Bonneville Power Administration: Repayment Or Divestiture? : Oversight Hearings Before the Subcommittee on General Oversight, Northwest Power, and Forest Management of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs, House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress, Part 1U.S. Government Printing Office, 1987 - Power resources |
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Page 334 - Interior, who shall transmit and dispose of such power and energy in such manner as to encourage the most widespread use thereof at the lowest possible rates to consumers consistent with sound business principles, the rate schedules to become effective upon confirmation and approval by the Federal Power Commission.
Page 328 - Rate schedules shall be drawn having regard to the recovery (upon the basis of the application of such rate schedules to the capacity of the electric facilities of the projects) of the cost of producing and transmitting such electric energy, including the amortization of the capital investment allocated to power over a reasonable period of years.
Page 350 - The purpose of the new language is to make it clear that each agency of the Federal Government shall comply with the directives set out in...
Page 65 - No contract relating to municipal water supply or miscellaneous purposes or to electric power or power privileges shall be made unless, in the judgment of the Secretary, it will not impair the efficiency of the project for irrigation purposes.
Page 308 - ... are repaid, and adding to the PMAs revenue requirements interest on the capital allocated to irrigation even though interest on irrigation features has never been authorized by Congress. BPA is required to repay the Federal investment for projects in the Federal Columbia River Power System (FCRPS) constructed and operated by the Army Corps of Engineers and the Bureau of Reclamation. The development of these projects was undertaken by express Congressional authorization pursuant to comprehensive...
Page 344 - A promise which the promisor should reasonably expect to induce action or forbearance of a definite and substantial character on the part of the promisee and which does induce such action or forbearance is binding if injustice can be avoided only by enforcement of the promise.
Page 318 - For it must be borne in mind that Congress not only has a legislative power over the public domain, but it also exercises the powers of the proprietor therein. Congress 'may deal with such lands precisely as...
Page 345 - States shall be interpreted and administered in accordance with the policies set forth in this chapter, and (2) all agencies of the Federal Government shall include in every recommendation or report on proposals for legislation and other major Federal actions significantly affecting the quality of the human environment, a detailed statement by the responsible official...
Page 70 - I appear here today on behalf of the American Mining Congress. The American Mining Congress is a trade association whose members produce...