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Show APPENDIX VI VI-47 42 COLORADO RIVEK STORAGE PROJECT regulation No. 1, relative to reimbursement of the Upper Colorado River Basin fund from charges for electrical energy to be made at the Hoover powerplant subsequent to June I, 1987, would not appear to be authorized by existing law, but rather to be in conflict therewith. Section 5 of the Boulder Canyon Project Act, to which reference is made in said article 5, does not authorize such regulation.. This section in part reads as follows: After the repayments to the United States of all money advanced with interest' charges shall be on such basis and the revenues derived therefrom shall be kept in a separate fund to be expended within the Colorado River Basin as may hereafter be prescribed by the Congress. The Congress has not taken action up to the present time in this regard excepting in the Boulder Canyon Project Adjustment Act. Section 2 of the Adjustment Act provides in part that all receipts from the project shall be paid into the Colorado River Dam fund and shall be available for the particular matters therein specified, none of which includes reimbursement of the Upper Colorado River Basin fund. In addition, section 7 of the act of April 11, 1956, providing for the Colorado River storage project and participating projects, provides in part that "in the exercise of the authority hereby granted he [the Secretary] shall not affect or interfere with the operation of the provisions of the Colorado River compact, the Upper Colorado River Basin compact, the Boulder Canyon Project Act, the Boulder Canyon Project Adjustment Act, and any contract lawiully entered into under said compacts and acts." Respectfully submitted. James F. Davenport. Comments on June 13, 1961, Memorandum From Commissioner of Reclamation to the Secretary of the Interior Upon receipt of the June 13, 1961, memorandum the Secretary requested the views and comments of various upper and lower basin interests. The following comments were received: U.S. Senate, Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, Albuqu£rquc, N. Mex., August 25, 1961. Hon. Stewart L. Udall, Secretary of the Interior, Department oj the Interior. Dear Mr. Secretary: Thank you for your letter of June 13, 1961, in which you stated that you have received from Commissioner Donriny a firm recommendation concerning the operation of Glen Canyon Dam during the filling period and in which you enclosed a copy of the Commissioner's memorandum and other pertinent data. 1 appreciate very much the opportunity to submit my comments with reference to this extremely important question. 1 will confine my remarks in this letter to those of a general nature, preferring to leave the engineering and hydrologic technicalities to the upper basin engineering committee and the engineers of New Mexico who have been studying this problem for several years. The Commissioner's memorandum of June 13 proposes that upper basin energy or money that would otherwise accrue to the upper basin |
