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Show D. TRANSMISSION DIVISION The Transmission Division provides facilities for the delivery of Colorado River Storage Project power to major load centers or to delivery points from which other agencies may transmit the power to load centers and to interconnect the generating plants of the Colorado River Storage Project with each other and with adjacent Federal, public, and private utility transmission systems. Construction Activities Construction of the CRSP backbone transmission system with associated communications and control facilities is essentially complete. The remaining connecting link to Eastern Colorado, the Poncha (Salida)-Midway section of the Curecanti-Midway 230-kv line is now under construction and completion is expected by August 1968. The Midway terminal substation will also be completed by that time. The 345-kv switching station, being constructed near Flagstaff, Arizona, is nearing completion and should be ready for operation by December 1966. The original plan of the CRSP backbone system included a 230-kv switching station near Rifle, Colorado. Specifications for that substation are now being prepared and construction is expected to start early in 1967. Construction of the Hay den-Archer 157-mile, 230-kv transmission line and Archer substation was completed and the line and substation energized on January 19, 1966. Contract for construction of the Poncha-Midway 230-kv transmission line was awarded by the Bureau on February 8, 1966. Approximately 38 percent of the work was finished at the end of the report year. Preliminary designs of the Midway substation have been initiated. Power Marketing With the beginning of the 1965-66 winter season, contracts for the sale of Storage Project power were supplemented to increase and extend 1966-67 contract rates of delivery to equal estimated 1970-71 power requirements. Power is being marketed in Regions 3, 4, 5, and 7 of the Bureau of Reclamation which includes the States of Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, New Mexico, Arizona, and parts of California and Nevada. At the end of the 1966 summer season a total of 88 customers including nonpreference customers were under contract. Preference customer contracts generally guarantee that the Storage Project will supply the 1970-71 contract rates of delivery for 95 |
