Folder contains correspondence and statements from 1959 that pertain to the opposition to the Burns Creek reclamation project in Idaho as it was seen to be a disguised power project rather than a reclamation project. Other information in the folder pertains to State water rights and opposition to the proposed move of the United States Bureau of Reclamation office from Spanish Fork, Utah to Provo, Utah.

Folder contains newspaper clippings, legislative bills, statements, correspondence, and congressional records from 1968 concerning the Water Rights Act of 1968 which would define Federal-State water rights in the United States, particularly in the Western United States. Statements mostly concern Senate Interior Committee hearings held in Salt Lake City, Utah, 1 May 1968 dealing with a water law bill which would define the rights of various levels of government in water matters.