BOARD02551

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

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GOVERNOR LOVE:

NR. STAPLETON:

NR. SPARI<S:

"I am going to have to run, Ben."

"Governor, thanks very much for coming."

"Literally dozens of bills have been
introduced in the past three or four years.
Over fifty bills actually have been intro-
duced to authorize the central Arizona Proj-
ect and the various components of what was
originally called the 'pacific Southwest
l'later plan'. It's no longer termed the
Pacific South1l1est Nater Plan. In the ne\'l
bill it is called the 'Lower Colorado River
Basin Project'. The latest bills introduced
in the House is a series of bills, one of
which is H. R. 4671 by Representative Udall
of Arizona. This bill reflects an agreement
between the States of California and Arizona.
The effect of this agreement is that Arizona
guarantees to the state of California the
first 4.4 million acre-feet of water annually
that is available from the Hoover Dam or from
the mainstream below Lee Ferry.

This means that any shortages in the 7~
million allocated by the Supreme Court to the
Lower Basin fall upon the Central Arizona
Project. of course, this is not popular in
Arizona, but Arizona had to face the political
facts of life that despite their winning the
decision in the Arizona-California case, they
had to come to some agreement with California.
This is what was done and the bill introduced
this year reflects that agreement. Previous
bills in previous years did not contain such
an agreement. Senator Hayden's bill in the
Senate does not reflect that agreement but
other bills introduced, principally by Sena-
tor I<Uchel of California, do reflect the
agreement.

Hearings will start on the 23rd of this
month before the Interior and Insular Affairs
Committee of the House of Representatives.
The hearings will be held on H. R. 4671 and
the companion bills, all identical to H. R.
4671. In preparation for these hearings that