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APPENDIX 1 ISSUES INVOLVING HYDROPOWER PRICESIMARKETlNGIREVENUES Changes to Glen Canyon Dam doubled our electric rates. 1 am concerned about how it is to be handled, we already paid for it. I think DC will do it without our influence, Utah Power & light is our competition so this is the big issue that we have to resolve. REGIONAL STAKEHOLDER MEETING YUMA, AZ Division of storage, One issue is the effect the different reservoir storage criteria have on the lower river. The less storage there is in Hoover, the greater chance of flooding in the lower river. REGIONAL STAKEHOLDER MEETING LAS VEGAS, NV Man-made floods greater than 28,000 cfs below Davis Dam create severe economic and recreation problems for down~ stream stakeholders and the bypassed water cannot be used for generating electricity. REGIONAL STAKEHOLDER MEETING PHOENIX, AZ Flood control is a very important issue. Expansion and/or reconstruction of hydropower facilities is an issue. JANET ROGERS COLORADO RIVER COMMISSION OF NEVADA LAS VEGAS, NV We feel that this is a crucial issue and deserves further investigation. ROBERT SCHEMPP METROPOLITAN WAl'ER DISTRICT OF SOUTHERN CA Los ANGELES, CA We have identified, and suggest the addition of another issue for discussion: The impacts of (power generation and transmission) resource replacement for lost Glen Canyon Powerplant generation. EARL ZARBIN PHOEN IX, AZ Defederalization - removing the Federal government from any role in Colorado River management would throw the responsibility on the states where it belongs. Dam and power facilities should be sold to the water users and/or private corporations. This would remove the need of taxing people in New York, etc. to fund western water projects, including hydroelectric projects. RICHARD WAHL UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO BOULDER, CO Congress is considering many proposals to transfer more responsibility for managing Western lands, as well as water and power facilities, to entities in the West. What legal mechanisms are in place to protect currently public uses of these federal assets? for example, state laws to protect instream flows vary from one state to another. As another example, a September 1995 legislative proposal by the American Public Power Association to transfer Power Administrations to collectives of preference customers con- tained few, if any, environmental protections (the transfers themselves were exempted from NEPA in the proposed legislation, as well as rate regulation by FERC or state PUes). Are private, corporate, or quasi-public western resource managers, such as power customers, equipped to protect public resources? Are state resource managers pre- pared to accept more responsibilities? DAVE WOOD CANYONLANDS NATIONAL PARK MOAB, UT Underpriced power has been a basic cause of the growth of population and development in the Colorado basin, and an incentive for wasteful, inefficient use of energy. Accompanying the direct environmental impacts of dams and transmission lines have been vast secondary impacts from the population and industrial growth fueled by the cheap power. Power need to be priced to reflect the envi- ronmental impacts of power development, which will also encourage conservation and improved efficiency, making our existing power sources go farther.. DAVID LU'J'TRELL LINCOLN COUNTY POWER PIOCHE, NV No specific comment