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is, domestic-residential consumption would share in the gains to 

 the extent of 57.3 per cent, or $672,000; and commercial-industrial 

 users would participate in 36.6 per cent of the gains, or $429,200. 



As in the case involving the marketing operations of the public 

 distributors reselling federally developed power, we also assume 

 that the locus of the gains associated with distribution of power to 

 final-demand uses will remain with the households in the region. 

 The regional locus of gains associated with the distribution of proj- 

 ect output to derived-demand uses will be governed by the same 

 considerations — and hence we employ the same basic assumptions — 

 as for public distributors' marketing operations that involved the 

 retailing of federally developed sources of energy. The marketing 

 of project output by a local public body may involve some sales to 

 the electro-process industries, especially if the project is substantially 

 larger than that assumed for our hypothetical Willamette River 

 site.22 In that case, the analysis of the locus of gains would be 

 comparable to that underlying Table 54. Since this contingency 

 would not be in prospect in connection with our hypothetical 

 Willamette Basin site, we do not repeat it here — in spite of the 

 fact that it might be applicable to other hydroelectric developments 

 in the Northwest. 



Employing the assumptions similar to those used to identify the 

 locus of gains in connection with public distributors of federally 

 developed power, the appropriate magnitudes in this case are those 

 shown in Table 56. 



If the reimbursable project feature were developed by a munici- 

 pality with a distribution of project output similar to the average 

 among municipalities in the Pacific Northwest, most gains would 

 center in the region in which the project is located. Of the total 



"In the case of the Willamette River site, under federal development we 

 assumed that a portion of the projects's output would be made available, in 

 combination with output from other federally developed sources, to the electro- 

 process industries. In the case of a relatively small development such as the 

 Cougar Dam on the Willamette, the amount of output would not meet the 

 needs of the city of Eugene as well as the requirements of an electro-process 

 operation. On the other hand, there are plans for co-operative development 

 of the Priest Rapids site on the Columbia, and the redevelopment of the Rock 

 Island Dam by local public utility districts (Grant County and Chelan County 

 respectively), which contemplate the distribution of some portion of the 

 energy to electro-process firms. 



