Show I Plans Developed For or Tie In n Federal Power The TIle Secretary of or the Interior I has developed plans for constructing con con- three sections of voltage high lines that will lie in the federal transmission systems of the eastern and western divisions of the Missouri Mis River Basin Project with the thc Colorado R River er Storage Project and the Parker-Davis Parker Project on the lower Colorado River Sen Frank E. E Moss 1 DUtah DUtah D D- Utah announced Monday TilE THE NEW kilovolt transmission trans trans- transmission n mission lines more than miles in in total length will reach from Oahe Dam and on the Missouri 1 River near Pierre S S. S D. D to the Hayden substation of or the Colorado River Storage Project eeL transmission system in western Colorado interconnecting interconnecting federal power facilities facilities ties covering a 15 state area of the western United States The fhe federal systems in the states of Ion 1 Montana North Dakota Dakota Da Da- kota South Dakota Nebraska Kansas Wyoming Colorado Utah New Mexico and Arizona Arizona Ari zona will be involved in the electrical in tie as will the transmission systems in m portions portions por por- o of the states of California ia Nevada Ne Iowa Minnesota 1 and Missouri l Moss said WHEN WilEN constructed the new lines Wires will complete a north north- south voltage high transmission transmission sion network extending from the northernmost of the federal s system stem at Fort Peck Mont l and Garrison S S. S D. D to the systems system's southernmost southernmost southern southern- most extremities at Phoenix and Yuma Ariz a distance of approximately 1250 miles Sen Moss 1 hailed the move as a great step forward in the I needed integration of Americas Americas America's Americas America's Ameri Ameri- cas ca's electric power resources He said INTERCONNECTION o 0 f I Missouri Basin with Colorado River Storage Project electric power will stimulate the industrial in industrial in development of the Intermountain area An integrated power syster system tern tem will enable us to take lake advantage advantage ad ad- vant vantage ge of or south north temperature temp temp- differences and east cast west time lime changes to lo provide lower ower cost loads to meet demand demand de de- de mand peaks HYDROELECTRIC pow power c r produced at government con projects on the Ule Missouri Missouri Mis 1 River and tributaries is distributed and marketed by bythe bythe the Bureau of Reclamation for o the Department of the In In- I The Bureau of Reclamation said the transmission ion line work is covered under three bid hid invitations calling for contractors contractors con con- tractors to furnish and erect steel towers and to furnish and string conductors and overhead overhead ov ov- ground wires for the kilovolt lines Work will be advertised in several schedules schedules sched sched- ules to permit smaller contractors contractors tors to bid on short segments of line Jine |