ORDERS ISSUED BY THE FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION WITH REFERENCE TO THE RATES OF THE BONNEVILLE POWER ADMINISTRATION

1. Docket No. IT-5519:

(Bonneville project)

1. Order dated June 8, 1938, approved rate schedules A-1, B-1, C-1, and D-1 and general terms and conditions.

2. Order dated July 29, 1938, approved modification of rates for the sale of temporary power for experimental purposes until October 31, 1938.

3. Order dated December 20, 1938, approved rate schedule E-1 for the sale of temporary power for experimental purposes for a period terminating not later than December 31, 1939.

4. Order dated September 13, 1939, approved rate schedules A-2, C-2, F-1, and H-1, and general terms and conditions.

5. Order dated September 17, 1940, approved rate for temporary sale of power to the Aluminum Co. of America.

6. Order dated November 26, 1940, approved rate for temporary sale of power to Aluminum Co. of America.

7. Order dated February 17, 1941, approved rate for temporary sale of power to Reynolds Metals Co.

8. Order dated December 16, 1941, approved rate schedules A-3, C-3, F-2, and H-2 and general rate schedules provisions.

9. Order dated March 28, 1944, approved rate schedule E-2.

10. Order dated May 16, 1944, approved modification of rate schedule E-2. 11. Order dated March 23, 1945, approved experimental rate for the Bureau of Mines Laboratory at Albany, Oregon.

12. Pending-Complete revision of rates to supersede rate schedules A-3, C-3, E-2, F-2, and H-2 and general-rate-schedule provisions.

2. Docket No. IT-5945: Order dated May 25, 1945, approved experimental rates for Defense Plant Corporation alumina plant at Salem, Oreg.

3. Docket No. IT-5969: Pending-rate for railroad electrification.

ORDERS RELATING TO THE SALE OF POWER FROM PROJECTS OPERATED BY THE SOUTHWESTERN POWER ADMINISTRATION (DENISON-NORFOLK-GRAND RIVER)

1. Docket No. IT-5889:

Order dated June 14, 1944, approved rates for the sale of 30,000 kilowatts from the Denison Dam project to the Texas Power & Light Co.

Order dated June 24, 1944, approved until August 8, 1944, rates for the sale of testing power from the Denison Dam project to the Texas Power & Light Co. and the Oklahoma Gas & Electric Co.

Order dated January 2, 1945, approved extension for additional week the delivery of testing power.

2. Docket No. IT-5901:

Order dated June 24, 1944, approved until August 8, 1944, rates for sale of power from Norfork Dam to Arkansas Power & Light Co. during period of testing of the plant before commencement of commercial operations. 3. Docket No. IT-5907:

Order dated August 25, 1944, approved until August 31, 1944, rates for emergency power from the Norfork Dam to the Arkansas Power & Light Co. covering delivery not to exceed 5,000,000 kilowatt-hours and the operation of a generator as a condenser.

Order dated January 1, 1945, approved extension of the sale of emergency energy until December 31, 1944, and increase of energy to 16,000,000 kilowatt-hours.

Order dated March 10, 1945, extended the termination date for the delivery of emergency energy to March 31, 1945.

4. Docket No. IT-5908:

Order dated August 25, 1944, approved until August 31, 1944, rates for emergency power from Denison Dam to Texas Power & Light Co., covering delivery not to exceed 5,000,000 kilowatt-hours and operation of generator as a condenser.

Order dated January 1, 1945, approved extension of emergency energy deliveries to December 31, 1944.

Order dated March 10, 1945, approved extension of emergency energy deliv eries to March 31, 1945, and an increase of energy to 7,400,000 kilowatthours.

5. Docket No. IT-5911:

Order dated August 25, 1944, approved until August 31, 1944, rates for the sale of up to 5,000 kilowatts of emergency power from the Grand River Dam to the Arkansas Power & Light Co.

6. Docket No. IT-5935:

Order dated May 4, 1945, approved rates for the sale of 35,000 kilowatts and 9,000,000 kilowatt-hours per month from the Norfork Dam until July 1, 1949, or 6 months after cessation of hostilities. Initially the entire output of the Norfolk Dam was to be sold to the Arkansas Power & Light Co.

7. Docket No. IT-5940:

Order dated May 19, 1945, approved rates for the sale of not to exceed 1,665,000 kilowatt-hours per month of emergency energy from the Denison Dam to the Oklahoma Gas & Electric Co.

8. Docket No. IT-5965:

Order dated September 15, 1945, approved rates for the sale of additional 6,000 kilowatt-hours of power from the Denison Dam to the Texas Power & Light Co. during the months of August and September 1945.

