Would legislation be needed for sale, lease or transfer of operating control of Bonnevilles transmission system?
A. Congressional Directives and Expectations. Congress has enacted multiple statutory provisions regarding the operation of transmission facilities by the Bonneville Power Administration. Taken together, these legislative actions are strong indications of a Congressional intent that Bonneville operate and maintain a transmission system to carry out its various purposes. In 1937, Congress directed the Administrator “to provide, construct, operate, maintain, and improve such electric transmission lines and substations, and facilities and structures appurtenant thereto, as he finds necessary, desirable, or appropriate for the purpose of transmitting electric energy, available for sale, from the Bonneville project to existing and potential markets, and, for the purpose of interchange of electric energy, to interconnect the Bonneville project with other Federal projects and publicly owned power systems now or hereafter constructed.” 16 U.S.C. 832a(b). In 1961, the Senate of the United State
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