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<br />001553 <br /> <br />, <br /> <br />INTRODUCTION <br /> <br />The 39th General Assembly of the State of Colorado enacted <br />House Bill No. 457 entitled "An Act Relating to Water Develop- <br />ment and the Investigating and Reporting of Water Resources and <br />Uses, and Making an Appropriation for Carrying out the Purposes <br />of this Act." The Act called for a "study of the water resourceS <br />available from surface supplies in that part of Colorado which <br />lies west of the continental divide, and a study of the present <br />and potential uses thereof to the full extent necessary to a <br />unified and harmonious development of those waters for beneficial <br />use in Colorado to the fullest extent possible under the law, <br />including the law created by compacts affecting the use of said <br />water. The studies so to be made shall include analyses of the <br />extent to which water may be transferred from one watershed to <br />another within the state without injury to the potential economic <br />development of the natural watershed from which water might be <br />diverted for the development of another watershed." <br />The Act carried an appropriation of $100,000 to accomplish <br />the objectives and was approved on March 27, 1953. Confor~ing <br />to the instructions contained in the Act, the Colorado Water <br />Conservation Board entered into two contracts: One with Leeds, <br />Hill and Jewett, Consulting Bngineers of Los Angeles, to make <br />a study of the water resourceS as directed in the above quotation; <br />and a second with the University of Colorado for an economic <br /> <br />-1- <br />