Federal electric power

Technical Report · Fri Mar 01 04:00:00 EST 1991

OSTI ID:5658860

In 1956 the Congress authorized the U.S. bureau of Reclamation's Colorado River Storage Project (CRSP) to develop the water resources of the Upper Colorado River Basin. The price of CRSP electricity the CRSP power rate normally generates sufficient repayment revenue and is periodically recalculated to reflect updated cost information. Since 1983, the Bureau of Reclamation (Bureau) and Western have excluded from the power rate the estimated irrigation construction costs of some authorized participating projects that have not been constructed and are not currently planned for construction. This book determines the effects of such exclusion on CRSP power rates and electricity revenues, repayments to the U.S. Treasury, and the ultimate development of Upper Colorado River Basin water resources as envisioned in CRSP legislation. It also determines which of CRSP's authorized participating projects have been constructed and whether or not each is included in the power rate calculation; the legal basis and rationale for excluding participating project costs, or portions of them, from the rate calculation, as well as the rationale for not seeking deauthorization of excluded projects; and whether the information provided to the Subcommittee for its oversight of CRSP is adequate.

• Research Organization: General Accounting Office, Washington, DC (United States). Resources, Community and Economic Development Div.
• OSTI ID: 5658860
• Report Number(s): GAO/RCED-91-62
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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