Title 16 — ConservationRelease 119-73
§832f Elements in determining rates
Title 16 › Chapter CHAPTER 12B— - BONNEVILLE PROJECT › § 832f
Summary
Rates for electricity from the Bonneville project that is more than needed to run the dam, locks, and related works must be set with the understanding that the power comes from water power created when the dam was built. The rates must recover the costs to produce and transmit that power, including paying off the capital investment over a reasonable number of years. The Secretary of Energy sets how costs are divided and may assign a fair share of joint facility costs to the power side.
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Title 16, §832f
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It is the intent of Congress that rate schedules for the sale of electric energy which is or may be generated at the Bonneville project in excess of the amount required for operating the dam, locks, and appurtenant works at said project shall be determined with due regard to and predicated upon the fact that such electric energy is developed from water power created as an incident to the construction of the dam in the Columbia River at the Bonneville project for the purposes set forth in section 832 of this title. 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 Bonneville project) of the cost of producing and transmitting such electric energy, including the amortization of the capital investment over a reasonable period of years. Rate schedules shall be based upon an allocation of costs made by the Secretary of Energy. In computing the cost of electric energy developed from water power created as an incident to and a byproduct of the construction of the Bonneville project, the Secretary of Energy may allocate to the costs of electric facilities such a share of the cost of facilities having joint value for the production of electric energy and other purposes as the power development may fairly bear as compared with such other purposes.
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Transfer of Functions
“Secretary of Energy” substituted in text for “Federal Power Commission” pursuant to Pub. L. 95–91, § 301(b), which is classified to section 7151(b) of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare. The Federal Power Commission was terminated, and its functions, personnel, property, funds, etc., were transferred to the Secretary of Energy (except for certain functions which were transferred to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission) by section 7151(b), 7171(a), 7172(a), 7291, and 7293 of Title 42.
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16 U.S.C. § 832f
Title 16 — Conservation
Last Updated
Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73