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<br />- 3 - <br /> <br />In the same manner that the specific apportionments of <br />water use were made in the Upper Colorado River Basin Compact <br />in order to make certain that no State would be able to use more <br />than its legal share, the use of excess power revenues in the <br />Basin Fund was specifically apportioned to make certain that the <br />participating projects would be constructed in legally defined <br />proportions in each State, and that power revenues could not be <br />utilized unfairly by anyone State. <br /> <br />Although there are two Utah 8ills pending before the Congress, <br />as mentioned above, H.R.3408 and S. 1737 (Garn), all <br />references below are to the Owens Bill as reported on July 14th by <br />the Subcommittee on Water and Power Resources of the House Committee <br />on Interior and Insular Affairs. Only major portions of H.R. 3408 <br />of paramount importance to Colorado will be discussed herein. <br /> <br />Section 1 (a) would increase the authorized spending ceiling <br />of section 12 of the CRSP Act of 1956 by an additional $420,000,000, <br />but the expenditures of this amount would be limited solely to the <br />continued construction of the authorized units and projects named in <br />the Act of August 10, 1972, and the projects named in H.R. 3408, which <br />are primarily fish and wildlife mitigation projects most of which are <br />associated with the Central Utah Project. The units and projects <br />named in the Act of August 10, 1972, are the Curecanti (Aspinall), <br />Flaming Gorge, Glen Canyon, and Navajo storage units and the Central <br />Utah Project (with its Bonneville, Jensen, Upalco, and Vernal units), <br />the Emery County, Florida, Hammond, laBarge, lyman, Paonia, <br />Seedskadee, Silt, and Smith Fork participating projects. The <br />four underlined projects are in Colorado. According to the Fiscal <br />Year 1989 ceiling worksheet of the Bureau of Reclamation of these <br />four Colorado projects only the Paonia Project requires a ceiling <br />increase of only $37,978; the Emery' County Project (Utah), Hammond. <br /> <br />2267 <br />