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<br /> <br /> <br />N <br />W <br />00 <br />N <br /> <br />what Wtk\ dor.:e. :to combat :the ,"'!Vi.VIJ.te u;ti.U.tlf plte/?oMl'L,? <br /> <br />The preference customer froups. involvinr municipalities, REA Occper- <br />2ti ves, irri[aticn districts ,pewer districts, etc., prctestec the <br />private utility proposals. They jcined tc[ether tc ferm the Celeraco <br />RiVer Basin Consumers Pewer, Inc., fer the purpese of cempai[11inf in <br />their behalf fer the construction of an all-Federal transwJssien sys- <br />tem. Thus was kicked eff a private versus public pewer fifht of un- <br />precedented mafTIitude. <br /> <br />(:'I,a:!; 6:tal'd cUd th;;. p!Vi.vat<. u:t-LU:tiu, :tak.l2.? <br /> <br />The principal strateEY of the private utilities was to kill Cenfress- <br />ienal ;,ppropriations and thus prevent the Bureau of ReclaJration frcm <br />censtructinf transmission lines. They initiated e nationwide ~re[ram <br />ef preparanda in late 1960 and ccntinued their efforts until the pass- <br />are ef the Public Works Bill in late September of 1961. <br /> <br />~ hat !tal.> th"" kU,ulj; o! :th,_ Fllb.tic ("Mill P-i..U? <br />u <br /> <br />The final Public Works Bill was passed by the Congress and it contained <br />the full amount of money which the Bureau of Reclamation had sought, and <br />Which the conSUmer-owned utilities had advocated for transmission line <br />construction. <br /> <br />(hat dJ...6pu..tu IJ.lLO-6e {Iter: :the )Oa-6-6..tI1i' cC :the PubLic tOltM I'm? <br /> <br />With the passa[e of the bill, the forces of the consumer-owned utilities <br />thought they had won a complete and decisive victory. It turned out, <br />however, that such was not the case. Apparently political pressures <br />were of such magnitude that the Secretary of the Interior felt it Was <br />incumbent upon him to further negotiate with the private utilities <br />alonr the lines Set out in the Senate Committee report eVen though <br />this report had been negated by the HOuse and Senate Conference <br />Report before passage of the Bill. <br /> <br />'.' <br /> <br />;:~:::~'~r>",;';'" ..,," <br /> <br />.,' <br />