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Show APPENDIX VI VI-15 JO COLORADO RIVER STORAGE PROJECT accordance with article 27 of the General Regulations for Generation and Sale of Power in Accordance with t he Boulder Canyon Project Adjustment Act; and 2. You authorize me in your behalf to transmit the additional regulation No. 1 to the ifoover power allottees with a request that their views, if any, be transmitted to me within 30 days; and 3. You authorize me in your behalf to transmit the attached general principles and criteria and the additional regulation No. 1 < to the Governors of the basin States, to the Upper Colorado River Commission, to the Senators and Representatives of the basin States, to the Hoover power allottees and to other interested parties; and 4. That iji transmitting the general principles and criteria to the Governors of the basin States, 1 solicit their views on the desirability of legislation to permit use of the Colorado River development fund either to make necessar}T replacement energy purchases pursuant to principle 5 or to reimburse the Upper Colorado fund on a current basis, with the understanding that, if there is general sentiment in favor of such action, the Depart-mont will sponsor or support the required legislation. Floyd E. Dominy. Attachments. Recommended by: Kenneth Holum, Assistant Secretary of the Interior. April 2, 1962. Stewart L. Udall, Secretary of the Interior. Approved: April 2, 1962. U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, Washington, D.C., June IS, 1961. To: Secretary of the Interior. From: Commissioner of Reclamation. • Subject: General principles to govern, and operating criteria for, Glen Canyon Reservoir (Lake Powell) and Lake Mead during the Lake Powell filling period. On February 12, 1960, the Department issued proposed general principles and criteria to govern filling of Glen Canyon Reservoir, the principal storage reservoir of the Colorado River storage project. Accompanying the proposed principles was a memorandum of explanation to the Secretary of the Interior from the Commissioner of Reclamation dated January 18, 1960. In accordance with my recommendations, a series of meetings were held with representatives of the Lower and the Upper Colorado River Basin interests to explain the proposed principles and to receive the reactions thereto. Oral comments and suggestions for modification of the proposed principles were received at meetings held: In Las Vegas, Isev., March 1960. In Los Ansreles. Calif., May 1960. In Boulder City, Nev., June 1960. Written comments from the Upper Colorado River Commission were received by letter dated July 21, 1960, copies of which we under- |