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I I The southwest unit, the timing on that is about 1987. And, hopefully, it will be about in the range of these units up here in the north. It is about 400 megawatts. Our load growth of our rural systems, the past load growth, has been about 15 percent per year for the last 10 years. We are projecting a growth of about just under 12 percent between 1977 and 1987. That seems like a rather high growth, but you have to recognize the fact that western Colorado has a potential growth of even greater than that. We have included in our load projections just a small amount for oil shale. And that is such a questionable thing that even though they are working on it, we don't know exactly what kind of a load that is going to turn out to be. In fact, it may turn out to be a net energy producer for us. So we are looking at it both ways and following it very, very closely--the developments there. . But if that were to take off at a very rapid rate -- and what I am saying is -- getting up to a million barrels of oil per day, that would require a very substantial amount of power, and we have not included that in our projections. At the present time, it looks like for the next probably not exceed about 50,000 barrels a day. Tract c-b is looking at, and since Tract C-a is we are not really looking to serve that. 10 years it will That is basically what out of our service area, That is about all I have. I could take a few minutes here and perhaps try to answer any questions that people may have. MR. KROEGER: Mr. Bugas? DO any members of the Board wish to ask questions of MR. SPARKS: Craig plant. John, you talked about the cost of the scrubbers at the I didn't get whether you said 7 million or 70 million. MR. BUGAS: I said, "$70 million." MR. SPARKS: $70 million: MR. BUGAS: Yes, and the annual operating cost for those scrubbers will be $15 million annually, and they are wet limestone scrubbers, and that is on a half of one percent sulphur coal. Quite frankly, we have moni- toring stations all around Craig and Hayden, and we can't detect any sulphur, because the average sulphur content is a little less than one- half of one percent. Nevertheless, we were ordered to put them on. Now, they use a very substantial amount of water, which is a problem, also. And we can't detect any sulphur. MR. SPARKS: Well, that staggers me a little, because we read much propaganda put out by various organizations that this environmental control is relatively inexpensive. And I doubt that the average American realizes what a tremendous cost is being attached to all these environmental measures. We may get so damned healthy that we can't afford it: -5-