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RCED-85-131 1 (1985-05-28)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabnrm0001 and id is 1 raw text is: j JW.LJv UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 RESCKIRCES, COMMUNITY, ANO fCONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DIVISION B-200490 Ay 8 The Honorable Edwaro J. Markey Chairman, Subcommittee on Energy Conservation and Power 111I11* Committee on Energy and Commerce 127088 House of Representatives Dear Mr. Chairman: Subject: Update on Nine Hydropower Relicensing Cases at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (GAO/RCED-85-131) Your May 16, 1985, letter requested that we update the status of nine hydropower relicensing cases with competition that we had discussed in our May 15, 1984, report to the Chairman, Subcommit- tee on Energy Conservation and Power, House Committee on Energy and Commerce (GAO/RCED-84-116). A listing of the nine cases is contained in enclosure I. Specitically, you asked (1) whether any additional amendments to license applications had been submitted, (2) what such amendments called for, (3) whether any licenses had been issued in the nine cases, and (4) for one particular case, whether the original licensee had amended its application. We also obtained information on a tenth case that has competing applications for a license. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is authorized to issue licenses to nonfederal entities ror building and operating hydroelectric facilities for the development of the nation's water resources. The licenses, issued for a period up to 50 years, require that any hydroelectric project be adapted to a compre- hensive plan (prepared by the applicant) for developing and using water resources, not only for power development, but also for other purposes such as recreation, water quality, irrigation, fish and wildlife enhancement, and overall environmental effect. The Commission is required to give preference to states and municipal- ities, over a privately owned utility, whenever the two entities fiLe equally weli-adapted plans for the same project. (005353)

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