in an equitable manner, and to maximize the use of hydro power and brown coal power sources, thereby minimizing the transportation of hard coal; 3. Provision was made for the equitable export of electric power to Liberated Countries in so far as it was available; 4. A survey was made of the sources of materials for rehabilitation and maintenance scattered throughout the four Zones, and plans were developed to make these resources available to all of Germany. 5. A Central Records Office was established, under the supervision of a U.S. Public Utility Officer, where the various records of German utilities and German Engineering Societies could be assembled, preserved, maintained, and examined in order to be available for immediate use, and at the appropriate time incorporated as part of the records of a future German Government. The Central Records Office is reestablishing the communication system to all control points in Germany by the use of carrier current and teletype. This office has provided record services and special engineering serevices of great value to all Quadripartite members, through the engineering groups under its supervision; 6. Discussed and agreed upon basic factors to be used in the determination of capacity to be left in Germany. 7. Decided on the amount of capacity to remain in each Zone after the total capacity for Germany, based on the level of industry had been determined by the Control Council; 8. Selected and agreed upon the specific power plants, both public utility and industrial, that would be declared for reparations; 9. Discussed the formation of central control of Utilities on a Zonal basis which could eventually be combined into a central control for Germany. Program and Progress German economy depends on its industry, and industry in Germany is dependent on electric power. The level of power production has been limited only by the availability of coal. Electric power and gas have been available substantially as fast as industry was provided with resources and materials to start production. In 1932 Germany produced approximately 24 Billion Kilowatt hours. For the year 1946, Germany (exclusive of conquered countries formerly incorporated in German production) produced by June at the annual rate of 29 billion KW hours. The U. S. Zone has a capacity of 5,9 billion kilowatt hours annually. Gas production has reached a level of 53% of the 1938 production. Of 138 gas producing plants in the U. S. Zone, 130 are in operation. Ruhr gas imports, which were very small in 1938, but amounted to 12,000,000 cubic meters per month in 1944, are currently at 5,400,000 cubic meters per month. Water service has been restored to 919 communities serving a population of 9,859,000. There are only 24 sewerage plants that are not in full operation, out of a total of 445 in the U. S. Zone. Despite the damage to water systems and sewerage plants and the attendant danger of contamination there has been surprisingly little disease reported from this source. The U. S. Zone depends largely on hydro power for its electric power supply: practically all of Germany's hydro power is located in the U. S. Zone and adjacent territories. There is little brown or stein coal in the U. S. Zone, so it depends on coal allocated and transported from the Ruhr (British Zone) to operate its thermal generating stations and gas plants. During the latter part of 1945, German hydro generation experienced one of its lowest production levels. Water storage was exhausted two months earlier than during a normal year. Due to transportation difficulties, caused largely by a lack of usable railway cars and locomotives, coal was not available for the operation of thermal electric power generation stations, which resulted in a critical shortage of electric power and gas. Zonal Information and Control Office The Public Utilities Section has organized a Load Dispatching and Information Center at Kelsterbach, near Frankfurt, where the main 220 KV transmission lines from the Ruhr are controlled, and communication with the Ruhr and all control points in the U. S. Zone, as well as the central control point in the French Zone, have been reestablished or provided. This Load Dispatching point is manned by German Load Dispatchers, representing Bavaria, Wuerttemberg-Baden and Greater-Hesse, under the direct supervision of a U. S. Public Utility Officer and an assistant. Here a daily and continuing record is kept on all power available in the U. S. and adjacent Zones; daily movement of coal to each thermal station is supervised; and pertinent data is transmitted daily to the Berlin Office, where overall supervision is exercised in order to maintain the maximum distribution of available power not only to the U. S. Zone but to other Zones and liberated countries, utilizing transmission facilities of the U. S. Zone. The Kelsterbach Load Dispatching and Information Office also secures and transmits daily to the Berlin Office data on the gas plants and coal requirements, uses, and movements. Maximum Use of Resources In order to utilize Germany's indigenous economic resources it is necessary to use hydro power to the greatest extent possible, supplemented by power generated by brown coal stations located adjacent to brown coal mines, thus saving transportation. The balance of electric power is produced from power generating plants using stein or hard coal, located at most advantageous points on the system with due regard to the technical problems involved. The amount of electrical generating capacity to be left in Germany as agreed upon by the Level of Industry Committee and the Control Council was 9,000,000 Kilowatts. Of this total the Electric and Gas Committee at the Quadripartite Level decided the quota for the US Zone would be 1,500,000 Kws of firm capacity. No hydro power plants were to be considered for reparations. In computing the firm hydro power relationship to the 1,500,000 Kws total to be left in the U. S. Zone, the average of six low months during 1943, (an average hydro year) was used. The U. S. Zone does not have sufficient firm electric generation to supply its requirements during the low hydro winter |