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Show C. RETIREMENT PROGRAM Employees of the Upper Colorado River Commission are precluded by law from participation in retirement and insurance programs made available to employees of member States that financially support the Commission. The Social Security Act provides only a meager subsistence income during old age. After a careful study of all aspects of the problem the Commission found the supplementing of social security benefits to be necessary, rational, and justifiable in order that employees may receive incomes after retirement that bear a reasonable relationship to their period of service and earnings while employed. The Commission during the past year created an Upper Colorado River Commission Pension Trust, with joint participation by its employees, that will provide moderate financial benefits for qualified employees after retirement and for their dependents and beneficiaries in the event of death. This pension trust meets the legal requirements of the Commission's member States, and the legal and fiscal requirements of the Internal Revenue Service of the United States. D. EDUCATION - INFORMATION General Cooperation The Upper Colorado River Commission has directed its Education and Information program toward promoting interstate cooperation, harmony and united efforts; developing an understanding in other sections of the United States of the problems of the Upper Colorado River Basin; and the creation of a favorable attitude on the part of Congress with respect to the development of the industrial and agricultural resources of the Upper Colorado River Basin. The Commission has continued to cooperate with members of the Congressional Delegations from the Upper Colorado River Basin States and with officials of the Department of the Interior and the Bureau of Reclamation in seeking appropriations of funds by the Congress for the construction of the Storage Units and participating projects authorized for construction, as well as funds for the investigations of additional participating projects that are given priority in planning in the Colorado River Storage Project Act. As part of this cooperation the Commission's Executive Director has been in Washington, D. C. at intermittent periods acting as liaison between the Congress and States and various departments of government, supplying information, arranging and taking part in Congressional hearings, and providing other assistance requested. 31 |