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	Green Scissors 2003 Bonneville Power Administration
		BPA markets power from 31 federally owned hydroelectric projects in the Pacific Northwest as well as one large nuclear plant at rates often substantially lower than those in other regions of the country.
		BPA imposes a significant financial burden on U.S. taxpayers.
		The federal dams that generate electricity for BPA are the primary cause of decline of endangered salmon in the Columbia and Snake rivers, inflicting approximately 80 percent of human-caused mortality for lower Snake River runs.
	www.greenscissors.org /energy/bonneville.htm (705 words)

	GAO-04-694, Bonneville Power Administration: Better Management of BPA's Obligation to Provide Power Is Needed to ...
		In particular, unlike the other power marketing administrations, BPA is required by its governing statutes to serve the "net" demand of utilities in the region (that is, the demand that these utilities cannot meet with their own generation resources) when requested.
		BPA estimates that foregone revenues attributed to irrigation withdrawals are currently about $180 million per year.[Footnote 14] As population and economic activity in the Pacific Northwest region have grown, the demand for power from the federal power system has increased.
		BPA officials told us that, due to the reduction in customer demand, they were concerned about the possibility that they might not be able to sell enough power to cover their costs.
	www.gao.gov /htext/d04694.html (15489 words)

	Green Scissors 2002 Bonneville Power Administration
		The Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) is a federal agency that sells approximately 45 percent of the electricity consumed in the Pacific Northwest and owns about 75 percent of that region s transmission lines.
		BPA markets power from 31 federally-owned hydroelectric projects in the Pacific Northwest at cost-based rates, resulting in substantially lower electricity costs for its customers when compared to other regions of the country.
		The federal dams which generate electricity for BPA are the primary cause of decline of endangered salmon in the Columbia and Snake Rivers, inflicting approximately 80 percent of human-caused mortality for lower Snake River runs.
	www.greenscissors.org /energy/bonnevillepr.htm (592 words)

	ExpectMore.gov: Bonneville Power Administration
		Therefore, BPA is held accountable for the effectiveness of the results achieved by its overall spending, not the manner in which the funds are committed.
		Bonneville is moving to examine industry benchmarking techniques associated with performance and continuing to develop associated efficiency measures and targets, both short-term and long- term.
		BPA is now updating its targets and balanced scorecard for FY2007-11 in alignment with continued implementation of its strategic plan, its major enterprise process improvement initiatives (includes multi-year performance targets to measure and monitor efficiency/effectiveness improvements), and its planned organization restructuring this Fall to support efficiency/effectiveness improvements.
	www.whitehouse.gov /omb/expectmore/detail.10000082.2005.html (7454 words)

	The Future Role of the Bonneville Power Administration in Power Supply, document 2003-18
		Despite the fact that Bonneville has not deferred any payments to the U.S. Treasury since the early 1980s, it is continually attacked by organizations like the Northeast-Midwest Institute[1] and its congressional allies as being subsidized by the federal government.
		Bonneville’s role in providing power beyond the capability of the federal base system should be limited to bilateral contracts or rate mechanisms that align the benefits and costs.
		While limiting Bonneville’s role to develop new power supplies to bilateral arrangements with customers is a major step in the right direction, it is not sufficient to ensure the development of cost-effective conservation given the disincentives to utility investment in conservation.
	www.nwcouncil.org /library/2003/2003-18.htm (1427 words)

	Bonneville Power Administration - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The BPA is part of the U.S. Department of Energy, and is headquartered in Portland, Oregon.
		The BPA was created in 1937 to provide the hydroelectricity generated from the Bonneville Dam and, later, the Grand Coulee Dam.
		BPA also coordinates with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation to regulate flow of water in the Columbia River and to take on environmental projects such as salmon replenishment.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bonneville_Power_Administration (334 words)

	EPA: Federal Register: Bonneville Power Administration; Maiden Wind Farm Project
		BPA needs to acquire additional renewable resources that will contribute to the diversification of its energy portfolio and be available promptly to help remedy BPA's power supply issues.
		Power from all turbines in the Project would be collected by an underground and overhead cable system and then fed to one or two proposed substations to be located on the Project site.
		BPA has established a 30-day scoping period during which affected tribes, landowners, concerned citizens, special interest groups, local governments, and any other interested parties are invited to comment on the scope of the EIS.
	www.epa.gov /fedrgstr/EPA-IMPACT/2001/June/Day-12/i14734.htm (1224 words)

	PRESS RELEASE 3TIER Environmental Forecast Group Provides Wind Forecasting Expertise to the Bonneville Power ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		BPA is expecting a considerable increase in the amount of wind energy in its control area over the next several years.
		BPA serves the Pacific Northwest through operating an extensive electricity transmission system and marketing wholesale electrical power at cost from Federal dams, one non-Federal nuclear plant and other non-Federal hydroelectric and wind energy generation facilities.
		BPA aims to be a national leader in providing high reliability, low rates consistent with sound business principles, responsible environmental stewardship and accountability to the region.
	www.marketwire.com /mw/release_html_b1?release_id=85267 (739 words)

