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Slide IV-B Marketing of Project Use Power prior to Need The marketing of the project use power prior to need by the Bureau of Recla- mation could be accomplished in several ways. It could be sold seasonally as excess capacity as we do now or sold for a set of seasons or it could be marketed as oil conservation sales bringing a broader benefit. to project customers. It could also be marketed to preference customers on the basis that it would be withdrawn upon appropriate notice for use by Reclamation as its project loads come on the line. Slide IV-9 Reserve Requirement Some alternatives for reserves for the new criteria are shown here. The existing criteria calls for a reserve of 10% of marketable capacity - or 132 MW. A reserve sufficient to replace our largest hazard -- a unit at Glen Canyon Dam - would be 143 MW. The WSCC operating criteria calls for 156 MW if Western I s Salt Lake City Area were operat i ng as an independent ent ity without power pool affiliation. In a previous slide we used 12B MW which compares to the 132 MW, for future resources. Slide IV-10 Service Seasons The existing power marketing criteria provides for two seasons which permits customers to adjust their purchases of CRSP power to the demand levels anti- cipated in each season rather than contracting for an annual peak demand for the full year. Comments from some existing CRSP customers indicate that a seven month summer. season including March would better suit their needs. Sl ide IV-11 Classes of Service - Existing The classes of service provided by the existing general power marketing criteria are long and short-term firm power, peaking power, and other power which includes interchange, emergency service, maintenance service and fuel replacement service. Slide IV-12 Classes of Service - Alternative An alternative for Classes of Service in the new marketing plan would be to offer long-term capacity with energy at 5B.2% load factor or at some other 11