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Show HUNGRY HORSE PREDICTION 29 operation of any of these projects, California will receive its due apportionment of the waters of the Colorado River system as provided for in the Colorado River Compact and related laws, instruments and documents. Therefore, the state of California favors congressional authorization of the specific projects set forth in the proposed report of the Secretary of the Interior or as may be modified, and their construction with federal funds consistent with national welfare if (a) such projects qualify under criteria, policies, and procedures of the Congress, and (b) the diversion and utilization of the waters of the Colorado River system by and through these projects will not impair the rights of the state of California, or any of its agencies, to the waters of that system, as defined and set forth in the Colorado River Compact and related laws and documents. It might have been anticipated that the Upper Basin States, including Arizona, would find little to complain about in the crsp plan, but this was not the case. In June 1951, Governor Pyle of Arizona wrote the Reclamation Bureau that even though the gigantic Glen Canyon Dam would stand on Arizona soil, nothing had been said in the plan about selling any of its power in Arizona. Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, and even far-off Idaho, had been mentioned as potential markets for crsp power. Arizona had been ignored.29 Another matter that disturbed Pyle (or his engineers) was that the Reclamation Bureau proposed to sell Glen Canyon power at an average rate of 5.5 mills per kilo- watt-hour, presumably in the area for which the crsp planned to build transmission lines. But the plan did not include transmission lines for the fringe areas of Wyoming, Colorado and New Mexico. Thus, Governor Pyle thought it must be presumed that power sold in the distant areas would have to bear an additional transmission charge. |
