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<br />! <br />. <br /> <br />001369 . <br /> <br />COLORADO WATER CONSERVATION BOARD <br />Department of Natural Resources <br />721 State Centennial Building <br />1313 Sherman Street <br />Denver, Colorado 80203 <br />Phone: (30)) 866.)441 <br /> <br />E <br /> <br />S <br /> <br />o <br /> <br />. <br />STATE OF COLORADO <br />- <br /> <br />T <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />o <br /> <br />N <br /> <br />R <br /> <br />L <br /> <br />U <br /> <br />CONCERNING H.R. 1246, 99TH CONGRESS <br /> <br />Richard D. lamm <br />Governor <br />J. WiUiam McDonald <br />DireClor <br />David W. Walker <br />Deputy Director <br /> <br />WHEREAS, Congressmen Cheney and Miller have introduced H.R. <br />1246, a bill "To establish a federally declared Floodway for the <br />Colorado River below Davis Dam"; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, <br />flood damages <br />Colorado River <br /> <br />this bill has been introduced in <br />which occurred along the lower <br />in 1983; and <br /> <br />response <br />mainstem <br /> <br />to <br />of <br /> <br />the <br />the <br /> <br />WHEREAS, those damages <br />development had been permitted <br />floodway below Hoover Dam and even <br />in some instances; and <br /> <br />occurred primarily because <br />in the originally intended <br />within flood protection levees <br /> <br />WHEREAS, those damages <br />operation of the Colorado <br />within the requirements <br />Regulations; and <br /> <br />occurred despite the <br />River reservoirs in <br />of the Hoover Dam <br /> <br />fact that the <br />1983 was well <br />Flood Control <br /> <br />WHEREAS, inappropriate developments in the floodplain along <br />the lower mainstem of the Colorado River must not be allowed to <br />interfere with the primary purposes and intended operations of <br />the Colorado River reservoirs; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, the State of Colorado has a major interest in the <br />operation of the Colorado River reservoirs; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, representatives of the governors of the seven <br />Colorado River Basin states have endorsed H.R. 1246 and will <br />present a statement on the bill in hearings before the Water and <br />Power Subcommittee, Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, <br />U.S. House of Representatives. <br /> <br />NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Colorado Water <br />Conservation Board in regular session assembled in Denver, <br />Colorado, this 3rd day of May, 1985, that it does hereby endorse <br />and urge the prompt enactment of H.R. 1246, with the technical <br />amendments to sections 5 and 8 of the bill being proposed by the <br />representatives of the governors of the seven Colorado River <br />Basin states. <br /> <br />313 <br />res/aai <br />