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<br />t~ <br />~ <br />~ <br />.. <br /> <br />~~, <br /> <br />~ <br />I <br /> <br />( <br /> <br />3 <br /> <br />It is noteworthy that Colorado-Ute itself implicitly accepts <br /> <br />1994 as an appropriate cutoff date for a need analysis. In its <br /> <br />Site Selection Study for the proposed Southwest coal-fired power- <br />plant, Colorado-Ute carried its analysis only to 1994.~ Yet the <br /> <br />Southwest project is behind the Juniper-Cross Mountain Project in <br /> <br />regulatory terms. An environmental impact statement on the South- <br /> <br />west project is not due until later in 1982,~/ and Colorado-ute <br /> <br />has not yet even applied to the Colorado Public Utilities commis- <br /> <br />sion (CPUC) for the required certificate of public convenience and <br /> <br />necessity. <br /> <br />III. Colorado-Ute's Own Plans. <br /> <br />The most striking aspect of Colorado-Ute's own plans for <br /> <br />Juniper-Cross Mountain is simply that the Project is not in <br /> <br />Colorado-Ute's resource plan. Colorado-Ute's 1981 filing with <br />the Western Systems Coordinating Council (WSCC), submitted on <br /> <br />April 1, 1981 to the Department of Energy (DOE) as Form ERA-411, <br /> <br />shows 1279 Mw of coal additions to Colorado-Ute's system in 1982- <br /> <br />90, but no Juniper-Cross Mountain project.lO/ The "Need for Power <br /> <br />and Energy Resources" section of the Southwest Project Site <br /> <br />Selection study does not show the Juniper-Cross Mountain Project <br /> <br />through 1994.11/ More recently, a tabulation of Colorado-Ute's <br /> <br />planned or proposed future resources through 1995 does not show the <br />Juniper-Cross Mountain Project among the 2241 Mw listed (all for <br />operation by 1994).12/ <br /> <br />Of course, Colorado-Ute's exclusion of Juniper-Cross Mountain <br /> <br />from its own resource plans does not automatically mean the Project is <br />