Oregon Commonwealth Federation, statement of representative. Oregon Reclamation Congress, letter and resolutions_. Oregon State Grange, letter and resolutions___. Oregon State Industrial Union Council, statement of representative_--- 763 360 387 247 People's Utility District of Lincoln, Lane, Douglas, and Coos Counties, Pope, Senator James P., excerpt from statement of. Port Angeles (Wash.) city commissioners, telegram_ Portland General Electric Co.: Securities of.. Taxes paid by-. Telegram to president of.... (See also Tabulations.) Mayor of, letter_. 758 Authorizing the completion, maintenance, and operation of the Bonne- ville project for navigation, etc., approved August 20, 1937_ Amending the Bonneville Project Act, approved March 6, 1940– Public utility districts: Record vote upon question of organization of 444 Reeves, Belle, excerpts from statement of re irrigation districts and farm production in Washington___-. 297 Sanford, Charles M., reference to in opinion of Federal Power Commission_ Santiam (Oreg.) Central Farmers Union of Linn County, resolution---- Savings, estimated annual, from present rates upon acquisition of existing systems, assuming institution of Bonneville standard resale rates_--- Report of city of, outlining duplication and savings, combined capital investment of both systems, savings to be derived from elimination Tabulations: Abstract of the votes cast on proposed bond issue in the Northern 291 Supervision of issuance of power company's securities by Washington 357 Securities of the major privately owned public utilities in the Pacific 358 Financial statements-Continued. Portland General Electric Co--- Puget Sound Power & Light Co. and subsidiaries_ State and local taxes which utility districts are required to pay-- Estimated annual savings from present rates upon acquisition of exist- ing systems, assuming institution of Bonneville standard resale rates Federal taxes paid by eight private utility systems in the Northwest_- Industrial power contract terms, including cancelation or curtailment Kilowatt-hour sales of electric power year ended December 31, 1941 418, 419 Record of vote upon the question of organization of people's utility dis- 559 Total installed generating capacity of private utilities, 1927 to 1941__ Appendix A. Estimated ultimate investment in Bonneville and Grand Appendix C. Comparison of taxes, cash contributions, and free serv- ices, etc.. Washington, Oregon, and the United States_. Appendix D. Earnings comparison of private utility companies with those of public bodies year ended December 31, 1941__. Appendix E. Report of city of Seattle, superintendent of lighting, e.c. Appendix F. Major electric utilities in Pacific Northwest--number Cash contributions and free services-privately and publicly owned utilities, Washington, Oregon, and the United States, 1936, com- Wallgren, Hon. Mon C., letter from.. 34 Walter, R. F., quotation from testimony of.. 755 Washington Northern Electric Co., reference to, in opinion of the Federal 307 Supervision of issuance of power company's securities by. Washington State Grange, resolution___. Washington State Taxpayers Association, reference to, in opinion of Fed- Excerpt from Federal Power Commission opinion in re accounting 306 West Douglas Electric Cooperative, Inc., resolution__. Yamhill Electric Co., quotation from complaint of, in case against the city Yambill Electric Co., quotation from complaint of, in case against the city Young, F. H., reference to in opinion of the Federal Power Commission__ 307 COLUMBIA POWER ADMINISTRATION WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3, 1942 JOINT SUBCOMMITTEE OF THE COMMITTEE ON HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Washington, D. C. The joint subcommittee met, pursuant to call, at 10:30 a. m., in the hearing room of the Committee on Rivers and Harbors of the House, Senator John H. Overton presiding. Present Senators Overton, McNary, and Burton; and Representatives Smith, Peterson, Carter, Dondero, and Angell. Senator OVERTON. The committee will come to order. This is a joint hearing, composed of members of the Senate Committee on Commerce and the Committee on Rivers and Harbors of the House of Representatives, to consider S. 2430, a bill to amend the Bonneville Act to authorize the acquisition of utility systems and to coordinate the operation of the Government's power facilities on the Columbia River, and for other purposes. I suggest that at this point there be incorporated in the record the bill that we have under consideration, and I think that it would be well, immediately following the introduction of that bill, to reproduce the present Bonneville Act. Senator BONE. I can supply the reporter with a copy of it; and I might add, Senator Overton, that there are two House bills that are identical to this S. 2430. Senator OVERTON. We will also consider the companion bills introduced in the House, H. R. 6889 and H. R. 6890, but it will not be necessary to reproduce but one of the bills. (S. 2430, and the so-called Bonneville Act, Public No. 329, 75th Cong., ch. 720, 1st sess., are reproduced below.) [S. 2430, 77th Cong., 2d sess.] A BILL To amend the Bonneville Act to authorize the acquisition of utility systems and to coordinate the operation of the Government's power facilities on the Columbia River, and for other purposes Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Act of August 20, 1937 (50 Stat. 731, 16 U. S. C., sec. 832 ff.) as amended by the Act of March 6, 1940 (54 Stat. 47), hereinafter referred to as the Bonneville Act, is amended as in this Act provided. SEC. 2. Section 1 of the said Bonneville Act is hereby amended to read as follows: "For the purpose of improving navigation on the Columbia River; for controlling the destructive floods thereof; for the storage, diversion, and development of water for the irrigation of arid and semiarid lands; for promoting the widest possible and most efficient use of electric energy; and for other purposes incidental 1 |