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<br />~ <br />00 <br />00' <br />CJ:J <br /> <br />Transmission Facilities--Energy [or pumping desalteu sea <br /> <br /> <br />woter ~o Lake Mead would be supplied by the dual-purpose nuclear <br /> <br />powerplant on the California coast and by inline hydroelectric <br /> <br />powerplants installed at power drops along the conveyance system. <br /> <br />The Federal Government would construct thp transmission system <br /> <br />necessary to serve the pumping plants. <br /> <br />Transmission lines would roughly parallel the conve.Y':'ll1ce <br /> <br />system throughout its length so that power could be furnished to <br /> <br />eDch pumping plant and energy could be recovered from tlw power <br /> <br />drops. Tr<.lnsmission system losses for capacity and energy were <br /> <br />assumed to be 5 percent. <br /> <br />The troIlsmission system would be constructed in three stages. <br /> <br />Project Costs <br /> <br />Dijal-Purpose Nuclear Desalting Plant--The construction and <br /> <br />annual operating costs of the nuclear reactor arc prorated between <br /> <br />the pllrposes of desalting and electric power generation on the <br /> <br />basis of the proportion of the useful heat applied to each process. <br /> <br />All of the desalting cost are Federal costs. The electric power <br /> <br />costs were prorated between that portion of capacity required for <br /> <br />project pumping and the portion of capacity surplus to project <br /> <br />needs. The latter portion of the costs would be non-Federal <br /> <br />costs and are excluded from this analysis. <br /> <br />Estimates provided by the Atomic Energy Conmlission and the <br /> <br />Office of Saline Water are based upon 1966 price levels and <br /> <br />market conditions. <br /> <br />23 <br />