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Show APPENDIX VI VI-61 56 COLORADO RIVER STORAGE PROJECT important parts of the criteria discussed above it is suggested that vou seek agreement among the seven Colorado River Basin States on legislation to make operable and effective the use of the CRD fund or other funds to purchase Hoover replacement energy, or to provide a means of guaranteeing reimbursement to the upper basin lund of moneys diverted therefrom for uses other than the allocations made in the authorizing act which did not contemplate the purchase of energy for Hoover replacement as an operating and maintenance charge at Glen Canyon. It is recognized by everybody concerned that the real objective now before us is to put the generating facilities at the upper basin reservoirs on the line as rapidly as possible in order to assure the financial feasibility of the Colorado River storage project, conserve water, and make possible the full development of the resources of the Colorado River Basin. Again, thank you for the opportunity to comment on this important question. If 1 can be of further assistance in obtaining the necessary legislation to effectuate the filling criteria or in any other capacity please let me know. Sincerely yours, Wayne N. Aspinall, Chairman. Octobep. 17, 1961. California Comments re June 13, 19G1, Proposal of Commissioner of Reclamation for Colorado River Storage Project Filling Principles and Criteria (Submitted by Senators Engle and Kuchel) The following comments are submitted on behalf of the State of California and the California agencies with rights and interests in the use of water and power from the Colorado River with respect to the proposal by the Commissioner of Reclamation entitled "General Principles To Govern, and Operating Criteria for. Glen Canyon Reservoir (Lake Powell) and Lake Mead During the Lake Powell Filling Period" submitted to the Secretary of the Interior by the Commissioner on June 13, 1961, with accompanying memorandum. The proposal of June 13, 1961, a revision of a draft proposal issued on February 12, 1960. does not provide adequate safeguards and contains certain inequities. For example, it does not gi\e proper recognition to the potential loss of kilowatt capacity at Hoover powerplant. The Hoover power allottees in California have insisted from the beginning of the consideration of the problems involved in the filling of Lake Powell and other upper basin reservoirs, that the protection of generating capacity at Hoover Dam in kilowatts is as essential as the continued delivery of the amounts of electric energy in kilowatt-hours. Attention is invited to the provision in section 7 of the Colorado River Storage Project Act (Public Law 485; 70 Stat. 105): The hydroelectric powerplants and transmission lines authorized by thiB Act to be constructed, operated, and maintained by the Secretary shall be operated in conjunction with other Federal powerplants, present and potential, so as to produce the greatest practicable amount of power and energy that can be sold at |
