16 USC Ch. 12H: Front Matter
From Title 16-CONSERVATIONCHAPTER 12H-PACIFIC NORTHWEST ELECTRIC POWER PLANNING AND CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 12H-PACIFIC NORTHWEST ELECTRIC POWER PLANNING AND CONSERVATION
Sec.
839.
Congressional declaration of purpose.
839a.
Definitions.
839b.
Regional planning and participation.
(a)
Pacific Northwest Electric Power and Conservation Planning Council; establishment and operation as regional agency.
(b)
Alternative establishment of Council as Federal agency.
(c)
Organization and operation of Council.
(d)
Regional conservation and electric power plan.
(e)
Plan priorities and requisite features; studies.
(f)
Model conservation standards; surcharges.
(g)
Public information; consultation; contracts and technical assistance.
(h)
Fish and wildlife.
(i)
Review.
(j)
Requests by Council for action.
(k)
Review and analysis of 5-year period of Council activities.
839c.
Sale of power.
(a)
Preferences and priorities.
(b)
Sales to public bodies, cooperatives, and Federal agency customers.
(c)
Purchase and exchange sales.
(d)
Sales to existing direct service industrial customers.
(e)
Contractual entitlements to firm power.
(f)
Surplus power.
(g)
Long-term contracts.
839d.
Conservation and resource acquisition.
(a)
Conservation measures; resources.
(b)
Acquisition of resources.
(c)
Procedure for acquiring major resources, implementing conservation measures, paying or reimbursing investigation and preconstruction expenses, or granting billing credits.
(d)
Acquisition of resources other than major resources.
(e)
Effectuation of priorities; use of customers and local entities.
(f)
Agreements; investigation and initial development of renewable resources other than major resources; reimbursement of investigation and preconstruction expenses.
(g)
Environmental impact statements.
(h)
Billing credits.
(i)
Contracts.
(j)
Obligations not to be considered general obligations of United States or secured by full faith and credit of United States.
(k)
Equitable distribution of benefits.
(l)
Investigations.
(m)
Offering of reasonable shares to each Pacific Northwest electric utility.
839d–1.
Federal projects in Pacific Northwest.
839e.
Rates.
(a)
Establishment; periodic review and revision; confirmation and approval by Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
(b)
General application of rates to meet general requirements.
(c)
Rates applicable to direct service industrial customers.
(d)
Discount rates; special rates.
(e)
Uniform rates; rates for sale of peaking capacity; time-of-day, seasonal, and other rates.
(f)
Basis for rates.
(g)
Allocation of costs and benefits.
(h)
Surcharges.
(i)
Procedures.
(j)
Cost figures to be indicated on rate schedules and power billings.
(k)
Statutory basis for procedures used in establishing rates or rate schedules.
(l)
Rates for sales outside United States; negotiations.
(m)
Impact aid payments; formula.
(n)
Limiting the inclusion of costs of protection of, mitigation of damage to, and enhancement of fish and wildlife, within rates charged by the Bonneville Power Administration, to the rate period in which costs are incurred.
839f.
Administrative provisions.
(a)
Contract authority.
(b)
Executive and administrative functions of Administrator of Bonneville Power Administration; sound and businesslike implementation of chapter.
(c)
Limitations and conditions on contracts for sale or exchange of electric power for use outside Pacific Northwest.
(d)
Disposition of power which does not increase amount of firm power Administrator is obligated to provide to any customer.
(e)
Judicial review; suits.
(f)
Tax treatment of interest on governmental obligations.
(g)
Review of rates for sale of power to Administrator by investor-owned utility customers.
(h)
Companies which own or operate facilities for the generation of electricity primarily for sale to Administrator.
(i)
Electric power acquisition or disposition.
(j)
Retail rate designs which encourage conservation and efficient use of electric energy, installation of consumer-owned renewable resources, and rate research and development.
(k)
Executive position for conservation and renewable resources.
839g.
Savings provisions.
(a)
Rights of States and political subdivisions of States.
(b)
Rights and obligations under existing contracts.
(c)
Statutory preferences and priorities of public bodies and cooperatives in sale of federally generated power.
(d)
Contractual rights under provisions later found to be unconstitutional.
(e)
Treaty and other rights of Indian tribes.
(f)
Reservation of electric power for Montana; Hungry Horse and Libby Dams and Reservoirs.
(g)
Rights of States to prohibit recovery of resource construction costs through retail rates.
(h)
Water appropriations.
(i)
Existing Federal licenses, permits, and certificates.
839h.
Separability.
Chapter Referred to in Other Sections
This chapter is referred to in sections 838i, 838k, 839d–1 of this title; title 26 section 149; title 33 section 2286.