[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1937 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1937

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.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                           November 17, 1999

   Mr. Craig introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
       referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources

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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 
              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.''.
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