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COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES
WASHINGTON. O.C. 10548 0
B-114858 July 10, 1979
The Honorable Jim Weaver
House of Representatives
Dear Mr. Weaver:
This is in answer to your request for our opinion on whether he
Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) is-authoxize _iidr_e~xisting_.
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you asked u toundertakl our analysis keeping in rniid [our] approval
of BPA's 'net-billing' agreements, sent to Mr. Laurence Dunn, Assis-
tant Secretary of Interior in response to his letter of September 23,
1970.
The letter to which you refer asked whether we would be required
to object to the net billing provisions of certain proposed contracts with
preference customers, implementing BPA's participation in the Ten
Year Hydro-Thermal Power Program for the Pacific Northwest.
In response, we informed the Secretary of the Interior that--
'* *[S]ince the participants have no right to cash
payments, we would not be required to object to the
net billing provisions of these proposed contracts,
and similar net billing provisions in future contracts,
if they have been submitted to the House and Senate
Appropriations Committees for the requisite period
prior to their execution and provided the Congress
is informed with respect to all transactions under
such contracts. B-170878, October 21, 1970.
This approval, however, was based on the Public Works for Water,
Pollution Control, and Power Development and Atomic Energy Commis-
sion Appropriation Act, 1970 (Pub. L. No. 91-144, 83 Stat. 323, 333),
which provided funds in connection with proposed agreements containing
net billing provisions, and on the House and Senate Appropriations
Committee reports, which made it clear that the committees approved
the use of net billing as a means of effecting payment to preference
customers for their ownership share of generating capability from non-
federally financed thermal plants. See B-170878, October 21, 1970 (copy
enclosed). We have found no equally persuasive express manifestation
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