Authorizes the Secretary of the Interior to construct, operate and maintain a rehabiliation and enlargement of the existing Minidoka powerplant, Minidoka project, Idaho-Wyoming.
Requires that hydroelectric power generated by such rehabilitation be delivered to the Secretary of Energy for distribution and marketing through the Federal Columbia River power system.
Authorizes the Secretary of Energy to construct, operate and maintain transmission facilities to connect the Minidoka powerplant to existing power transmission systems in order to distribute and market the power generated by the hydroelectric powerplant.
Requires the Secretary of Energy to maintain (through purchase, if necessary) contractual deliveries of capacity and energy at contract prices to customers affected by unit outage resulting from Federal construction.
Requires the powerplant rehabilitation to be compatible with existing water rights or water delivery under valid contracts.
Prescribes guidelines for the establishment of interest rates by the Secretary of the Treasury on the unpaid balance of the Federal reimbursable cost of the powerplant.
Authorizes appropriations for FY 1986 for the Minidoka powerplant.
Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
Referred to Subcommittee on Water and Power.
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