BOARD01799

• Board Meeting Date: 9/8/1961
• Description: Minutes and Resolution
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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Also I have attended conferences with Mr.
Patterson of the Public Service Company of Colo-
rado and Mr. Kuiper, in Mr. Kuiper's office,
which were held for the purpose of clarifying
data submitted by the utilities to the State
Board.

Early in July, 1961, I met with Howard E.
Scott, Manager, Colorado Rural Electric Associa-
tion, and Leslie M. Alexander, Assistant General
Manager of the Salt River Project of Phoenix,
Arizona, in Mr. Scott's office for a full and
frank discussion of the whole controversy. Mr.
Alexander submitted some very interesting charts.
He contended also that a provision of Public Law
485 limited the activities of private utility
distribution of storage project energy. Mr.
Sparks advised me later that he entertained no
such interpretation of Public Law No. 485.

I might add here that I studied very care-
fully the charts tha t Mr. Alexander presented to
me and they throw considerable light on the
whole subject on which I was dealing.

On June 8, 1961, I prepared a statement in
the form of testimony before the Public Works
Subcommittee of the House Committee on Appropria-
tions in which I stated among other things:

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'In my opinion, while the wheeling charges
of the Public Service Company of Colorado
and Pacific Power and Light of Wyoming are
fair and equitable, this cannot be said of
the Wheeling charges of Arizona Public Ser-
,vice,New Mexico Public Service and Utah
Power and Light. Further negotiations
should be undertaken between the Bureau and
these three companies to develop a combina-
tion system which would serve the areas in
their respective states at a more reason-
able combined system cost.'

Here is another quote from my June 8th
testimony: