WSP05932

• File Number: 8220.100.50
• Description: CRSP - Power Marketing
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Date: 8/1/1985
• Author: USDOE/WAPA
• Title: Report to the Congress on Colorado River Storage Project Power Resources and the Financial Support of Authorized Projects in the Upper Colorado River Basin States
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Publication

TABLE OF CONTENTS

I.

EXECUTIVE SUt1MARY

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II. PURPOSE AND SCOPE OF THE STUDy............................. 4

I I I. BACKGROUND. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

A.

Definitions

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B. Legislation for Authorized Projects .................... 10

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C. Present Colorado Ri ver Storage Project
Power Marketing Criteria ............................... 10

IV.

COLORADO RIVER STORAGE PROJECT POWER RESOURCES
AND PROPOSED MARKETING CRITERIA ...................,........ 15

A. Power Resources ........................................ 15

B. Proposed Criteria -- Overview.......................... 15

C. Proposed Criteria -- Distribution of Resources
Between Northern and Southern Divisions ................ 16

D. Proposed Criteria -- Revenues from Upper and
Lower Basin States ..................................... 21

V. AUTHORIZED PROJECTS ........................................ 25

VI. FINANCIAL SUPPORT (Sources of Revenue) -- POWER ............ 33

A. Approaches for Funding or Repaying Authorized Projects. 33

1. Present Methods and Status ......................... 33

2. Potential for Making Additional Power Revenues
Available for Development of Authorized Projects 43

B. Developments That May Affect Available CRSP Revenues 51

1. Proposed Federal Power t1arketing Reform ............ 51

2. CREST .............................................. 53

3. M&I Subsidies ...................................... 53

VII. FINANCIAL SUPPORT (Sources of Revenue) - OTHER THAN

POWER ...................................................... 54

A. Increase the Price of Water ............................ 54

B. Increase the Price of Project Use Power ................ 56

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