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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Page 43 - President of the United States, to the President of the Senate and Speaker of the House of Representatives...
Page 43 - Washington, DC DEAR SENATOR JACKSON: I have the honor to transmit herewith a certified copy of Senate Resolution No.
Page 8 - 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...
Page 8 - 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 37 - 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 43 - ... and be it further Resolved, That the Secretary of the Senate transmit copies of this resolution to the President and Vice President of the United States, to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, and to each Senator and Representative from California in the Congress of the United States.
Page 46 - 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 1 - 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 37 - ... States must construct additional power-generating facilities at its existing system of dams to take full advantage of this potential. The Grand Coulee Dam, because of its location in relation to other Columbia River powerplants, its height, its large reservoir capacity, and the reregulation of...
Page 9 - State in accordance with the provisions of the Act of August 14, 1946 (60 Stat. 1080). Copies of the report...