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<br /> <br />orr2'~~'6 <br /> <br />into central Arizona through a federal investment in a WEST- <br />sponsored thermal plant. Thus there would be less need for <br />dams. (WEST was a group. of private and public utilities serving <br />the Southwest and Rocky Mountain area.) <br /> <br />, . . <br /> <br />" <br /> <br />. Undersecretary Luce was followed into town by Secretary <br />l'dall, who supported his suggestion that Arizona think twice <br />before deciding to go it alone for CAP. Mr. Udall said he didn't <br />want to "throw cold water" on the idea, "but we should con- <br />sider the obstacles to such a course." He went on: "Due to the <br />nature of the, project, there would have to be federal legislation. <br />It would have to' be approved by the Se'cretary of the Interior <br />and. we would have to go before the Federal Power Commission <br />to get a permit to build the dam or dams: Then there is the final <br />thIng we should think of-the interest rate the state would have <br />"t<!- pay, which. cou'fd 'make ~~.,price of ~vater substantially. <br />hIgher." '. : . <br />-.' <br />Secretary Udall. said. he believed Arizona could get a <br />"stdpped-down"CA~ passed, without. dams or water import <br />proviswrL But. ht thought such a bill still would have to contain <br />the' skeleton fram~ork for a ~Basin fund and future imports <br />of water. The lriteflot Department was now studying such a <br />project, e,ven c~taining a provision that would eliminate any <br />mor.e dam-building on the Colorado. It would substitute a steam <br />plant, powered with. coal or nuclear energy,' costing $100 mil- <br />lion instead of the. .$700 million estimated for the two dams. <br />Howev.er, the.lif':expectancy 'of . a 'steam plant would be 25 <br />years com~ared' io se~e-ral hundred years for, dams, said Mr. <br />Udali-. ' , <br /> <br />Diversio.nComing, Northwest Told <br /> <br />. . Though the Pacific Northwe'st might have preferred to hear <br />no more about anihte'r-regitirial water:diversion, talk of it per-' <br />sisted. At a conv'entiori6f the Inland Empire Waterways ,Asso- <br />,ciation at Walla Walla; Wash., the chief of Army engineers, <br />Lt. Gen. W. F.. Cassidy, sa,id firmly that the Northwest would <br />have to face up to the possiQility of having to share its water <br />with drier areas.' The idea of taKing water temporarily or per- <br />manently' from one' section of the country for the benefit of <br />another was gaining widespread a.ppeal, said General Cassidy. <br />"Sooner or later; such a concept must be considered for all the <br />western part of the United States," he said. <br /> <br />.. U.S.' Reclamation. Commissioner Floyd Dominy also spoke <br />. . <br />at the Northwestern meeting. He assured Northwesterners that <br />his agency had never recommended the exportation of water <br />which conceivably could be used by that region. What the North- <br />west should do, he said, was put as much of its water to work <br />as possible, speed up planning- on potential projects and build <br />all of them considered feasible as quickly as possible. Mr. Dominy <br />promised that the Reclamation Bureau would oppose any export <br />of water until it was clearly demonstrated that such water was <br /> <br />-25- <br /> <br />" <br /> <br />.", <br />