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<br />""~ <br />3~h>b <br /> <br />is an agency created by State statute (ch, 231, p, 866, Session Laws of <br />Colorado, 1941) for the conservation, use, and development of the <br />water resources of (.he San Juan and Dolores Ri,'ers and their principal <br />t.ribut.tlries. The district. comprises seven cO'tlnbes and a part of an <br />eighth county within the natural basin of the Colorndo River in west- <br />ern Colorado. When the board of directors of eaeh of tbese two <br />districts passed upon (,he report and recommendatiom of t,he policy <br />and revie\v commit.tee, including t.he operating principles, as revised, <br />their separate re,olut.ions, among othe,' things, contained t!.te following <br />language: <br /> <br />FRYINGPA."l-ARKANSAS PROJECT, COLORADO <br /> <br />3,5 <br /> <br />COLORADO RiVER \\"^T~~R CONSERVATION DISTRICT BO.-4..HD <br /> <br />Be it fu.rther r~SQltlCdr That ill the Opilliull or t.he board of direct-a"" of the Colorado <br />River Water Ct)Ufien'a.tion Digtrict, tho Colorado Water COIl:>cr\'B.tioH Board <br />should adopt a. r{~solution t.hat no further federa.lly financed trsIlSlllolllltain <br />diversions from the nat.ural Colorado Rh"cr Basin should be apprond for aut.hori- <br />za.tion until tile ..,;ur\'cys dp-:-'<crihed in Mid sed ion I V abo....c are completed and the <br />need for t.Me ust:' of water in western Colora.do has heen determined, (Sec. IV, <br />to which reference is made, is show]] by the two p::lrugraphs conta.ined in t.lle report <br />of t.he policy amI rc\'jew cOlllmit.tee, (]Llot.ed 011 p, 5 of the~e COmllH~l\t::;, and (:0111- <br />mCllcillg with tile wurd5 ;;The cOlllm.iLtee recoj.\'llizes" and ';Tl1c pulicy of the <br />State," fcspecti....cl.r.) <br /> <br />4:;. <br /> <br />S01JTHWE::'Tl>R~ w.-\'n;n CO~f'I~RV."'TION DISTRlC'l' BO.~RT} <br />"'" .If 'l' thi:-; boarn {pels it. :-::hollld illtcrpo:-;c no objection to the propo~ed dh'er- <br />sion, but wit.h the clear and dist.inct 1IIldcr.'H.alldill~ this ("UI1~l'llt .shallllot be COll- <br />side red as wai....er of ohje('tioll~ to fUl\' other federaJlr nnanced transtnoulItain <br />divE"rsioll of the wat.ers of the Colol"ado.Rin:-r; nnd with't.Jw further under8tfUldillg <br />t.hat. the Stat.e Water COll.':iervatioJl Board of the State of Colorado shill! lIot <br />approve of any other such fpdera.lIy filllll1ced dh'ersiOIl project ~mtH ,the Iludi~~ of <br />the needs of the western slope be fully eomplcted so that an 1I1teJ!Jgcnt'1decl~lOn <br />relative to such needs may be gh'€'lJ. We fed t.hat after t.he llIany and long delays <br />in makil1g such studle::: nlld the promises made by some high in authority in t.he <br />Reclam9.tion Service, the western slope is entitled t.o have sHch MtudicB cumpleted <br />in the \'erv near fut.ure. a\ld that no further [ederallr nllanceu t.ransl1loulltain <br />diversioDs should be madc withuut thp. completion of such ill\.est.igatiolls. <br />At the meeting of the Colorado Water Con,ervat,ion Board on Feb- <br />ruary 22, 195], when the revised. report of the policy and review com- <br />mittee, illcluding revised o{Jerat,ing principles for t.his project, was <br />approved by t.he Colorado Water Conservation Board, t.be bOllrd <br />unanimously approved two motions which provided that t,he resolu- <br />tious, above mentioued and partially quot,ed, submit,ted OJ' tbe Colo- <br />rado River Witter Conservation District and the Soutbwestern Water <br />Conservation District" he accepted and approved as a policy of the <br />Colorado Wn.ter Conservation Board, . <br />9, Paragraph 68, commencing on page 23, in about the middle <br />,th.ereof, states: ' <i 'i <br />'Ao,.\ <br />IHe 'proposed hasic ra.te of $3, 0 per acre~foot at t.he. Pueblo Reservoir ha.s been <br />detcrrnlflli:l\ tQ be wialin t.he pa.yment CB.p[t.ci~y of t,he water users, <br />It is reSP~,fUIIJ' requested t!.tat, SllC!.t oposcd charge should not <br />constitute. a mnxnnum or n. min' 1111 charge nOr should it, <br />indicntc fl. u "n dunge or indicRt.e v,."h water wilt he used or <br />whether 4.11' not; . \siderflt.ion in fixing ('.hfl.rg~;' call be given to return <br />flows from such use. The figure is purdy nil cst.imnt,ed average <br />cbn.rgc pr.r acre-foot. and t.he. dirstrict in alloca ting such water ghould <br />be allowed complete latitude ill connection t,herewith. <br /> <br />. 'S.. \' ~ <br />fJ'fi"til{: <br />