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 Defense Council 



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 TESTIMONY OF RALPH CAVANAGH 

 ON BEHALF OF THE NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL 



AT THE FINAL HEARING 

 OF THE BONNEVILLE POWER ADMINISTRATION TASK FORCE 



Washington, D.C.: October 28, 1993 



Through this statement, the Natural Resources Defense 

 Council (NRDC) responds to Chairman DeFazio's invitation of 

 October 14 to testify before this Task Force regarding the future 

 of the Bonneville Power Administration J I have directed our 

 Northwest Energy Project since 1979; I serve also as a member of 

 BPA's Function-by-Function Review Task Force and the Secretary of 

 Energy's Advisory Board. Before responding to the Task Force's 

 detailed questions, I want to offer some general conclusions and 

 recommendations based on the earlier phases of this crucial 

 inquiry. 



1. The entire region owes a debt of gratitude to the Task Force, 

 its Chairman and its staff, led bv Dan Adamson and Jeff Stier : 

 the Task Force already has provided the most thorough and 

 constructive oversight that BPA has received during the course of 

 my career, and of course there is much still to come. Thank you. 



2. In recent months BPA has spent so much time collecting and 

 reacting to complaints from a relative handful of customers that 

 it has been in danger of forgetting its millions of 

 consumer/constituents . NRDC supports, and has assisted with, 

 BPA's efforts to streamline its decisionmaking and improve the 

 efficiency of its operations, which both utility customers and 

 citizen consumers want and need. However, I hope this Task Force 

 will remind the agency forcefully that when customer and consumer 



^NRDC representatives also testified at earlier Task Force 

 hearings on July 12, 1993 and September 24, 1993. 



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