WSP05694

• 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
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Publication

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An initial draft of criteria that will be presented here today as a

starting point was formulated an the basis of presently available

information on runoff of the Colorado River and records of use.

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We want to make several points most clear to you gentlemen here

today. First, the input of the seven basin States is not only

welcomed but sincerely desired in arriving at what we trust will.be

the optimum operating criteria. In my letters of July 11 to the

Governors, I suggested that a small task group of State and Federal

technicians be formed whose combined efforts would hopefully lead

to optimum progress on developing the criteria within our limited

time schedule. Obviously a small task force can't very well include

representatives of every organization contracting with the Secretary

for water on the Colorado River. There are more than 50 such bodies.

I would encourage them to work closely with State water officials

and assure them that they are welcomed to task force meetings such

as this one and will have an opportunity in any case to review

drafts of criteria. Secondly, it must be completely understood that

the work of the Bureau's Task Force to date is work of a preliminary

nature. It is not cast in a die - it is flexible and your suggestions,

comments, and ideas will be heared, recognized, and utilized to the

maximum extent possible. Later in the presentation, guidelines, or

what may be termed key factors involved in developing criteria, will

be summarized for you. I emphasize that these trial operations,

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