BOARD01589

• Board Meeting Date: 1/11/1956
• Description: Minutes
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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Under the plan that had been underway
heretofore, the Bureau of Reclamation
made an allocation of the power credits
which would be ratified by Congress
indirectly. Congress wouldn't even know
they were ratifying power credits, but
when Congress authorized a bill anp back
of the bill there was an agreement that
said credits would go for the repayment
of a project that was authorized by the
Congress, it was the same thing as Congress
authorizing the allocation of power credits
and it would have been binding. Fortunately
the Upper Colorado River Bill with that kind
of arrangement in it was not enacted by the
Congress. The bill that came over to the
House from the Senate does allocate the
power profits of Glen Canyon.

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There is some dispute as to the percentages,
but Colorado's percentage of that allocation
would be someplace between 4 percent and 8
percent. In any event, it is a very low
percentage. As we all know, Colorado pDO-
duces 72 percent of the water that produces
that energy and we ought to have a better
allocation than that given us in that
indirect way. If anybody is going to
allocate the power profits, it ought to be
the Congress and not a Bureau. It ought to
be done directly and not indirectly by the
Congress.

I have been plugging for more than a year
now to give Colorado the same power credits
as the State was allocated water of the
Upper Colorado River. The people who drew
the Compact in which Colorado was allocated
51.75 percent of the water did not allocate
the power and 1 am told that the reason they
did not agree upon allocation of the power
credits at that time was because the Colorado
representatives at the conference where this
matter was negotiated were notlsatisfied to
accept 51.75 percent. I believe that to be