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<br />000886 <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />provide for excess capacity rights in Western's Shiprock to Durango line, and <br /> <br />permit flow of Colorado River Storage Project allocations into the southern <br /> <br />end of Colorado-Ute's "backbone" system, which now terminates at Durango. <br /> <br />CRSP power and energy (from Flaming Gorge) flows into the northern end of <br /> <br />Colorado-Ute's system over USBR lines to the Hayden substation, which is lo- <br /> <br />cated midway between Craig and Steamboat Springs in northwest Colorado. <br /> <br />Colorado-Ute also receives power for use by its members from the Collbran hydro~ <br /> <br />plant of the USBR near Grand Junction. and may generate up to 39,000 kilowatts <br /> <br />at its Nucla Station. near Nucla, Colorado. <br /> <br />A new 15.000 square foot addition to the headquarters building in Mont- <br /> <br />rose brought the total investment in property there to $500,000. The new addi- <br /> <br />tion houses a Dispatch Center from which all flows of electricity throughout the <br /> <br />Colorado-Ute system are metered and controlled. <br /> <br />Employees required to operate the generation and transmission network <br /> <br />have tripled in numbers (from 33 at the end of 1963 to 114 at the end of 1964), <br /> <br />and Colorado-Ute is now meeting an annual payroll throughout Western Colorado <br /> <br />of over $900.000. <br /> <br />Large investments by Colorado-Ute in its system means new tax dollars <br /> <br />for support of school districts and counties throughout Western Colorado. Prop- <br /> <br /> <br />erty taxes for 1964 are nearly $250,000, and the 1965 taxes are expected to ap- <br /> <br /> <br />proach the half-million mark. Colorado-Ute is paying $106,132.07 in 1964 <br /> <br /> <br />Montrose County property taxes alone, according to records in the office of the <br /> <br />County Treasurer. <br /> <br />-2- <br /> <br />-" <br />