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<br />~:;JI~ <br /> <br />Hayden, Colorado. This is one of the major <br />transmission line contracts awarded by the <br />Bureau of Reclamation and will provide a key <br />interconnecting link among the three major <br />power-producing units of the Colorado River <br />Storage Project--Glen Canyon, Flaming Gorge, <br />and Curecanti. On June 22, the largest trans- <br />mission contract in the history of the Bureau <br />of Reclamation --$12,930.330-- was awarded to <br />the Ets-Hoken & Galvan, Inc., of San Francisco, <br />California, for construction of the 240-mile- <br />long, 345-kv line between Glen Canyon and <br />Pinnacle Peak near Phoenix, Arizona. This <br />345-kv line will be the highest voltage trans- <br />mission line ever constructed by the Bureau of <br />Reclamation. Responsibility for construction <br />and operation and maintenance of the 117 miles <br />of line from Flagstaff to pinnacle Peak has <br />been transferred to the Region 3 office of the <br />Bureau of Reclamation, headquartered at Boulder <br />City, Nevada. Construction of the remaining <br />l23-mile segment from Glen Canyon to Flagstaff <br />will be handled by the Glen Canyon unit Office <br />at Page, Arizona. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />During the past several weeks we have <br />been engaged in the negotiation of interchange <br />and wheeling contracts with both the Colorado- <br />Ute and Salt River Project organizations for <br />transmitting Hayden steamplant power over the <br />Storage Project power lines to Colorado-Ute <br />customers and, through exchange at Glen Canyon, <br />to the Salt River Project customers. Last <br />week, these contracts were signed. Through <br />these contracts, very significant savings will <br />be achieved, with commensurate increase in the <br />revenues accruing to the Basin Fund. The ex- <br />change of power between Hayden and Glen Canyon <br />provided for by these contracts results in <br />the considerable savings (1) because of the <br />elimination of the necessity of building, at a <br />later date, certain additional lines which <br />would otherwise be required to transmit Stor- <br />age Unit power ,. and (2) because of the reduc- <br />tion in transmission line losses by greatly <br />shortening the distances that Storage Unit <br />power would,have to be carried. Also, the <br /> <br />I <br />