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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION
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Calendar No. 141
115TH CONGRESS SEAEREPORT
1st Session SENATE 115-105
TO AUTHORIZE THE EXPANSION OF AN EXISTING
HYDROELECTRIC PROJECT
JUNE 13, 2017.-Ordered to be printed
Ms. MURKOWSKI, from the Committee on Energy and Natural
Resources, submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany S. 214]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, to which was
referred the bill (S. 214) to authorize the expansion of an existing
hydroelectric project, having considered the same, reports favorably
thereon without amendment and recommends that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE
The purpose of S. 214 is to authorize the expansion of the exist-
ing Terror Lake hydroelectric project in Alaska.
BACKGROUND AND NEED
Approval to construct the Terror Lake Hydroelectric Project in
Alaska was granted by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
in 1981. The 36-megawatt project has been in operation since the
1980s and the Kodiak Electric Association (KEA), which serves the
city of Kodiak, including the nation's largest U.S. Coast Guard
Base and one of the country's largest commercial fishing ports, now
obtains 99.7 percent of its electric power from the hydroelectric
project and another nearby wind farm.
In order to avoid burning approximately two million gallons of
diesel fuel to produce additional power, KEA seeks to increase the
amount of hydropower generated at the facility by expanding oper-
ations through the Upper Hidden Basin Diversion Expansion. The
proposed expansion involves diverting five small streams located on
Alaska State lands in the adjacent Upper Hidden Basin and allow-
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