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The arguments for retaining the provision center around the adverse 

 impacts of curtailments to utilities who may not be the cause of a regional 

 curtailment but would lose revenues if one occurred. It was this concern 

 that caused the utilities to insist on the current provisions. 



Since BPA cannot unilaterally delete these provisions from the current 

 contracts, all customers that could receive lost revenue payments would 

 have to agree to amend the current contracts (currently all utilities except 

 Tacoma and the investor owned utilities). 



If utilities were willing to change the current contract, BPA would be 

 willing to consider such a modification. 



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