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1683 I received an invitation to participate in a conference held in Salt Lake at which the private power companies presented a plan for transmission and marketing of Storage Project power. There, for the first time, we learned that the Bureau had evolved some tentative plans for the marketing of power. The Bur- eau plan generally was this: the Bureau would construct very high voltage lines, 345 KV lines, to certain points. The biggest producer, as you know, of storage power is Glen Canyon on the Arizona-Utah border. That plant will have an installed generating capa- city of 900,000 kilowatts. The tentative Bureau plan involves the construction of these high voltage transmission lines, and I might state that there are no comparable lines that I know of anywhere in the Rocky Mountain west at this time. A 345 KV line south to Phoenix, Arizona; a 345 KV line north to Salt Lake City up to this area; a single,345 KV line north to Utah; and one south to Phoenix, Arizona. Another single 345 KV line west to the Four Corners area, Colorado and New Mexico, in the vicinity of Farmington here, and from that point north- east through Colorado to the Curecanti Proj- ect, again a 345 KV line, and from the Cure- canti east over here to Pueblo. Now that was the basic 345 KV lines that the Bureau proposed." MR. NElBON: MR. SPARKS: "One to Albuquerque too." "Yes, and one on the southeast - I'm sorry - to Albuquerque, another 345 KV line, so that the terminal points of these big lines would be Salt Lake City, Phoenix, Albuquerque and Pueblo. Then from the terminal point at Salt Lake City, smaller lines, 115 KV lines, would be constructed . into Flaming Gorge; from Flaming Gorge on north into Wyoming; and from Flaming Gorge west into Oak Creek, Colorado, and there to hook up with the Colorado-Big Thompson Proj- ect. The Colorado-Big Thompson Project is also hooked in from Poncha Junction so a complete circle would be established between the three power producing projects. I