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effective manner, if at all. 



Given NIU's main constituency among larger irrigators in the 

 Mid-Columbia, it is likely that energy conservation savings will be 

 accomplished at relatively large expense in the foirm of costly, 

 incremental improvements in large-irrigator efficiencies, from 80% 

 to 90%, e.g., with little or no savings in water consumption and 

 recapture of water for instream benefits and hydropower generation. 



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