WSP10784

• File Number: 8220.200.05.R
• Description: Hoover Dam/Lake Mead/Boulder Canyon Project
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Date: 7/1/1939
• Title: Statement Concerning Negotiations Regarding Boulder Dam Energy Rates
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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contended that present tidewater plante are Sf! ef1'icient as such fl

plant would be snd their costs are higher aIlen the cost of the ideal ste!llll

plent u"ed in the comparisons.

f,:f'ter the Yello>'stone meetinR, time wes allowed for the

represEmtatives of' the serreaal states, 88 well e.s the engineers for

both partiee, to make further studies of the problem of cost, and en
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unsuocel!ls1'u1 ettem.pt was made to reooncile the differences in tund-

8'11entnl aR=ptions between the p,roupe of engineers.

In the meant1me, the Secretary hlId executed contrects with

t'1e Bureau of Power anr1 Light ani! w1th t'1e Metrovol1ten l!ister District

which dil'!pOsed of certain of thl'l questions thnt hed been subjects of

negotiation. '.ehe contract with the Bureau of Por:er end Li~ht provides

that the Bureau will

1) build a third transmission cir~iit;

2) take or pay for (water being made available by the
United Stetes) at secondary retes the f'ollowi!1r,
P~llounte of energyl

19'J1-lP
1940-41
19J,1-42
1942-45

385,000,000 K\'iW
490,000,000 "
595,000,000 ~
700,000,000 "eech year

for pro rata for leeI'! then a full year.

end the Uui';ed stetee e~ees

1) to provide water for generetin" sueh edr11tionnl energy
it' the lime ill available within the teme of' the orip,inal
leMe end the Coloredo River ComPa:Uf

2) to permit the repayment of cost of machinery in the
term of the leeee iust ee.d of rl thin 10 yeers;

;\) r,ive t'1e Bureau 81'! eedr,nor of tee contrects or the
L08 Jiruselee Gat' & Electric Corporation the l.IlIlIlle
""'1.1111 up. ell other contractors;