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The initial participating projects removed from the CRSP PRS rate-setting years are: Project Fruitland Mesa La Barge San Miguel Sayery-Pot Hook West Divide State Colorado Wyoming Colorado Colorado-Wyoming Colorado The practice of omitting uncertain participating projects from the CRSP PRS rate-setting years was endorsed and expanded by the FERC in its order of October 12, 1982 (See Appendix S), which held that Western could collect only those "...specific, identified costs associated with particular, identified future participating projects and particular, identified separable features of such projects upon a good faith showing as to each project or feature that the Bureau of Reclamation. . . reasonab ly expects . . . to be bu il t . . .". An agreement was concluded between Western and Reclamation on August 26, 1983 (see Appendix T), which formalized the criteria to be used to determine whether a participating project should be inserted into the CRSP PRS inside or outside of the rate- setting years. 6. The Central Utah Participating Project. The CUP was authorized in the CRSP Act of 1956. It is composed of five sections: the Bonneville, Jensen, Uinta, Upalco, and Vernal Units. The Vernal Unit came into service in FY 1966, and the Jensen Unit was operational in FY 1984. The Uinta and Upalco Units are unlikely to be built. The Bonneville Unit is approximately 55 percent complete. Maps of the CUP are shown in Appendix U. The CUP was designed to allow the beneficial use of the Colorado River water allocated to Utah in the Colorado River Compact. The Bonneville Unit will bring M&I water from the Colorado River Basin in eastern Utah through the Wasatch Mountains to the Great Basin's Wasatch Front, and irrigation water to central Utah. The Jensen Unit is devoted to M&I and irrigation use. The Uinta, Upalco, and Vernal Units were designed to transport water largely for irrigation purposes. Because appropriated funds have been limited for construction of the Bonneville Unit, the delays have increased its cost, as inflation and design changes have occurred. Completion of the CUP was originally planned for the mid-1970s. Today, it is anticipated that it will be finished by the late 1990s. The entire CUP was included in the CRSP PRS rate-setting years through FY 1982. The FERC order of October 12, 1982, caused the CUP irrigation blocks that were uncertain of construction, to be moved beyond the rate-setting years in the CRSP PRS. An 21