	TOWARD ACCOUNTABILITY AND EFFICIENCY: REFORM OF THE BONNEVILLE POWER ADMINISTRATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The BPA was established by Congress in 1937 to market and transport power from the Bonneville Dam on the Columbia River.
		As the BPA is presently organized, it lacks the incentive structure to operate in a commercially sound manner or in the long-term interests of electric power consumers and producers of the Pacific Northwest.
		The future of the Bonneville Power Authority should be assessed in light of (1) the Authority's historically costly operating performance, (2) the Pacific Northwest's need to secure, environmentally and economically low-cost energy, and (3) the competitive and efficient market-like arrangements which are increasingly emerging in the U.S. electric industry.
	www.rppi.org /privatization/ps138.html (11110 words)

	EPA: Federal Register: Bonneville Power Administration; Salmon Creek Project
		Proposed Action BPA proposes to fund the rehabilitation of the lower 4.3 miles of Salmon Creek to achieve long-term channel stability, erosion control, and dependable water supply, thus allowing the passage of spring chinook and summer steelhead to the high-quality habitat existing upstream between Conconully Dam and the OID Diversion Dam on Salmon Creek.
		BPA has established a 30-day scoping period during which affected landowners, concerned citizens, special interest groups, local governments, and any other interested parties are invited to comment on the scope of the proposed EIS.
		Scoping will help BPA ensure that a full range of issues related to this proposal is addressed in the EIS, and also will identify significant or potentially significant impacts that may result from the proposed project.
	www.epa.gov /fedrgstr/EPA-IMPACT/2002/February/Day-04/i2598.htm (1802 words)

	NW Energy Coalition - BPA: Table of Contents (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		BPA has a legal obligation to protect salmon and steelhead in the Columbia Basin that are threatened or endangered by the federal hydropower system.
		BPA claims this proposal will add more certainty to salmon recovery efforts, yet nothing in the plan explains what these efforts will be.
		I encourage BPA to advocate for real salmon recovery measures, including the one measure scientists say will truly recover these fish, removing the four lower Snake River dams and replacing the small amount of power they produce with cost-effective clean energy.
	www.nwenergy.org /bpa/docs/letters.html (589 words)

	Feature: Value of Power and Snake River Dams (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Bonneville Power Administration is a federal agency that is tasked with transmitting power, electrical power produced at government owned hydroelectric projects to residents, commercial businesses and industrial businesses in the Northwest.
		Bonneville collects the power that is generated at hydroelectric power plants in the Northwest, transmits that electricity over approximately fifteen thousand miles of transmission lines.
		In order to help the aluminum industry to survive, Bonneville decided to create a rate that would allow their cost of power to be tied to the price of aluminum in the market.
	www.cyberlearn.com /bpa.htm (1081 words)

	ATSDR - PHA - Bonneville Power Administration Ross Complex (USDOE), Vancouver, Clark County, Washington
		The Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) Ross Complex in Vancouver, Washington, is an active power distribution facility that coordinates the distribution of hydroelectric power to areas throughout the Pacific Northwest.
		The Bonneville Power Administration's (BPA) Ross Complex is in the northernmost part of the city of Vancouver, Clark County, Washington.
		As one of the U.S. Department of Energy's five power marketing agencies, BPA is responsible for transmitting hydroelectric power, generated from the Columbia River, throughout the Pacific Northwest and selling power to agencies in California and Canada.
	www.atsdr.cdc.gov /HAC/PHA/bonneville/bpa_p1.html (3585 words)

	Integrated Fish and Wildlife Program (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Today, the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) and its partners operating the FCRPS are working diligently to redress hydro development impacts to ensure that healthy fish and wildlife populations and low-cost electricity can exist side by side in the Pacific Northwest.
		BPA works to protect, mitigate, enhance, and recover fish and wildlife populations in the Columbia River Basin impacted by the operation of the Federal Columbia River Power System (FCRPS).
		BPA and the Council solicit projects for the program through an open and public process.
	www.efw.bpa.gov /Integrated_Fish_and_Wildlife_Program (542 words)

	Bonneville Dam - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bonneville Lock and Dam consists of several dam structures that together complete a span of the Columbia River between the US states of Oregon and Washington at River Mile 146.1.
		Electrical power generated at Bonneville is distributed by the Bonneville Power Administration.
		Bonneville Lock and Dam is named for Army Capt. Benjamin Bonneville, an early explorer credited with charting much of the Oregon Trail.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bonneville_Dam (826 words)

