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. . power marketing came from Commissioner of Reclamation Floyd Dominy's testimony before the House Subcommittee of the Committee on A9propriations. Asked why the Bureau had not announced the CRS? power market area when the FPC published its report, Dominy answered that, "Our (USBR) current planning is based on this report"./lS Even with Commissioner Dominy's cautious and studied remarks regarding the CRSP power market area, the regional offices in Boulder City, Nevada (3) and Salt Lake City (4) were divided over the issue of CRSP power allocations. The Region 4 Office, charged with construction of the CRSP and working closely with the water and preference power users in the Upper Basin, resisted Congress' plan to market CRSP power throughout the Colorado River Basin without some clause recapturing it for ultimate use in the Up9~r Basin; this was really a reflection of the political attitudes of their constituents. The Region 3 Office of the Bureau, however, res?onsible essentially to the states of the Lower Basin, felt that Congressional intent would be ignored if CRSP power was allocated only to the states of the Upper Basin./1G Upper Colorado Basin preference power customers had their own agenda relative to how the Secretary of Interior should allocate CRSP power. The power produced on the CRSP was expected, to ~ave,great value to Upper Basin preference users, since many of the preference customers then had power costs in excess of the pro,"osed 6 mill/kwh rate./17 " The Upper Colorado Basin Preference Users Committee, organized to coordinate the efforts 'of Upper Basin preference power customers, recommended that the Secretary adopt the federal transmission system outlined by the USBR Region 4 in 1953;/18 this plan showed no power flowing south from Glen Canyon and no direct interconnection with Hoover and Parker Davis Oams./19 Embracing previous arguments advanced by the Colorado Water Conservation Board (CWCB) and the Colorado Rural Electric Asscciation, the Upper Basin Preference Users Committee aoreed that a federal system would deliver project power over the widest possible area of the Upper Basin, insure the maximum reouired power revenue return, provide system integration to benefit consu~ers through area diversity and decreased plant cost, and lay a foundation for a future power pool of all Basin systems./20 O'i';ersity exchange is best characterized between regions like the pacific Northwest and Southwest, where the Northwest "trades" unn~~ried summer capacity to the Southwest for that reg lon's ~~~s~d winter cs?acity. By utilizing such reg:onal di'!ersity, Je~~ration plants in both regions enjoy greater ~se than thev ~o~l~ otherwlse. While ~he Upper BaSln grouDs wanted to retaln ~ll :~e power or educed on the CRS? for thelr own use, thev re~er:~eless foresaw the advantages of oiversitv exchanae and ::J.::~.-....':rie poo:i~._~ of resoucce.s. :2! - 4 .