Westinghouse is very appreciative of the opportunity of submitting this brief statement. We would be most pleased to provide additional information if it is required.

Sincerely,

BRUCE MORRISON, General Manager, Heat Transfer and Water Province Division.

Mr. JOHNSON. I also have a request from the Pacific Gas and Electric Co. for permission to submit a statement at a later date, prior to the close of the record. Is there objection?

Mr. CAMP. No objection.

Mr. JOHNSON. Hearing none, so ordered. (The statement follows:)

PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY,
Washington, D.C., May 4, 1971.

Hon. HAROLD T. JOHNSON,
Chairman, Irrigation and Reclamation Subcommittee of the House Committee
on Interior and Insular Affairs, House of Representatives, Washington, D.C.
DEAR MR. CHAIRMAN: Pacific Gas and Electric Company's interest in the
Federal/state desalination research and development program is evidenced by
our participation with the Office of Saline Water and the California Department
of Water Resources in a feasibility study at our Diablo Canyon site. The attached
press release dated January 12, 1971, gives the highlights of this project.

We are in general agreement with the aims and purposes of your bill H.R. 5334, but feel it needs to be clarified as to the role of utilities and other nonFederal entities in the research and the ultimate development of a large scale prototype plant. To accomplish this we urge adoption of the following amendments in your Committee's bill:

1. Page 4, lines 5 and 6, after the word "non-Federal" strike "governmental entities and utilities" and insert "utilities and governmental entities”.

2. Page 4, line 22, delete “entity or" and insert “or utilities" after entities.

3. Page 4, after paragraph (ii), insert a new paragraph (iii) :

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(iii) availability of cooperating entities or utilities willing to enter, and capable or entering, into agreements and contracts providing an energy source for the plant;"

4. Page 5, renumber paragraphs (iii) and (iv) to read (iv) and (v).

If the above amendments are adopted, the bill will more clearly state that the Federal Government is not to undertake its own power generation unless such is not available from existing non-Federal entities or utilities.

Yours very truly,

RALPH B. DEWEY, Assistant to the President.

Mr. JOHNSON. Is there any further business to come before the committee?

There being no business coming before the committee, the committee stands adjourned

(Whereupon, the committee adjourned at 4:45 p.m.)