Utility Proposal for Powerplant Addition to Hanford New Production Reactor: Hearings Before the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, Congress of the United States, Eighty-seventh Congress, Second Session ... July 10 and 11, 1962U.S. Government Printing Office, 1962 - 143 pages Considers proposed agreements between AEC and Washington Public Power Supply System to construct and operate electric generating facilities at the new production reactor in Hanford, Wash. |
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Page 142 - No department of the Government shall expend, in any one fiscal year, any sum in excess of appropriations made by Congress for that fiscal year, or involve the Government in any contract for the future payment of money in excess of such appropriations.
Page 141 - That the board is hereby authorized to enter into contracts with other power systems for the mutual exchange of unused excess power upon suitable terms, for the conservation of stored water, and as an emergency or break-down relief.
Page 2 - In connection with the purchase, construction, and acquisition of plant and capital equipment and other expenses Incidental thereto necessary for atomic energy defense activities in carrying out the purposes of the Department of Energy Organization Act (Public Law 95-91), including the acquisition or condemnation of any real property or any facility or for plant or facility acquisition, construction, or expansion...
Page 142 - Subject only to the provisions of this Act, the Administrator is authorized to enter into such contracts, agreements, and arrangements, including the amendment, modification, adjustment, or cancelation thereof and the compromise or final settlement of any claim arising thereunder, and to make such expenditures, upon such terms and conditions and in such manner as he may deem necessary.
Page 142 - No contract or purchase on behalf of the United States shall be made unless the same is authorized by law or is under an appropriation Pabllc Works — Contracts. adequate to its fulfillment, except in the War and Navy Departments, for clothing, subsistence, forage, fuel, quarters, or transportation, which, however, shall not exceed the necessities of the current year.
Page 137 - ... firm up and thereby market large quantities of secondary energy which will be available for the term of this agreement and which otherwise would be wasted; (2) there will be an urgent need for such additional firm power before the Project can be completed, to supply the actual and prospective needs of publicly and privately owned public utilities, cooperatives and industries in the Pacific Northwest; (3) the Administrator, by entering into this agreement, will be enabled to increase substantially...
Page 131 - ... faced with the possibility of being unable to obtain financing for this bureaucratic power project which had been hailed as a great Kennedy achievement when the contract providing for its construction was authorized by Congress during the last session. Of course, the new production reactor contract between the Atomic Energy Commission and the Washington Public Power Supply System still has a cancellation clause, but the joker in that cancellation clause is the fact that taxpayers of the Nation...
Page 117 - The WPPSS has presently under construction a small (26,000 kilowatt) hydroelectric project in Lewis County, Wash., and an application pending before the Federal Power Commission for a license to construct the 3 million kilowatt multipurpose Nez Perce hydroelectric project or its alternate the smaller Mountain Sheep project on the Middle Snake River between the States of Oregon and Idaho. Since its formation in 1957, the WPPSS has undertaken the investigation of other potential projects to meet further...
Page 141 - The Secretary is further authorized, for the purpose of orderly and economical construction or operation and maintenance of any project, to enter into such contracts for exchange or replacement of water, water rights, or electric energy or for the adjustment of water rights, as in his judgment are necessary and in the interests of the United States and the project.
Page 139 - Kennedy today endorsed a proposal by a group of public utility districts in the State of Washington to build and operate electric generating facilities for over 800,000 kilowatts of power at the Hanford new production reactor.