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;A~~:~. ~. '.,' :.:: ~'. '~/' 00170lt From. Colorado Water Conservation Board Re, Colorado-Kansas Arkansas River Compaot Camnission, and allied meetings Release I Saturday, June 21, and thereafter. Denver, Juno 2l--Studies and analyses pointing toward future final reoammen- dations for the Colorado-Kansas Arkansas river oompaot will be resumed in Denver, Thursday and Friday, June 26-27, it was announcod tcday by C. L. Patterson, chief engineer for the Colorado Water Conservation Board, who is secretary for tho two-state oompaot oommission. The oommission in its two-day olosed meeting will review reoent find- ings of its engineering oommittee, and its oommittee on legal affairs, inserting the new information into the commission's minutes to be considered with the mass of othor data whioh will finally be shaped into a Colorado-Kansas water agreement. Mr. Patterson said the conunission's moeting next week will be the ninth in a series of conferences whioh began in January, 1946. FUrther meetings will be held before a oompaot draft will be ready for submission to the state legislatures of the two states. and after thst to oongress and to the president of the United States for approval. The engineering oommitteo, whioh will oonduot a meeting of its own in Denver, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, June 23-24-25, will oompile statistios and data oomparing water flow, diversions and uses of water in the Arkansas river basin, prior to and following initial op;;ration of the partially-oompleted John Martin dam, near Lamar, Colorado. The dam has been a oontrolling faotor in water flow for the region since January, 1943. The oompaot oammission is composed of Brig. Gen. Hans Kramer (U.S.A. retired) of San Mateo, California, as ohsirman, representing the federal govern- mont, and tho following state oanmissioners I