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GAO 



Unlteil States 



General Accounting OfHce 



WaahlnKton. D.C. 20S48 



Beaoorces, Community, and 

 Economic Development DIvialon 



B-252738 

 March 31, 1993 



The Honorable George Miller 



Chairman, Committee on Natural Resources 



House of Representatives 



Dear Mr. Chairman: 



This letter with enclosures responds to your February 1993 

 request that we summarize our work on the Bonneville Power 

 Administration (BPA) since the enactment In 1980 of the 

 Pacific Northwest Electric Power Planning and Conservation 

 Act (Northwest Power Act). You asked that we Include our 

 relevant work on other federal agencies Involved In the 

 operations of the BPA system. These Include the U.S. Army 

 Corps of Engineers and the Bureau of Reclamation, which 

 operate dams on the Columbia River; the Department of 

 Energy, BPA's parent agency; and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife 

 Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service, which 

 are responsible for protecting the Columbia River's 

 endangered and threatened fish species. 



To respond to your request, we searched GAO's automated 

 database to identify products on BPA and the related 

 agencies issued from December 1980, when the Northwest 

 Power Act was enacted, to the present. For those products 

 in which we had recommended that an agency or agencies take 

 action, we retrieved from other GAO automated files the 

 documentation indicating whether and how the agency or 

 agencies had responded to the recommendation(s) . We 

 reviewed each of the identified products for content and 

 relevance. As agreed with your office, we categorized the 

 products according to the issues identified in your letter 

 and several related issues. 



Each of the eight enclosures to this letter summarizes our 

 work on one of these issues, as follows: 



Enclosure I - Financial Management 



Enclosure II - Endangered Species 



Enclosure III - Resource Acquisition 



Enclosure IV - Irrigation 



Enclosure V - Electricity Transmission 



GA0/RCa>-93-133R, GAO Products on Bonneville Power AdmiitistEatian 



