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<br />15 <br /> <br /> <br />date has been negligible by comparison with' total deliveries. Power <br /> <br />reports show that for 15 months through September 30, 1976, energy <br /> <br />deliveries of 19,815,153 MWh for the Eastern Division included <br /> <br />44,888 MWh for irTigation; the ratio was 0.23 percent. <br /> <br />Repayment periods for the Federal investment in irrigation facilities <br /> <br />are quite different from those for the power investment. The Corps <br /> <br />and Bureau dams were in operation by 1966, except for the dams pro- <br /> <br />jected to be built in the next century as discussed above; and trans- <br /> <br />mission lines and other power facilities were scheduled to be completed <br /> <br />by 1980. The investment allocated and suballocated to power for <br /> <br />these existing faciIities was projected to be repaid with inter- <br /> <br />est by the year 2024 or before. However, most of the irrigation <br /> <br />facilities which the Bureau ultimately expects to build were not <br /> <br />even authorized for construction at the time of our review and are not <br /> <br />projected to ~o into service until various times from 2001 to 2077. <br /> <br />The costs allocated and suballocated to these future irrigation facil- <br /> <br />ities (including costs of existing facilities allocated to that <br /> <br />fut~re-development) are projected in thePRS to be repaid, without <br /> <br />interest, 60 years after the facilities are placed in service or <br /> <br />between'2061 and 2137. The. key.repayment criterion according to the <br /> <br />1974 repayment study was the need to repay the costs allocated to <br /> <br />power by 2024 or before; and power rates high enough to do this were <br /> <br />expected to be more than adequate to meet the subsequent irrigation <br /> <br />repayment requirements. Thus, the ultimate development concept of <br />