OCR Text |
Show CHAPTER VI RELEASES FROM HOOVER DAM AND ENERGY DELIVERY TO HOOVER POWER ALLOTTEES (1962-63 to 1974-75) 111 Computed Computed Power Power Generation Generation Operating Releases Absent With Accumulated Year from Actual Power Energy Filling of Filling of Deficiency June 1 - Hoover Dam Generation Delivered to CRSP CRSP as of May 31 (acre-feet) Hoover Dam Allottees Reservoirs Reservoirs June ((M i ions o f k W h )) 1962-63 8,752,000 3,638 3,654 46 1963-64 8,548,000 3,167 3,649 551 1964-65 7,782,000 2,584 3,721 1,680 1965-66 7,658,000 2,708 3,661 4,073 3,148 2,605 1966-67 8,152,000 2,963 3,670 4,079 3,368 3,316 1967-68 7,828,000 2,802 3,617 4,062 3,226 4,152 1968-69 8,014,000 2,944 3,638 4,059 3,367 4,844 1969-70 7,975,000 3,072 3,716 4,068 3,431 5,481 1970-71 8,144,000 3,123 3,652 4,018 3,482 6,033 1971-72 8,157,000 3,148 3,646 4,043 3,565 6,511 1972-73 7,869,000 3,072 3,612 3,979 3,466 7,024 1973-74 8,480,000 3,374 3,542 4,097 3,930 7,191 1974-75 8,653,000 3,426 3,538 4,006 3,895 7,312 Capacity and energy were purchased and delivered to the Hoover power allottees to replace the loss in capacity and energy at Hoover Powerplant due to operation of Lake Mead below 1123. This occurred during the period May 23, 1964, to June 22, 1965. During this period, 1,579,760 kilowattmonths of impairment capacity and 185,605,788 kWh of impairment energy (including losses) were purchased from non-Federal suppliers at a cost of $3,652,256 (paid for by the Upper Colorado River Basin Fund with no provision for reimbursement) and 152,755 kilowattmonths of capacity and 18,075,365 kWh of energy were supplied by the Storage Project. L. Efforts to Change or Terminate Filling Criteria Following the April 2, 1962, approval of the General Principles and Filling Criteria, several bills were sponsored in the 88th Congress by representatives of the Upper Basin States which would relieve the Upper Colorado River Basin Fund from payment for energy deficiencies at Hoover Dam. Those in the 88th Congress were S.2915, H.R.11686 and H.R. 11847. They would have authorized making the monetary allowances from the receipts of the Colorado River Development Fund, which was set up by the 1940 Boulder Canyon Project Adjustment Act to receive $500,000 annually from Hoover Dam power revenues for use in further water resource development in the Basins. No action was taken by the 88th Congress on the bills. The same proposals were introduced in the 89th Congress as H.R.397 on January 5, 1965, and S.935 on February 1, 1965. No action was taken on the bills (see Annual Report, Colorado River Board of California, 1964-65, page 23). In 1968 during the negotiations leading up to the enactment of the Colorado River Basin Project Act dated September 30, 1968, the Upper Basin interests proposed termination of the filling criteria. The criteria were continued. Nevertheless, the efforts to terminate led to Section 502, which provided for reimbursement to |