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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION
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115TH CONGRESS REPORT
1st Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 115-282
WESTERN AREA POWER ADMINISTRATION
TRANSPARENCY ACT
AUGUST 29, 2017.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State
of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. BISHOP of Utah, from the Committee on Natural Resources,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany H.R. 2371]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 2371) to require the Administrator of the Western Area
Power Administration to establish a pilot project to provide in-
creased transparency for customers, and for other purposes, having
considered the same, report favorably thereon without amendment
and recommend that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE OF THE BILL
The purpose of H.R. 2371 is to require the Administrator of the
Western Area Power Administration to establish a pilot project to
provide increased transparency for customers.
BACKGROUND AND NEED FOR LEGISLATION
H.R. 2371 requires the Administrator of the Western Area Power
Administration (WAPA) to establish a pilot project to increase
transparency of WAPA's costs, rates, staffing and other financial
and operational dealings.
Under numerous federal statutes, the Bureau of Reclamation and
the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers generate hydropower at federal
dams and reservoirs. Hydropower generated at these facilities, par-
ticularly in the western United States, is first used to provide elec-
tricity to operate irrigation pumps affiliated with Reclamation
projects. Any excess power is then primarily sold by the Power
Marketing Administrations (PMAs) to preference customers, which,
by federal statute, are non-profit rural electric cooperatives, public
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