Falls Power Co. Messrs. Lee and Myers submitted two application for preliminary permits for power developments on the Rogue River in Oregon, the first including two dams, reservoirs, and power house with a proposed installation of 121,000 horsepower, and the secon three dams, reservoirs, and power houses, with a proposed installa tion of 83,000 horsepower. Pacific Gas & Electric Co. submitted a application for preliminary permit for a comprehensive developmer on the Middle Fork of Feather River, in California, consisting of storage reservoirs with 460,000 acre-feet of storage, 5 dams, and power houses, with an installation capacity of about 300,000 hors power. Walter H. Wheeler applied for a permit for a power proje on Flathead River and Lake, with a probable installation capacity 270,000 horsepower, conflicting with an application submitted in 19 by Rocky Mountain Power Co., which is still in an active statu Both projects propose to develop five sites on Flathead River by th construction of dams 175, 51, 26, 88, and 17 feet, respectively, height, and to utilize Flathead Lake as a storage and regulatin reservoir.

Conflicting applications for preliminary permit were receive for a project on Chattahoochee River, in Georgia, of about 45.00 horsepower capacity, from Messrs. Hardaway, Lanier & McDonal and Columbus Electric & Power Co., both applicants proposing develop the river from near West Point, Ga., to Franklin, Ga., b means of one or more dams. The Board of Directors of Sta Institutions of the State of Arizona submitted an application for preliminary permit for a project in Wash Canyon in the Colora River. The project includes a dam 383 feet high, creating a rese voir with surface area of 9,000 acres and storage capacity of 1,500,0 acre-feet. The probable installation will be 340,000 horsepow This is the fourth of a series of projects on the Colorado River a plied for by this board. Washington Electric Co., applied f a preliminary permit for a project involving 70,000 horsepower Sultan River, in Washington. Kentucky Utilities Co. applied f a license for an 11,280-horsepower project at United States Da Nos. 3 to 6, inclusive, on the Kentucky River. This project w originally included in a preliminary permit issued to Kentuck Hydro Electric Co., which expired during the past year.

Status of Applications.

Of the 910 cases in which applications have been filed with t commission, 138 were awaiting final action at the end of the ye exclusive of 23 applications for license from permittees in go standing and 1 from a licensee for a part of a development n included in the license originally issued. These figures compare wi 148 and 23 cases, respectively, in like status at the end of the p

ceding fiscal year. Three hundred and thirty-seven licenses and 58 preliminary permits were in effect at the end of the year. These include two cases in each of which two separate licenses were issued, two cases each partly under license and partly under permit, and another case partly under license with action pending on the application for preliminary permit for the remainder of the project. The total number of active cases carried separately in the commission's records was 529 at the end of the year. The number of cases definitely closed was 381, comprising 16 licenses surrendered, 11 licenses revoked or otherwise terminated by the commission, 76 preliminary permits expired (including 7 which were subsequently revived as active cases by the submission of acceptable applications for licenses), and 285 applications rejected, canceled, withdrawn, or combined with other projects.

Of the cases awaiting action at the end of the year, 75 were in a suspended status on account of circumstances beyond the control of the commission. Thirty-eight cases involving the Colorado River or its tributaries are now carried in suspense on the records of the commission in compliance with Senate Joint Resolution No. 4, approved March 4, 1927, which suspended the issuance of preliminary permits or licenses affecting those streams. This limitation expires on March 4, 1929. Action upon three applications affecting the Potomac River is prohibited by House Joint Resolution No. 307, approved May 29, 1928, until after the submission to Congress of a report by the Federal Power Commission and the National Capital Park and Planning Commission on the relation of the power projects to park development in the vicinity of Washington. To the three applications affecting the Clinch River, in Tennessee, suspended last year, have been added seven other cases on tributaries of the Tennessee River in that State, informally suspended awaiting issuance of certificates of convenience and necessity by State authorities. No change has occurred in the status of five applications affecting the St. Lawrence River, one application affecting the Niagara River, and one application affecting the Illinois River, all of which are still being carried in suspense together with 17 other projects upon which action is delayed for various reasons, principally State water-right complications or litigation in the courts. Eighty-six cases (71 original applications and 15 from permittees) upon which the commission was free to act were under investigation in the field or study by the commission's staff at the end of the year. This number compares with 103 such cases at the end of the last fiscal year.

The average rate of receipt of new cases, since the first rush in 1921, has been 111 per year, so that the accumulated cases are equivalent to eight or nine months' receipts at that rate. The ordinary routine of consideration-advertising, field investigation, public

hearings, consideration by the departments, study by the commis sion's staff, authorization by the commission, and issuance of the instruments authorized-has required an average period of nearly 10 months in the cases acted upon to date. Consequently, the consid eration of applications may be described as approximately current a far as cases upon which action is possible are concerned. A larg measure of the credit for this satisfactory condition is due to the efficiencies attained by the field offices of the Corps of Engineers, the Forest Service, and the Geological Survey in conducting the work o the commission in such matters. The commission's Orders, No. 27 issued May 28, 1928, prohibits the presentation to the commission of applications for license until agreement has been reached between the commission's staff and the applicant as to the amounts to be included in the fixed capital accounts. Consequently, the disposition of such applications will necessarily be limited by the progress made in the accounting work, and will probably proceed at a slower rate than attained heretofore.

The diagrams opposite show the status of original applications at the end of each fiscal year of the commission's existence, and por tray the progress made in the consideration of such cases.

The table following shows the distribution of the active applications by States. The figures represent gross horsepower; that is no deductions have been made for duplications in conflicting applications.

TABLE NO. 1.-—Distribution of active projects, by States, to June 30, 1928

No active projects are at present before the commission in the following States: Delaware, Iowa, Kan Bas, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Dakota, Rhode Island Texas, and Vermont.

STATUS OF PROJECTS AT THE END OF EACH FISCAL YEAR NOTE: -No deductions have been made for duplication in conflicting cases

MAJOR PROJECTS UNDER LICENSE

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