BOARD02551

• Board Meeting Date: 8/11/1965
• Description: Minutes and Resolution
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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i'lR. GOSLIN:

NIL STAPLETON:

GOVERNOR LOVE:

the deliveries required by the compact and it
is our water. He have had to pay for its
use to the extent of almost $20 million to
date.

We feel that this is a situation which
must be corrected. The time to do it is in
this legislation. That's the third problem.
I won't go into the mechanics of it. The
integrity of the payout of our projects must
be maintained. That's the third salient
point that we have tried to cover in these
amendments.

There are other points but those are
the three main ones. Is that correct, Ival?"

"That's correct, Larry."

"Governor Love, 1rlould you like to make a
statement at this time?"

"Yes. I'm not going to be able to stay
for the entire meeting but I certainly did
want to participate to the extent that I
could.

It seems obvious to me that the matter
with 1rlhich vIe are dealing here today, the
Central Arizona Project and its effect, or
possible effect, on the Colorado River Com-
pact, is perhaps the most important matter,
as far as Colorado is concerned, that I or
the rest of you vlill deal 1rlith in the fore-
seeable future. I don't need to tell this
Board of the vital importance of water to
Colorado and I would like to point out, of
course, that this is not a problem that
effects just one area or region of Colorado,
but the entire State of Colorado, in that
with the transmountain diversions now, as
Governor Johnson has pointed out, the eastern
slope, in a period of shortage, might be the
area that was hardest hit.

I don't think there is any doubt that
first, the fine report of ~~. Tipton's and