[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
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[S. 1937 Referred in House (RFH)]


106th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 1937


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 27, 2000

    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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                                 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.''.

            Passed the Senate November 19, 1999.

            Attest:

                                                    GARY SISCO,

                                                             Secretary.