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Show energy rates' (Section 7, P. L. 485), it will be necessary to coordinate and integrate the operations of the reservoir and power plant at Glen Canyon with the operations at Hoover Dam and other Lower Basin Dams. "The determination by the Secretary of the Interior of the power market area for Colorado River Storage Project power is an essential prerequisite to final decisions by the Secretary pertaining to load centers, transmission voltages, transmission line locations, power rates and other power marketing criteria. "It is the consensus of the Upper Colorado River Commission that at the earliest practicable date the Secretary of the Interior should declare the market area and basic marketing criteria for energy generated by the Storage Units of the Colorado River Storage Project in conformity with the following general principles: "I. MARKET AREA "A. The primary market area to be defined as those regions within economic transmission distance in the Upper Division States: Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming. 4'B. The secondary market area to be defined as those regions within economic transmission distance within: 1. State of Arizona. 2. Those parts of the States of California and Nevada located within the Colorado River drainage basin. "II. BASIC MARKETING CRITERIA "A. Initial preference customers loads in the primary market area to be served to fill 1965 requirements, as determined by the Secretary of the Interior, and subsequently adjusted as defined in II D. "B. Predicated upon the understanding that Lower Basin preference customers in the secondary market area, as defined in I B, have applied to the Secretary of the Interior for substantial blocks of energy from the Colorado River Storage Project, it is recommended that, prior to the need for this energy by Upper Basin preference users, preference customer loads in the secondary market area be served to the extent practicable; provided that the Secretary shall not contract for the sale of energy directly or indirectly to a preference customer in the secondary market area for delivery by resale or exchange to a non-preference customer in the secondary market area. "C. Energy in excess of that in paragraphs II A and II B to be sold to private utilities in the primary market area. "D. At reasonable intervals beginning with January 1, 1964, the 26 |
