Bureau of Reclamation's Central Utah and Central Valley Projects Repayment Arrangements

摘要

The Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation, the federal government's principal water development and management organization in the western United States, develops and operates projects to provide water for the generation of electricity and for municipal and industrial use and irrigation. Certain project costs must be paid by the project beneficiaries. GAO was asked to examine the repayment arrangements for two of these projects: the Central Utah Project's Bonneville Unit and the Central Valley Project in California. GAO found that the current repayment contracts are inadequate to recover costs.