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<br />~~JV <br /> <br />we certaiLly feel grateful for the opportunity to <br />present the picture from the standpoint of the <br />preference users. <br /> <br />I represent the Colorado River Basin Consum- <br />ers Power which is an organization of about 150 I <br />preference users who, under the preference clause, <br />will be the ultimate consumers of the electric <br />energy from the Colorado River Storage Project. <br /> <br />I represent about 150 independent operating <br />power distributing organizations that serve at <br />least l~ million people in the five state area <br />that has been defined as being in the market area <br />by the Secretary of the Interior. We have made <br />careful market studies of the probable uses by <br />those preference customers and find that they <br />will have sufficient requirements so that from <br />inception of the project, they will be able to <br />absorb all of the power that is generated. The <br />ability to do that comes about, a great deal, by <br />reason of Arizona participating in this market- <br />ing area. Arizona has a very high summer usage <br />due to irrigation pumping, air conditioning, and <br />loads of that character, whereas in the Upper <br />Basin states in general we have a marked Decem- <br />ber peak. Arizona can, and expects to, at firm <br />power rates take the excess power from the proj- <br />ect during the early years. Then as requirements <br />increase in the Upper Basin that power will be <br />returned to the Upper Basin. It is thoroughly <br />understood that the Arizona, California and Neva- <br />da parts of the market area will relinquish power <br />down to the level of 240 megawatts in the summer <br />time and about 80 megawatts in the winter time. <br /> <br />As described by the previous speakers, I <br />have no particular objections to their statement <br />regarding the historical events that have taken I <br />place so far in connection with this. They made <br />proposals, a group of five utilities, to provide . <br />a certain part of the transmission system for the <br />project. They did leave for the Bureau of Recla- <br />mation a part, roughly one-third, of the lines <br />which I might, by pointing to their map, indicate <br />where they are. These so-called non-controversial <br />