BOARD01799

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

'1 do not take second position to anyone in
or out of Congress in the determination to
protect the rights of the preference users.
Wherever investor-owned utilities hesitate
or neglect to provide for them adequate
transmission facilities or satisfactory ser- I
vice or equitable wheeling rates, I favor
the immediate construction of transmission
lines by the federal government. On no
other pretext should the government get
into the transportation of energy business.
It has no more right to do so than it has
to build railroads.'

Quotes again; my statement continues as a
witness in the hearing, the next paragraph:

'Based on these standards, public funds
are, or should be, made available by Con-
gfess to the Bureau of Reclamation for the
construction of the following transmission
lines and substations:

Glen Canyon-Farmington
Flaming Gorge-Oak Creek
Farmington-Poncha
Gunnison-Montrose
Curecanti-Rangely
Craig-Sinclair, Wyoming.'

On June 13, 1961, Congressman Wayne N.
Aspinall replied to me as follows:

'June 13, 1961

Honorable Edwin C. Johnson
1135 Grant Street
Denver, Colorado

Dear Ed:

I

I received your letter of the 8th on time
together with the original of your statement
for use before the Subcommittee on Appropria-
tions for Public Works. Fifty additional copies
arrived a few days later. Neither arrived in
time, Ed, for me to use before the Committee