WSP00898

• File Number: 8220.100.50
• Description: CRSP - Power Marketing
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Date: 9/11/1984
• Author: USDOI/WAPA
• Title: Revised Proposed General Power Marketing Criteria and Allocation Criteria
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Publication

for "municipal purposes" is accomplished through
sales to municipal utilities.

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Utah Power and L 19ht also points to a contractual
arrangement it recently executed with the
Bonneville Power ;Admi ni strati on (BPA) as embodying
the same considerations of fairness and equity
that should apply to the sale of CRSP power.
According to UP&L. the contract requires BPA to
purchase. at UP&L's average cost of service, a
volume of electric power equal to that consumed by
IJP&L's res i dent i a 1 consumers in the State of
Idaho. BPA apparently is then required to resell
an equivalent am()unt of power, at a rate equal to
BPA's average system cost, to UP&L. The savi ngs
would then be passed on to residential consumers
in Idaho.

Any considerations of fairness and equity inherent
in the contrattVal arrangement described above are
a result of the ,passage of the Pacific Northwest
Electric Power Pl anni ng and Conservation Act of
1980. 16 U.S.C. section 839 et. seq. That piece
of legislation ~powers BPA to engage in many
activities whic~ Western currently lacks statutory
authority to emulate, including the execution of
such a purchase and sale contract. More relevant

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