<br />OOLORADO RIVER STORAGEI PROJECT
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<br />The analysis also established certain key points of time and amount of required
<br />irrigation assistance against which to compare the effect on the storage project of
<br />the utilities proposal for transmission Une construction and wheeling of power..
<br />The construction schedule of the Vernal unit, central Utah project, establishes
<br />the year 2015 at which time an amount of $'22,647,000 would be required ,for
<br />distribution among the States for assisting the repayment of irrigation costs of
<br />the participating proje,eta. The construction schedule for the Seedskadee project
<br />establishes the yeaT 2027 and the amount of $283,078,000; the last block of the
<br />central Utah project establishes the year 2049 and the amounts of $426,151,000
<br />as required irrigation ,assistance for presently authorized partioipating projects
<br />and $952,234,000 as the total available assistance. Table 1 hereof shows the
<br />key points both as to t~me and required assistance.
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<br />TABLE 1
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<br /> (1) (2) (3) (4)
<br /> Yardstick
<br /> s);l~~' Utility Util1ty Yardstick
<br /> proposal proposal system
<br /> analysis
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<br />Rate for tlnn energy l______..________MilIs per killowatt hout__ 6.00 6.00 6.57 6.57
<br />Power allocatiou_ _ _ _ __ _ ___ __ _ _u. _ __ _. _ __~ __~ ____ __ thousands__ $671,906 $549,680 $54.9,680 $671,956
<br />Irrigation allocation ~_ _~___.___~---.h.-------------hh-do---- $90,4-78 $00,478 $00,4-78 $90,478
<br />Yoar of repayment for-
<br />Powor aJlocatloll_ _ ____h_.__.h.____________________h_n_. 2Il07 2012 2Il02 2000
<br />Irrigation allocf\.tioll________hh.n____._____________.___n_ 2011 2017 2Il05 2Il03
<br />Years required for payout of-
<br />1.7-~:~i~~O;R~~~ion::::=:=::.~:=:=:=::::=:=:==:::=:::::::::: 44 49 39 3.7
<br />48 " 42 40
<br />Irrigation nsslstnuco to S~ates:
<br />By fiscal yoar 2016_ _..._.___._______._._.._._._thousands.. $131,326 a.to $239,387 $316,134
<br />By fiscal year 2027.________________n___________n___do____ $445,264 $212,878 $513,695 $727,2$4
<br />By fiscal YOR!' 2010_ ______~__'"_______________.________do____ $952,234 $590,854 $952,234 $1,295,216
<br />Re~i;egs:r~~~: ~~i~~~~:~~~~~~~~:~~~"~~~~~~~~~~_.__do____ $22,647 $22,647 $22,647 $22,647
<br />~; g~~g{ ~~~~: ~~i~::==:::=:::::=::=:=:=::=:::===::::=~6=::= $283,078 $283,078 $283,078 $283,078
<br />$426,101 $4-26,151 $426,151 $426,151
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<br />1 Rates for llontlrm energy malntahwd at 2.50 mills per kilowatt-hour nnd for peaking capacity at $15 per.
<br />kllowatt-year.
<br />3 Tho cost of stornge units allocated to irrIgation,
<br />a Actually thore is n doficiency at this point.
<br />. Based on present construotIon "ohedulos and develoPDlent periods of currently authorized projects.
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<br />UTILITY PROPOSAL
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<br />The background leading,. up to the utility proposal for construction of trans-.
<br />mission lines is discussed on page i of the regional direotor's report. Physical
<br />details of the utility propoaal were presented in the utilities' report of October 1,
<br />1959, whioh is attachment No.1 in the appendix to the regional director's report.
<br />In essence it provides that the utilities would construct all necessary transmission
<br />lines with the exception of; the line or lines between Glen Canyon and Poncha
<br />Junction, Colo.; from Flaming Gorg_e to Vernal, Utah, and to Oak Creek, Colo.;
<br />and from Curecanti to Montrose and Gunnison, Colo. Wheeling rates offered..
<br />by the utilities are covered by the several letters in attachment No.4 of the
<br />appendix to the regional dtrector's report. The wheeling proposals have been
<br />considered as a package add averaged into a composite wheeling rate of 1.33
<br />mills per kilowatt-hour for the total estimated salable energy over the 86-year
<br />period of the study. Computation of this rate is shown on page 33 of the regional
<br />direotor's report.
<br />Subsequently, by letter of November 101 1960, Pacific Power & Light Co.
<br />has modified its proposal by offering a rate of 1 mill per kilowatt-hour for wheeling
<br />from Flaming GorKe to Pilot Butte. This modification would eliminate the
<br />wheeling charge of 1 mill pel' ldlowatt-hour assumed to be paid to Southern Wyo-
<br />ming Utilities Co. The effe~t of this l'eduction on the Bureau's analysis would
<br />be negligible, as it Amounts to about 2 percent of the total wheeling costs.
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