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. " ~ ". ...... . > ( ( 15 such report until a plan of operation, rules, regulations, pro- cedures and agreenents in furtherance thereof, including any pertL~ent agreements between the Corps of Engineers and the Bur- eau of Reclamation, shall have been submitted to, and approved by, the Arkansas River Compact AdMinistration and the affected water users. "It is the purpose and intent of these recommendations that the proposed project development shall not interfere with or defeat the rights, interests and obligations of Colorado and Kansas under the Arkansas River Compact." Rep. Stone, who attended the meeting on July 2) with the Special Com- mittee, stated that the Committee's report incorporated a revised interpretation of unofficial Kansas co~ents on the plan. He explained that phraseology in the initial Kansas draft had indicated some Kansas opposition to the Project, but that Kansas spokesmen at the meeting had agreed to rephrase the objection to apply only to any future re-regulation of native waters of the Arkansas River cith no objection to the transmountain diversion program. Mr. Knapp and Rep. Tate of Kansas concurred in the statement by Rep. Stone, explaining that their State was concerned only with the regulation of native waters of the Arkansas River in which Kansas shares. They said the State of Kansas has no objection to the main project to import water.to the Eastern Slope of Colorado. Chairman Kramer requested the Kansas delegation to report back to the Kansas Advisory Committee and secure a revision and modification of that Committee's report in accordance with the findings of the Special Committee. Mr. Knapp and Rep. Tate agreed to do this. Chairman Kramer p~oposed that the Special Co~~itteers report, when approved by the Administration, be submitted to the Governors of Colorado and Kan- SaS with the request that the ~~~istration comments be included in the official comments made by each State to the ~ecretary of the Interior on the Fryingpan- Arkansas Project. The Chairman suggested further that it might be well to request the inclusion of the Admulistration comments in the Congressional authorization act as a definite procedural precaution. It was moved by Rep. Tate and seconded by Rep. Nevius that the Ad- ministration approve and adopt the report of the Special Committee and incorpor- ate the Committee's report in a resolution submitted by the Legislative and le- gal Committee as follows: .. ~- "WHEREAS the Arkansas hiver Compact Administration, an official in- terstate body created by the Arkansas iiiver Compact and charged with the administration of such Compact, is interested in the pro- posed development to the extent that its construction and oper- ation shall not interfere with the rights, interests and obli- gations of Colorado and Kansas under the Compact;