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<br />, <br /> <br />01439 <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Department of Energy focus is on,environmental cleanup not energy issues <br /> <br />WAPA , Bureau of Reclamation repayment issues <br /> <br />Outside the water reclamation community, water and power interests are viewed as <br />separate and distinct. Within the water community there exists a commonality between <br />water and its byproduct power. By way of example, CRSP legislative intent is to use <br />hydroelectric power to help pay for Upper Basin water projects, Le., sharing the benefit <br />of low cost power (CRSP) to preference power customers and using this revenue to <br />support continued water development. Because of distinct special interests groups and <br />the resulting philosophical differences of the groups, WAPA and USBR are heading in <br />opposite directions over repayment philosophy. Many in the water community view <br />CRSP single purpose consider the single purpose of CRSP is to fund water projects <br />but is seen as just another ripoff of the power interests. For years controversy over <br />what water projects would be added to the CRSP power rate base, between power and <br />water interests has moved WAPA's agenda ever closer to the power interests. High <br />level policy must be developed by the Upper Basin States that gives WAPA direction <br />(and maybe a reminder) on CRSP legislative intend and purpose. Consideration also, <br />must be given to moving WAPA back under Reclamation or some other new <br />organization that would serve the purpose mentioned above. <br /> <br />Glen Canyon Dam exception criteria <br /> <br />Before the Glen Canyon Dam environmental studies began an operating agreement <br />between the Montrose Operation Center and the Bureau of Reclamation was reached <br />regarding the operation of Glen Canyon Dam power plant during the Glen Canyon Dam <br />environmental studies. Glen Canyon Dam operating parameters were set and any <br />exception (exception criteria) to these parameters were agreed to. The exception <br />criteria enables Montrose to claim the installed capacity at Glen Canyon thereby saving <br />CRSP from purchasing replacement capacity. To ensure that operating parameters <br />were followed by Montrose, hourly data was collected by the Flagstaff environmental <br />office and were evaluated for deviations from operating parameters. Data was send out <br />monthly to various environmental interests groups and other interested parties. <br /> <br />A quarterly report was published by Montrose that provided the operational <br />explanations for any deviations from operating parameters and distributed to all parties <br />participating in the Glen Canyon Dam environmental studies. In addition, hourly Glen <br />Canyon power plant data was made available to interested parties. USBR and WAPA <br />subsequently signed a formal operating agreement that gave the Secretary of Interior <br />the authority to rescind the exception criteria for violations of the exception criteria. <br /> <br />The exception criteria was negotiated by Montrose and the USBR Glen Canyon Studies <br /> <br />3 <br />