[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 42 (Tuesday, March 3, 2020)]
[Senate]
[Page S1306]
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SA 1352. Ms. McSALLY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
by her to the bill S. 2657, to support innovation in advanced
geothermal research and development, and for other purposes; which was
ordered to lie on the table; as follows:
At the end of subtitle B of title I, add the following:
SEC. 12_____. WESTERN AREA POWER ADMINISTRATION PILOT
PROJECT.
(a) In General.--Not later than 120 days after the date of
enactment of this Act, the Administrator of the Western Area
Power Administration (referred to in this section as the
``Administrator'') shall--
(1) establish a pilot project, as part of the continuous
process improvement program and to provide increased
transparency for customers--
(A) to make available a database of information relating to
the Western Area Power Administration in accordance with
paragraph (2); and
(B) to provide annual updates to the database in accordance
with subsection (b); and
(2) publish on a publicly available website of the Western
Area Power Administration, a database of the following
information, beginning with fiscal year 2008, relating to the
Western Area Power Administration:
(A) By power system and in a consistent format, rates
charged to customers for power and transmission service.
(B) By power system, the amount of capacity or energy sold.
(C) By region, an accounting, at the task level, budget
activity level, organizational code level, and object class
level, of all expenditures, including--
(i) indirect costs, including overhead costs;
(ii) direct charges and direct allocations;
(iii) costs related to contract staff;
(iv) costs related to independent consultants;
(v) the number of full-time equivalents;
(vi) charges to the region from the headquarters office of
the Western Area Power Administration for all annual and
capital costs; and
(vii) expenses incurred on behalf of other Federal agencies
or programs or third parties for the administration of
programs not related to the marketing, transmission, or
wheeling of Federal hydropower resources within the Western
Area Power Administration marketing area, including--
(I) indirect costs, including overhead costs;
(II) direct charges and allocations;
(III) costs related to contract staff; and
(IV) the number of full-time equivalents.
(D) For the headquarters office of the Western Area Power
Administration, an accounting, at the task level, budget
activity level, organizational code level, and object class
level, of all expenditures, including--
(i) indirect costs, including overhead costs;
(ii) direct charges and direct allocations;
(iii) costs related to contract staff;
(iv) costs related to independent consultants;
(v) the number of full-time equivalents;
(vi) a summary of any expenditures described in this
paragraph, with the total amount paid by each region and
power system; and
(vii) expenses incurred on behalf of other Federal agencies
or programs or third parties for the administration of
programs not related to the marketing, transmission, or
wheeling of Federal hydropower resources within the Western
Area Power Administration marketing area, including--
(I) indirect costs, including overhead costs;
(II) direct charges and allocations;
(III) costs related to contract staff; and
(IV) the number of full-time equivalents.
(E) Capital expenditures for each project, including--
(i) capital investments delineated by the year in which
each investment is placed into service; and
(ii) the sources of capital for each investment.
(b) Annual Summary.--
(1) In general.--Not later than 120 days after the end of
each fiscal year in which the pilot project is being carried
out under this section, the Administrator shall make
available on a publicly available website--
(A) updates to documents made available on the date of the
initial publication of the information on the website under
subsection (a)(2);
(B) an identification of the annual changes in the
information published on the website under subsection (a)(2);
(C) the reasons for the changes identified under
subparagraph (B);
(D) subject to paragraph (2), the total amount of the
unobligated balances retained by the Western Area Power
Administration at the end of the prior fiscal year within
each project and headquarters by--
(i) purpose or function;
(ii) source of funding;
(iii) anticipated program allotment; and
(iv) underlying authority for each source of funding; and
(E) the anticipated level of unobligated balances that the
Western Area Power Administration expects to retain at the
end of the fiscal year in which the annual summary is
published, as delineated by each of the categories described
in clauses (i) through (iv) of subparagraph (D).
(2) Limitation.--Amounts in the Upper Colorado River Basin
Fund established by section 5(a) of the Act of April 11, 1956
(commonly known as the ``Colorado River Storage Project
Act'') (43 U.S.C. 620d(a)), shall not be considered to be an
unobligated balance retained by the Western Area Power
Administration for purposes of paragraph (1)(D).
(c) Termination.--The pilot project under this section
shall terminate on the date that is 7 years after the date of
enactment of this Act.
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