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[S. 1937 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]

        S.1937

                       One Hundred Sixth Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America


                          AT THE SECOND SESSION

           Begun and held at the City of Washington on Monday,
             the twenty-fourth day of January, two thousand


                                 An Act


 
To amend the Pacific Northwest Electric Power Planning and Conservation 
    Act to provide for sales of electricity by the Bonneville Power 
               Administration 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. 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.''.

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

                            Vice President of the United States and    
                                               President of the Senate.