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38 OOLORADO RIVER STORAGE PROJEOT Principles To Govern, and Operating Oriteria for GI.en Oanyon Reser- voir (Lake Powell)! and Lake Mead During the Lake Powell Filling Period," and of a s~t of tahular forms illustrating computations asso- Qiatedwith the filling eriteria, has been received. Your letter requests comments on additional regulation No. 1. That regulation is, of eourse, a byproduct of the filling criteria. Those criteria do not proVide sufficient basis for a responsible evaluation of their effect upon Hoover, Davis, an,d Parker interests. Questions raised in my August 3, 1961, letter to Senator Hayden, a copy of which we understand has been furnished Secretary Udall, remain unanswered. Oonsequently, w~ must decline to comment upon additional regula- tion No.1 and continue to urge discussion of the matters raised first in the Bureau's Los Ahgeles meeting of April 20, 1961, and subsequently in my letter to Senhtor Hayden. Sincerely, , ARIZONA POWER AUTHORITY, O. A. OALHOUN, Ohairman. OALIFORNIA ELECTRIC POWER Co., San Bernardino, Oal~f., May 3, 1962. Hon. FLOYD E. DO/-UNY, . Oommi8sioner qf th~ Bureau oj Reclamation, Department oj the Irderior , Washington, D. O. DEAR MR. DOMINY. We have reeeived your letter of April 4, trans- mitting copy of "General Principles To Govern, and Operating Oriteria for Glen Canyon Reservoir (Lake Powell) and Lake Mead During the Lake Powell Filling Period," and additional regulation No.1 concerning the paying back of electrical energy costs after June 1, 1987, ifthesecosts:are incurred while filling Lake Powell. You have asked for Our comments on this additional regulation. We would first desire to say that we feel the additional regulation is unfair to the Hoover contractors by forcing them to pay for a power loss caused by the ;filling of Lake Powell.. This cost should be paid for by the upper basin States, who will receive the benefits from Glen Oanyon Dam. : If, however, the Hoover contraetors must stand the cost, we prefer to see the funds r~paid after 1987, but the moneys used should be repaid without interest. Even though your letter indicates that "General Prineiples To Govern, and Operating Oriteria for Glen Oanyon Reservoir and Lake Mead During the Lake Powell Filling Period" has been approved by the Secretary as of April 2, 1962, we desire to inform you that we still feel that Hoover allottees are being-discriminated against by allowing Lake Mead to drop to 1416 million acre-feet during the filling of Lake Powell to its highe~t elevation, rather than 17 million acre-feet whieh is surface storage you agree to maintain in Lake Mead after Lake Powell is filled. . This low elevation water eon tent will decrease our kilowatt capacity and could seriousl~ decrease the energy available to each contractor. Also under these general principles, if an allowanee. is made by delivering energy to an affected Hoover contractor, we desire that such energy be delivered at times needed, as determined by the eontractor. Very truly yours, W. T. JOHNSON.