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TESTIMONY BEFORE THE U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 



COMMITTEE ON NATURAL RESOURCES 



by Columbia River People's Utility District 



September 25, 1993 



Eugene, Oregon 



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t. Any or all of thase approachas to tbe conservation 



resource could work. We believe that the answer to cost 

 effective conservation and resource delivery is the 

 direct involvement and decisionmaking of every General 

 Manager and public utility Board of Directors in the 

 region. 



g. It is the direct involvement of these local decision 

 B«Lkers that will produce the best results for the 

 Northwest. 



In the future we fully expect BPA's resource acquisitions to look 

 quite different. If, despite many attendant problems we 

 implement a form of tiered rates in the region, we expect SPA to 

 develop resources only when asked. We expect that many of the 

 approaches to resource development will change radically. 

 Because there are so many different questions surrounding all of 

 these future scenarios we support making the current activities 

 as cost effective as possible. 



13 . Please provide any other suggestions regarding actions that 

 would make Bonneville more competitive or cost-effective. 



We believe the alternatives to tiered rates that have been 

 proposed above will lead to a mora competitive Bonneville without 

 all the divisiveness that will surely develop with an allocation 

 of the FBS. Under our proposal, regional planning as it now 

 exists would remain in place. The problems surrounding 

 Bonneville can be fixed without tearing apart a system that has 

 served the region well for the past fifty years. Let us not kill 

 tbe goose that laid the golden egg, let us merely fertilize it. 



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