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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Commercial power investments bearing the highest interest

rates are amortized first, unless a required payment is

necessary in a lower interest-bearing investment.

Reimbursable costs appropriately allocable or assignable

to irrigation development would be noninterest-bearing

in accordance with Reclamation law.

3. Future Investments

Remaining potential future powerplants envisioned in the

original P-S MBP plan are retained in this analysis. Since

these future powerplants would be required to be reauthorized

by Congress, their inclusion in the scale of development was

delayed beyond the critical payout period to be sure the

net power rate required for payout of the existing

authorized units would not be affected.

4. Coat Allocations and Sub allocations

The allocations of costs of the multiple-purpose elements

of the plan in the Eastern Division have been made by the

agency having construction, jurisdiction in keeping with

the practice established by interagency agreement in 1954.

The "Separable Costs - Remaining Benefits" method of

allocation has been used. The procedures employed in the

allocations are similar to earlier allocations. Federally

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