258 



sponsive in terms of the problems with that process and creating 

 refinements to that. 



Mr. DeFazio. Mr. Eldridge, I'm curious about this Boardman ex- 

 ample. When was that when you tried to sell the 52 megawatts to 

 BPA? 



Mr. Eldridge. I think the last offer was last year and then Bon- 

 neville couldn't make the kind of commitment we needed to stop 

 negotiations with Terlock. So we continued with Terlock. Bonne- 

 ville expressed finally that they were interested in the plant and 

 would probably acquire it, but they couldn't give us a timeframe or 

 a firm enough commitment for us to stop what we were doing with 

 Terlock. 



Mr. DeFazio. I guess I'm curious. I wonder when they started 

 down the Tenaska path. Was that about the same time? 



Mr. Eldridge. I couldn't tell you. I don't know which request for 

 proposals that plant was in. But it seems to me on Tenaska, and 

 I don't know the details of it, but in running a power system, 

 they've got to have some generation where all that huge amount 

 of load is and there's some reasonable cost to secure that with a 

 generation plant. 



Mr. DeFazio. You said you sold it for less than 30 mills. Is that 

 some sort of levelized cost? 



Mr. Eldridge. Yes. That's 1990 real levehzed. 



Mr. DeFazio. 1990, okay. I'm probably comparing 1990 to 1993. 

 What would the real levelized 1993 cost of Umatilla's share of 

 Boardman be— 41 miles? 



Mr. Eldridge. I don't think it's 41. I think it's less than that. 

 I could find out and send it to you. 



[The information follows:] 



