Percentage relationship of individual maximum demands for public agencies and privately owned utilities to total system noncoincidental maximum demand of 893,877 kilowatts for January 1946-Continued

Includes both firm and dump.

Includes noncoincidental demands for more than 1 delivery point. Maximum demand for firm power scheduled by way of Pacific Gas & Electric and Mountain States systems in repayment for Drain and Douglas Cooperative deliveries.

Included for informational purposes.

NOTE.-The above tabulation shows maximum kilowatts for billing periods ending during month of January. For major utilities and larger industries, billing period corresponds to calendar month. Only deliveries which affect the total system demand are included above. Maximum demands of Bonneville Power Administration customers served by other utilities for which current repayment in kind is not being made are not included.

NEED FOR EXTENSION OF FACILITIES TO MEET POSTWAR POWER DEMANDS

Dr. RAVER. I would like to point out that part of our problem today is getting facilities installed for these people. Now, most of these people had no extensions of lines made in their facilities during the war period. We did not put in any additional transformers in their substations because of the war situation.

Now we are just faced with the very serious problem of expanding those substations in some cases or increasing the capacity of the line because of that load growth. That is part of our problem this year.

Now, we have the same kind of a problem facing us in other parts of the region where they are expecting to get our power, but have not gotten it yet, and that is part of our problem, of building new transmission lines.

We have had some pretty serious power shortages in the Northwest, particularly out in this area, Port Angeles and Port Townsend, up in that area, and now the Crown-Zellerbach people, who have a big pulp mill up here are asking us to give them some assistance in getting the Maritime Commission to put a boat up there to provide them with about 5,000 kilowatts of power until we can get our line in. I doubt if it can be done. I do not know how we can arrange it, but we are trying to work it out.

The same thing is true over here at Toledo. This line is one which we tried to get right in the middle of the war, and we got turned down time and again. These people have been actually without power at times over here during the war in this area.

They have been waiting for this line. We could get no authority to use materials or manpower to build it, so, we have been delaying it and they are asking the Maritime Commission for a ship to provide them with power until the line comes in. We did have some serious power shortages. It is one thing to talk about a power surplus at the dams and another thing to have that power delivered at the place in the region where it is seriously needed. We have a responsibility to those people to get those lines built into the parts of the region where they are now suffering, and that is a part of the transmission line program.

UNANTICIPATED DEMAND FOR POWER FROM LARGE CONSUMERS

I would like to make one other observation about this forecast: In addition to increases in load on our distributing agencies since the war stopped, over and above what we had figured would happen in this forecast, the signing up of the contract with Kaiser-Frazer Corp. by the War Assets Corporation and the possibility of a contract being signed with either the Reynolds Metals Corp. or the American Smelting & Refining at their Troutsdale plant in Oregon changes this picture materially.

In our pay-out report which has been submitted here we did not figure that these aluminum plants would come back into partial production before 1949.

KIND OF LOAD DEVELOPMENT RESULTING IN INCREASES

I would like to make one other point in connection with this growth in load on the part of all distributors, but particularly the public agency distributors of Bonneville power, for of course our district engineers and managers work directly with the public agencies in the development of loads in their own areas. I will give you some examples of the kind of load development work which has resulted in these

increases.

At McMinnville, Oreg., our industrial engineers are working with the local director in the development of a potato dryer which started operation late in 1944, with 400-kilowatt demand. Also a milk dryer was developed down there with 600-kilowatt demand. A shoe grease cooker with another individual who is making shoe grease down at McMinnville, with 30-kilowatt demand.

A cheese plant at Stevenson, Wash., with 40 kilowatts. A rock plant at Stevenson, Wash., with 50 kilowatts.

A boat builder, at Cathlamet, an apparatus in which electricity is used to make steam for the bending of staves for boats; while that only has four kilowatts of demand it does show some possibilities. A fish cannery at Altoona, Wash., with 200 kilowatts demand. At Milwaukie, Oreg., a boat builder with 5 kilowatts.

And, these recommendations have been made and are in the process of construction now.

Three laundries with a total of 850 kilowatts, at McMinnville, Chehalis, and Centralia, Wash., with electrification of the laundry equipment under way.

A creamery at Yelm, Wash., with 1,200 kilowatts.

A tuna fish cooker, at Altoona, Wash., with 500 kilowatts; that was not in existence before.

An oil tank heater, with 20 kilowatts, at Cathlamet, Wash.

A pole plant, Lewis County Public Utility District, Wash., 24 kilowatts; a pole plant at Skamania Public Utility District, Wash., with 288 kilowatts.

And a pasteurizer at Skamokawa, Wash., with 5 kilowatts.

Mr. JOHNSON of Oklahoma. That is very good. You may put the rest of that in.

(The matter above referred to is as follows:)

Typical loads that have been installed and are now operating in 1 district

Loads upon which recommendations have been made and are in process of negotiations or under construction in one district

Chehalis, Wash.

Dairy plants

Skamania public utilities department, Domestic water pumping.
Wash.

Dr. RAVER. Those are all types of industrial work that our industrial people are working at directly with the distributors of our power, and that kind of work has had a lot to do with this growth of load and will have a lot more to do with it in the future, especially since it is paying for itself in dollars returned to the Federal Government in increased sales of power which we make.

Now, this whole increase of all of those distributiors amounts to about 125,000 kilowatts for the area. That is more than one Grand Coulee generator alone.

Mr. JOHNSON of Oklahoma. Before we go into the detailed discussion of the estimates, I want to ask two or three general questions not connected with this subject matter, that I have taken the liberty of asking the heads of most of the agencies that have come before the committee.

EMPLOYMENT OF UNQUALIFIED AND UNNECESSARY PERSONNEL

Doctor, did you ever have anyone on your pay roll who was not performing actual work essential to your activities?

Dr. RAVER. No, sir; not that I know of.

Mr. JOHNSON of Oklahoma. If you had been ordered to place someone on your pay roll by the "late" Secretary of the Interior, whom you had reason to believe or even suspected was not qualified to perform the work to which he or she was to be assigned, would you do so without protesting?

Dr. RAVER. I have never had to face that issue, Mr. Chairman. Certainly I would not do it without protesting.

Mr. JOHNSON of Oklahoma. I am glad to know that, Doctor. Now, if anyone were placed on your pay roll under your protest by the "late" Secretary of the Interior, or on his orders and that person performed no essential work for which he or she was paid, would you permit such a party to remain on your pay roll for 4 years and 11 months and be permitted to be paid a per diem of $7 per day in addition to salary? Dr. RAVER. I do not know whether I would have any choice in the matter as Administrator.

Mr. JOHNSON of Oklahoma. Well, if there was such a person on your pay roll for 4 years and 11 months at $6,000 a year plus $7 per diem, plus an additional sum of at least $1,900 for paid lectures, would you recommend to the Secretary of the Interior, or to the President of the United States, that that person be given a medal of merit for outstanding services rendered during the war?

Dr. RAVER. Not on the basis of the information you have given me; sir.

Mr. JOHNSON of Oklahoma. Well, I will say that on the basis of the information given you the late Secretary of the Interior, in a letter dated January 31, in this year of our Lord 1946, did ask the President of the United States to give such a person a medal of merit-not on the basis of having been on the pay roll and performing no services, but on the basis of having gone to Europe and collected 1,000 refugees while on the pay roll of the Alaskan Railroad and, for that, the Secretary of the Interior thought this party was entitled to a medal of merit-which I am glad to say the President refused to even seriously consider.

FUNDS REQUESTED FOR CONSTRUCTION, OPERATION, AND MAINTENANCE

Now, I see you are asking for a total of $21,173,069 for the next. fiscal year. That is made up of a direct appropriation of $19,701,000 and an estimated unobligated balance of $1,472,069. When was that estimated unobligated balance submitted to the Bureau of the Budget?

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