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Show VI-46 UPDATING THE HOOVER DAM DOCUMENTS COLORADO RIVER STORAGE PROJECT 41 insofar as that section treats of reimbursement to the Upper Colorado River Basin fund. If we arc at all in error in making these assumptions please advise at once. Respect fully yours, Sami"el B. Nelson, General Manager and Chief Engineer.. Southern California Edison Co., Los Angeles Calij., May 3, 10G2. The Honorable the Secretary of the Interior, Washington, D.C. Dear Mr. Secretary: Mr. Floyd E. Dominy, Commissioner of Reclamation, has forwarded to us on your behalf, pursuant to article 27 of the "General Regulations for Generation and Sale of Power in Accordance With the Boulder Canyon Project Adjustment Act," a copy of a proposed additional regulation Xo. 1 to said general regulations. Mr. Dominy also enclosed a copy of "General Principles To Govern, and Operating Criteria for, Glen Canyon Reservoir (Lake Powell) and Lake Mead During the Lake Powell Filling Period' approved by you on April 2, 1962, of which said additional regulation No. 1, upon issuance, is also to become a part. Representatives of this company participated in several of the meetings which were held by the Bureau of Reclamation in the course of the preparation of the above-mentioned general principles and we are familiar with them. While we are not in agreement with some of the principles and criteria contained therein, we appreciate that it may not be possible to resolve each question in a manner which will be satisfactory to all interests. We wish at this time to confine our comments to article 5 of these general principles and to the proposed additional regulation No. 1. Article 5 of the "General Principles to Govern, and Operating Criteria for, Glen Canvon Reservoir (Lake Powell) and Lake Mead During the Lake Powell Filling Period" makes provision for an allowance in kind or in money in the event of a deficiency in firm energy generation at Hoover powerplant by reason of operations under said criteria. The allowances therein specified, of course, may or may not fulfill the contractual obligations of the United States to the contractors for Hoover power, depending among other things upon the timing and quantity of deliveries of substitute energy and the extent that the payment of incremental cost of energy may compensate for the actual cost of the replacement of capacity and energy, including the cost of the purchase thereof, should such be necessary. The province and effect of such regulation, however, would not appear to be to influence the contractual obligations between the United States and the contractors for Hoover power. Rather, such regulation would appear to be the direction of the Secretary as to the manner in which the physical operations of Lake Mead and Lake Powell should be conducted and the allocation of certain expenditures to the Upper Colorado River Basin fund. On the other hand, however, the provisions which are contained in article 5 of said general principles and in the proposed additional |
