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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION
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Calendar No. 535
115TH CONGRESS SEAEREPORT
2d Session JSENATE 1 115-310
TO REQUIRE THE FEDERAL ENERGY REGULATORY COM-
MISSION TO SUBMIT TO CONGRESS A REPORT ON CER-
TAIN HYDROPOWER PROJECTS
JULY 31, 2018.-Ordered to be printed
Ms. MURKOWSKI, from the Committee on Energy and Natural
Resources, submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany S. 1030]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, to which was
referred the bill (S. 1030) to require the Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission to submit to Congress a report on certain hydropower
projects, having considered the same, reports favorably thereon
with an amendment in the nature of a substitute and recommends
that the bill, as amended, do pass.
AMENDMENT
The amendment is as follows:
Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the following:
SECTION 1. FERC REPORT ON CERTAIN HYDROPOWER PROJECTS.
Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Federal En-
ergy Regulatory Commission (referred to in this section as the FERC) shall submit
to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate and the Com-
mittee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives a report that-
(1) identifies each hydropower project licensed by the FERC (referred to in
this section as an identified project) that is-
(A) located at a nonpowered site that serves as storage to support down-
stream power generation; and
(B) not part of a generation project licensed by FERC;
(2) analyzes the financial value of electric power generation associated with
each identified project, relative to the best available estimates of the financial
value of nonpower generation functions associated with the identified project,
including recreation and environmental functions;
(3) describes the range of options available under existing law with respect
to the surrender or transfer of a FERC license for an identified project, includ-
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