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Show the States of Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, New Mexico, Arizona, and Nevada. At the end of the 1965 summer season a total of 64 customers were under contract, including nonpreference customers. Preference customers' contracts generally guarantee that the Project will supply 1967-68 requirements for 20 years. Contracts with the nonpreference customers are for five years or less and contain provisions for extension of contract and withdrawal of power upon two-year written notice. As of September 30, 1965, a total of 314,580 kw were under contract for the 1967 summer season, and 215,940 kw were under contract for the 1967-68 winter season. Preference customers have recently been offered a supplement to all 20-year contracts which would obligate the Bureau of Reclamation to supply 1970-71 loads. It appears that by 1970 the preference customers will be using about 700,000 kw in the winter season and 950,000 kw in the summer season. E. AUTHORIZED PARTICIPATING PROJECTS Sixteen participating projects are now authorized. Seven are in Colorado, three are in New Mexico, two are in Utah, three are located in Wyoming, and one in both Colorado and Wyoming. Participating projects will consume water of the Upper Colorado River System for irrigation, municipal and industrial purposes, and will participate in the use of revenues in the Basin Fund to help repay the costs of irrigation features beyond the ability of the water users to repay. As noted in the Commission's Eleventh Annual Report the construction of the Pine River Project Extension in Colorado has been indefinitely deferred. It was also recorded in the Thirteenth Annual Report that it had been concluded that the construction of the LaBarge participating project in Wyoming should be indefinitely deferred. Although the Fryingpan-Arkansas Project is not a full-fledged participating project of the Colorado River Storage Project because it does not participate in the use of Basin Fund revenues, it could be called a "limited" participating project in the Upper Basin development plan because it does use water apportioned to the Upper Basin by the Colorado River Compact and to the State of Colorado by the Upper Colorado River Basin Compact. This project was authorized by P. L. 87-590, which was signed by the President August 16, 1962. 82 |