...1944 (16 USC 825s), which provides that power from Corps of Engineers projects be marketed *• * * at the lowest possible rates to consumers consistent with sound business principles * * *,* but it does not specifically define "sound business principles.* However, the Pacific Northwest...

...in excess of the needs of the project in such manner as to encourage the most widespread use thereof at the lowest possible rates to consumers consistent with sound business principles. These authorities were transferred to the Secretary of Energy under teh Department of Energy Organization...

...oust demonstrate that such rates and schedules would "encourage the most widespread use of Bonneville power" at "the lowest possible rates to consumers consistent with sound business principles." US Secretary of Fng-cv. Bonneville Power Administration. 13 FERC 161,15' (1990); US Department of Energy,...

...practice is intended to accomplish the requirement in the Flood Control act of 1944 which 1s to market power at the lowest possible rates to consumers consistent with sound business principles. Investments bearing the highest rates of interest are amortized first, to the extent possible, while...

...to market Federal hydropower ". . . in such manner as to encourage the most widespread use thereof at the lowest possible rates to consumers consistent with sound business principles . . ." (Flood Control Act of 1944). In marketing power and energy, Western is governed by several statutory...

...of 1944, required the sale of power "in such manner as to encourage the most widespread use thereof at the lowest possible rates to consumers consistent with sound business principles." (Emphasis added.) The deferral of interest-free irrigation assistance payments is not a sound business...

...Is to market Federal hydropower "...1n such manner as to encourage the most widespread use thereof at the lowest possible rates to consumers consistent with sound business principles..." (Flood Control Act of 1944). In marketing power and energy, Western is governed by several statutory...

...fixed and established (1) with a view to encouraging the widest possible diversified use of electric power at the lowest possible rates to consumers consistent with sound business principles, (2) having regard to the recovery (upon the basis of the application of such rate schedules to the...

...[generated at Corps of Engineer dams] in such a manner as to encourage the most widespread use thereof at the lowest possible rates to consumers consistent with sound business principles." Thus, it is achieving its purposes in a cost-effective manner. • Each year SWPA recovers, through...

...power needs (eg for water pumping) "in such manner as to encourage the most widespread use thereof at the lowest possible rates to consumers consistent with sound business principles," and in addition, "Rate schedules shall be drawn having regard to the recovery (upon the basis of the...