Show Frank Moss makes statement on recent decision of on Basin power transmission lines The following is a statement of Senator Frank E. Moss on the announcement of the Secretary of the Interior that agreement has been reached between the Bureau of Reclamation and the private utility companies under which electric power of the Colorado River Storage Project will be delivered over a Joint Federal and private utility transmission insisting on authorizing the Federal government to if necessary to build Federal transmission lines for the Colorado River Storage Congress has made possible a saving of for the Basin Fund during the payout amount is the difference between the original private utility and the one agreed to now between the utilities and the Bureau of the Department of the Interior has made it clear that appropriation of money to build the power transmission lines enabled the Bureau to negotiate from fact that Utah is the only State in a wheeling charge will be made will not affect the rate which Utah preference customers will pay for The delivered price for the Colorado project power at the designated road of which there are seven in will be the same throughout the Basin both in Utah and in other no Federal lines will be built in I am assured by the Commissioner of Reclamation that all rights of our preference customers will be fully protected under these should remember that Utah's participation in the Basin Fund is on a percentage of the total to build our reclamation and water projects we receive 21 of the revenues in the Basin Power revenues make up that savings made anywhere on the project are just as valuable to us as savings made in announcement of these agreements again makes clear that the original utility proposal enthusiastically supported by Governor Senator and other was against the interest of the State of of power and of the Basin Fund from which Utah's projects must be Congress rejected the Clyde-Bennett Utah will enjoy an increased amount from the Basin Fund estimated at I am pleased that the Bureau and the private utilities have finally reached this It will provide million more for the Basin Fund than would the all-Federal and require a smaller Federal investment by Senator Moss said that the Bureau of Reclamation informed him that acceptance of the initial offer of Utah Power and Light and California Pacific Utilities to deliver project power in Utah would have required a payment of Under the present the two companies will receive over the same |