	Bonneville Power Administration (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Bonneville's multiyear manufactured housing program has aimed to gain a better understanding of the manufactured housing industry and its products and to work with the industry to improve energy efficiency in this housing sector.
		Bonneville has worked with the manufacturers, utilities, the state energy offices, and regional energy research groups to develop and assess its programs.
		Bonneville's program is the largest and probably most studied energy efficient manufactured housing program in the country.
	mfdhousing.com /pnnl/pi.html (306 words)

	US CODE: Title 16,838i. Bonneville Power Administration fund (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		There is hereby established in the Treasury of the United States a Bonneville Power Administration fund (hereinafter referred to as the “fund”).
		The provisions of chapter 91 of title 31 shall be applicable to the Administrator in the same manner as they are applied to the wholly owned Government corporations named in section 9101 of title 31, but nothing in section 9105 (d)
		of title 31 shall be construed as affecting the powers granted in subsection (b)(11) of this section and in sections 832a (f), 832i (b), and 832k (a) of this title.
	www.law.cornell.edu /uscode/uscode16/usc_sec_16_00000838---i000-.html (568 words)

	Blue Sky Participant - Bonneville Power Administration
		BPA also is the first government agency to adopt the U.S. Department of Energy's mandate to use more renewable energy resources.
		The 1,103 blocks of 100-kwh wind energy that BPA purchases monthly is enough to provide electricity for 110 average homes.
		The environmental benefit is significant: over the course of one year, BPA's commitment is equivalent to planting more than 520 acres of trees.
	www.pacificpower.net /Article/Article4022.html (166 words)

	Bonneville Power Administration terminates Fish Passage Center : ICT [2006/02/06] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		BPA announced its plan to transfer the functions of the FPC to new entities at a briefing to the Northwest Power and Conservation Council, whose fish and wildlife program requires the FPC be funded by BPA.
		Today a federal agency, BPA, shuts down an established, efficient science center and shifts the work to an assemblage of less experienced and unproven entities virtually guaranteeing that the regional collaborative effort will suffer, perhaps flat out fail.
		Authorized by the Northwest Power Act, and operating for the past 20 years, the FPC collected, analyzed and made public vital information about salmon and steelhead numbers on the Columbia and Snake rivers.
	www.indiancountry.com /content.cfm?id=1096412398 (597 words)

	ATSDR - PHA - Bonneville Power Administration Ross Complex (USDOE), Vancouver, Clark County, Washington
		The public health action plan (PHAP) for the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) NPL site contains a description of actions to be taken by ATSDR and/or other government agencies at and in the vicinity of the site after the completion of this public health assessment.
		The clean-up actions chosen by BPA, the United States Environmental Protection Agency, and the Washington Department of Ecology include excavation and off-site disposal of contaminated soils from the Ross Substation and Capacitor Yard and the Capacitor Testing Laboratory.
		The selected remedies for OUB are as follows: (1) capping and fencing of the Fog Chamber Dump Trench Area 1 to restrict access; also, implementing deed and land-use restrictions to minimize the potential for future disturbance of contaminated material and (2) implementing deed and land-use restrictions for the Fog Chamber Dump Trench Area 2.
	www.atsdr.cdc.gov /hac/PHA/bonneville/bpa_p3.html (1094 words)

	Bonneville Power Administration conservation plan budget
		The Bonneville Power Administration today announced its conservation plan and budget for 2005-2009.
		BPA had originally proposed to invest $75 million a year on the program but restored the budget to $80 million after holding public meetings.
		"BPA is a wholesaler of large blocks of power," Weedall said.
	tdworld.com /news/BPA-conservation-programs (301 words)

	BPA - Jobs \| Just For Students
		Like the career possibilities at BPA where the power of your education comes to life.
		At BPA your education and talent are the power behind the power that runs virtually everything that demands electrical energy to work.
		BPA’s average student employment rate of over 100 students per year is a testament to BPA’s belief in and strong commitment to student employment.
	www.jobs.bpa.gov /Just_for_Students (180 words)

	EFW Home
		Today, BPA and its partners operating the Federal Columbia River Power System (FCRPS) are working diligently to protect and enhance our environmental, fish, and wildlife values, and ensure these qualities for future generations.
		BPA, McKenzie River Trust and other partners improve conditions for fish and wildlife in the Willamette Valley through an innovative restoration project on Green Island.
		NOTICE: This site is owned and operated by the Bonneville Power Administration, United States Department of Energy.
	www.efw.bpa.gov (302 words)

	Public Renewables Partnership
		The U.S. Department of Energy, the Electric Power Research Institute and the Edison Electric Institute have jointly organized the conference since 1995.
		The National Rural Electric Cooperative Association, DOE’s Wind Powering America and GeoPowering the West programs and Western Area Power Administration are sponsoring a series of educational events on renewable energy applications and opportunities.
		The Public Renewables Partnership is working with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and the Green Power Network to promote the use of green power to consumer-owned utilities across the United States.
	www.repartners.org (936 words)

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