engineer and Chief
Engineer of the Colorado Vlater Conservation Board; and that such Committee