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EMD-82-65 1 (1982-03-18)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabdap0001 and id is 1 raw text is: UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OF ( V - WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 DIVISION March 18, 1982 DIVIaloN B-206743 The Honorable Frank H. Murkowski Chairman, Subcommittee on Water and Power Senate Committee on Energy and 117881 Natural Resources Dear Mr. Chairman: Subject: Information concerning Western Area Power Adminis- tration's sale and purchase of power (EMD-82-65) The Western Area Power Administration (Western) markets power produced at Federal dams in 15 Western States. In some cases this power is supplemented through power purchases from other generation. One such arrangement receiving recent attention is the purchase and sale of power in Western's Sacramento Area Office. Your March 2, 1982, letter expressing interest in this area requested that we pro- vide history, facts, and figures concerning Western's 1/ --purchases of power from the Centralia powerplant marketed in California; --sale of power to Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E); and --arrangements to purchase power back from PG&E, and how this relates to Western's purchase power requirements. To address your inquiry we relied primarily on knowledge and iata obtained from Frevious General Accounting Office studies 2/ I/On October 1, 1977, Congress passed the Department of Energy Organization Act and transferred to the new agency responsi- bility for marketing Federal power. The Department of Energy's Western Area Power Administration handles this responsibility for 15 Western States. Previously the Department of the In- terior's Bureau of Reclamation managed this function. 1/California's Central Valley Project--Proposed Power Rate In- crease, November 19, 1973, B-125042 and Rationale for Power 1 Rates Charged by the Central Valley Project to Pacific Gas and Electric Company, EMD-78-81, November 21, 1977. (005271)

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