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<br />2436 <br /> <br />Point No.3: <br /> <br />'Overstatement by the Bureau of Utilities' <br />wheeling charges resulting from improper <br />application of the wheeling offers.' <br /> <br />That again is 100% incorrect. We have in our <br />files, and we have reviewed carefully, the ori- <br />ginal wheeling charges made to the Bureau of <br />Reclamation. And if we know how to multiply one <br />mill by one kilowatt hour, we have come up with <br />the same answers that the Bureau came up with. <br />As a matter of fact, under that proposal the <br />Utah Power and Light Company, after having sub- <br />mitted their proposal to the Bureau of Reclama- <br />tion in writing and after then having prepared <br />this evaluation, lowered their wheeling rates. <br />Bear in mind that the application of these wheel- <br />ing rates was taken under advisement with all <br />of these investor utility companies prior to the <br />time the Bureau made a decision upon this all- <br />federal system. They were consulted individually <br />and they were asked if their wheeling charges and <br />the Bureau's interpretation of them was correct. <br />They, in every case, answered they were correct <br />and no controversy arose about those wheeling <br />charges until Secretary Seaton announced that the <br />all-federal system would be approved. At that <br />time, and subsequent to that, allegations have <br />been made that improper wheeling charges have <br />been used. There was no such thing of the sort. <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />You can turn these wheeling charges any way <br />you want to. If you reduce the amount of power <br />that you say you are going to wheel, you of <br />course reduce the amount of the wheeling charge. <br />The Bureau, which is operating this system and <br />constructing the power plant, says that it will <br />need to wheel so much power over certain lines. <br />The utility companies, in effect, has said 'Oh, <br />no you're not: This is what we say you. are going <br />to do'. So it depends entirely upon the amount <br />of energy that you use - that you pass over these <br />lines - as to what figure you come up with. But <br />as I say, in some cases a different figure has <br />now been used by the utility companies, by the <br />Utah Power and Light Company particularly, than <br /> <br />I <br />