Opinion ID: 343208
Heading Depth: 2
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: Text of CRSP

Text: 38 Turning first to the text of CRSP, we find no prohibition of geographic preferences. It is clear that if Congress wanted to specify a geographic basis for disposition of hydroelectric power it knew how to do so. The same Congress that enacted CRSP also authorized the Secretary to construct a Trinity River Division of the Central Valley Project of California. Act of Aug. 12, 1955, ch. 872, 69 Stat. 719. Section 4 of that act specifically requires that preference customers in Trinity County receive 25 per cent of the power generated by the Trinity River Division. 33 Thus, if Congress had desired in the text of CRSP to allot Arizona or the lower basin states a specified amount of power, it had a recent precedent to guide it. 34 No such explicit prohibition of geographic preferences appears, however, nor does Arizona Power allege that the geographic preference is inconsistent with any of the explicit statutory restrictions on the Secretary's discretion. We do not find in the text of CRSP, therefore, any legal standard to apply to the Secretary's action.