Bonneville
Power Administration (BPA) will continue to operate normally (3,103 employees
financed by other than annual appropriations). BPA is self-funding under the
permanent, indefinite appropriation known as the Bonneville Fund, established
in the Federal Columbia River Transmission System Act of 1974 (16 U.S.C. §
838i(b)). It markets wholesale electrical power from 31 federal hydro projects
in the Columbia River Basin, one nonfederal nuclear plant, and several other
small nonfederal power plants. BPA also operates and maintains about three-fourths
of the high-voltage transmission in its service territory, which includes
Idaho, Oregon, Washington, western Montana and small parts of eastern Montana,
California, Nevada, Utah and Wyoming.
