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<br />(":) <br />, ) <br /> <br />"-". <br /> <br />, .~ <br /> <br />gases, could be carried in a liqiud CO2 slurry to powerp1ants <br />along the pipeline route. CO? for Stage II could be obtained <br />from powerplant stack gases and/or natural sources in Colorado <br />and Wyoming. <br /> <br />Planning may be broadened to extend the northern leg of the <br />Stage II pipeline into Wyoming to pick up additional coal, <br />CO2, and soda ash (trona). Trona can also be used to reduce <br />S02 emissions in powerplant stack gases. <br /> <br />Stage III. - Stage III would include a northerly extension <br />of the liquid CO,/coal slurry line into Wyoming and a southerly <br />extension from tne White Pine Power Project to California, <br />and possibly to export markets. Stage III could incorporate <br />either of these extensions or both as options. Saline water <br />(7,550 acre-feet per year) from the CRWQIP's Big Sandy Unit, <br />Wyoming, could be transported to Jim Bridger Powerplant for <br />cooling. In addition, saline water from the Virgin River <br />and Las Vegas Wash, Nevada, could cool Harry Allen and/or <br />Ivanpah Powerp1ants, while irrigation outflows from the Palo <br />Verde Irrigation District could be used at the proposed power <br />park near Blythe, California. No water would be exported <br />from the Upper to the Lower Colorado River Basin. CO, could <br />be carried to California for use in enhanced oil recovery <br />when Stage III is completed. Map F illustrates this stage, <br />anticipated for design and construction start in 1986. <br /> <br />'"-I <br /> <br />, ' <br /> <br />Financing Procedures <br /> <br />It is visualized that financing for the AQUATRAIN Project <br />could be arranged through both a venture capital partnership <br />and normal bonding procedures. Potential members of the partner- <br />ship include coal companies, utilities, transportation companies, <br />and individuals or institutions involved in funding new ventures. <br />The venture capital partnership would fund the test loop as <br />well as the preconstruction activities in Stage I, amounting <br />to about $40-50 million <br /> <br />Security for financing Stage I facilities will be in the form <br />of "take if delivered" contracts with the Intermountain Power <br />Association, those prices to be at or below the cost of coal <br />delivered through alternative means. Facility ownership will <br />remain in the private sector to allow firms to use investment <br />tax credits available through existing pipeline tax law. <br />If necessary for financial integrity, the Bureau of Reclamation <br />will assume a share of the cost of operating and maintaining <br />the system in the form of a contract providing for "annual <br />payments for salinity control". With security in the forms <br />of the above-described "take if delivered" and "annual payments <br />for salinity control" contracts, the bulk of the financing <br />for Stage I construction will be leveraged into the bond markets. <br /> <br />Financing for construction of additional stages would be handled <br />in the same manner as Stage I. <br /> <br />24 <br />