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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their respective official comments and recommendations on the
report and proposed de,elopment; and

'"JHEREAS the .Arkansas River Compact AdLtinistration, an
official interstate body created by the Arlmnsas River Compact
and charced 'lith the ad.~istration of such Compact, is interested
in the proposed development to the extent that its construction
and operation shall not interfere 1'li th the rights, interests and
obligations of Colorado and Kansas under the Compact;

"NG\7 BE IT RESOL1PJl by the Arkansas River Compact Administration
that the follOl'ring cornn:ents and recommendations relating to said
report of the Secretary of Interior, to ~~t:

"The Arkansas River Compact Administration submits these comments
and recommendations to the Governors of Colorado and Yansas re-
specting the proposed Initial Development, Gunnison-Arkansas Pro-
ject, Roaring Fork Diversion, Colorado, namely:

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The Administration understands that the project plan proposes;

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fila) The importation by appropriate project works of approxi-
mately 70,000 acre-feet of water a year from the Colorado
River Basin to the Arkansas River Basin for supplemental
irrigation and domestic water supplies in Colorado and
for the production of hydroelectric ener~J.

"(b) In connection ld.th such importation of water and its
reGUlation in the Arkansas River Valley by project
works, the re-reeulation of native ,mters of the
Arkansas River (the term 'native ~aters,' as herein
used, beinc those waters covered and defined by
Art. nt-B of the Arl(ansas River Compact).

"2. The interstate water relations of Colorado and Kansas with
respect to the Arkansas River do not justify any objection
to the proposed project development for the importation of
Colorado River water (described in sub-para~raph (a) above).

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"3. The re-regulation of native "aters of the Arkansas River
(native waters being as ahove mentioned) concerns the
Arkansas River Compact Administration and both Colorado
and Kansas i1'1 complying ....d.th the provisions of the Arkansas
River Compact and maintaining the benefits and obligations
of the two states under that Compact. To that end, it is
recommended to the Governors of Colorado and Kansas, and
expressed as a policy of the Arkansas River Compact Adminis-
tration, that the Initial Development, GUIL~ison-Arkansas
Project, Roaring Fork Diversion, Colorado, as set forth in