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B-137458 1 (1979-11-21)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabjps0001 and id is 1 raw text is: COMPTROLLER'GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON. D.C. 20548 IN REPLY B175 REERTO B-137458 November 21, 1979 The Honorable John D. Dingell Chairman, Subcommittee on Energy and Power Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce House of Representatives Dear Mr. Chairman: This responds to your September 17 letter requesting our comments on several provisions of/S. 885, t-h-e Pacific Northwest Electric Power Planning and- Conservation Act S. 885 recently passed the Senate and has been referred to your Subcommittee for consideration. Your letter raises the following issue: The extent to which the Pacific Northwest Electric Power Planning Council\ (the Council) may direct, limit or veto the actions of the S Bonneville Power Administration (BPA), a Federal agency, on 4Cr its Administrator, which S. 885 may authorize. a. Relationship Between the Council and EPA S. 885 would establish a five-member regional planning council. (Sec. 4(a).) The Governors of the States of Idaho, Oregon, Montana and Washington would each select a member of the Council and the fifth member would be the Administrator of BPA. (Sec. 4(a).) Its primary responsibility would be to prepare a regional electric power plan within two years of the bill's effective date. (Sec. 4(d).) The plan would provide the general framework in which EPA would make electric power available to its customers by the implementation of conservation measures and the acouisition and development of new electric power resources. (Sec. 4(e).) At least three members of the Council, including the EPA Administrator, must vote to adopt the plan. Other decisions of the Council require a simple majority vote. (Sec. 4(b).) The bill provides EPA with new authorities to implement conservation measures and to develop new sources of electric power supply. (Sec. 6.) Generally, EPA would exercise these '1P

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