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<br />".".', <br /> <br />" '. '. '; ;.r"~"'~', . . . <br /> <br />0025Z9 <br /> <br />planning fo; th.e project started the previous fall, in anticipation <br />of the explratlOn of the Dec. 31, 1966, moratorium on dam- <br />building. When several committee members pressed Mr. Goss <br />as to why he had come up so late with a brand new proposal <br />Congressman Hosmer interrupted angrily: "That's the third <br />time the witness has been jumped on about this. It's like getting <br />on the Wright brothers for not inventing the airplane sooner." <br />Mr. Hosmer then:'l.sk,ed Mr. Goss why the utilities would be <br />willing to relieve the government of $500 million in costs. Goss' <br />reply was that the utilities would h'we to find the electricai <br />capacity somewhere, and supplementing their base load facil- <br />ities with a hydro-power peaking installation would be good <br />business. <br /> <br />Chairman Aspinall asked that the committee record be left <br />open to receive any additional material Mr. Goss might produce. <br />Soon afterward the hearing. ended. <br /> <br />The following week Congressman Hosmer gave the Goss <br />plan a strong public endorsement and said he would endeavor <br />to have it written into the CAP leg-is]ation. He said it made the <br />abandonment of the Marble' Canyon project ":'I. lot more palat- <br />able." "This is by ill I' the soundest, most constructive idea I've <br />E'ver heard for the development of the Hualapai power poten- <br />tial," said Mr. Ho'smer. "I'll do everything in my power to see <br />that any bill we report has this excellent, businesslike propo- <br />sition incorporated within it." He said the Goss plan made the <br />administration~s thermal-power idea "look even more ridiculous:' <br />than when it was first yanked. . . out of Pandora's box. Under <br />that scheme, Uncle S>l~ h>ls nothing to show for his money. He.' <br />gets a nice, fat cancelled check and that's alL" <br /> <br />Congressman Argues for Goss Plan <br /> <br />Late in March Congressman' Hosmer. visited Phoenix to <br />attend a conference conducted by the Atomic Industrial Forum, <br />and ag-ain he spoke out strongly in favor of the: "super-dam" <br />at Bridge Canyon. He said it made "the financial deal offered <br />U.S. taxpayers so much better that chances have improved <br />several hundred per cent that this economy-minded Congress <br />will want to pass a Colorado River Basin Project bill this ses- <br />sion. The r:'l.tio of costs to benefits always has been favorable <br />for this package of plans to develop water resources of the <br />Colorado River to meet needs of the growing Southwest. Now <br />repayment of U.S. funds advanced to build the water and power <br />projects can be mlide sooner not only because the size of the <br />loan is substantially smaller but because income, from sale of <br />Hualapai hydropower promises to be so much greater. After <br />the reduced borrowing from the federal treasury is repaid, <br />furthermore, the increased income will accumulate faster in <br />the Basin fund to help pay for additional projects needed to <br />meet demands of future growth in Arizona, California, Colo- <br />rado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming-all states <br />depending to a critical extent on water from the Colorado River. <br /> <br />-58- <br /> <br />