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

acceptable progr~m, the contractual penalty
provision of a t~n percent reduction in the amount
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of power sold to ,a particular preference entity
offers a substantial incentive to develop a
commitment to conservation.

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Western also be11eves that Congress has endorsed
its approach in encouragi ng conservation efforts
through contractual provisions, as opposed to
making conservation an allocation criterion. In
the course of debate on the floor of the House of
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Representatives pn the Hoover Powerplant Act of
1984, a conservation amendment was offered by
Representative Udall of Arizona. 130 Congo Rec.
H3336-37 (May 3,1 1984). That conservation
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amendment, whic~ would apply to all power sold by

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Western, adopts ithe approach of striving for
conservation goals through contractual provisions
with a power allottee, with percentage reductions
'if pre-defined Qoals are not realized. Western
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notes that this! amendment was adopted in reaction
to objections vQiced by the Environmental Defense
Fund that the Hoover bill did not have adequate
measures for conservation. 130 Congo Rec. H3337
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(May 3, 1984). I Given the congressional passage of
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affirmative leg~slation which recognizes the

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