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Show The position of the Upper Colorado River Commission with respect to the principles involved in the draft designated H. R. 4671 Recommended Revision is expressed in a resolution adopted at an Adjourned Annual Meeting held in Cheyenne, Wyoming on February 22, 1966. RESOLUTION Re: H. R. 4671 Recommended Revision WHEREAS, the Upper Colorado River Commission at an adjourned regular meeting assembled at Salt Lake City, Utah on August 16, 1965 by formal resolution approved without endorsing any specific legislation and supported proposed federal participation in the further development of the Colorado River Basin: Provided, certain principles to protect the future water resource development program in the Upper Division States under the Colorado River Compact are incorporated into any authorizing legislation; and WHEREAS, for many months members of the Upper Colorado River Commission, its Legal and Engineering Committees, its Staff, et al., representing the States of Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming have participated in extensive negotiations with like representatives of water resource and hydro-electric power generating entities of the three Lower Division States in efforts to have included the principles of the Commission's resolution in H. R. 4671, a Bill currently pending in the United States Congress which, if enacted, among other things, would authorize the Secretary of the Interior to construct, operate and maintain a Lower Colorado River Basin Project; and WHEREAS, a certain draft of H.R. 4671, dated February 8, 1966, and described as a Recommended Revision is the result of many difficult negotiations: NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Upper Colorado River Commission at an adjourned annual meeting assembled at Cheyenne, Wyoming this 22d day of February, 1966, that it regards the February 8, 1966 Recommended Revision of H. R. 4671 as one vehicle for implementing its resolution of August 16, 1965 to be submitted to the Interior and Insular Affairs Committees of the United States Congress for their consideration and aid in formulating and enacting a law that will include, among other features, the principles and criteria expressed in said Recommended Revision; BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Upper Colorado River Commission instructs its staff: (1) to continue liaison with 40 |