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<br />MR. SPARKS: It sounds like a real Rube Goldburg operation. The Depart- <br />ment of Energy will be running the power plant at Curecanti, for ,in- <br />stance, and the Bureau of Reclamation will be running the water. <br /> <br />MR. CRANDALL: They will market what is produced. But the decision <br />about movement of water and what is generated remains with Reclamation. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />MR. FETCHER: As I understand it, you are still responsible for the <br />generation of power. <br /> <br />MR. CRANDALL: <br /> <br />Ye~, Mr. Fetcher, and the management of the water resource. <br /> <br />MR. ROBBINS: <br />is in need of <br />to produce it <br /> <br />How does the interface work if the Department of Energy <br />hydropower and you, for some other reason, are reluctant <br />by releasing water. <br /> <br />MR. CRANDALL: At least in storage projects, the Act provides for the <br />purchase of firming energy so they can purchase on the open: market to ' <br />make up the difference. <br /> <br />MR. ROBBINS: ' The Department of Energy will do that purchasing? <br /> <br />MR. CRANDALL: Yes. The accounting will all be through the Basin Fund. <br />So I think the important point to watch is the cost and efficiency w~th <br />which these two entities now function so there is not an adverse cost <br />impact on the Basin Fund. <br /> <br />MR. ROBBINS: And there is nothing unclear then about whether the <br />Department of Energy will have author'ity to require the Bureau to release <br />water for some power purpose? <br /> <br />MR. CRANDALL: That is right. Our plan is to have a man in Montrose <br />that will have the say on generation, which is the movement of water. <br />The difficulty comes because the plants ar~ operated under a supervisory <br />control central headquarters. That same supervisory system operates <br />the transmission, and SO there has to be a very close interaction. I <br />think we 'are very positive on that. <br /> <br />MR. SPARKS: I think the Board and the audience know that the power <br />operation center at Montrose is the key center for the entire ColoradO <br />River Basin. That center employs a hundred or, so people? <br /> <br />MR. CRANDALL: Yes. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />MR. SPARKS: Whose employees will they be, the Bureau's or Department <br />of En'ergy' s? <br /> <br />MR. CRANDALL: The operation center, the physical plant and the bulk <br />of the people that are there now, will be transferred to the Department <br /> <br />-12- <br />