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system pay for its costs and participate in programs that preserve those benefits for future 

 generations. We have attached our scoping comments for the Power Sales Contracts EIS 

 to our testimony. 



Question 11: NCAC has not yet formed a position on whether or how the exchange 

 agreements should be changed, but we expect to do so before this task force concludes its 

 deliberations. 



Question 12: Coalition members are still debating the appropriate role for BPA in 

 resource acquisitions, and we will submit our thoughts on this issue to the Task Force 

 before your deliberations conclude. But we do feel strongly that BPA must not abandon its 

 efforts to acquire all cost-effective conservation unless and until a superior method to 

 achieve that goal is in place. At the last hearing, we argued that BPA was already falling 

 far short of its statutory obligation by chronically underfunding conservation. The situation 

 appears to have deteriorated further since that time. 



Question 13: We are participating actively in the function-by-function review to find 

 efficiencies in BPA's programs. But again, we are ultimately more interested in the 

 region's long-term economic and environmental well-being than we are in minimizing 

 short-term rates. BPA must become more efficient, but more importantly, it must more 

 efficiendy serve the public interest, as articulated in the Regional Act 



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