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<br />L4.5L <br /> <br />that some of those lines have some yellow tape <br />at the beginning and end of the lines. That <br />yellow tape is to indicate that those lines, as <br />such, are not required for the transmission of <br />Storage Project power, but that those are lines <br />which the investor utilities propose to build <br />as part of their own systems. The black, again, <br />is the portion which the federal government will <br />build. Now that portion in black is not in con- <br />troversy. The controversy developed between the <br />other portions of the two maps as shown. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />I would like to briefly review the events <br />which have led up to the present situation. In <br />1956 Congress enacted a law which we call Public <br />Law 485, the Colorado River Storage Project Act. <br />The passage of that act culminated many years of <br />intensive efforts on the part of the people of <br />the Upper Basin and culminated over fifty years <br />of intensive engineering investigations. That <br />act passed by a very small majority in the United <br />States Congress and over great opposition. At <br />that time people of the Upper Basin states, and <br />their official representatives, were firmly united <br />in the passage of that act. Had they not been so <br />we would not have the act \n existence today. And <br />the situation that faces us today is that there is <br />now a division in the Upper Basin states pertain- <br />ing to the construction of these transmission <br />lines. A division to such an extent that the in- <br />vestor utility companies of this Upper Basin and <br />adjacent areas have opposed in the United States <br />Congress the proposed appropriations for the con- <br />tinuation of the construction of the various <br />project facilities. That opposition has been <br />carried over and it has been expressed also by <br />a division of opinion among the official repre- <br />sentatives of these four states. The situation <br />today, therefore, is critical as far as our proj- <br />ects are concerned in that these lines must be <br />under construction almost immediately if we are <br />to get the revenue that will be derived from the <br />generators at the various projects. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />In Public Law 485 the Congress said, in Sec- <br />tion 7: <br />