Notes on pacific northwest electric power planning and conservation : US Code - Notes

Search Notes on pacific northwest electric power planning and conservation : US Code - Notes

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839. Congressional declaration of purpose.
839a. Definitions.
839b. Regional planning and participation.
(a) Pacific Northwest Electric Power and
Conservation Planning Council; establishment
and operation as regional agency.
(b) Alternative establishment of Council as Federal
agency.
(c) Organization and operation of Council.
(d) Regional conservation and electric power plan.
(e) Plan priorities and requisite features;
studies.
(f) Model conservation standards; surcharges.
(g) Public information; consultation; contracts and
technical assistance.
(h) Fish and wildlife.
(i) Review.
(j) Requests by Council for action.
(k) Review and analysis of 5-year period of Council
activities.
839c. Sale of power.
(a) Preferences and priorities.
(b) Sales to public bodies, cooperatives, and
Federal agency customers.
(c) Purchase and exchange sales.
(d) Sales to existing direct service industrial
customers.
(e) Contractual entitlements to firm power.
(f) Surplus power.
(g) Long-term contracts.
839d. Conservation and resource acquisition.
(a) Conservation measures; resources.
(b) Acquisition of resources.
(c) Procedure for acquiring major resources,
implementing conservation measures, paying or
reimbursing investigation and preconstruction
expenses, or granting billing credits.
(d) Acquisition of resources other than major
resources.
(e) Effectuation of priorities; use of customers
and local entities.
(f) Agreements; investigation and initial
development of renewable resources other than
major resources; reimbursement of
investigation and preconstruction expenses.
(g) Environmental impact statements.
(h) Billing credits.
(i) Contracts.
(j) Obligations not to be considered general
obligations of United States or secured by
full faith and credit of United States.
(k) Equitable distribution of benefits.
(l) Investigations.
(m) Offering of reasonable shares to each Pacific
Northwest electric utility.
839d-1. Federal projects in Pacific Northwest.
839e. Rates.
(a) Establishment; periodic review and revision;
confirmation and approval by Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission.
(b) General application of rates to meet general
requirements.
(c) Rates applicable to direct service industrial
customers.
(d) Discount rates; special rates.
(e) Uniform rates; rates for sale of peaking
capacity; time-of-day, seasonal, and other
rates.
(f) Basis for rates.
(g) Allocation of costs and benefits.
(h) Surcharges.
(i) Procedures.
(j) Cost figures to be indicated on rate schedules
and power billings.
(k) Statutory basis for procedures used in
establishing rates or rate schedules.
(l) Rates for sales outside United States;
negotiations.
(m) Impact aid payments; formula.
(n) Limiting the inclusion of costs of protection
of, mitigation of damage to, and enhancement
of fish and wildlife, within rates charged by
the Bonneville Power Administration, to the
rate period in which costs are incurred.
839f. Administrative provisions.
(a) Contract authority.
(b) Executive and administrative functions of
Administrator of Bonneville Power
Administration; sound and businesslike
implementation of chapter.
(c) Limitations and conditions on contracts for
sale or exchange of electric power for use
outside Pacific Northwest.
(d) Disposition of power which does not increase
amount of firm power Administrator is
obligated to provide to any customer.
(e) Judicial review; suits.
(f) Tax treatment of interest on governmental
obligations.
(g) Review of rates for sale of power to
Administrator by investor-owned utility
customers.
(h) Companies which own or operate facilities for
the generation of electricity primarily for
sale to Administrator.
(i) Electric power acquisition or disposition.
(j) Retail rate designs which encourage
conservation and efficient use of electric
energy, installation of consumer-owned
renewable resources, and rate research and
development.
(k) Executive position for conservation and
renewable resources.
839g. Savings provisions.
(a) Rights of States and political subdivisions of
States.
(b) Rights and obligations under existing
contracts.
(c) Statutory preferences and priorities of public
bodies and cooperatives in sale of federally
generated power.
(d) Contractual rights under provisions later found
to be unconstitutional.
(e) Treaty and other rights of Indian tribes.
(f) Reservation of electric power for Montana;
Hungry Horse and Libby Dams and Reservoirs.
(g) Rights of States to prohibit recovery of
resource construction costs through retail
rates.
(h) Water appropriations.
(i) Existing Federal licenses, permits, and
certificates.
839h. Separability.