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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION .
116TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 116-649
WESTERN AREA POWER ADMINISTRATION
TRANSPARENCY ACT
DECEMBER 15, 2020.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State
of the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. GRIJALVA, from the Committee on Natural Resources,
submitted the following
R E P O R T
[To accompany H.R. 4444]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 4444) 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, reports favorably thereon without amendment
and recommends that the bill do pass.
PURPOSE OF THE BILL
The purpose of H.R. 4444 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 LEGISLATION1
The Western Area Power Administration (WAPA) is one of the
U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) four Power Marketing Ad-
ministrations (PMAs), regionally-based entities which market the
energy produced at hydropower facilities owned by the Bureau of
Reclamation, Army Corps of Engineers, and a small number of ad-
ditional federal facilities.2
In accordance with federal law, PMAs must sell their power at
the lowest possible rates consistent with sound business practices,
1See also RICHARD J. CAMPBELL, CONG. RESEARCH. SERV., R45548, THE POWER MARKETING
ADMINISTRATIONS: BACKGROUND AND CURRENT ISSUES (2019), of which some of the above text
is excerpts.
2Congressional Research Service, The Power Marketing Administrations: Background and
Current Issues (Mar. 1, 2019) (R45548) (online at ersreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R45548).
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