ORDERS ISSUED BY THE FEDERAL POWER COMMISSION WITH REFERENCE TO THE FORT PECK PROJECT

1. Docket No. IT-5770:

Order dated April 30, 1943, established allocation of costs.

2. Docket No. IT-5876:

Order dated March 1, 1944, approved rates for the sale of power to Montana Power Co. for the period from July 1, 1943, to March 1, 1945.

3. Docket No. IT-5882:

Order dated August 8, 1944, approved rates for the sale of power to Montana State Game Farm and School District No. 21 for the period from July 1, 1943, to March 1, 1945.

4. Docket No. IT-5891:

Order dated April 6. 1915, approved rates for the sale of firm, irrigation pumping, commercial and dump energy.

5. Docket No. IT-5932:

Order dated April 6, 1945, approved rates for the sale of power to the Montana-Dakota Utilities Co.

Mr. WIGGLESWORTH. Does the law provide, in respect to all of these projects, that the rates shall be such as to amortize the cost over a reasonable period?

Mr. OLDS. I would have to refer to the acts, but they contain fairly standard language in connection with the control of rates.

Mr. WIGGLESWORTH. In respect to all projects over which you have jurisdiction?

Mr. OLDS. That is my recollection, but I would want to check that in the Flood Control Act of 1944.

Mr. WIGGLESWORTH. What, in your opinion, is a reasonable period for amortization?

Mr. OLDS. We have generally thought that 50 years for a hydroelectric project would be a reasonable amortization period.

Mr. WIGGLESWORTH. Is it your judgment in respect to each rate you have approved that the rate in each case will, in fact, amortize the project within a period of 50 years or less?

Mr. OLDS. Within a period of 50 years. General, our consideration of the thing has been on a basis of 50 years amortization.

Mr. WIGGLESWORTH. Will you please add another column to that table I just asked for, indicating the period over which it is anticipated each project will be amortized under the rate you have approved?

Mr. OLDS. Yes.

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PAYMENTS TO BONNEVILLE BY DEFENSE PLANTS CORPORATION

Mr. WIGGLESWORTH. Now, is it a fact that large sums were paid to Bonneville by the Defense Plants Corporation in respect to the cancellation of war contracts?

Mr. OLDS. I know that the contracts under which they were buying power from the Bonneville Administration carried in them cancellation-of-payment provisions. The extent to which they have been actually paid I cannot give you.

Mr. WIGGLESWORTH. You would not have that information?

Mr. OLDS. I would not have that information because that is between the Bonneville Administration and the Defense Plants Corporation.

Mr. WIGGLESWORTH. That information would not be of a type to be taken into consideration in fixing this rate for which you are responsible?

Mr. OLDS. No. We would not take into consideration whether they have paid or not. We have a little disagreement between ourselves and Bonneville as to whether those cancellation provisions should be considered as charges under the act, which is being worked out between the two agencies.

FEDERAL INTER-AGENCY RIVER BASIN COMMITTEE

Mr. WIGGLESWORTH. I wish you would put something in the record about the Federal Inter-Agency River Basin Committee, that is, the authority for its creation, when it was set up, the membership and purposes, and also similar information for the Missouri Basin InterAgency Committee.

Mr. OLDS. Yes, sir.

(The information follows:)

THE FEDERAL INTER-AGENCY RIVER BASIN COMMITTEE

The Federal Inter-Agency River Basin Committee originated in an agreement of December 29, 1943, between the Chief of Engineers, of the War Department, the Commissioner of Reclamation, the Land Use Coordinator of the Department of Agriculture, and the Chairman of the Federal Power Commission. The Commissioner of Reclamation and the Land Use Coordinator subsequently advised that they represented their respective departments.

The purpose of the agreement was to permit the agencies named to cooperate more completely in the preparation of reports on multiple-purpose projects and to correlate the results to the greatest practicable extent. Provision was made for cooperation at the field level in order to arrange for interchange of data and avoid duplication of effort. To accomplish the purpose arrangements were made for conferences between the field offices as well as between the member agencies in Washington.

The authority for participation of the Federal Power Commission in the Federal Inter-Agency River Basin Committee is set forth in sections 4 (a) and 4 (c) of the Federal Power Act, as follows:

"SEC. 4 (as amended August 26, 1935), The Commission is hereby authorized and empowered

(a) To make investigations and to collect and record data concerning the utilization of the water resources of any region to be developed, the water-power industry and its relation to other industries and to interstate or foreign commerce, and concerning the location, capacity, development costs, and relation to markets of power sites, and whether the power from Government dams can be advantageously used by the United States for its public purposes, and what