Western Area Power Administration Transparency Act
United States115th CongressHR-2371House of Representatives
Updated: Feb 8, 2018
Summary
(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The expanded summary of the House reported version is repeated here.) Western Area Power Administration Transparency Act (Sec. 2) This bill directs the Western Area Power Administration (WAPA) to establish a pilot project to provide increased transparency for its customers. WAPA must publicly display on its website specific information dating back to FY2008, including rates charged by power systems to customers for power and transmission services, the amount of capacity or energy sold by power systems, and a detailed accounting at the functional and budget activity level of all its expenditures and capital costs by region and for the headquarters office. Additionally, WAPA must annually update the information it provides on the website, including the changes it publishes, the reasons for the changes, and the amount of the unobligated balances it retains at the end of the prior fiscal year within each marketing area and at headquarters. The pilot project shall terminate in seven years.
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Timeline
Latest companion bill action
S-930: Western Area Power Administration Transparency ActBy Senator Murkowski from Committee on Energy and Natural Resources filed written report. Report No. 115-309.
Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR 2/5/2018 H749-750)
On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR 2/5/2018 H749-750)
House of Representatives
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
House of Representatives
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
Senate