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Show lolorado River I ower rate 1 evision & Obert McPhail, Adminstrator, fem Area Power Administration item) announced last week that proposed power rate increase for !tric power generated by the Orado River Storage Project BP) has been revised to 25.8 per-I'rom per-I'rom the 23.8 percent increase junced last September. 1 April 1979, Western initially Ned a rate increase of 38 percent. result of the comments on this PM, coupled with a reanalysis of j's data in the CRSP repayment fcin September 1979 Western its recommendation to 23.8 tent. ever, in a further review, it was Warned that some of the estimated "investment costs for authorized wipating projects in the initial Went study were based on the fy 1976 price level and others on tober i7 price leve. The in-"Knt in-"Knt costs of the latter projects been updated to January 1976, ;nn8 m the current revised in- Italian opera is said to begin with Monteverdi's Orfeo, which contains the first arias and calls for a large orchestra crease of 25.8 percent. The proposed rate adjustment would affect 72 preference 'customers which include municipalities, rural electric cooperatives, irrigation districts, water conservancy districts, publicly-owned utilities, and State and Federal agencies, over a six-state area: Colorado, Wyoming, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, and Nevada. Western is the Federal agency responsible for marketing power generated by the six existing CRSP powerplants, The powerplants are located at storage dams built on the Upper Basin sections of the Colorado River and its tributaries: Morrow Point, Blue Mesa, and Crystal Dams in Colorado; Flaming Gorge Dam in Utah; Fontenelle Dam in Wyoming; and Glen Canyon Dam in Arizona. During fiscal year 1978, a total of 5.8 million megawatthours were sold from the CRSP. ii niu.1 u i in. nwi" p" -1 |