BPA ELECTRIC POWER RESOURCES 

 ACQUISITION 



MONDAY, JULY 12, 1993 



House of Representatives, 

 Task Force on Bonneville Power Administration, 



Committee on Natural Resources, 



Washington, DC. 

 The task force met, pursuant to notice, at 9:45 a.m., in Council 

 Chambers, Portland Cfity Hall, Portland, Oregon, the Honorable 

 Peter DeFazio (chairman of the task force) presiding. 



STATEMENT OF HON. PETER DeFAZIO 



Mr. DeFazio. I want to call the Task Force on the Bonneville 

 Power Administration of the Natural Resources Committee to 

 order. 



By way of explanation. Congressman LaRocco had intended to be 

 here today, but due to a sudden family emergency, I just heard 

 from him yesterday, he couldn't make it. So he will not be in at- 

 tendance. Congressman Smith will give us as much time as he can, 

 but he has some other obligations. 



All testimony given today will be in the record and we're going 

 to leave the written record open for a month for amendments to or 

 answers to questions raised during the hearing. So we'll move 

 along as expeditiously as possible so Bob can have the benefit of 

 as much of the testimony as possible. 



Today the Task Force on the Bonneville Power Administration 

 holds its first of three field hearings in the Pacific Northwest. 

 We've accommodated as m£iny witnesses as we can. We have an ex- 

 traordinary number of witnesses with a very wide range of inter- 

 ests and viewpoints represented. It was interesting to read the tes- 

 timony which I received ahead of time and to note the diversity of 

 viewpoints. I hope to have some lively interchange between some 

 of the panel participants as we move through the hearing today. 



As you know, the Northwest Power Act directs the Administrator 

 of the BPA to acquire resources to meet the region's firm power 

 needs. Priority is given to conservation and renewable energy re- 

 sources under the Act. 



Today's hearing will examine BPA's resource acquisition pro- 

 grams, with a particular focus on Bonneville's performance as a di- 

 rect and indirect purchaser of energy and conservation resources, 

 both through its energy resources programs and through indirect 

 means such as third-party financing and billing credits. 



We'll look at Bonneville's proposal to purchase the output of the 

 Tenaska natural gas combustion turbine generating facility. In 



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