[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2361 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

  2d Session
                                S. 2361

    To amend Public Law 85-159 to strike the provision relating to 
transmission of power generated by the Niagara Power Project, New York, 
                         to neighboring States.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 5, 2000

  Mr. Schumer 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 Public Law 85-159 to strike the provision relating to 
transmission of power generated by the Niagara Power Project, New York, 
                         to neighboring States.

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

SECTION 1. NIAGARA POWER PROJECT.

    (a) In General.--Subsection (b)(2) of the first section of Public 
Law 85-159 (16 U.S.C. 836(b)(2)) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``(2) The licensee'' and inserting the 
        following:
            ``(2) Neighboring states.--
                    ``(A) In general.--Subject to subparagraph (B), the 
                licensee''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(B) Limitation.--After the date of enactment of 
                this subparagraph, the licensee shall make available 
                under subparagraph (A) for use in neighboring States, 
                by nonprofit cooperatives and public bodies that, as of 
                that date, were using less than 1 megawatt of the 
                licensee's project power, a total of 2.5 percent of the 
                licensee's project power.''.
    (b) No New Contracts.--After the date of enactment of this Act, the 
licensee for the Niagara Power Project shall not enter into any new 
contract or renew a contract for the transmission of power generated by 
the Project outside the State of New York except to comply with 
subparagraph (B) of subsection (b)(2) of the first section of Public 
Law 85-159, as amended by subsection (a).
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