BOARD00930

• Board Meeting Date: 5/10/1961
• Description: Minutes
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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were undertaken by the companies, by preference
customers and by the Bureau, and the kickoff of
these studies was July 10, (just to refresh your
memory) 1959, and you recall the Bureau came
back with their proposed 345 kv systems. In
October of '59, private companies came out with
their proposals of a transmission system which
was essentially a 230 kv system. During 1960 the
companies then followed up their offer by making
offers of firm wheeling rates as to what it would..
cost for the transmission of power over its lines.
In January of 1960, just to further refresh your
memory, the Bureau advised the companies in-
volved, that their proposal would be evaluated
giving consideration to the following princi-
ples - and I'd like to read those principles
to you so that you will have them in mind.

'1. That the lines must be of sufficient capa-
city to insure delivery of available power.

2. There must be no interference with the
utilities that are on the site, preference
customers, to the extent that they will be
served by federally constructed lines.

3. Backbone lines must provide suitable inte-
gration among other project power facilities
at the time required to meet project objec-
tives and the project then must at all times
be the overriding consideration.

4. Charges made for the delivery of power must
not adversely affect project feasibility
and payoff and particularly must be such as
not to reduce timing or quantity of irriga-
tion assistance.

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5. If the utilities construct the backbone
high-voltage transmission lines they must
accept also the responsibility of providing
transmission for delivery at lower voltages
;to load centers of preference customers to
the same extent as would prevail under a
federally constructed system.'

Now those principles are pretty much the
rules of the game..