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<br />- 2 - <br /> <br />participating irrigation projects. Three of the storage <br />units, Glen Canyon, Flaming Gorge, and Curecanti (now Wayne <br />N. Aspinall) produce enormous quantities of hydroelectric power <br />and energy. Revenues fr0m the sales of this electricity to <br />preference power consumers go into the Upper Colorado River Basin <br />Fund (also created by the CRSP Act) to be used for repaying the <br />United States for the costs of the power facilities with interest, <br />operation, maintenance and replacement costs of the storage units <br />with the excess revenues over those costs to be used for repaying <br />the costs of construction of participating irrigation projects that <br />are beyond the capability of the irrigators to repay. <br /> <br />The CRSP Act also provided <br />should be apportioned among the <br /> <br />that these excess power revenues <br />States as follows: <br /> <br />Colorado <br />New Mexico <br />Utah <br />Wyoming <br /> <br />46.0% <br />17.0% <br />21 .5% <br />15.5% <br /> <br />The CRSP Act also stipulated that revenues so apportioned to <br />each State should be used only for the repayment of construction <br />costs of participating projects or parts of such projects in the <br />State to which such revenues are apportioned, and shall not be used <br />in any other State without the consent of the State to which such <br />revenues are apportioned. <br /> <br />The terms of P.L. 485, the CRSP Act, were the result of an <br />accord reached by Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming after <br />several years of protracted and complex negotiations. Utah vigorously <br />supported the Bills that led to the CRSP Act including the apportion- <br />ment of excess Basin Fund revenues described above. <br /> <br />2268 <br />