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Show 84 UPDATING THE HOOVER DAM DOCUMENTS Tribes; the Southern Transmission System, two 500-kV transmission lines which connect the generating station with the Westwing Switchyard in the Phoenix Area; and the Western Transmission System, a single 500-kV line, which connects the generating station with the McCullough Switchyard of the Department of Water and Power of the City of Los Angeles in the Las Vegas area. The Bureau of Reclamation is a participant in the Navajo Project pursuant to Section 303 of the Colorado River Basin Project Act (82 Stat. 885) dated September 30, 1968, and the determination by the Secretary of the Interior that such participation is the most practicable means of supplying the power requirements of the Central Arizona Project and augmenting the Lower Colorado River Basin Development Fund. The Central Arizona Project, consisting of pumping plants, canals, dams and holding reservoirs, is designed to deliver water from Lake Havasu behind Parker Dam on the Colorado River to the Phoenix and Tucson areas. £.3 Participants The participants in the project and their percentages of participation are as follows: Salt River Project1 Los Angeles Dept. of Water & Power1 Arizona Public Service Co.3 Nevada Power Co.4 Tucson Gas & Electric Co. Bureau of Reclamation5 (The only Federal participant) Percentage of Approx. Kilowatts Participation to be Received 21.7 501,000 21.2 490,000 14.0 323,000 11.3 261,000 7.5 173,000 24.3 561,000 'The Salt River Project is Project Manager and Operating Agent for the Navajo Generating Station. 'The Los Angeles Department of Water & Power is Project Manager for the Western Transmission System and Operating Agent for the McCullough Substation of the Western Transmission System. sThe Arizona Public Service Company is Project Manager and Operating Agent for the Southern Transmission System. 4The Nevada Power Company is Operating Agent for the Navajo-McCullough 500-kV line of the Western Transmission System. sSalt River Project, in addition to owning 21.7 percent in its own name, owns 24.3 percent of the generating station and railroad and varying percentages of the features of the transmission systems for the use and benefit of the United States. £.4 Navajo Project Documents and Contracts The basic contractual framework for the project is as follows. (1) The Indenture of Lease, Navajo Units, 1, 2 and 3, among the Navajo Project Cotenants (the participants other than the United States) and the Navajo Tribe, dated as of September 29, 1969. The Indenture of Lease provides the land and land rights for the plantsite, pumping plantsite, rail loading site, and ash disposal area, transmission communication, railroad rights-of-way on Navajo Reservation lands and related rights. The Lease provides for a term of 50 years with an option to extend for an additional 25 years at an annual rental of $90 an acre, subject to adjustment. The annual rental for the plantsite, rail loading site, and ash disposal area is $160,000 a year. The Lease covers air and water pollution; e.g., precipitators must have a design efficiency of 99.5 percent, the Tribe's consent that the 34,100 acre-feet of water from Arizona's Upper Basin allocation of 50,000 acre-feet shall be available for station uses, and preference in employment to qualified Navajos. During the first 35 years of its term the Tribe is not to impose taxes and thereafter it may impose taxes at a rate not in excess of one-half of the amount of property taxes imposed by the State of Arizona. Coverage is provided in the event the State of Arizona is found to be without authority to tax property located on the Reservations. |
