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RED-76-43 1 (1975-10-31)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaaawc0001 and id is 1 raw text is: UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFrICE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 RESOURCES AN13 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DIVISION OCT21197%#qI B-125042 The Secretary of the Interior - LM096795 Dear i,r. Secretary: As part of our review of Federal power-marketing activities, we examined the power operations of the Boulder Canyon project in the Bureau of Reclamaticn's Lower Colorado Region. We believe there is an opportunity for increasing tne output of electrical energy at that project by changing the method of designatirg generators used to produce electricity at the Hoover powerplant.1 Two agents for eight allottees2 operate the Hoover powerplant under a leasing arrangement with the 3ureau. Each allottee receives its energy from specific generators without reqard to how this impacts on efficient operation of the Hoover powerplant as a system. Several Bureau regional officials aareed with our observation that, if the Hoover powerplant were operaLed as a single sstem, its efficiency could be improved to a level comparable to that of the Glen Canyon generating plant in the Upper Colorado Region, with the exception of a cprtain amount of efficiency which is attributable to the more modern equipment at Glen Canyon. The regional officials said that they believed the powerplarits at toe two projects were coraoarable in that tney naa similar heads3 and discharge capabilities, tnat is, tney can release tne same amount of water through the generating units. If doover's gi.nerating efficiency were i,-proved to a level comparable to that of Glen Canyon's, arproxinately 1Hoover powerplant is part of the 3oulaer Canyon project. 2( 'stomers aLlotted power from Hoover powerplant. 3. e dfference of elevation between the water surface of the reservoir and tne water below the powerplant. RLD-76-43

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