WSP03951

• File Number: 8407.500
• Description: River Basin General Publications - Missouri River General Publications
• Date: 6/1/1973
• Title: Information Report on Proposed Power Rate Adjustment Eastern and Western Divisions
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Publication

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maintenance of facilitiea designed principally for flood control and
navigation were assigned to the Corps of Engineers, while jurisdiction

over elements of the plan primarily serving irrigation was vested in the

Bureau of Reclamation, Department of the Interior. Responsibility for

transmission line construction and provisions for other power marketing

facilities, as well as responsibility for establishing power rates and the

actual marketing of power, were all assigned to the Secretary of the

Interior. These arrangements have continued since authorization and are

in effect at the present time.

The power systems consist of the Eastern and Western Divisions of the

P-S MBP. The Eastern Division consists of the main-stem plants of the

Corps of Engineers, Canyon Ferry Powerp1ant, and one-half of production

from Ye11owtai1 Powerp1ant. The Western Division includes the Kartes,

Glenda, Boysen, Pilot Butte, and Fremont Canyon Powerp1ants, one-half

of production from Yellowtai1 Powerplant, and the integrated Colorado-Big
Thompson, Kendrick, North Platte, and Shoshone Projects. Remaining

potential future powerplants envisioned in the original P-S MBP plan

are retained in this analysis. The power output of the future power-

plants was assumed marketed in the Western Division.

Basic legislative authority for the development is found in the Flood
Control Acts passed by the Congress since 1938. The most significant
of these is the Flood Control Act of 1944, in which the general compre-
heneive plans of development set forth in Senate Document No. 191 and

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