WSP06549

• File Number: 8111.600
• Description: ARCA Annual Reports
• Basin: Arkansas
• Date: 1/1/1985
• Author: ARCA
• Title: Thirty-Seventh Annual Report Arkansas River Compact Administration for the Year 1985
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Annual Report

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Mr. Cooley directed that the minutes include the two above items. The
Colorado resolution is included as Attachment I and the Kansas proposal
as Attachment J.
The next agenda item taken up was 12e, the five year review of
Trinidad Reservoir operations. Mr. McDonald stated that he thought the
issue was resolved since the Bureau had already agreed to prepare the
review. Mr. Bentrup stated that it was Kansas' position that a
representative of the Colorado State Engineer and the Kansas Division of
Water Resources should make a study of the past five years of operation
and present a report to the Administration. Mr. McDonald responded that
while he was sure that Kansas, Colorado, and the Purgatoire Water
Conservancy District would participate, it was the Bureau of
Reclamation's responsibility to prepare the review. Mr. Cooley then
asked Mr. Wilms to comment on how the Bureau planned to proceed.
Mr. Wilms stated that the Bureau would indeed conduct the five year
review. He indicated that the Bureau would hold a number of public
seoping meetings to determine the extent of the review that needs to be
conducted. There followed a discussion on the responsibilities of Kansas,
Colorado, the District, and the BUreau with respect to the review. It was
Kansas' view that the review should be conducted by the Administration.
Colorado was of the opinion that since the Bureau and the District were
the signatories to the operating principles, the review should be carried
out by the Bureau.
Mr. Cooley called a brief recess at this lime.
After the recess, Mr. Pope moved, seconded by Mr. Olomon, that:
The engineering committee of the Administration conduct a five-
year review of the operatlons of the Trinidad project, as orig1naHy
contemplated by one of the five Kansas conditions, that the review
be done with the aid, assistance, and cooperation of the Bureau of
Reclamation, and that the committee report back to the
Administration prior to April 1, 1985 with findings and
recommendations as to the results of its review.
Mr. McDonald indicated that Colorado disagreed that such a
procedure was appropriate for the Administration to take under the
compact. The question being called, Colorado voted no and Kansas voted
yes, whereupon the motion was declared lost.
After further discussion, Mr. McDonald moved that:
The Administration ask the Bureau of Reclamation to conduct a
five year review of Trinidad Reservoir operations with
participaUon of both states and other interested parUes and with
the results of that review to be made a vailable to the
administration by April I, 1985, or as expeditiously thereafter as
possible.
Mr. Genova seconded the motion. Mr. Pope restated Kansas' position
that the motion he had made was appropriate and that the Administration
had the authority under the Compact to make such studies. He noted that
while Kansas would vote in favor of this motion. it reserved the right to
conduct its own independent review and to fully participate in the review
conducted by the Bureau. The Chairman then called for the question,
whereupon Colorado voted yes, and Kansas voted yes. The motion was
declared passed.
The next item discussed was Colorado's proposal for amending the

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