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D. Revision of Proposed Rate. After the consultation and comment period and review of oral and written comments, Western may revise the proposed rate. If Western's Administrator determines that further public comment on any revised proposed rate should be invited, a second consultation and comment period of a least 30 days will be initiated, and one or more additional public meetings may be convened. E. Decision on Pro osed or Revised Pro osed Rate. Following the end of the consultation and comment period(s , the Administrator may develop a provisional firm power rate, which, with the concurrence of the Deputy Secretary, would be confirmed, approved, and placed in effect on an interim basis. The decision, and an explanation of the principal factors leading to the decision, will be announced to the public in a Federal Register notice. Western proposes to place a provisional rate in effect on October 1, 1990. F. Final Decision on the Rate Adjustment. The Deputy Secretary will promptly submit all the information concerning the provisional rate to FERC and request approval of the provisional rate for a 5-year period. FERC will then confirm and approve on a final basis, remand to Western for further study, or disapprove the provisional rate. III. DESCRIPTION OF POWER FACILITIES The Integrated Projects consist of CRSP, RGP and Collbran. The projects were integrated for marketing and rate-making purposes on October I, 1987. The goals of integration were to increase marketable resources, simplify contract and rate development and project administration, assure repayment of costs, and create a common rate. The projects maintain their individual financial integrity for financial accounting and repayment purposes, but their revenue requirements are integrated in one PRS for rate making. A. Colorado River Storage Project. CRSP was authorized by the Colorado River Storage Project Act, ch. 203, 70 Stat. lOS, on April II, 1956. CRSP's major responsibility is to permit the consumptive use of the Colorado River water allocated to the Upper Colorado River Basin by the Colorado River Compact of 1922, while assuring delivery of Colorado River water allocated to the Lower Colorado River Basin. CRSP's major purposes are to store water for irrigation, flood control, municipal and industrial (M&I) water use, and provide hydroelectric power. Water use for recreational purposes is secondary. Hydroelectric power generation maximizes the value of the resource. CRSP is an "ultimate deyelopment" project, designed to assure the availability of water and repayment of construction investment for its authorized irrigation projects, called participating projects, on the Colorado River and its tributaries. The CRSP units' participating projects are paid for by the water users and by funds "apportioned" from CRSP power revenues. 3