[106th Congress Public Law 273]
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Public Law 106-273
106th Congress

                                 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. <<NOTE: Sept. 22, 
                          2000 -  [S. 1937]>> 

    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.''.

    Approved September 22, 2000.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY--S. 1937:
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HOUSE REPORTS: No. 106-820, Pt. 1 (Comm. on Resources).
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD:
                                                        Vol. 145 (1999):
                                    Nov. 19, considered and passed 
                                        Senate.
                                                        Vol. 146 (2000):
                                    Sept. 12, considered and passed 
                                        House.

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