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<br />Given the express language employed by the court <br />with regard to CRSP power, coupled with the fact <br />that a portion of the CRSP resource is marketed <br />within the Ninth Circuit, Western feels compelled <br />to adhere to the 'historic policy of selling <br />Federal power first to preference utilities. <br /> <br />A prominent point advocated by UP&L deals with the <br />concept of widespread use. UP&L maintains that <br />Western's current marketing policy has the effect <br />of creating discrete enclaves of favored <br />utilities, who receive low-cost Federal hydropower <br />to the exclusion of many other cities whose <br />citizens helped pay for the CRSP with tax <br />dollars. On the basis of "widespread use" <br />language found in Federal statutes, as well as <br />fundamental notions of equity, UP&L urges that the <br />benefits of Federal power should be made available <br />to all taxpayers alike. <br /> <br />Western is not presently persuaded by this <br />analysis. Many Federal dollars are spent on <br />purposes that give direct benefits only to a <br />particular group. The use of Federal tax dollars <br />to build and operate public works in the eastern <br />portion of the United States, for example, offers <br />no direct benefit to those who live in the western <br /> <br />33 <br />