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<br />3934 <br /> <br />FRYINGPAN-ARKANSAS PROJECT, COLORADO <br /> <br />7. Paragraph 74, pages 27 to 33, both inclusive, under the heading <br />"Op~rat.illg Principles/' cont.a.ins the operating principles which the <br />report explains were recommended by a policy and review committee <br />set up by the Colorado Water Conservation Board to study and re- <br />,'iew plans and reports 011 the first stage of the Gunnison-Arkansas <br />project. This conlmitt.ec ,,"us composed of rcrresentntives of the <br />board, the Colorado Game and Fish Commission, west.ern Colorado, <br />the Arkansas Valley, and the City of Colorado Spl'ings. The report <br />fails to explain that such committee was required to -report to the <br />Colorado \Vat,er Conservation Board nnd its recommendations would <br />not be effective until approved by that board. The report on the <br />project does not disclose what action was taken by the Board nor <br />does it contain all of the recommendations of the Poliev and Review <br />Committee. SOInc of the ffitlt.tcrs contained in the repo'rt of the com- <br />mittee afC not st,rictly concerned with project operu,tion, but are <br />relat.ed to. allll constitute a material part of. sllch opemting principles. <br />The recommendations of t.hc Policy and Re\"iev..- Conlmittee 'Were <br />revised and approved b.\~ the Colorado Water Conservation Board on <br />:February 22, 19.51. (See letter with attachments of t.IlO director of <br />the Colorado Water Conser.vation Board dated Februar.v 27, 19.51, <br />and addressed to the director of region 7, Bureau of Reclamation.) <br />Paragraph 74, pages 27 to 3:3, both inclusive, of the report eorreet.ly <br />.cts forth that part of the report. of the poliev and review committee, <br />designated "Article II. Operating Principles," as re.vised and ap- <br />proved by the Colomdo Water Conservation Board, bnt. it omits other <br />material portions of the Committee's report as revised und approved <br />by the Board, namely: <br /> <br />33 <br /> <br />,. * * '" ... .... " <br />The act.ion of t.he policy and review committee will be presentco to t.he Colora(h) <br />'Vater Conservation Board for slIch act.ion 8:'l the board deems proper. <br />The action of the Colorado Wat.er Consen-at.ioll Board will be incorporated in <br />the official comment.s of t.he Stat.e of Colorado, made pllfslIant. to sect.ion 1 of the <br />1044 Flood Control Act.. <br />The a\Jthorizat,ion of t.he proje('-t. will recognize the opcrating principle1i approved <br />bv t.he Coloradu Wat.er COflSCT\'atioll Board. <br />'Prior to commencement. of project. const.rudion, t.he following conrlitions prece- <br />dent III lISt. be sat.isfied: <br />(a) There will be execllted a payment. cuntract. betwecn t.he Eastern Coloradl'} <br />Conservancy Dbt.rict ano the Unit.ed States in which will be incorporated the <br />approved operating principles. <br />(b) There will be execllted s\leh contract. wit.h t.he Twin Lakes Rc~crvoir & <br />Canal Co. a~ is !lece~~ary to make effect.ive t.hc approved operat,ing principles, <br />(r.) The Eastern Coloro.do Con~ervanc'y District. will firmly bind it~elf to the <br />operatioll of the project in accordance with the approved operating prineiples. <br />* * .... * * * * <br />It is recommcnded that thig project. shall hereafter he referred to as the Fry- <br />ingpan-~Tkansa.'i project. Approval of this pruvision by en.!:itern Color&.du rcpre- <br />sentati\' shall not be implien a:::; an abandonment. of their expressed illtentioll to <br />oht.ain ap royal of a pruject from the GUllnisoll lOver !lor shall approval of this <br />provision "y westl~rl\ (;oloro.rio representat.ive~ he construed as any consent on <br />their part t.o the o.lIthorization of a project for the exportation of wa.ter from the <br />Guonison m....er to eastern I' lorado. <br />The committ.ee reco!l;nize 1St the approval of this report is not to !;er....e 8!:i a <br />precedeot or ~)(ample for th :ppro\'al of any other transmollntain divcrsion of <br />major proportIOns not hereto c)fe aut.horized. <br />The policY of the State of Colorado as initiated in Statc~wide meet.iog:,; held <br />under t.he i\u~pices of the Sto.te planning commission at Denver a.nd Grand Junc- <br />tion, aod ~ cvidenced by resolutions dated June 15, 1935, and February 28, <br />1936 was not adhered to because SlIfve"" of the character mentioned in sairl <br />resol~ltion6 were lIot 8.,,"ai1able to the comnlittce. Nothing herein contained shaH <br /> <br />.,"1 <br />