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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United States Department of the Interior

BUHEAU OF RECLAMATION
Upper Missouri Region
P.O. Box 2553
BUlIngs, Montana 59103
June 11, 1973

IN REPLY
REfER TO, 630
631.

Gentlemen:

A copy of an Information Report on Proposed Power Rate Adjustments,
Eastern and Western Divisions, Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program, is
attached for your information. It is designed to describe and explain
a recent repayment study conducted in depth to determine the amount of
increased revenue needed to keep the Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program
on a sound financial basis. It also sets forth proposed rate adjust-
ments deemed necessary to recover the average annual revenue shown to
be required by the repayment study. The report should answer many of
the questions you may have concerning this matter. However, perhaps a
few brief statements of explanation and summary will be helpful.

The Missouri River Basin Project was authorized by the Flood Control
Act of 1944 and has been under construction since that time. The
Project is a single financial entity that encompasses a comprehensive
program of flood control, navigation improvement, irrigaLion and
municipal and industrial water development, and hydroelectric production
for the entire Missouri River Basin. Multipurpose projects have been
developed on the Missouri River and its tributaries in Montana,
North Dakota, South Dakota, wyoming, and Colorado. In addition,
significant Bureau of Reclamation electric transmission facilities exist
in Minnesota, Iowa, and Nebraska. In addition to multipurpose water
development projects authorized as part of the Missouri River Basin
Project, certain older existing projects have been integrated with the
Missouri Basin Project for power marketing and operational purposes.
Their revenues and costs are included, as their individual repayment
criteria demand, in the current repayment study. Additional detail on
the project is given in Section III of the report.

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