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I I MR. JENNINGS: MR. SPARKS: near future because power will start coming on the line about two years from now. If anything, we are already behind schedule in the construc- tion of this transmission system. Mr. Jennings has already said that the initial contract was rejected. I don't know the reason. Was the price too high, Bob?" "Yes, that's part of it. They thought they would make it more inviting for contractors by including a larger stretch. That same section will be readvertised and they will ask for new bids including the longer reaches." "This is a tremendous undertaking, as you can well appreciate, when you are bringing trans- mission lines from Glen Canyon, Arizona, through the rugged Colorado River country into the Curecanti, and from the Flaming Gorge country into Oak Creek. It is not only a tremendous undertaking but it is tremendously expensive. We trust the next bids will be more successful so that immediate construction can be started because we are already losing time in that respect. The only other thing is an old familiar - I won't say 'friend' - it's an old familiar sub- ject and that's the Glen Canyon filling criteria, It's been a matter of tremendous concern to both the Lower and Upper Basins and I cannot report any success in negotiations to date, the tri- party negotiations between the Lower Basin and the Upper Basin and the United States. The pro- posed criteria has not been acceptable, at least to the state of Colorado, and I think I can also speak for the other Upper Basin states. The criteria is not acceptable. It seems that we have explored this from an engineering angle from every way that we know how, in every direction. We have voluminous studies running into the hundreds; studies of great magnitude which have consumed thousands of man-hours. We know the subject. We don't know the answer. But in substance, the unreleased proposal by the Department of the Interior