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<br />~ <br />'C"", <br />I:': <br /> <br />,',. <br /> <br />( <br />C' <br /> <br />Efficient Utilization of Capital and <br />~~al Resources <br /> <br />The objectives for the Navajo Generating Station discharge, as <br /> <br />stated in the Bechtel report, include the following statement: <br /> <br />"At the same time, the participants regard efficient <br />utilization of capital and natural resources as a considera- <br />tion of the paramount importance not only to their customers <br />but to the Southwest and to the Nation at large." <br /> <br />This statement apparently was the principal basis for the selection <br /> <br />of the least cost alternative, the jet discharge of blowdown water <br /> <br />into Lake Powell, as the recommended means of disposal of blowdown <br /> <br />water. However, the report did not show the monetary benefits <br /> <br />resulting from the alternatives that removed salt from the river <br /> <br />system, and thus did not provide means to identify the alternatives <br /> <br />that make the most efficient utilization of capital and natural <br /> <br />resources. <br /> <br />Table 1 and the information shown in page 2 of this statement <br />show that adoitional expenditures of about $l:,OO,OOO per year will <br />result in savings of $500,000 - $600,000 per year ~o California users <br />plus substantial benefits to other users in Arizona, Nevada, and <br /> <br />Nexico. <br /> <br />Handling of Blowdown at Mohave Generating Station <br />The disposal of blowdown water without returning it to the <br />river is consistent with the policy adopted at the newest thermal <br />power plant on the Colorado River, the still-under-construction <br />1,580,000 kw Mohave Generating Station located south of Las Vegas, <br />Nevada. This plant being constructed by the Southern California <br />Edison Company will divert up to 30,000 acre-feet per year <br /> <br />-7- <br />