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I MR. NELSON: MR. STAPLETON: MR. BARKLEY: I the 0urcuu of Rcclamation, both at the regional level and in the Washington office. Initial phases of the problems involved have been re- ceiving much attention and meetings have been held by Bureau officials with prospective cus- tomers, both preference and private utility groups, and with associations in the several states. Many important factors have to be con- sidered as these matters progress. The Bureau is giving consideration to the views of all parties, and a market area decision will be made as soon as possible. Your letter also briefly discusses the transmission system studies which also are in progress. These studies are being made under various assumptions of loads and areas and the data for any particular studies, such as the July 10, 1959 one, and the so-called Phoenix study to which you referred, should not be con- sidered as fixing a market area or the amounts of power which will be available in any portion of the river basin. Sincerely yours, /s/ Fred G. Aandahl Assistant Secretary of the Interior' further discussion on the re- Is there any port?" "What action, sir, is needed?" "I would think the appropriate action would be to approve the report and with considerable thanks to the members of the power committee who worked long and hard in giving us a comprehensive report at this time." "Mr. Chairman, may I add just one word? I don't think, in this particular instance, the In- vestigation Commission as such should be given too much credit. After all, the burden of this work has fallen on the committee members that were named and in addition to those, the four listed on the second page of the report who were advis- ors to that committee. They've done, certainly, yeoman service for this Board. The Investigation Commission as a Commission have met with them, of course, in discussion of these problems but the Commission itself did not get into the many