Federal Energy Regulatory Commission: Charges for Hydropower Projects' Use of Federal Lands Need to be Reassessed : Report to the Congressional Requesters |
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1-year's depreciation 24 Projects annual charge system annual charges 2002 appraisal average of hourly Bath County BCPS benefit of federal Benefits Analysis benefits approach benefits methodology calculated California California Aqueduct charges for hydropower Comments consumers Coosa River current annual charge dollars Generation kwh Dollars in 2002 Dominion Virginia Power Draft Report electricity markets electricity rates Estimated return Estimating the Fair fair market value federal lands Federal Power Act FERC annual charges FERC's current Forest Service GAO analysis GAO's methodology hydroelectric hydropower projects Idaho implement increased annual charges investment 7.22 investment Sources land use charges licensees million National Hydropower Association negative net benefit Operations and maintenance percent Percentage of project Produce Hydropower project lands project on federal project owners public benefits Rate of return RCLPD regulated restructuring return on investment sample of 24 Skagit River Subtotal return taxes value of federal Value of power Various agencies data
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Page 107 - Part; for recompensing it for the use, occupancy, and enjoyment of its lands or other property; and for the expropriation to the Government of excessive profits until the respective States shall make provision for preventing excessive profits or for the expropriation thereof to themselves, or until the period of amortization as herein provided is reached, and in fixing such charges the Commission...
Page 121 - In deciding whether to issue any license under this Part for any project, the Commission, in addition to the power and development purposes for which licenses are issued, shall give equal consideration to the purposes of energy conservation, the protection, mitigation of damage to, and enhancement of, fish and wildlife (including related spawning grounds and habitat), the protection of recreational opportunities, and the preservation of other aspects of environmental quality.
Page 107 - Government of excessive profits until the respective States shall make provision for preventing excessive profits or for the expropriation thereof to themselves, or until the period of amortization as herein provided is reached, and in fixing such charges the commission shall seek to avoid increasing the price to the consumers of power by such charges...
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Page 121 - The test is whether the project will be in the public interest. And that determination can be made only after an exploration of all issues relevant to the 'public interest,' including future power demand and supply, alternate sources of power, the public interest in preserving reaches of wild rivers and wilderness areas, the preservation of anadromous fish for commercial and recreational purposes, and the protection of wildlife.
Page 63 - [the 7.0 percent] rate approximates the marginal pretax rate of return on an average investment in the private sector in recent years.
Page 122 - Act; for recompensing it for the use, occupancy, and enjoyment of its lands or other property...
Page 148 - Comments From the Department of the Interior Note: GAO comments supplementing those in the report text appear at the end of this appendix. United States Department of the Interior OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY Washington, DC 20240 April 9, 1998 Mr.
Page 114 - Billing Procedures for Annual Charges for Administering Part I of the Federal Power Act and to the Methodology for Assessing Federal Land Use Charges at 18,205. 15 Comments from the National Hydropower Association multiplying the raw value of the land in each zone by an unspecified rate-of-retum.
Page 4 - Forest Service; and the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), and National Park Service (NFS) (table 1.2.5).