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13) p. 5-8, "Environmental Report," op. cit. 



14) 23 March 1992 correspondence and attachments, John Holmes, 

 Project Manager, to William E. Hanson, U.S. - GAO, Seattle. 



15) "Columbia River Summary Report," 1992, EPA Region 10 for the 

 Northwest Power Planning Council, June. 



16) Pfeiffer, George, and Whittlesey, Norman K. , "Economic Costs of 

 Controlling Water Quality Through Management of Irrigation Return 

 Flows," 1976, State of Washington Water Research Center, Washington 

 State University, August. 



17) Table 4.1, p. 92, Majoro, Hoeketski, op. cit. 



18) Olson, Ted, "Management of Declining Ground-Water Levels in 

 Part of Eastern Washington," in Engineering Geology in Washington, 

 vol. II, 1989, pp. 1015 - 1032. 



19) pp. 352-3S3, Gardner, Richard L. , and Young, Robert A., "The 

 Effects of Electricity Rates and Rate Structures on Pump 

 Irrigation: An Eastern Colorado Case Study," Journal of Land 

 Economics, Vol. 60, No. 4, November, 1984. 



20) p. 358, ibid. 



21) "Columbia River Summary Report," op. cit. 



22) Returns to agriculture would amount to roughly $2.5 million at 

 current commodity prices and typical crop rotations in the 

 agricultural production area. It would be more cost effective for 

 BPA to simply pay irrigators their typical return ($1.4 million) on 

 this volume of production and provide retraining and relocation 

 assistance to displaced workers. 



23) 73,667 Acre Feet of excess water are diverted at Grand Coulee: 

 73,667 AF x 1,167 cumulative head x 0.87 kWh x 39 mills marginal 

 cost = S2, 916, 941. 



24) Table 3-20, p. 38, "Preliminary Draft, Task 3," op. cit. 



25) Section D, vol. 2, "The Role of Electricity in Pacific 

 Northwest Irrigated Agriculture," op. cit. 



26) p. 1-1, "Modeling Irrigation Conservation and Electrical 

 Demand," 1986, Northwest Economic Associates for BPA. 



27) p. 39, "Potential Conservation Opportunities from the Use of 

 Improved Irrigation Scheduling in the Pacific Northwest Region," 

 1989, Pacific Northwest Labatory for BPA, March. 



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