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<br /> <br />is on Mokelumne River, the City of~anta Clara has filed a competing <br />application for this, oh, that's quite a large project. That's PG&E's <br />Mokelumne River Project, that has the Salt Springs Project, Tiger <br />Creek West Point and Electra Projects. That would in effect capture <br />from PG&E this privately developed project for a municipality. Up <br />in the Northwest, Calas County, Portland and Calas County, together <br />have filed a competing application for Pacific Power and Light Project, <br />the Merwin Project on the Calas River. So I think it's a development <br />that will pay watching. HopefuUy, the Commission will act on this <br />petition shortly because its a special issue really. Municipalities <br />would like to know whether or not they in fact have a preference on <br />a relicensing action, at the expiratlonof a license by a private <br />utility, The Power Act does not provide for recapture of municipally- <br />owned projects. For report as distributed, see PART C - ATTACHMENTS. <br /> <br />Department of the Army <br /> <br />Colonel William E, Vandenberg, Division Engineer, U. S. Army <br />Engineer Division, South Pacific, San Francisco, California. The <br />Corps of Engineers has about a twenty-five page report and I will <br />keep my remarks down to less than seventeen pages of that. The New <br />Melones Dam Project is nearing completion, the embankment is expected <br />to be topped out in October this year and we are still not sure how <br />much water we are going to impound, but we are well underway in <br />plugging the diversion works so that we would, by October, be in a <br />physical position to impound water that will be delayed until the <br />reservoir clearing has been completed, In May of this year, we <br />awarded a $118 million contract for construction of the main embank- <br />ment and pertinent facilities for Warm Springs Dam in Sonoma County <br />with completion scheduled for 1983, Our Los Angeles District has <br />initiated construction of the United. States portion of the Inter- <br />national Tijuana River Flood Control Project acting as an agent of the <br />U. S. Section of the International Boundary and Water Commission. <br />We have several projects proposed for construction authorization that <br />have been processed to the Board of Engineers for Rivers and Harbors. <br />Several of them have been processed right back to us and you can read <br />about that in the report. In February and March of this year, we <br />had flash floods both in Southern California and Arizona which got <br />extensive Corps of Engineers activity, both in repairing damages to <br />Federal structures and in assistance to the Federal Disaster Admin- <br />istration of HUD in terms of disaster relief operations. Two items <br />on dam safety, The Corps is involved in a National Program of <br />inventoring and inspecting non-Federal dams. Our office is responsible <br />for four states and has action underway in cooperation with the states <br />in all four of them. In addition, recently by exchange of corres- <br />pondence between myself and Mr. Robie, the Corps has entered into an <br />agreement with the State of California on a cooperative program of <br />reviewing safety of Corps of Engineers Dams in the State of California. <br />For report as distributed, see PART C -ATTACHMENTS. <br /> <br />B.22 <br />