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. Service, National Marine Fisheries Service, and the Power Planning Council all have 

 teams of fish biologists partially funded by BPA. BPA also has their own team of 

 approximately 60 fish biologists. Is this approach to funding fish biology efficient? 



10) BPA has been forced by the Endangered Species Act, as well as the 1980 act, to 

 provide certain flows for endangered salmon in the Columbia/Snake River System. In 

 its budgets, BPA classifies these mandated fish flows as "foregone revenue" and 

 attributes it to the Fish and Wildlife budget Many observers (including Justice 

 Marsh) have questioned this accounting practice. Is this practice appropriate? What 

 river management baseline does BPA use to estimate "foregone revenues"? Did the 

 1980 Act, or the enforcement of the Endangered Species Act, change this baseline? 



1 1) With regard to the potential endangered species listing of the Kootenai River Sturgeon 

 in North Idaho, what are the revenue impacts of providing varying flows for the 

 sturgeon. Specifically, what would the revenue impact be on BPA for providing a 20, 

 25, 30, and 35,000 cubic feet per second flow for the sturgeon? 



REVENUES, EXPENDITURES, AND CONSERVATION 



1) The Northwest Power Planning Council has produced a graph (attached) showing a 

 drop in BPA Preference rates in real dollars from 1983 to 1992. If BPA had adjusted 

 rates since 1983 to keep pace with inflation what would BPA's current cash reserves 

 be? Further, what rate increase would it take to return BPA's rates to 1983 rates in 

 real dollars? 



2) In fiscal year 1993, what projected costs will have the greatest impact on BPA's 

 revenue situation in percentage terms: 1) the lower world price of aluminum; 2) 

 decreased snowpack and drought; 3) closing the Trojan nuclear plant; or 4) increased 

 flows for fish. 



3) Please provide a schedule on a monthly basis of the following items for the first two 

 quarters of fiscal 1993: 



a) out of region power purchases (volumes and price); and 



b) sales (volume and price) to the aluminum smelters; and 



c) power purchases made on behalf of the aluminum smelters to meet their 1st 

 quartile needs; and 



d) a monthly schedule of fees from aluminum smelters for transmission services 



4) What was the upward impact of those wheeling purchases on the price of power on 

 the spot market? How much did that increased spot market price increase the cost for 

 spot purchases for acquisition of the other three quartiles of smelter load? 



Is BPA obligated to make such wheeling purchases, and if so. what obligates them to 

 do this? 



