Third Powerplant, Grand Coulee Dam: Hearing, Eighty-ninth Congress, First Session, on S. 1761. April 13, 1965, Volumes 8-13U.S. Government Printing Office, 1965 - 49 pages Considers S. 1761, to authorize Interior Dept to construct and maintain third power plant at Grand Coulee Dam, Columbia Basin Project, Washington. |
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3.6 million kilowatts acre-feet additional allocated annual authorization benefit-to-cost ratio billion kilowatt-hours Bonneville Power Administration Bureau of Reclamation Canadian storage Canadian treaty capacity at Grand Chairman Chief Joseph Dam Columbia Basin project Columbia River power Columbia River Treaty committee Congress construction schedule DOMINY downstream economic electric power energy existing facilities financial feasibility flood control forebay dam four units Franklin D Grand Coulee Dam hydro hydroelectric installed capacity Interior investment irrigation kilowatts of installed Libby Dam LUCE Northwest-Pacific Southwest intertie operation outlets Pacific Northwest Pacific Northwest-Pacific Southwest peaking capacity peaking power peaking purposes percent plant potential powerhouse at Grand powerplant at Grand present President proposed report recreation region repayment requirements reservoir Rocky Reach Roosevelt Lake Secretary Senator ANDERSON Senator HAYDEN Senator JACKSON Senator SIMPSON statement switchyard third powerhouse third powerplant transmission treaty with Canada UDALL upstream storage Washington
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Page 10 - I shall appreciate your advice concerning the relationship of this proposal to your program before the report is transmitted to the Congress for its consideration and appropriate action as provided by the Reclamation Project Act of 1939. Sincerely yours, STEWART L. UDALL, Secretary of the Interior. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, BUREAU OF RECLAMATION, Washington DC, March 26, 1965.
Page 9 - It represents exciting new developments in electric power technology. It is the largest single electrical transmission program ever undertaken in this country and is one of the finest examples of cooperation among publicly owned and privately owned utilities and the Federal Government. The rapidly growing demands for electric power in the Pacific Northwest will readily absorb the power produced by the proposed powerplant. However, some peaking power and secondary (not regularly available) power that...
Page 9 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That (a) the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to construct, operate and maintain a...
Page 9 - Thus, the intertie will permit maximum utilization of the waters flowing past Grand Coulee Dam, resulting in conservation in its truest sense. The economic and financial feasibility of the third powerplant are exceptionally favorable. The benefit-cost ratio is more than 3 to 1. Revenues from the sale of power will more than pay for the capital investment within 50 years. In addition to power benefits, the project will provide increased flood-protection benefits by improving control of water stored...
Page 27 - Nation. 7. The project will more than pay for itself as a unit of the Columbia River Federal power system, and will enhance the economic and financial feasibility of the system.
Page 47 - Nation's estimated 1980 requirements of 2.8 trillion kilowatt-hours — more than 2% times the estimated 19C4 total of 1.1 trillion. To produce this energy, the FPC said, a well interconnected and coordinated utility industry will need an Installed capacity of about 525 million kilowatts, compared with about 200 million at the end of 1963. Nearly 70 million kilowatts, or 13 percent, of the 1080 total is expected to be nuclear.
Page 2 - Interior is hereby authorized to construct, operate, and maintain a third powerplant with a rated capacity of approximately three million six hundred thousand kilowatts, and necessary appurtenant works, including a visitor center, at Grand Coulee Dam as an addition to and an integral part of the Columbia Basin Federal reclamation project.
Page 10 - Washington, is transmitted herewith pursuant to section 9 (a) of the Reclamation Project Act of 1939 (53 Stat.
Page 13 - River Basin and to the Secretary of the Army in accordance with the requirements of the Flood Control Act of 1944 (58 Stat.