BOARD02648

• Board Meeting Date: 9/21/1954
• Description: Minutes
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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Mr. Chilson:

"In that event, Mr. Dnnbar would write that Colo-
rado would like to be heard. If the Court over-
rules our objection and makes us a party, I as-
sume they will give us time to answer the plead-
ing.1I

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Mr. Dille:

"I second Mr. Moses'-motion."

~hen put to vote, the motion was passed unanimously~

2. Projects for Detailed Study.

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Mr. Bailey:

"We will now take up the second item on the
Agenda."

Mr. Crawford read a report of the Committee on Selection of
Projects for Detailed Study as follows:

Report of Committee
on
Selection of Projects
for
Detailed Study

Reconnaissance type studies have been made by the Bureau
of Reclamation in the Gunnison Basin and in the Colorado River
Basin above Grand Junction to determine the location of projects
which might ~ the future becom~ participating projects of the
Upper Colorado River Storage Project. The studies on the Main
stem of the Colorado are contained in the Cliffs-Divide Project
report issued in 1954. Those on the Gunnison are to be found
in the Gunnison River Project report which came out in 1951.

It should be understood that these studies are of the
reconnaissance or preliminary type and that their objective is
only to indicate whether or not money should be invested in a
more detailed report.

The Cliffs-Divide Project Report. Data on eighteen
separate projects are presented. (See Table I).

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Six of these have a benefit-cost ratio of less than
nnity and hence nnder present criteria of the United States
Bureau of Reclamation would not be eligible for financial assist-
ance from the Basin Fund nnless a detailed study brings out a
favorable benefit-cost ratio. In one or two cases such a re-
study might produce this result.