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<br />002nQ9 <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />about 1975, the availability of surplus power would be dependent <br />upon the development of additional thermal-electric production in <br />the Northwest. A mine-site stream plant near C1e E1um, Washington <br />is suggested as a source of long~term low-cost power for California. <br />It is estimated that sale of power and energy in California at $15 <br />per kilowatt-year of dependable capacity and $0.0035 per kilowatt- <br />hour would produce sufficient income to payoff bond issues tota1l1ng <br />$258 million in ten years. <br /> <br />Flood Plain Zoning. <br />The history of zoning in general indicates that some <br />degree of state supervision may be needed to insure adequate <br />regulation of development on lands where there is a flood hazard. <br />Efforts to solve the problem in California have reached a stage <br />where formulation of legislation is being attempted. <br />In the May 1961 newsletter of the Ohio Water Commission <br />it is stated that there has been no opposition to a bill to establish <br />a flood control agency and expand flood plain zoning in Ohio. <br />According to the same publication, a recent report of the Corps of <br />Engineers indicates that the annual increase in flood damage poten- <br />tial due to new building in the United States may be as much as <br />$700 million by 1980, and that expenditure of an addition $11 billion <br />for flood control works by that time would reduce the potential <br />damage by only 29 percent. The necessity for flood plain regulation <br />is obvious, but it would be over optimistic to assume that effective <br />legislation to that end would meet with no oposition in California. <br /> <br />May 19, 1961 <br /> <br />-4- <br />