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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rr NOI. BE IT RESOLVED by the Arkansas River Compact Administration that
the fOllowing comments and recommendations relating to said report of
the Secretary of Interior, to wit:

II 'The Arka:r\sas River Compact Administration submits these comments
and recommendations to the Governors of Colorado and Kansas re-
specting the proposed Initial Development, Gunnison-Arkansas Pro-
ject, Roaring Fork Diversion, Colorado, namely:

II '1. The Administration understands that the project plan proposes:

rr' (a) The importation by appropriate project works of ap-
proximately 70,000 acre-feet of water a year from the
Colorado rover Basin to the Arkansas River Basin for
supplemental irrigation and domestic water supplies
in Colorado and for the production of hydroelectric
energy.

"' (b) In connection with such importation of vlater and its
regulation in the nrkansas River Valley by project
works, the re-regulation of native waters of the
Arkansas River (the term 'native waters I, as herein
used, being those waters covered and defined by
Art. I1I-B of the Arkansas River Compact).

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rr '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 hiver water (described in sub-paragraph (a) above).

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II '3. The re-regulation of native waters of the Arka'1sas River
(native waters being as above mentioned) concerns the .
Arkansas River Compact Administration and both Colorado
and Kansas in complying with the provisions of the Arkan-
sas River Compact and maintaining the benefits and obli-
gations 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 Ad~inistration, that the Initial Development,
Gunnison-rlrkansas Project, Roaring Fork Diversion, Colo-
rado, as set forth in Project Planning Report No. 7-8a.
49-1 of the Bureau of Reclamation, be approved; pro-
vided, ho~ever, that there shall be no re-regulation of
native waters of the arkansas tliver as proposed in such
report until a plan of operation, rules, regulations,
procedures and agreements in furtherance thereof, in-
cluding any pertinent agreements between the Corps of
Engineers and the Bureau of Reclamation, shall have
been submitted to, and approved by, the Arkansas Ri-
ver Compact ndministration and the affected water
users.