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,"'. r, n ,~....J ..:..; OPERATION AND MAINTEN,\NCE 17 firm Boulder energy for use in the metallurgical processes of Basic Magnesium, Inc" during the operating year 1944-45, was reduced from 1100 million kilowatthours to 921 million kilowatthours. The 179 million kilowatthours thus released, plus 250 million kilowatt- hours additional unused energy released by the District, are to be taken and paid for at the rate for firm energy by the Department of Water and Power of the City of Los Angeles and the Southern California Edison Company, Ltd. The remainder of the District's allotment of firm energy amounting to 157,870,310 kilowatthouro is reserved to supply the resale contracts of the Citizens' Utilities Company' of Kingman, Arizona, and the California Pacific Utilities Company of Needles, California, and for the District's own use in pumping water in the Colorado River aqueduct. The District's use during the 1944-45 year of operation is estimated at approxi- mately 130,000,000 kilowatthours for delivering 40,000 acre feet of water into Lake Mathews. Delivery of power While the District itself does not sell electric power, it is assist- ing in t.he \-vartime power program and has representation on the Pacific Southwest Power Interchange Committee, a voluntary or- ganization of electric utilities cooperating with the War Produc- tion Board in integrating the power resources of this southwestern area. The District's 2.30-kv tran,mission line is the connecting link between the Boul'der and Parker systems. Under three con- tracts with the U. S. Bureau of Reclamation, the transmission capacity of the District's line, in excess of the District's require- ments, is available to the United States for (1) the interchange of Boulder energy, within the District's allotment, with energy gen- erated at hydro-electric plants of the United States on the Colorado River below Boulder Dam (contract of May 29, 1941); (2) the transmission of energy generated at Parker power plant to cu,- tomer~ of the United States connected to the District's lines (con- tract of May 9, 1942) ; and (3) the transmission from Boulder Dam to Parker Dam of Boulder firm enerK\' III lotted to but unused by the District and disposed of for the credit of the District (contract of April 7, 1939). A fourth contract, dated December 1.3, 1~42, grants the United States the right to use certain transformers and other facilities of the District at Gene, Iron Mountain, Eagle Mountain, aud Hayfield. for receiving and d,'livering energy for use of the U. S. Army. I 'J