Navajo Power Project Fact Sheet
Updated 12/15/97
Number of potentially displaced head of household jobs:
| Indian | Non-Indian | Total | |
| Navajo Generating Station full-time | 316 | 264 | 580 |
| Kayenta Mine full-time | 455 | 35 | 490 |
| Navajo Generating Station seasonal | 359 | 27 | 386 |
| Scrubber
Construction Project (concludes mid-2000) |
485 | 15 | 500 |
| Total | 1,615 | 341 | 1,956 |
Annual costs of closing the Navajo Project:
| Navajo Generating Station payroll- | 39,700,000 |
| Kayenta Mine payroll- | 18,000,000 |
| Scrubber project payroll- | 13,000,000 |
| Mine royalties and fees paid to Navajo Nation- | 21,000,000 |
| Coconino County
taxes paid by NGS - (approximately $8.1 million to schools) |
12,000,000 |
| Navajo Tribal Utility Authority Revenue - | 1,400,000 |
| NGS Materials and
supplies purchased in Coconino County - (An additional $13.9 million is spent in other Arizona counties) |
1,420,000 |
| Increase in fuel and operating costs to utility customers - | 19,000,000 |
| Fuel and operating costs for replacement combined cycle natural gas plants projected to be 7% higher than Navajo Project costs. | |
| Total Annual costs: | $ 125,520,000 |
One time costs of closing the Navajo Project:
| Replacement of NGS’s generating capacity with new combined cycle natural gas plants (from a 1996 survey of gas turbine construction costs) – | $1,500,000,000 |
| Estimated cost to decommission plant and mine - | 137,000,000 |
| Kayenta Mine & Joint Facilities net book value - | 85,800,000 |
| Navajo Generating
Station net book value - Includes $470 million scrubber construction in progress for sulfur dioxide pollution controls ordered by the EPA, now 2/3 complete. Remaining term of the Navajo Project Water Service Agreement |
870,000,000 |
| Estimated lost value of homes for Page, LeChee, Kaibeto, Shonto, Kayenta, and Black Mesa, Arizona full-time employees: | 74,900,000 |
| Total one-time costs: | $2,667,700,000 |
| Individuals supplied with electricity by the Navajo Project: | 3,000,000 |
Assumes NGS’s production of 1,377,000,000 kiloWatt hours per month at 85% capacity is distributed to residents of Phoenix, Tucson, Los Angeles, and Las Vegas, where the average two and one half person household uses approximately 1,150kWh per month. Actual power deliveries include both business and residential customers.
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