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Show -5- Maj. Gen. Eugene Reybold, Chief of Engineers, Wai-Department ; Baird Snyder, Assistant Administrator, Federal Works Agency; Phil D. Swing, attorney, San Diego County Water Authority. The Committee met on October 16 and thereafter for study of the problems in consideration of the assignment that you made. The assignment was as follows: The White House, Washington 25, D. C, October 3, 1944. Mr. William E. Warne, Assistant Commissioner, Bureau of Reclamation, Washington, D. C. My Dear Mr. Warne: On recommendation of the Secretary of the Interior, I am designating you as the chairman of an interdepartmental committee to make a study, a report, and recommendations to me on methods of financing proposed construction of facilities to transfer Colorado River water to relieve a critical shortage in the supplies for the city of San Diego, Calif., and nearby communities. Your associates on the committee are to be named by the Secretary of War, the Secretary of the Navy, the Administrator of the Federal Works Agency, and the San Diego County Water Authority. The committee should be organized promptly and begin its activities so that I may have a report with the least practicable delay. The Bureau of Reclamation, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, is making studies of alter- |
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Original book: [State of Arizona, complainant v. State of California, Palo Verde Irrigation District, Coachella Valley County Water District, Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, City of Los Angeles, California, City of San Diego, California, and County of San Diego, California, defendants, United States of America, State of Nevada, State of New Mexico, State of Utah, interveners] : California exhibits. |