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<br />INTERIOR DEPARTM~NT MAKES DECISION ON COLORADO <br />RIVER STORAGE PROJECT TRANSMISSION SYSTEM <br /> <br /> <br />[Pre~ release Feb. 20, 1962] <br /> <br />Secretary ef the Interier Stewart L. Udall teday anneunced that <br />the Department ef the Interier has made its basic decisiens cencerning <br />censtructien ef transmissien lines fer the five-State Celerade River <br />sterage preject. <br />The plan achieves the Kennedy administratien geals ef: (1) Maxi- <br />mum savings fer the Upper Celerade Sterage Basin fund (which will <br />finance all majer dams and participating reclamatien prejects in the <br />bllsin); (2) full pretectien ef the service rights ef preference cnstemers <br />Ill. the lewest pessible ""tea; and (3) stregthening ef the Federal system <br />threugh intercennectiens with facilities ef private pewer cempanies, <br />Anneuncement ef the phtll was made pessible by cempletien ef <br />ne!(etiatiens leading te a!(reements with feuI' ef the five majer private <br />utilities in the Celerade Basin area (these in Celerade, New Mexice, <br />Utah, and Wyemin!(), An agreement was net reached with the <br />Arizena Public Servicc Ce" but an intercennectien still is under <br />nc!(etiatien. <br />Acceptance ef the utilities' prepesals, SecretaI',\' Udall said, will <br />mean a $27 milliQn reductien in the Federal investment fer the trans- <br />missien grid and will add $77 millien tQ the preject's basin fund by <br />I,he year 2042, when the 87-year payeut periI'd is cempleted, <br />Secretary Udall peinted eut that ne!(etiatiens with the cempanies <br />were carried eut in accer(l with an understanding reached with cen- <br />gressienal Apprepriatiens Cemmittees last year when $13,673,000 <br />WllS apprepriated fer the Bureau ef Reclamatien tQ undertake planning <br />and initial censtructien ef a Federal system. The Department was <br />autherized te preceed en the entire system "unless the Secretary finds <br />it prltCtical and in the natienlll interest te enter intI' wheeling CQn- <br />tracts," . <br />N e!(Qtiatiens, CQnducted by the Bureau ef Reclamatien under <br />directien ef Cemmissiener Fleyd E, Deminy, have made pessible a <br />streng high-veltage pewer system en beth sides ef the Recky <br />Meuntains, assuring delivery ef pewer ever a heavier grid than was <br />prepesed under the all-Federal system, the Secretary said. Negetia- <br />tien ef detailed agreements will be undertaken immediately,. <br />Seme sectiens in the Qriginal all-Federal propesal WIll new be. <br />eliminated, and ethers will be delayed as prier censtructien ef pri- <br />vately financed lines will meet the early transmissien needs, Pewer <br />frem Flaming Gerge Dam in Utah is expected te ceme en the line in <br />1963 and frem Glen Canyen Dam, in nerthern Arizena, in 1964. <br />The Curecanti unit ef the Celerade River sterage preject will begin <br />preducing pewer abeut 3 years later, <br />A temperary wheeling arrangement has been 'agreed upen fQr the <br />Feur Cerners-te-Albuquerque line in New Mexice and a permanent <br />wheeling arrangement has'been decided upen fer Utah, Elsewhere in <br /> <br />8 <br />