State Planning Board Water resources minutes, 1934-1941.

These records contain minutes for committee meetings held on both the state and national level where members of the State Planning Board participated with other agencies, primarily the National Resources Planning Board. The function of these meetings was to unify local, state, and federal points of view with respect to water and land problems in the areas. The National Resources Committee, divided into drainage basin committees, held meetings concerning water reclamation of the Bonneville Basin, the Colorado River Basin, joint meetings involving both these, the Lahontan Basin, and the Great Salt Lake Basin. The Uintah Basin and the water storage meetings were held on the state level, independent of the National Resources Committee. The National Reclamation Association minutes is a transcript of a national convention involving the State Planning Board. These minutes contain lists of attendees and their positions, updates from various federal and state agencies of their programs andprogress, statistics, and discussions of issues.

The members of these committees had three main goals: To determine the principal water problems in the drainage basins in Utah, to outline in broad terms a plan of water development and control designed to solve those problems, and to present specific construction projects and investigation projects as elements of the plan, with general priorities of importance and time. The long term objective of the committees was to prepare a systematic and comprehensive plan for unified control and use of water, not only surface but also underground, throughout the region.