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<br />To facilitate its review of the report, the Com."TIittee appointed an
<br />Engineering Advisory Subcommittee to study and consider the various engineering
<br />aspects of the Bureau report. The Committee has reviewed and accepted t~o re-
<br />ports from such Subcommittee. The Subcommittee consists of Royce J. Tipton,
<br />Consulting Engineer, Colorado Water Conservation Board, Chairman; Frank C.
<br />Merriell, Secretary-Engineer, Colorado River I{ater Conservation District Board,
<br />Grand Junction, Colorado; R. M. Gildersleeve, Chief Engine0r, Colorado Water
<br />Conservation Board; C. H. Jex, Area Engineer, Bureau of ReclamQtion, Grand
<br />Junction, Colorado; Ben F. Powell, Area Engineer, Bureau of ReClamation,
<br />~~eblo, Colorado; and J. R. Riter, Head of Division of Hydrology, Branch of
<br />Projcct Planning of the Bureau of Reclamation, Denver, Colorado.
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<br />The Policy and Review Committee was organized and held its first
<br />meEting on Nov~mb~r 24, 1948. It has met on the ~verage of once every sixty
<br />days since its work was started. At such meetings, reports of the Engineering
<br />_,' ,_ Advisory..Subcornrrd t teE:_,,!!:8J::,8, cor.,sideredFas=..ven,=as=a",dr.a$t",ofi=a=spEicial'=repor:t~-,
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<br />= , ' ,_Engineer ,for _ih8:,Coi'oi."do'River~ConservationnDistrict-';Board, 'made=eXten5ive~:-~=~'
<br />r~views of the Bur~au report on the project and of various engineering questions
<br />which arose. The Committee considered extensively various questions of policy.
<br />Minutes of the meetings of the Committee and the reports of the Engineering
<br />Advisory Subcemmi ttee are available in the office of the \Iater Board.
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<br />On January 24, 1950, as Po result of action taken by the Committ8e,'
<br />Clifford H. Stone, Chainnan of I'.h<l COffi.'11ittee, transmitted to Avery A. B<ltson,
<br />Director of Region 7, Bure<lu of Reclamation, B, letter marked "Exhibit A,"
<br />which is made a part of this report. A revi0v of this letter will indicate
<br />thnt the Committee had rellched certllin tentative conclusions when the letter
<br />was written. The letter wp.s tr"nsmitted to the Regional Office of the Bureau
<br />of Recllllllation in order to en"ble that office to revis.; its report in keeping
<br />with the views and recomnendlltions contained in the letter. It was pointed out
<br />that certnin questions ",Hocting project operA.tion "nd the principles which,
<br />carried out the: policies of the State respecting thE- exportation of water from
<br />the naturA.l basin of th~ Colorado River in Colorado, remained to be fennulated
<br />and considered by the Policy ,'ll1d l1evie..: Committee; and it "as explained that
<br />such policies "nd principle's would '0", submitt<ld to the Bureau in due course.
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<br />At the January m",,,t"ing of tho Committ8E:, a Drafting Subcommittee W'lS
<br />appointed, consisting of Jean S. Br8it8nstein, Attorney for the Color~do ',later
<br />Conservation Board, ChA.irm,,'n; Hf\rold H. Christy, representing the Arkansi!s
<br />Valley; Frank C. Deli\n8Y, representing 'oie,",ern Colorado; Cleland Feast, repre-
<br />senting the Colorado G,~e nnd Fish Commission; and Ben F. Powell, ropresenting
<br />the Bureau of ReclarnA.tion. This DrA.fting Subcomrnitte2 held several meetings
<br />and on tho 14th day of April, 1950, submitted to the Policy and Review CommitteE'
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