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Federal Electric Power: Information Concerning the Colorado River Storage Project

RCED-90-2FS Published: Oct 03, 1989. Publicly Released: Nov 06, 1989.
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Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information about the Colorado River Storage Project, a comprehensive federal water project designed to develop the Upper Colorado River Basin's water resources, focusing on: (1) investment costs and repayments; (2) power sales revenues; (3) power asset values; (4) wholesale power rates; and (5) the effects of its Central Utah Project's proposed modification of a planned power system to enable it to provide commercial power.

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