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under separate license a site on the Warrior-Tombigbee.^^ The 

 plan of development, therefore, envisages an almost completely 

 integrated hydraulic plan under a single management unit. The 

 sole exception is the federal government's Allatoona project in the 

 headwaters of the Coosa. The cost of storage at Allatoona, which 

 benefits generation at Alabama Power Company's downstream 

 plants, however, can be recouped under existing law by the federal 

 government which provides the headwaiter benefits. ^^ But none of 

 the storage for stream regulation provided by Alabama Power Com- 

 pany under proposed plans would benefit any party which is 

 fiscally independent of the Alabama Power Company.^* In short, 

 all problems associated with direct interdependence in this case 

 would be solved by means of integrating all interdependent units 

 of the hydraulic system into a single enterprise unit, or by the 

 relative location along the stream of federal and private headwater 

 and run-of-river plants. 



Nor does the problem of the relative size of the hydroelectric 

 potential and the electrical system of the developer pose any prob- 

 lems akin to those encountered in the development of the Middle 

 Snake. Table 30 presents data which highlight the contrast. 

 Whereas the Brownlee project — the initial development proposed 

 by Idaho Power Company in the Middle Snake — would approxi- 

 mately double the system's total capacity, the largest proj-ect in the 

 Alabama Power Company's complement of facilities (Kelly Creek, 

 83,400 kilowatts) would represent only about a 5.5 per cent increase 



"A relatively small development is in prospect on the Warrior tributary of 

 the Torabigbee. Alabama Power Company proposes to construct a dam and 

 power house at Upper New Hope on the Sipsey Fork of the Warrior River and 

 to install electrical generating capacity at the existing navigation dam of the 

 federal government at Lock 17 on the Warrior. 



" Contribution to generation at Alabama Power Company's Lay, Mitchell, 

 and Jordan plants by the Allatoona storage is computed to be 38.1 million 

 kw-h during 1953, 52.9 million during 1954, and 26.3 million during 1955. For 

 this energy, Alabama Power Company was assessed $57,955, $66,375, and $32,120, 

 respectively, to defray the "equitable proportion of the annual charges for 

 interest, maintenance, and depreciations" on the Allatoona project. See Federal 

 Power Commission, Determination of Proportion of Annual Charges for Head- 

 water Benefits, In the Matter of Alabama Power Company, Docket No. E-6700, 

 August 1956. 



"This will remain true only so long as the Millers Ferry and Jones Bluff 

 projects, authorized for federal construction, remain unbuilt. 



