Power Rate Increases: Bureau of Reclamation, Central Valley Project, California : Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives, Ninety-third Congress, Second Session, January 22 and 23, 1974U.S. Government Printing Office, 1974 - 1029 pages |
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allocated annual April Assistant Secretary bank account Bonneville Power Administration Bureau of Reclamation capacity and energy Central Valley Project Centralia capacity Centralia power Chairman charge Congress Conservation and Natural contract costs criteria CVP power CVP Study deficit Department Electric Company Energy Account estimated facilities Federal Power Act fiscal Gas and Electric GRAHAM HORTON hydrology interest Interior investment January kilowatt KUDER letter MCCLOSKEY megawatts memorandum ment million mills/kwh Moss NATURAL RESOURCES SUBCOMMITTEE NCPA no-deficit-year Northwest power November November 19 Office operation and maintenance Pacific Gas payout PELZ percent PGandE plant Power Rate Adjustment power rate increases preference customers procedures project dependable capacity proposed rate increase purchased power questions Rate Adjustment Study rate and repayment rate schedule Regional repayment period repayment study replacement request result REUSS revenues Rogers C. B. Morton Sacramento SMUD statement surplus tion utility Washington
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Page 505 - Interior, who shall transmit and dispose of such power and energy in such manner as to encourage the most widespread use thereof at the lowest possible rates to consumers consistent with sound business principles, the rate schedules to become effective upon confirmation and approval by the Federal Power Commission.
Page 148 - (f) No provision in this Part shall apply to, or be deemed to include, the United States, a State or any political subdivision of a State, or any agency, authority, or instrumentality of any one or more of the foregoing, or any corporation which is wholly owned, directly or indirectly, by any one or more of the foregoing, or any officer, agent, or employee of any of the foregoing acting as such in the course of his official duty, unless such provision makes specific reference thereto.
Page 505 - Rate schedules shall be drawn having regard to the recovery (upon the basis of the application of such rate schedules to the capacity of the electric facilities of the projects) of the cost of producing and transmitting such electric energy, including the amortization of the capital investment allocated to power over a reasonable period of years.
Page 136 - Any sale of electric power or lease of power privileges, made by the Secretary in connection with the operation of any project...
Page 159 - All agencies of the United States engaged in the generation and sale of electric energy for ultimate distribution to the public shall be subject, as to all facilities used for such generation and sale, and as to the electric energy sold by such agency...
Page 872 - The Government, which holds its interests here as elsewhere in trust for all the people, is not to be deprived of those interests by the ordinary court rules designed particularly for private disputes over individually owned pieces of property; and officers who have no authority at all to dispose of Government property cannot by their conduct cause the Government to lose its valuable rights by their acquiescence, laches, or failure to act.
Page 150 - This system of accounts shall also apply to agencies of the United States engaged In the generation and sale of electric energy for ultimate distribution to the public, so far as may be practicable, in accordance with applicable statutes.
Page 875 - Agents and officers of the Government have no authority to give away the money or property of the United States, either directly or under the guise of a contract that obligates the Government to pay a claim not otherwise enforcible against it.
Page 460 - Secretary's judgment will produce revenues at least sufficient to cover an appropriate share of the annual operation and maintenance cost and an appropriate share of such fixed charges as the Secretary deems proper, and shall require the payment of said rates each year in advance of delivery of water for said year.
Page 237 - As to estoppel, it is enough to repeat that "* * * the United States is neither bound nor estopped by acts of its officers or agents in entering into an arrangement or agreement to do or cause to be done what the law does not sanction or permit.