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TESTIMO>fY OF BUD TRACY, GENERAL MANAGER 



RAFT RIVER RURAL ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE, INC. 



P.O. BOX 617 MALTA, IDAHO 83342 



PHONE - 208-645-2211 



BEFORE COMMirTEE ON NATURAL RESOURCES 



BONNEVILLE POWER ADMINISTRATION TASK FORCE 



U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 



JULY 12, 1993 



Mr. Chairman, members of the committee, I certainly appreciate the invitation and opportunity 

 for the request to testify on what I consider one of the very significant issues facing the Bon- 

 neville Power Administration (BPA) and the energy economics of the northwest. In an effort 

 to make maximum use of your time, I have attempted to structure my testimony into a very 

 frank and precise statement. I trust that such a format will aid the committee members in their 

 consideration of my thoughts. 



My name is Bud Tracy, I am presently the General Manager of Raft River Rural Electric 

 Cooperative, Inc. located in Malta, Idaho. We serve south central Idaho, northwestern Utah, 

 and northeastern Nevada and are a full requirements customer of BPA. 



In addition to my duties at Raft River I have served as an executive committee Board member 

 for the Public Power .Council for approximately 10 years ending in 1992. I have served as a 

 Board Member of the Pacific Northwest Generating Cooperative, they are an Oregon Corpora- 

 tion who's role is to assist and provide generation and transmission services for it's members. 

 PNGC has and is involved in the development and purchasing of resources to meet its mem- 

 bers needs, I am the immediate past president of the Corporation. 



In the late seventies to the mid eighties I also served as the Chairman and President of the 

 Board of the Geothermal Power development group of which BPA, PGE, Idaho Power, EPRI 

 and SRPA were members and through a joint venture with the D.O.E. developed and con- 

 structed a 5 MW Geothermal Plant. 



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