[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2008 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2008

     To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to facilitate the 
 development of hydroelectric power on the Diamond Fork System of the 
                         Central Utah Project.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 21, 2009

 Mr. Matheson (for himself and Mr. Chaffetz) introduced the following 
     bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
     To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to facilitate the 
 development of hydroelectric power on the Diamond Fork System of the 
                         Central Utah Project.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Bonneville Unit Clean Hydropower 
Facilitation Act''.

SEC. 2. COST ALLOCATIONS.

    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in order to facilitate 
hydropower development on the Diamond Fork System, the amount of 
reimbursable costs allocated to project power in Chapter 6 of the Power 
Appendix in the October 2004 Supplement to the 1988 Bonneville Unit 
Definite Plan Report, with regard to power development within the 
Diamond Fork System, shall be considered final costs as well as costs 
in excess of the total maximum repayment obligation as defined in 
section 211 of the Central Utah Project Completion Act of 1992 (Public 
Law 102-575), and shall be subject to the same terms and conditions.

SEC. 3. NO PURCHASE OR MARKET OBLIGATION; NO COSTS ASSIGNED TO POWER.

    Nothing in this Act shall obligate the Western Area Power 
Administration to purchase or market any of the power produced by the 
Diamond Fork power plant and none of the costs associated with 
development of transmission facilities to transmit power from the 
Diamond Fork power plant shall be assigned to power for the purpose of 
Colorado River Storage Project ratemaking.
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