Municipal and Industrial System, Bonneville Unit, Central Utah Project, Utah: correspondence and documents, 1979

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rr-about the role of :^^ : !• ^:'vfC Jn summarylSthe s i z e ^nd%os^;o^th^iIUPjiforces considerable excessQ .;."JjCf^- . : ~;--.w:-:-.;.' '•••<\^ ' - : ' Y ^ ' ' ~**r&\>r t'+li *-,v-- ^5,'- ••'•>?• 2.X+- *'.>; ' . : • • • ; : • ; - . " . - • • , . . • • • . - • .. : '. -jji, ••..-..: power . re v e n u e * ; ^ ^ to b e Pa i d f';|f$S for by these e l e c ^ in the revenues 7 r, 5, down t^ Tl&egai ' ^ must be raised and ^ y e n : ^ ^ t h e r s ^ not yet been .^ : - • : • • • ' . : ^ ^ * . ^ * : y i ' ^ - : ^ : •'. 'Vy'•.'.-. a u t h o r i z e d ^ Congressfbut^ye h o t ' e ^ Tne result ^ is thatWmJchliigiwr^lectric^ *'*&? states including Utah.' In i f feet';.,this nteans that Utah gets! no subsidy from :^ the CRSP. l ^V wU^ payJ^r^fti^1 I^Jioii^^nSP-'pdwer:Ar«t»i;t-1har?!: i t will get in ; v ? subs idy' from,::CRSP;; revenues ^i^t^.^'^y^-V.^V'-^''^^' •'.- .V'V.':v--.'; '-;' ;; •'. .-'v"^- •'••;"•.' '/^M'^ As the ^Proi>o^ed 'Power ;Rete Adjustment" documents :$ay$ (p««»l):.-.- > y*; .y;^;{f ^iiHAs^wni be noted, ^^he contrd? irig factor at the cri tical point "'Vv":' . . ^ s Vthe ^amount needed by '"the-State of Utah [for the CUP]. In order ;#£&£ f o r a partficipatihg project In any'sUite to receive the assistance need-• :v> ed,-there must be a sufficieht^amouftt in'the Basfn Fund for al1 states vy •; to ^receive the percentages ^of the total -specified In the law. Meeting v-'{J~- such requirements'for.a particular s t a t e d this case Utah] will provide .- funds to other states in excess of their needs based on the required as-^ sistaTice^ to ^presently authorized paf t i c ! pa ting projects bv those states.1 1 _.v The CUP?4s;sVxostly that i f ^ B ^ f i n a n c e d as proposed out of the CRSP v^ r: funds, Utah ^U^|take;if0 percent of: the ;fu^ds tentatively committed to Upper Basin states;for-author!zed^andUnauthorized %ut proposed participating irriga- : tion projects.; :Thls is almosttwlce Utahfs share.'-.-- fhus:4nore funds must be raised and allocated to other states to bring Utah's share down to 21.5 percent. This requVresah>ddItional $6^,000,000 to be raised via increased CRSP el.ee-t r i e r a t e s ^ T * a r ^ to subsidize the CUP,* : not only imi^^ an extra $6^,000,000 so as -^ to keep aH:<the states within the legal proportions. This means that almost ..: ^This figure is higher than that shown in the above Table. The Table data comes from the Bureau of Reclamation. This figure comes from the Western Area Power Administration. ' ut«»t!UM.M.wmiinm?HMW - 3 - * /'.:.'.. -; ' •••[.'