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. . . .. , , , < ( ( , If Afternoon Session Secretary Nevius called the hdministration's attention to a framed pic- ture of the John Martin Dam, hanging on the wall in the County Commissioners' Room. This picture, he said, had been presented by the Corps of Engineers through the district engineer's office at Albuquerque, to the Administration. Chairman Kramer acknowledged receipt of the gift and requested iiiI'. Sharer to convey the thanks of the Adr.Qnistration to the district engineer. It was de- cided to leave the picture in the County Commissioners' Room rather than in the Administration office, but title to the picture vdll be kept by the Ad- ministration. Rep. Stone requested that, if possible, a similar picture should be made available to the Colorado \jater Conservation Board for display in the Board's office. Mr. Sharer promised to transmit the request to the Corps of Engineers' office at Albuquerque. The Administration took up the report of the Special Co~~ittee on the Fryingpan-Arkansas Project plan. The Com..n:ittee's report, as submitted to the administration, was as follows: "The Administration understands that the project plan proposes: . "(a) 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 energy. neb) In connection with such importation of water and its re- gulation in the Arkansas River Valley by project works, the re-regulation of native waters of the Ark~~sas River (the term 'native waters', as herein used, being those waters covered and defined by Art. III-B of the Arkan- sas River Compact). The interstate water relations of Colorado and Kansas \vith respect to the Arkansas River do not justify any objection to the proposed project development for the importation of COlorado River ~ater (described in sub-paragraph (a) above) . "The re-regulation of native waters of the Arkansas River (native waters bei.:1g as above mentioned) concerns the Arkansas River Com- pact Administration and both Colorado and Kansas in complying with 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 Administration, that the Initial Development, Gunnison-Arkansas Project, Roaring Fork Diversion, Colorado, as set forth in Pro- ject Planning Report No. 7-8a.u9-l of the Bureau of Reclamation, be approved; provided, hov;ever, that there shall be no re-regu- lation of native waters of the Arkansas River as proposed in