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Show Filling Studies for Storage Units As reported in the Commission's Eleventh and Twelfth Annual Reports, studies of filling procedures for Storage Units made and analyzed by the Upper Basin were submitted to the Secretary of the Interior as Compilation I (Revised) Glen Canyon Reservoir Filling Studies, September, 1959. On January 18, 1960 the Commissioner of Reclamation submitted to the Secretary of the Interior a set of Proposed General Principles to Govern, and Operating Criteria for, Glen Canyon Reservoir and Lake Mead During the Glen Canyon Reservoir Filling Period. Commissioner Dominy summarized events leading to his recommended "General Principles" in his letter of transmittal to the Secretary of the Interior. Secretary Seaton on February 9, 1960 tentatively approved the Bureau's proposal and its recommended program for forwarding the proposal to the engineering groups of both the Upper and Lower Basins for study. During 1960 there were several meetings held among the Department of the Interior engineering representatives, Lower Basin engineers and the Upper Basin Engineering Committee. The Commission, at its meeting in Salt Lake City, July 20, 1960, adopted a position concerning the proposed criteria. That position was transmitted to the Commissioner of Reclamation and was presented in the Eleventh Annual Report of the Commission. The Engineering Committee met on November 21, 1960 to review further studies made by the staff to show the effects in dollars of paying for diminutions in generation at Hoover Dam caused by filling Upper Basin reservoirs. The Bureau of Reclamation Engineers and Upper Basin Engineering Committee also convened in Salt Lake City on January 9, 1961. At this meeting the position of the Upper Basin and its objections to the proposed "General Principles" were described and discussed. Following the change in the Administration of the Federal Government in January 1961 many discussions were held with new officials in the Department of the Interior, officials of the Bureau of Reclamation, of the various States and with Lower Basin Hoover power allottees. At these conferences emphasis was placed on the desirability of eliminating the concept of paragraph 5 of the presently proposed criteria that would require that either electric energy or power revenues derived from the operation of Upper Basin power plants be used for the purpose of making up reductions in generation at Hoover Dam. 19 |