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B-21 002795 [DF coming but they are under construction, hopefully they won't get shut down. On the Dolores Project there is an interesting thing going on down in the Southwest portion of Colorado. The project is underway, the University of Colorado has been granted a contract for a major archaeological effort to preserve any artifacts. They have identified about 600 sites that are worthy of investigation and these will be further examined, Those that are worthy of excavation will be excavated and those they don't deem worthy of excavation at the present time, they will make up their minds whether or not they should be preserved or whether if they are in a right-of-way, they can be destroyed. Some of these are not within a right-of-way but they are located in spots where because of future activity they might be partially or fully destroyed. So those that the archaeo- logical experts deem worthy of preservation will be preserved. Only other iteYLJl have, Colorado is also seeking to intervene in a law suit, if(W~j)makes it, on the Comprehensive Environmental Impact Statement on the Colorado River, we would be very effected. If it got to this, they could shut down our projects pending this Comprehensive Environmental Impact Analysis. For report as distributed, see PART C - ATTACHMENTS, . . Department of Energy Mr. Eugene Neblett, Regional Engineer, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, San Francisco, California. During the past six months we have still been undergoing reorganizations within the Department of Energy. Perhaps my agency, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, is the least effected of all the several agencies that went to form the new Department, Within my office we had one change that effected staff. We divided our electrical function between the Economics Regulatory Administration and FERC, of course that required a redesig- nation of our electrical functions, we call our branch now the Inter- connections and Systems Analysis Branch. Basically our concern now in electrical matters will be to review reliability of utility systems, to see that economies are effected as it effects rates set by the Commission. I have a detailed report I won't go into all the details but there is one matter that did come to mind after I prepared this report. Very recently, Stewart Udall, former Secretary of the Interior, as counsel for the City of Bountifull, Utah, filed a petition with the Commission asking for a declaratory order which in effect says to the Commlssion, we think that a public utility of a municipality ha~ preference over a private utility on relicensining action. The Clty of Bountifull has filed a competing application with Utah Power and Light for the Weber River Project in Utah. It's not a significant project in size, I think it's something like perhaps, it's about 3.5 megawatts. The outcome of that petition I think could be a very importalnt development in the next year. In fact, it may serve Mr. Gooch down there to get some additional energy for the State Water Project, I'm sure you have looked at this before. There are three competing applications within Region Nine that my office covers. One