United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Government Accountability Office Accounting and Information Management Division author aut Government Organization text government publication eng GAOREPORTS Legislative Agency Publications gao legislative 2010-08-12 U.S. Government Printing Office 1996-09-19 monographic deposited born digital 121 p. GA 1.13:AIMD-96-145 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-AIMD-96-145 P0b002ee18037b60a f:ai96145 DGPO 2010-08-12 2011-03-28 GAOREPORTS-AIMD-96-145 machine generated eng fdlp REPORT GAOREPORTS-AIMD-96-145 AIMD-96-145 Utility rates Energy marketing Electric utilities Electric power transmission Public utilities Construction costs Interest rates Retirement benefits Tax exempt status Hydroelectric energy Federal Employees Retirement System Civil Service Retirement System Reclamation Fund Bureau of Reclamation Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program DOE Richard B. Russell Project DOE Harry S. Truman Project DOE Mead-Phoenix Transmission Line Project Fort Peck Project (MT) Colorado River Storage Project Glen Canyon Dam (AZ) Central Valley Project (CA) Shasta Dam (CA) Central Arizona Project (AZ) Chapter Report AIMD In recent years, Congress has weighed the pros and cons of privatizing the federal power marketing administrations (PMA), which transmit and sell electric power generated at federal hydropower facilities. This report provides information on three of these PMAs--the Southeastern Power Administration, the Southwestern Power Administration, and the Western Area Power Administration. GAO answers the following three questions: Have all power-related costs incurred through September 1995 been recovered through the PMA's electricity rates? Is the financing for power-related capital projects subsidized by the federal government and, if so, to what extent? How do PMAs differ from nonfederal utilities and what is the impact of these differences on power production costs? GAO summarized this report in testimony before Congress; see: Power Marketing Administrations: Cost Recovery, Financing, and Comparison to Nonfederal Utilities, by Linda M. Calbom, Director of Civil Audits, before the Subcommittee on Water and Power Resources, House Committee on Resources. GAO/T-AIMD-96-169, Sept. 19 (15 pages). https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-AIMD-96-145/html/GAOREPORTS-AIMD-96-145.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-AIMD-96-145/pdf/GAOREPORTS-AIMD-96-145.pdf GAO/AIMD-96-145 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-AIMD-96-145 Chapter Report GAO/AIMD-96-145; Power Marketing Administrations: Cost Recovery, Financing, and Comparison to Nonfederal Utilities; Utility rates Energy marketing Electric utilities Electric power transmission Public utilities Construction costs Interest rates Retirement benefits Tax exempt status Hydroelectric energy Federal Employees Retirement System Civil Service Retirement System Reclamation Fund Bureau of Reclamation Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program DOE Richard B. Russell Project DOE Harry S. Truman Project DOE Mead-Phoenix Transmission Line Project Fort Peck Project (MT) Colorado River Storage Project Glen Canyon Dam (AZ) Central Valley Project (CA) Shasta Dam (CA) Central Arizona Project (AZ) Public Law 92-267 Public Law 99-335