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. I I I I I I I I I I I I I I . I I I I I I INTRODUCTION The five major private utilities, operating in or adjacent to the area to which hydroelectric power from the Colorado River Storage Proj- ect of the Bureau of Reclamation will ultimately be delivered, issued on October 1, 1959 a report entitled, "Electric Utility Transmission System Study as Related To Colorado River Storage Project. " Careful review of the Report leaves the impression that it is not in keeping with the spirit and intent of the Upper Colorado Authorization Act, avoids any statements as to resulting costs to power users having preference in law to the purchase of the project power and provides no basis for determining its effect, if the proposal it contains is adopted, on the repayment of project costs as contemplated by authorizing legislation. The proposal of the private utilities as represented by the Re- port provides for Federal construction of expensive lines from Glen Can- yon through Curecanti to Poncha Junction near Salida, Colorado and from Flaming Gorge to Oak Creek. While nearly one-third of the total indicated expenditure for transmission facilities are involved in these few lines no major preference customer load centers are reached and interconnection of the authorized units of the storage project in the main is not achieved through Federally owned lines. It is with a view to avoiding the possibility of incorrect con- clusions being drawn by the Congress or the Department of the Interior and to protect the interests of the Colorado River Storage Project and the power customers entitled to preference under the law that the Colorado River Basin Consumers Power, Inc., has caused an independent report as herein contalned to be prepared. - 1 -