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Water Supply Protection
File Number
8282.500.20.A
Description
Colorado River Operations
Basin
Colorado Mainstem
Date
7/25/1969
Author
USDOI/BOR
Title
Meeting of Federal and State Representatives for Review of Basic Data Pertinent to the Preparation of Operating Criteria for the Colorado Pursuant to Section 602 of Public Law 90-537
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<br />. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />SECRETARY'S INTRODUCTORY STATEMENT <br />JULY 25, 1969, MEETING - DENVER, COlDRAOO <br />OPEIlATING CRITERIA, COLORADO RIVER SYSTEM <br /> <br />It is a unique and an initial pleasure for me to welcOme you <br /> <br />representatives of the seven great Colorado River Basin States to <br /> <br />this meeting on the future operating criteria of the Colorado <br /> <br />River system. As a westerner I appreciate the difficulties that <br /> <br />may be encountered in trying to reach agreement on criteria. <br /> <br />After all, water is the lifeblood of each State and entity repre- <br /> <br />sented here. However, through discussions among reasonable men, <br /> <br />criteria can be established that are workable and acceptable even <br /> <br />though not containing everything each participant may want. <br /> <br />As you all know, enactment of the $l.J billion Colorado River <br /> <br />Basin authorization of September JO, 1968, climaxed a 20-year <br /> <br />legislative legal battle and made possible the planning and con- <br /> <br />struction of urgently needed facilities for the Nation's No.1 <br /> <br />water supply priority area, the parched southwest. Passage of <br /> <br />this measure marked the largest single package Reclamation <br /> <br />authorization bill ever approved by the Legislative and Executive <br /> <br />Branches of our Government. <br /> <br />Bills to authorize the Central Arizona Project were first intro- <br /> <br />duced into the Congress in 1948, following completion in 1947 of <br /> <br />a Bureau of Reclamation feasibility study. The Senate passed <br />
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