Title 16, ConservationRelease 119-102
§837f Purchaser Priority on Pacific Northwest Power; Amendment of Existing Contracts and New Contracts to Include Priority Provisions
Title 16 › CHAPTER 12F — PACIFIC NORTHWEST CONSUMER POWER PREFERENCE; RECIPROCAL PRIORITY IN OTHER REGIONS › § 837f
Summary
The Secretary must offer to change existing contracts for Pacific Northwest federal hydropower, without adding extra conditions, and must put the same buyers' priority clause into all new contracts under this chapter.
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Title 16, §837f
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The Secretary shall offer to amend, without imposing any other requirements as a condition to such amendment, all existing contracts for the sale or exchange of electric power generated at Federal hydroelectric plants in the Pacific Northwest to include, and shall include in all new contracts, provisions giving the purchaser priority on electric power generated at such plants in conformity with the provisions of this chapter.
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16 U.S.C. § 837f
Title 16, Conservation
Last Updated
Aug 21, 2026
Release point: 119-102