BOARD01559

• Board Meeting Date: 2/17/1989
• Description: Meeting Notes & Memos
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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e. Repayment of the costs of the Colorado River Basin
salinity control program

f. Water project development assistance

g. Cumulative environmental mitigation of the CRSP

Annual O. M. & R Component

1. This component would be limited to the true annual O. M. &
R costs of Reclamation and Western for operation of CRSP power
generation and transmission facilities.

2. This component would be adjusted annually according to
pre-defined established procedures.

Power Allocation Components

1. These two components would cover the repayment with
interest of costs allocable. as per the 1956 CRSP Act. to
hydropower purposes.

2. Power customers would have the option of accelerated or
deferred repayment schedules so long as repayment was made
within the time period permitted by the 1956 CRSP Act.

Irriqation Assistance Component

1. This component would cover the repayment without interest
of costs allocable. per the 1956 CRSP Act. to irrigation
purposes which are beyond the irrigators' ability to repay.
Costs to be repaid would include the allocable costs of all
CRSP storage units and participating projects funded by
Congressional appropriations pursuant to the 1956 CRSP Act.

2. This component of the rate would be set without regard to
the percentage apportionment of power revenues among the states
which is set forth in the 1956 CRSP Act.

3. Power customers would have the option of accelerated or
deferred repayment schedules so long as repayment was made
within the time period permitted by the 1956 CRSP Act.

Salinity Control Component

1. This component of the rate would be set per the
requirements of the Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Act.
as amended. It would therefore vary over time as a function of
continuing federal investments in salinity control units.
including units authorized in the future.

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