WSP10526

• File Number: 8210.110.60
• Description: Colorado River Water Users Association
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Date: 12/6/1962
• Author: CRWUA
• Title: Proceedings of the 19th Annual Conference
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Annual Report

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the development prog~am may stretch over s~veral decades,

Every major structure on the Co10radoi River up to the present time has
been Federally constructed, and all operatio!J.s have been fully coordinated to
realize the maximum pos sible benefits. Thete has been no major fault with
these operations. .

It might be presum,ed that, with the iml?ortance of maximum use of the
available water supply looming ever larger as the needs multiply, integrated
comprehensive development would continue. ; This comprehensive all-Federal
development would permit the maximum retu~nfrom power revenues to finance
such development. ! .
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The next logical step in the developmerit and utilization of the river, now
that Glen Canyon Dam will offer major regul~tory and silt control benefits above
Lee Ferry, is the planning for use of the river between Glen Canyon and Lake
Mead. In this area and excluding Grand Canyon National Park, the two feasIble
sites are Marble Canyon, just above the confluence of the Little Colorado- with
the main stream, and Bridge Canyon, at the readwaters of Lake Mead.

To fully utilize the river's resources, 60th of these structures should be
built. They have been planned to fit into the total program and are entirely
logical, feasible, and eminently desirable. .

However, the Arizona Power Authority, an official body of the State of
Arizona is seeking a Federal Power Commission license to develop the Marble
Cap-yon lite. The State power group wants tc! avail itself of a lite which is
madefeaaible only by the upltream ctons'truetionof'Olen ,Canyon Dam, and to
ruerve all the benefits therefrom for itl exqludve 'IlS8. It would there1;ly Ion
for thil site the advantagu of coordinated co~prehenlive development and
would place on the river an organizationwhic.jh haa, as itl firat interelt, the
production of power rather than the un of the water for other prior purposel.
At the lame time, it wO'Il1d take away from the river's "calh register" an im-
portant contributor which would help in the financing of facilitiea neceuary to
fuller water utilization.

Secretary Udall hal filed a vigoroul pr:otest with. the Federal Power
Commiuion against granting of this licenn ~or qevelopment of the Marble
Canyon site. i

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These are some of the important problems to which the Department is
devoting consIderable effort, as we move to meet our responsibilitiel to the
people of thiB area in the years ahead.

You can be sure that we shall seek your advice and counsel on these.
matters--as well as of your representatives ~nthe Congress--in the formulation
of resource development plans which so deepry involve the future of your states.
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I can assure you that we not only want tour help and guidance, but your
support and understanding as well for the entire reclamation program.

Resource development programs do not only be.nefit that state region in
which. they are located. These programs are a national investment--and:in-
vestment in the future of our Nation. We need to tell this story whenever and