16 U.S.C. § 832a : US Code - Section 832A: General administrative provisions

Search 16 U.S.C. § 832a : US Code - Section 832A: General administrative provisions

(a) Appointment of Administrator; powers and duties
The electric energy generated in the operation of the said
Bonneville project shall be disposed of by the said administrator
as provided in this chapter. The administrator shall be appointed
by the Secretary of Energy; shall be responsible to said Secretary
of Energy; and shall maintain his principal office at a place
selected by him in the vicinity of the Bonneville project.
The Administrator shall, as in this chapter provided, make all
arrangements for the sale and disposition of electric energy
generated at Bonneville project not required for the operation of
the dam and locks at such project and the navigation facilities
employed in connection therewith. He shall act in consultation with
the Secretary of Energy. The form of administration established in
this chapter for the Bonneville project is intended to be
provisional pending the establishment of a permanent administration
for Bonneville and other projects in the Columbia River Basin. The
Secretary of the Army shall install and maintain additional
machinery, equipment, and facilities for the generation of electric
energy at the Bonneville project when in the judgment of the
administrator such additional generating facilities are desirable
to meet actual or potential market requirements for such electric
energy. The Secretary of the Army shall schedule the operations of
the several electrical generating units and appurtenant equipment
of the Bonneville project in accordance with the requirements of
the administrator. The Secretary of the Army shall provide and
maintain for the use of the administrator at said Bonneville
project adequate station space and equipment, including such
switches, switchboards, instruments, and dispatching facilities as
may be required by the administrator for proper reception,
handling, and dispatching of the electric energy produced at the
said project, together with transformers and other equipment
required by the administrator for the transmission of such energy
from that place at suitable voltage to the markets which the
administrator desires to serve.
The office of the Administrator of the Bonneville project is
constituted an office in the Department of Energy and shall be
under the jurisdiction and control of the Secretary of Energy. All
functions vested in the Administrator of the Bonneville project
under this chapter may be exercised by the Secretary of Energy and,
subject to his supervision and direction, by the Administrator and
other personnel of the project.
(b) Electric transmission lines and equipment
In order to encourage the widest possible use of all electric
energy that can be generated and marketed and to provide reasonable
outlets therefor, and to prevent the monopolization thereof by
limited groups, the administrator is authorized and directed to
provide, construct, operate, maintain, and improve such electric
transmission lines and substations, and facilities and structures
appurtenant thereto, as he finds necessary, desirable, or
appropriate for the purpose of transmitting electric energy,
available for sale, from the Bonneville project to existing and
potential markets, and, for the purpose of interchange of electric
energy, to interconnect the Bonneville project with other Federal
projects and publicly owned power systems constructed on or after
August 20, 1937.
(c) Acquisition of property
The administrator is authorized, in the name of the United
States, to acquire, by purchase, lease, condemnation, or donation,
such real and personal property, or any interest therein, including
lands, easements, rights-of-way, franchises, electric transmission
lines, substations, and facilities and structures appurtenant
thereto, as the administrator finds necessary or appropriate to
carry out the purposes of this chapter. Title to all property and
property rights acquired by the administrator shall be taken in the
name of the United States.
(d) Condemnation
The administrator shall have power to acquire any property or
property rights, including patent rights, which in his opinion are
necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter, by the
exercise of the right of eminent domain and to institute
condemnation proceedings therefor in the same manner as is provided
by law for the condemnation of real estate.
(e) Disposal of property
The administrator is authorized, in the name of the United
States, to sell, lease, or otherwise dispose of such personal
property as in his judgment is not required for the purposes of
this chapter and such real property and interests in land acquired
in connection with construction or operation of electric
transmission lines or substations as in his judgment are not
required for the purposes of this chapter: Provided, however, That
before the sale, lease, or disposition of real property or
transmission lines, as herein provided, the administrator shall
secure the approval of the President of the United States.
(f) Contracts
Subject only to the provisions of this chapter, the Administrator
is authorized to enter into such contracts, agreements, and
arrangements, including the amendment, modification, adjustment, or
cancelation (!1) thereof and the compromise or final settlement of
any claim arising thereunder, and to make such expenditures, upon
such terms and conditions and in such manner as he may deem
necessary.