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Question 3: Setting aside the issues in the pending rate case and whatever decisions you must 

 make in the case, does BPA have any plans for a process to review or develop 

 wholesale tiered rates? Is the BPA willing to consider an interim rate case 

 limited to a multi-level rate proposal? 



Answer: BPA is currently preparing to initiate a public process, to begin this summer, to 



consider the development and implementation of tiered rates. BPA will 

 establish a working group to identify the problems and concerns to be 

 addressed by a tiered rate, look at tiered rate objectives and principles, and 

 develop tiered rate alternatives. The alternatives will then be evaluated, the 

 completion of which will be no later than July 1994. BPA may, if it is 

 appropriate at that time, hold an interim rate case on the tiered rate 

 methodology. 



