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nD25~2 build a thermal plant in association with the public utilities of WEST (Western Energy Supply and Transmission Associates). CAP would be financed by a .6-cent property tax in three bene- ficiary counties-Maricopa, Pinal and Pima-and/or by in- creasing municipal and industrial water charges to maintain a $10-per-acre-foot irrigation level. Other provisions of the administration proposal : Marble Canyon would be placed within Grand Canyon National Park by separate legislation. The question of the 4.4-million-acre-foot guarantee to California would be left to Congress to decide. There would be no provision for a, study of water importation from the Pacific Northwest. And the question of a Basin account to receive revenues from Hoover, Parker and Davis Dams after their pay-out would be left for the C.olorado' River states to make a recommendation to Congress. (Hoover would be the first to payout in 1987.) Secretary Udall said the question of building Hualapai Dam also would be left for future consideration by Congress. If such a p,am were built, he said, it should be a high darn. , Arizonans reacted somewhat ambivalently to the admin- istration proposal. The property tax idea worried Senators Hayden and Fannin, although the former's administrative assist- ant, Roy Elson, said Senator Hayden might introduce the admin- istration bill just to get it going. Congressman U daIl said he was standing pat on the Arizona bilt 'which the state's three representatives had introduced earlier. Rich Johnson, executive director of the Arizona Interstate Str'eam Commission, thought the new plan should neutralize opposition from the Sierra Club . and the Pacific Northwest. "It looks tome." he said, "like the secretary looked at last year's experience and has backed away from the compIlcated Basin project and is coming up with something simpler that has a better chance of passing." Governor Williams was dubious and, he said, "bewildered" by the proposal for an ad valorem tax. "It is certainly, I believe, a departure from any previous method of financing similar projects insofar as legislative or administrative policy' is con- cerned," he said. The chief executive did find encouragement, however, in the fact that "positive action" toward a CAP was now being taken by the administration. Spokesmen for the Arizona Power Authority expressed dis- appointment at the proposal to bring Marble Canyon within Grand Canyon National Park. Probably the strongest language used by an Arizonan in the wake of the administration announcement came from State Sen. Ray Goetze (R-Maricopa), who charged that it was a "double-cross" by Secretary Udall. He said he regretted having supported a moratorium on Colorado River dam-building and said that if Arizona had gone ahead with the construction of Marble Canyon Darn, it would be, nearly completed by now. (Shortly after the Udall announcement, memorials were intro- -41-