16 U.S.C. § 837 : US Code - Section 837: Definitions

Search 16 U.S.C. § 837 : US Code - Section 837: Definitions

As used in this chapter -
(a) "Secretary" means the Secretary of Energy.
(b) "Pacific Northwest" means (1) the region consisting of the
States of Oregon and Washington, the State of Montana west of the
Continental Divide, and such portions of the States of Nevada,
Utah, and Wyoming within the Columbia drainage basin and of the
State of Idaho as the Secretary may determine to be within the
marketing area of the Federal Columbia River power system, and (2)
any contiguous areas, not in excess of seventy-five airline miles
from said region, which are a part of the service area of a rural
electric cooperative served by the Administrator on December 5,
1980, which has a distribution system from which it serves both
within and without said region.
(c) "Surplus energy" means electric energy generated at Federal
hydroelectric plants in the Pacific Northwest which would otherwise
be wasted because of the lack of a market therefor in the Pacific
Northwest at any established rate.
(d) "Surplus peaking capacity" means electric peaking capacity at
Federal hydroelectric plants in the Pacific Northwest for which
there is no demand in the Pacific Northwest at any established
rate.
(e) "Non-Federal utility" means any utility not owned or
controlled by the United States, including any entity (1) which
such a utility owns or controls, in whole or in part, or is
controlled by, (2) which is controlled by those controlling such
utility, or (3) of which such utility is a member.
(f) "Energy requirements of any Pacific Northwest customer" means
the full requirements for electric energy of (1) any purchaser from
the United States for direct consumption in the Pacific Northwest,
and (2) any non-Federal utility in that region in excess of (i) the
hydroelectric energy available for its own use from its generating
plants in the Pacific Northwest, and (ii) any additional energy
available for use in the Pacific Northwest which, under a then
existing contract, the utility (A) can obtain at no higher
incremental cost than the rate charged by the United States, or (B)
is required to accept.
(g) Terms not defined herein shall, unless the context requires
otherwise, have the meaning given them in the March 1949 Glossary
of Important Power and Rate Terms prepared under the supervision of
the Federal Power Commission.