[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3447 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3447

To amend the Pacific Northwest Electric Power Planning and Conservation 
    Act to provide for sales of electricity by the Bonneville Power 
                 Authority to joint operating entities.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 18, 1999

   Mr. Hastings of Washington (for himself and Mr. Walden of Oregon) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
 Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Commerce, for a period 
    to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for 
consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the 
                          committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Pacific Northwest Electric Power Planning and Conservation 
    Act to provide for sales of electricity by the Bonneville Power 
                 Authority to joint operating entities.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SALES OF ELECTRIC POWER TO JOINT OPERATING ENTITIES.

    Section 5(b) of the Pacific Northwest Electric Power Planning and 
Conservation Act (16 U.S.C. 839c(b)) is amended by adding at the end 
the following:
    ``(7) Required sale.--
            ``(A) Definition of a joint operating entity.--In this 
        section, the term `joint operating entity' means an entity that 
        is lawfully organized under State law as a public body or 
        cooperative prior to the date of enactment of this paragraph, 
        and is formed by, and whose members or participants are, two or 
        more public bodies or cooperatives, each of which was a 
        customer of the Bonneville Power Administration on or before 
        January 1, 1999.
            ``(B) Sale.--Pursuant to paragraph (1), the Administrator 
        shall sell, at wholesale to a joint operating entity, electric 
        power solely for the purpose of meeting the regional firm power 
        consumer loads of regional public bodies and cooperatives that 
        are members of or participants in the joint operating entity.
            ``(C) No resale.--A public body or cooperative to which a 
        joint operating entity sells electric power under subparagraph 
        (B) shall not resell that power except to retail customers of 
        the public body or cooperative or to another regional member or 
        participant of the same joint operating entity, or except as 
        otherwise permitted by law.''.
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