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Show Presently the Commission does not include a legal division in its organization. The Legal Committee is composed of legal advisers to the Commissioners from the respective States. The legal adviser to a Commissioner from a given State is employed by and is responsible to that State. The Chairman, who is a representative of the Federal Government, has his own legal advisers whose services are furnished by the United States. In some instances the legal adviser to a Commissioner is the Attorney General of his State. In other cases the legal adviser is a special attorney employed by the State. Therefore, the personnel of the Legal Committee of the Upper Colorado River Commission changes from time to time. In accordance with the By-Laws of the Commission the Chairman and the Engineer-Secretary are ex-officio members of the Legal Committee. During the past year the members of the Legal Committee have worked in close cooperation with one another in keeping in touch with litigation pending in the Supreme Court between Arizona and California involving the use of waters of the Colorado River. They have also kept the members of the Commission informed concerning important aspects of this history-making lawsuit. In order to adequately protect the interests of the four Upper Division States of the Colorado River Basin in their interests in and rights to the use of the waters of the Colorado River System, the Commission on October 10, 1958 filed a petition to intervene before the Federal Power Commission in the matter of an application for a license by the Arizona Power Avithority to construct the Colorado River Project (Project No. 2248) consisting of the proposed Bridge Canyon Development and Marble Canyon Development. At its meeting in Salt Lake City on December 11, 1958 the Commission amended Article III paragraph (1) of its By-Laws and changed the location of the principal office of the Commission from Grand Junction, Colorado to Salt Lake City, Utah. The amended By-Laws are printed in Appendix J of this report. In recent years there have been hundreds of requests for the Commission's first Annual Report which contained the Colorado River Compact, the Upper Colorado River Basin Compact, the By-Laws of the Upper Colorado River Commission, and the Treaty Between the United States and Mexico Relating To The Utilization Of The Waters Of The Colorado And Tijuana Rivers And Of The Rio Grande. The Commission's supply of its first annual report is exhausted. Because the above legal documents are not readily available elsewhere in printed form, they have been included in this annual report as Appendices G to J inclusive. 24 |