WSP04401

• File Number: 8141.100
• Description: Fry-Ark
• State: CO
• Basin: Arkansas
• Date: 1/1/1951
• Author: ARCA
• Title: ARCA Resolutions and Minutes Relating to Fry-Ark Project
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Project Overview

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requirements for domestic and municipal water supplies, flood control, the
preservation of recreational and fish and wildlife values and t~e production
of hydroelectric p~ler. Neither further retirement of presently irrigated
land to meet necessary and pressing municipal requirements for ~ater nor
project development designed to serve a single purpose would be consonant with
the most desirable economic advancement of Colorado, or with the highest utili-
zation of its limited water supplies.

2. Colorado concurs in the findings of the Project Report that the pro-
ject described therein is engineeringly feasible, economically justified, and
financially feasible, ~~d t~at the proposed plan for the payment of reimbursable
capital costs is in accordance with the Federal reclamation law.

3. The allocation of capital costs as be~veen the various project features,
including a nonreimbursable allocation to flood control and fish and wildlife
preservation, is considered reasonable.

4. It is recognized that the allocation to the various project purposes
of annual operation, maintenance and replacement costs has been made to
correspond to the allocation of capital costs. Colorado recommends that an
authorization of the project shall not preclude a readjustment of operation,
maintenance and replacement charges as ~e~~een municipal and domestic users
and por,er and irrigation users ~~ich might more accurately reflect the actual
use of water by said users.

5. It is also recoMr.1ended that the authorization of the project include
the Valley Pipe Line as referred to in said report lor the use and benefit of
the various Valley toyms.

6. Colorado calls attention to the fact that the project, its operation,
maintenance and the use of Colorado River water thereunder, must be subject to
the provisions of the Colorado River Compact of November 24, 1922 (House Docu-
ment 605, 67th Congress, Fourth Session), the Upper Colorado River Basin Com-
pact of October 11, 1948 (~~blic Law 37, 81st Congress, First Session), and
the Boulder Canyon Project Act of December 21, 1928 (45 Stat. 1057-1064).
Further reference to this matter appears in these comments in connection ,vith
the subject of "Operating ?riJ1Ciples." The features of the project and their
operation for the storage a:ld re-regulation of the native waters of the Arkansas
River are subject to the ?rovisions of the Arkansas River Compact of December 14,
19~8 (Public Law 82, 81st Congress, First Session) between Colorado and Kansas. .
On July 24, 1951, the Arkansas River Compact Administration, an agency created
by the Compact for its administration, after a review of the project report and
consideration of the effect of the operation of the proposed project on the
administration of the provisions of the Compact, adopted the foll~ving resolution:

'"iIHEREAS there has been submitted to the States of Colorado and
Kansas by the Secretary of the Interior, in accordance "~th provisions
of Section 1 of the 1944 Flood Control Act, a report of the Bureau of
Reclamation on the proposed :nitial Development, Gunc~ison-Arkansas Project,
Roaring Fork Diversion, Colorado (Project Planning Report No. 7-8a.49-1)
and such States are required to transmit to the Secretary of the Interior