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<br />........~. <br /> <br />NR. SPARKS: <br /> <br />!-lR. STAPLETON: <br /> <br />GOVERNOR JOHNSON: <br /> <br />have deleted, at the moment anyway, the <br />Bridge Canyon project and if this is done <br />and stays done, what does the Bureau do to <br />make the benefit ratio come out to the fact <br />that they can go on with the overall project? <br />l'1hat do they do on that, Larry?" <br /> <br />I <br /> <br />"The Bureau has been asked that question <br />before and I don't think it has provided an <br />answer as yet. <br /> <br />This project as originally conceived <br />embodied the construction of both Marble and <br />Bridge canyon Dams. Bridge Canyon is vital <br />to finance importations. The revenues from <br />Bridge Canyon, we think, go to the heart of <br />the outside importations. Bridge Canyon is <br />important to us as well as to the Lower <br />Basin. <br /> <br />Another factor of Bridge Canyon is that <br />with Bridge canyon on the river the entire <br />burden of river regulation no longer falls <br />upon Glen Canyon. l.re could produce more peak- <br />ing power at Glen Canyon. Glen Canyon will <br />not be called upon to regulate the river be- <br />bleen it and Lake Z,lead. Bridge Canyon is an <br />extremely important structure to the entire <br />project, not only to the Upper but to the <br />Lower Basin as well." <br /> <br />.. Senator Johnson." <br /> <br />"Mr. Chairman, I \"ant to speak on the <br />point as to when this shortage is going to <br />occur in the Upper Basin. <br /> <br />The point I want to m~,e, f1r. Chairman, <br />is that that shortage is of today. It' s not <br />1990 or any future time; it's of today. <br />There is a shortage in the Upper Basin in this <br />ten-year cycle. In the mathematics in the <br />schedules that I have made here, I took into <br />consideration the virgin flow of the river <br />and then I worked out a table on the percent- <br />age ratio. Now a lot of folks get mixed up <br /> <br />I <br />