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<br /> <br />001558 <br /> <br />" <br /> <br />THE CONFE1IENCE COMMITTEE <br />Orqanization. At the February 17, 1953 meeting of the Colorado <br />Water Conservation Board, the Board decided to set up a committee <br />to be known as the Colorado Conference Committee to study "the <br />request of the City and County of Denver for federal funds with <br />which to divert approximately 177,000 acre-feet of water from <br />the Blue River in Western Colorado. . .; the Committee to have <br />full power to employ whatever engineers and obtain whatever <br />engineering data they may determine as being necessary for them <br />to reach a conclusion in said matter and to make a recommendation <br />to this Board; with the further understanding that the Colorado <br />representative on the Upper Colorado River Commission be requested <br />to make every effort to defer any Congressional action, or action <br />by the Upper Colorado River Commission on the Colorado River <br />Storage Project bill until such Committee makes its report and <br />the Colorado Water Conservation Board thereafter takes action <br />on the same." <br />According to the motion, the Committee was to consist of five <br />members: Two from the Eastern Slope, two from the Western Slope, <br />and the Vice Chairman of the Colorado Water Conservation Board. <br />The members from the Western Slope were, in the beginning, F. C. <br />J;erriell and George Cory; from the Eastern Slope, N. R. Petry <br />and H. H. Christy; and George J. Bailey, Vice Chairman of the <br />Board, was Chairman of the Committee, with Ivan C. Crawford, <br /> <br />-6- <br /> <br /> <br />.' <br /> <br />