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Show VIII. Activities of the Commission Within the scope and limitations of Article I (a) of the Upper Colorado River Basin Compact, ". . . to secure the expeditious agricultural and industrial development of the Upper Basin, the storage of water ..." and under the powers conferred upon the Commission by Article VIII (d) pertaining to making studies of water supplies of the Colorado River and its tributaries and the power to ". . . do all things necessary, proper or convenient in the performance of its duties . . . , either independently or in cooperation with any state or federal agency," the principal activities of the Commission have consisted of: (A) research and studies of an engineering and hydro-logic nature of various phases of the water resources of the Colorado River Basin; (B) collection and compilation of documents for a legal department library relating to the utilization of waters of the Colorado River System for domestic, industrial, agricultural purposes and the generation of hydroelectric power, and legal analysis of associated problems; and, (C) an education and information program designed to aid in securing appropriations of funds by the United States Congress for the construction, planning and investigation of storage dams, reservoirs, and water resource development projects of the Colorado River Storage Project that have been authorized for construction, and to secure the authorization by Congress for the construction of additional Storage Units and participating irrigation projects as the essential investigations and planning are completed. A. ENGINEERING - HYDROLOGY Because the Colorado River Storage Project is a water resources development plan of the Upper Colorado River Basin, the Upper Colorado River Commission has determined that active participation in investigations, studies and plans related to the present and future construction and operation of water-regulating, water-diversion, power-generating, water-utilization facilities is both necessary and expedient. The Commission has a primary duty to the four Upper Division States to do all things necessary both to protect the interests of its member States in the water resources of the Colorado River and to aid the best and most expeditious development of those resources. In fulfilling this responsibility, the Commission's staff has been actively engaged during the past year in making many hydro-logic and engineering studies relative to the utilization and distribution of the water resources of the Upper Colorado River Basin. 18 |
