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S. 25, the South Utah Valley Electric Conveyance Act 1 (March 25, 2013)

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COST ESTIMATE
March 25, 2013
S.25
South Utah Valley Electric Conveyance Act
As ordered reported by the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
on March 14, 2013
S. 25 would direct the Secretary of the Interior to transfer title to the electric distribution
system located in Spanish Fork, Utah, to the South Utah Valley Electric Service District.
Based on information from the Bureau of Reclamation, CBO estimates that enacting the
legislation would have no significant net impact on the federal budget. Enacting S. 25
would have an insignificant impact on direct spending; therefore pay-as-you-go procedures
apply. The legislation would not affect revenues.
The electric distribution system was developed as part of the Strawberry Valley Project in
the 1920s. The Strawberry Water Users Association, the nonfederal sponsor of the project,
satisfied all federal repayment obligations associated with the project in 1974. In 1986, the
Bureau of Reclamation transferred financial responsibility for operating and maintaining
the system to the South Utah Valley Electric Service District. Under current law, the
bureau oversees those activities.
Under the legislation, transfer to the district of title to the electric distribution system would
include all federally owned fixtures and the underlying federal land not shared by other
facilities. In instances where the underlying federal land is also occupied by other facilities
and in the case of shared power poles, permanent access and licensing privileges would be
granted to the district to perform required maintenance.
Under S. 25, the Bureau of Reclamation would no longer oversee the facilities or collect
licensing fees from utilities seeking easements. Based on information from the bureau,
CBO estimates that the loss of those collections would not be significant.
S. 25 contains no intergovernmental or private-sector mandates as defined in the Unfunded
Mandates Reform Act and would impose no costs on state, local, or tribal governments.
The CBO staff contact for this estimate is Aurora Swanson. The estimate was approved by
Theresa Gullo, Deputy Assistant Director for Budget Analysis.

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