WSP05232

• File Number: 8027
• Description: Section D General Correspondence - Federal Agencies - BOR - Lower Missouri Region - Denver
• State: CO
• Basin: Statewide
• Date: 10/1/1974
• Author: Upper South Platte U
• Title: Steering Committee Report - Upper South Platte Unit - Colorado - August 1974
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

SUMMARY OF THE REPORT OF THE UPPER SOUTH PLATTE UNIT

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STEERTNG COMMITTEE

[. INTRODUCT(ON

The Steering Committee. and its Executive Committee, met on numerous

occasions with staff of the Bureau of Reclamation, other Federal agencies,

and state agencies participating in the planning process. The process by

which the Committee conducted it.'s activities in providing assistance and

guidance to the Bureau and ot.her agencies, and enabling the public to par-

ticipate are described in a separate report prepared by the Steering Committee.

For amplification of matters in this Summary, reference should be made to

the full report of the Committee.

While no decision of the Committee, as such, nor recommendation, is

contained in the report, provision was made for statements sLimmarizing

major points of view, prepared by, or under the direction of, Committee

members. Tn addition, each Steering Committee member was afforded an

opportunity to include a statement of his agency's official position, and

a personal statement of his own in the Appendix. About half way through

the planning period, representatives of residents and land owners from the

three reservoir areas were invited to become Committee members, and they

were instrumenta 1 in bringing the proposed dams and storage sites to the

attention of their neighbors, and in stimulating public participation at

meetings, as well as publication of a newsletter and correspondence written

to local. state, and Federal officials and elected representatives.

A. Steering Committee Role

On July 2, [973, a letter was received from the U. S. Bureau of Reclamation

by apprOXimately forty public agencies and private organizations in the metro-

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