WSP06634

• File Number: 8220.111.O
• Description: Central Utah Participating Project
• State: UT
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Date: 9/22/1989
• Title: CWCB Agenda Item 19 - CUP Legislation
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Board Memo

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STATE OF COLORADO
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COLORADO WATER CONSERVATION BOARD
Department of Natural Resources
721 State Centennial Building
, 1']. Sherman Street
Denver, Colorado 80203
Phone: [phone]

MEMORANDUM

Roy Romer
Governor
J. William McDonald
Director
David W. Walker
Deputy Director

TO:

Members, CWCB

FROM: Bill McDonald

DATE: September 22, 1989

SUBJECT: Agenda Item 19, September 28-29, 1989, Board Meeting--
CUP Legislation

Introduction

As of Thursday, September 21, the Central Utah Project
legislation had not been introduced. However, introduction of
a bill or bills is reportedly imminent.

I am being told that any legislation will provide for
completion of the project with congressional appropriations,
subject to cost sharing in some amount by the State of Utah and
the Central Utah Water Conservancy District out of their own
sources of funding, Use of CRSP power revenues as a financing
device apparently will not be sought.

I do not know if the legislation will call for the creation
of a basinwide environmental mitigation and enhancement fund
using a surcharge on power revenues as the source of funding
therefore. This issue seems to be going back and forth between
the members of the Utah congressional delegation.

Discussion

An issue not on the table in the last Congress that may be
addressed in the bill or bills to be introduced concerns doing
away with the power apportionment formula in the 1956 CRSP
Act. If not addressed by the Central Utah project legislation,
this issue will be forced by the CRSP rate repayment study
which is now in the process of being prepared by the Western
Area Power Administration (Western).

The apportionment formula is found in section 5(e) of the
1956 Act, which reads as follows:

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