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Show HUNGRY HORSE PREDICTION 37 a manner firm enough to indicate the effect of the storage reservoirs proposed. 12 - It was apparent from the report that insofar as river regulation was concerned, the great storage reservoirs of the project would not be required for seventy-five years. Therefore, the primary purpose of the project's pro- posed power dams would be to create power revenues to pay for the participating irrigation projects. 13 - The ten participating projects could be constructed without the power dams, since they would deplete the river by only 400,000 acre-feet per year, which was only a fraction of the surplus available to the Upper Basin. Therefore, the power dams weren't needed now, and cer- tainly not under the guise of river control. 14 - The power rate of 5.5 mills proposed by the Bureau was too low. For years to come the principal power market for the project would be in the Lower Basin and in Southern California. The construction of trans- mission facilities to get this power to market was not in- cluded in the estimated cost of the power. What about that? 15-In fact, the Bureau's report was not sufficiently advanced to permit satisfactory comments on the eco- nomic and engineering justification for the project, either in part or in whole.40 16 - Some of the basic premises and assumptions of the report were questionable. 17 - The Department of the Army was unable to con- cur in approving the Bureau's report. The subjects touched upon in General Pick's letter were to become fields in which bitter fighting took place when the crsp came before Congress. He had put his finger on the most controversial issues of the Recla- mation Bureau's program. The crsp plan contemplated the creation of an Upper Colorado River Basin Fund as a separate account on |