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The Federal Power Act provides that federal power will be offered for sale to public, municipal and rural electric <br />customers first and then the remaining power, if any, to profit making utilities like investor -owned utilities. All of the CRSP <br />power is now allocated among these "preference" customers. Power revenues pay the bills for reclamation projects in the <br />West. Power also pays for the federal investment in power facilities as well as annual operations and maintenance, <br />interest on the federal investment, and the federal investment in irrigation facilities beyond the ability of irrigators to repay — <br />currently more than 95 percent. In return for a $974 million federal investment in the Upper Basin's CRSP power features, <br />the Treasury will receive more than $5 billion in power revenues: a 500% return on investment. Power revenues also pay <br />for environmental programs like salinity control projects, the Upper Basin Recovery Implementation Program for <br />endangered fish species (RIP), and the Glen Canyon <br />Adaptive Management Program. <br />P Custo <br />CRSP cus- <br />tomers include rural <br />electric associations, <br />generation and trans- <br />mission cooperatives <br />who wholesale to <br />associations, federal <br />facilities, universities, <br />state agencies and <br />Native American Na- <br />tions. CRSP power <br />serves about 50% of <br />the residential and <br />tribally owned busi- <br />ness electrical needs <br />of all of the Native <br />American Nations in <br />these states. Some <br />of the power pro- <br />duced by CRSP facili- <br />ties supplies energy <br />to, among others, the <br />Navajo, Hopi, Sho- <br />shone, Ute and <br />Apache Nations. <br />F <br />=I <br />8 <br />