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<br />QA'" <br /> <br />government must operate Lake Powell to elevation 3 700 feet and provide equIty of <br /> <br />operations between Lakes Powell and Mead. The Secretary of the Interior if he <br /> <br />is forced to hold the level of Lake Powell not to exceed elevation 3600 feet will <br /> <br />either have to violate section 602 of the Colorado River Basin Project Act or <br /> <br />annually waste millions of acre-feet of water and billions of kilowatt-hours <br /> <br />of dependable electrical energy. Curtailment of the full use of Lake Powell will <br /> <br />make the terms of the documents constituting the" law of the river" ineffectual <br /> <br />and without meaning. <br /> <br />(6) Glen Canyon dilm Is constructed in such a manner thilt in order to <br /> <br />operate the reservoir under elevation 3600 feet large quantities of water would <br /> <br />have to be evacuated from it each year in order to provIde space for antIcipated <br /> <br />spring run-off. This would cause Lake Powell to be a widely fluctuating reservoIr <br /> <br />every year and would waste both water and power in many years. Power and fish <br /> <br />and wildlIfe operations at Lake Mead would also be disturbed much below the <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />optimum. The Upper Basin States cannot meet their compact obligatIons more <br /> <br />easily by maintaInIng the lower water level sImply because In a series of extremely <br /> <br />low water years there would be insufficIent water to meet the downstream commit- <br /> <br />ment without curtaIling water uses that are now in the process of development <br /> <br />or will be developed in the Upper Basin States. <br /> <br />(7) The Langbein study has been dIscussed under no. (1). It does <br /> <br />not support Dr. Guadagno's conclusions. <br /> <br />(8) The law under which Glen Canyon Dam ilnd all of the other storuge <br /> <br />units and participating projects were authorized and constructed requires repay- <br /> <br />ment within specI fled periods. If Lake Powell were forced to be operated under <br /> <br />12 <br />