[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4027 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4027

  To amend the Hoover Power Plant Act of 1984 to ensure that project 
beneficiaries are solely responsible for repaying the costs of Western 
Area Power Administration power transmission and delivery projects, and 
                          for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            November 5, 2009

Mr. Hastings of Washington (for himself and Mr. McClintock) introduced 
  the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural 
                               Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Hoover Power Plant Act of 1984 to ensure that project 
beneficiaries are solely responsible for repaying the costs of Western 
Area Power Administration power transmission and delivery projects, and 
                          for other purposes.

    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 ``American Taxpayer and Western Area 
Power Administration Firm Power Customer Protection Act''.

SEC. 2. RESPONSIBILITY OF BENEFICIARIES TO REPAY COSTS OF WAPA POWER 
              TRANSMISSION AND DELIVERY PROJECTS.

    Section 301(d) of the Hoover Power Plant Act of 1984 (Public Law 
98-381) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1)(B), by striking ``and'' after the 
        semicolon;
            (2) by striking the period at the end of paragraph (1)(C) 
        and all that follows through paragraph (2) and inserting ``; 
        and'';
            (3) in paragraph (1), by adding at the following new 
        subparagraph:
                    ``(D) appropriate agreements have been executed to 
                ensure that project beneficiaries will be solely 
                responsible for repaying the entire capital and 
                operational costs of the project.'';
            (4) by striking so much as precedes the first sentence and 
        inserting ``(a) In General.--'';
            (5) by redesignating subparagraphs (A) through (D) (as 
        added by paragraph (3) of this section) as paragraphs (1) 
        through (4); and
            (6) by moving paragraphs (1) through (4) (as redesignated 
        by paragraph (5) of this section) 2 ems to the left.
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