Role of the Bonneville Power Administration in the Pacific Northwest Power Supply System, Including Its Participation in the Hydro-Thermal Power Program: A Program Environmental Statement and Planning Report. Appendix C. BPA Power

摘要

Appendix C, BPA Power Marketing, is the last of the three appendixes included in the Role EIS, and provides a comprehensive and detailed description of BPA's power-marketing policies and programs, alternatives, and their impacts. Appendix C is organized into four chapters. The first of these traces the laws and directives which determined the genesis and development of the power-marketing function of BPA and the region's utilities, and gives detailed historical and statistical information on BPA's customers. The second chapter delineates BPA's general power-marketing programs and discusses the policies which guide its marketing function, laws, and directives from which the policies have been derived, and the implementation of the policies. Alternatives to the programs are presented inthe third chapter. In the fouth chapter, the impacts of the programs and alternatives are compared. Unlike the other two appendixes, Appendix C discusses alternatives before impacts. Because of the inherent difficulty in tracing intricate and tenuous relationships between marketing policies and the physical environment, it was preferable to develop BPA's marketing activities and their alternatives before describing impacts. Appendix C also contains supporting material for the Alumax EIS which addresses BPA's proposal to provide electric service to analuminum reduction plant planned near Umatilla.