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<br />;;:-eady to go ahead with pur.dy power projects that in any way doesn't <br />ill.t.eTerer.c with the use of ',:v~J.te1: for .h~1"igat.ion? <br /> <br />" <br />. <br /> <br />MR. SMITH; Yes, most emphatically I do, and I <br />think thIs org'mization can do a great deal to promote the early construction <br />of such projects on the Lower River, and should proceed at once to do so, <br />,,;nd do ,11 it can to insure and promote the early construction of plants <br />on the river solely for the development of power. <br /> <br />... <br /> <br />MR.ROLLINS~ Mr. rhairman, I would like to have a <br />member of the California delegation cornment on the Items from 9 to 12, <br />inclusive, in the summary of the California report. <br /> <br />MR. MATTHEW: <br />when we get to them. <br /> <br />We'll cover the whole California comments <br /> <br />CHAIRMAN: I'd like to ask another question ~,,,that is, <br />would an appropriation of water, or !he development of water for power <br />'lpon the river in any way hke a priority over us --fix the amount of flow <br />thlt should go over the dam; that is, building of these "'-would it make <br />an appropriation that would interfere with use for irrigation? <br /> <br />SECRETARY; No, sir; the compact and Project '''ct <br />both malte the power use secondary to domestic and irrigation Uses. <br /> <br />MR. SNOW~ Once a project ha.d been buH t, it <br />certainly would be served, wouldn't it? <br /> <br />SECRETARY: For example, tal<:e the power USes at <br />Boulder: as long as there's plenty of water in the River, Boulder <br />discharges water downstream without mtfch regard to irrigation needs, but <br />in the future, when the Lower Basin water is fully put to use for jrrigation, <br />it will be irrigation that will control the discharge, and not power, so that <br />power will have tc become subordinate, as time goes on, to the demand <br />for irrigation and domestic nSeS. That's in the compact, and the Project <br />Act requires that. <br /> <br />rHAIRMAN~ <br />the Government for a specific <br />the end of 50 years? <br /> <br />Isn't it a fact that a 50-year contract with <br />amount of firm power will be binding until <br /> <br />SEC'RETARY: No, sir> Mr. Elder has made a study <br />of the subject and I think he will be clear that as the 50 years go on there <br />will be a decline of power production, because of the nec8sity of releasing <br />,water for irrigation when it is n"t needed to make power. <br /> <br />MR. ELDER: <br /> <br />That's correct; in money as well as power. <br /> <br />-43- <br />