MEDFOBD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREGON
SUNDAY. DECEMBER 9. I9S2
By A. ROBERT SMITH
Mail Tribune
Wjhingion Correspondent
Washington (Special) - In
terior Secretary Stewart Udall
is in the doghouse with most
mem rjers or.
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lion.
A series of such episodes
was climaxed last week by
Udall's petition to intervene
In the Snake River case as
an advocate of a federal dam,
urging the FPC to reject the
application of Pacific North
west Power company for High
Mountain Sheep dam and the
rival bid of Washington Pub
lic Power Supply system for
Nez Perce dam.
"Unfortunately, lale appear
ances appear to he a way of
life for the secretary," wryly
observed Commissioner
Charles R. Ross nf Vermont
in a recent opinion approved
by four of the five-man FPC.
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i Udall's lone defender at the
moment is Commissioner
Howard Morgan of Oregon.
, Growing Annoyance
While a 4-to-l indictment of
( Udall's tardiness is irrelevant
; to the real issues which divide
powerful private utilities and
jpublic power advocates, the
growing annoyance with
I Udall by a majority of the
! FPC indicates little solicitude
within the FPC for the cause
of government dam building
j which Udall serves,
j One thing is certain. Presi
jdent Kennedy, given the op
portunity of appointing five
new FPC commissioners since
! assuming office, has not pack
led it with a strong pro-public
I power team, as some utility
executives feared he would
I when he named Joseph Swid
ler of Tennessee, an ex-TVA
i official, to head this key regu
latory agency.
Swidler, in the view of
many Washington observers,
has leaned over backward to
subdue any suspicions that he
is a public power champion -so
much so that public power
interests are openly disap
pointed in his performance
to date.
President Eisenhower's FPC
appointees were decidedly
pro-private enterprise, evok
ing constant criticism from
liberal Democrats in Congress
and public power groups for
such decisions as their licens
ing of Idaho Power company
for private dams which pre
cluded a federal dam at Hells
canyon on the Oregon-Idaho
border.
Since none of the contro
versies pending before the
present FPC has been decided,
no definitive analysis of the
philosophical makeup of the
Kennedy -appointed FPC is
possible.
i Two important cases now
pending will test the new com
j missioners. Both involve ma
jor river development
schemes in which local utility
authorities, some private,
I some public, are seeking li
i censes to build dams. In both
I instances Udall is seeking to
persuade the FPC to reject
these applications and to
recommend that Congress
authorize federal dams built
by the Bureau of Reclema
tion. The first is the Marble Can
yon case on the Colorado river
in northwestern Arizona. The
Arizona Power authority, a
state agency, wants a license
to build a 510,000 kilowatt
hydroelectric dam in Marble
Canyon 12 miles north of
where the Colorado enters
Grand Canyon National park
The reservoir of the proposed
dam would extend 5S miles
upriver to the Glen Canyon
dam which the Bureau of
Reclamation is now building
as part of the massive Upper
Colorado Storage project.
Opposed By City
The City nf Los Angeles op
poses this application on
grounds that it would only
partially harness that stretch
of the Colorado. It claims that
in addition to the Marble Can
yon dam, a diversion tunnel
extending 44 miles due west
to Kanab creek would permit
construction there of addition
al hydroelectric facilities
which would boost the total
installed capacity to 2 million
kilowatts.
Los Angeles doesn't want a
license to build such a project,
but wants the FPC to recom
mend congressional authoriza
tion for federal development
by the bureau of reclamation.
The National Park service has
opposed this alternative be
cause the diversion tunnel
would cut across five miles of
the national park.
The FPC's examiner, who
presided at hearings in which
these counter proposals were
aired, recommended a license
for the Arizona Power author
ity. He concluded that the op
position of ihe Park service
and organized conservation
ists dimmed prospects for eon
gressional authorization of
federal dams.
Habitually Tardy
At this point Udall asked
to intervene in behalf of fed
eral projects, thus provoking
the comment from Commis
sioner Ross '.h.it he is habitu
ally tardy. The FPC, with
Morgan dissenting, rejected
Udall's request thai the hear
ings be reopened for testimony
I supporting a federal develop
ment plan: instead, it granted
Udall the right to file a brief
taking exception to the exam
iner's decision and to be heard
when all parlies make their
oral arguments before the five
commissioners.
Morgan wrote a stinging
dissent, chastizing his col
leagues for refusing to allow
Interior department witnesses
to testify in behalf of their
plan. While believing the
rules of timeliness should be
followed, especially in rate
regulation cases where errors
subsequently discovered can
be corrected even retroactive
ly. Morgan argued that a few
months delay to hear Udall's
witnesses is a minor consider
ation for a hydroelectric proj
ect. "Once built, a project er
roneously conceived and li
censed is not even correctable
by the courts. Nor will it be
correctable by any members
of the five or six generations
of people, at a minimum, who
i must somehow manage to live
with an error enshrined in
steel and concrete during the
i whole of its usable life," said
Morgan.
Rival Applicants
The second major contro
jversy is the Snake river case
i where public and private utili
ties are rival applicants. In
i this case, the FPC examiner j
j has recommended in favor of
jfacmc iNonnwesi t'ower com
, pany's bid for High Mountain
Sheep dam. and against Wash
ington Public Power Supply
CAP Members To
Portland Meeting
Seven senior members of
the Medford squadron. Civil
Air Patrol, attended the Ore
gon Wing CAP conference in
Portland recently.
Attending were Maj. .Inhn
Keener, commander; Lt. Jack
Hall. Lt. Mary Lou Hall;
Warrant Officer Lucille
Keener. Warrant Officer
Nancy Weber, and Sgt. Jack
Weber and Mary llousell.
Also attending were two
Air Force Reserve Liaison of
ficers attached to the Med
ford squadron. They were Lt.
Col. R. E. Nelson and Maj.
R. E. Mclntyre.
Emphasized at the confer
ence was emergency service
training which included the
CAP and Civil Defense
emergency procedure.
The CAP senior staff meet
ing will be held Monday, Dec.
10, at 7:30 p.m. at the CAP
building at the Medford Mu
nicipal airport.
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system's request for Nez
Perce dam
Udall agrees that Nez Perce
should not be built because it
would block the valuable
migratory fish runs into Ida
ho's Salmon river, but he
wants the government rather
than the private utility to
build Mountain Sheep dam.
Having been denied the re
quest to reopen the Marble
Canyon case for further testi
mony, Udall sought only the
privilege of filing exceptions
to the examiner's Snake river
; decision and making oral
I arguments. Having granted
this much in the Marble Can
yon case, the FPC is likely
ito grant the same request for
the Snake river case,
j The forthcoming final de
cisions by the FPC in these
two major controveries will
do much to shape the record
and public impression of the
Kennedy Administration in
the field of western river
development before President
Kennedy must go before the
voters in 1064.
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