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<br />"C') <br />, . '~:^, -' <br />'-It <br /> <br />j) <br />.'4~'- - < <br />.'.' , .~ <br />,:. <br /> <br />UNITED STATES <br />DEPARTMENTal the INTERIOR <br /> <br />~.~ '. >\ - _" '..l ~ " .:..., <br />-:/~~,~ j: \QtL <br />* * * * * * * * * * * * * -K~W.tc-~ * * *news release <br />. . 'jl.o<...._;" <br />"0')' <br />\., ,~ ' <br />.,.1"1'.1\ .. 'I <br />BUREAU OF RECLAMATION ~,~lr: " Peterson - Interior 4662 <br /> <br />For Release to AM's, APRIL 4, 1962 <br /> <br />FILUNG CRITERIA FOR LAKE POWELL (GLEN CANYON RESERVOIR) ANNOUNCED <br /> <br />Principles and criteria governing operation of the Colorado River during the <br /> <br />filling of Lake Powell, the new reservoir which will be created by construction of <br /> <br />Glen Canyon Dam in northern Arizona, were announced today by Secretary of the <br /> <br />Interior Stewart L. Udall. <br /> <br />The Glen Canyon Dam, a key structure of the Colorado River Storage Project, is <br /> <br />now under construction and storage of water is expected to start next year. Lake <br />';-~j <br /> <br />,-,,0'::'>5, <br /> <br />Powell will have a capacity of 28,040,000 acre-feet, only about a million acre- <br /> <br />feet less than Lake Mead, the reservoir created by construction of Hoover Dam <br /> <br />downstream on the Colorado from Glen Canyon Dam. Lake Mead is the largest <br /> <br />artificial lake in the Western Hemisphere. <br /> <br />Secretary Udall said the major departure from the original filling criteria <br />proposal submitted to Basin States for comment in February 1960, is an expansion <br />of Principle 5, which provides for fU1ure reimbursement to the Upper Colorado River <br />Basin Fund of any dollars actually expended from the fund to make an allowance for <br />reduction in firm power at Hoover caused by filling of Upper Basin reservoirs. <br /> <br />The filling criteria are the third in a series of policy determinations by <br />Secretary Udall in anticipation of meeting the rperationsl needs of the Colorado <br />River Storage Project. On February 20, he announced the results of negotiations <br />with the private utilities on transmission and interconnection proposals. On <br />March 9, the marketing criteria for CRSP power were announced. <br /> <br />The effect of these three decisions is to eXpedite and enhance comprehensive <br />water-resource development in the Upper Colorado River Basin, Secretary Udall said. <br /> <br />Under the power transmission and msrketing programs, the preference <br />customers are fully protected while the Basin Fund from which the participating <br />water use projects are financed is benefited to the extent of $77,000,000 as <br />