94 STAT. 2716
Long-term contracts. 16 USC 832d.
PUBLIC LAW 96-501—DEC. 5, 1980
acquisition contracts exclusive of any amounts recognized in such contracts as replacement for Federal base system resources. (3) The Administrator shall, consistent with the provisions of this Act, insure that any restrictions upon any particular customer class made pursuant to this subsection and subsection (b) of this section are distributed equitably throughout the region. (f) The Administrator is authorized to sell, or otherwise dispose of, electric power, including power acquired pursuant to this and other Acts, that is surplus to his obligations incurred pursuant to subsections (b), (c), and (d) of this section in accordance with this and other Acts applicable to the Administrator, including the Bonneville Project Act of 1937 (16 U.S.C. 832 and following), the Federal Columbia River Transmission System Act (16 U.S.C. 838 and following), and the Act of August 31, 1964 (16 U.S.C. 837-837h). (g)(1) As soon as practicable within nine months after the effective date of this Act, the Administrator shall commence necessary negotiations for, and offer, initial long-term contracts (within the limitations of the third sentence of section 5(a) of the Bonneville Project Act) simultaneously to— (A) existing public body and cooperative customers and investor-owned utility customers under subsection (b) of this section; (B) Federal agency customers under subsection (b) of this section; (C) electric utility customers under subsection (c) of this section; and (D) direct service industrial customers under subsection (d)(1). (2) Each customer offered a contract pursuant to this subsection shall have one year from the date of such offer to accept such contract. Such contract shall be effective as provided in this subsection. (3) An initial contract with a public body, cooperative or investorowned electric utility customer or a Federal agency customer pursuant to subsection (b) of this section shall be effective on the date executed by such customer, unless another effective date is otherwise agreed to by the Administrator and the customer, (4) An initial contract with an electric utility customer pursuant to subsection (c) of this section shall be effective on the date executed by such customer, but no earlier than the first day of the tenth month after the effective date of this Act. (5) An initial contract with a direct service industrial customer pursuant to subsection (d)(D, shall be effective on the date agreed upon by the Administrator and such customer, but no later than the first day of the tenth month after the effective date of this Act. When such contract is executed, it may for rate purposes be given retroactive effect to such first day. (6) Initial contracts offered public body, cooperative and Federal agency customers in accordance with this subsection shall provide that during a period of insufficiency declared in accordance with subsection (b) of this section each customer's contractual entitlement shall, to the extent of its requirements on the Administrator, be no less than the amount of firm power received from the Administrator in the year immediately preceding the period of insufficiency. (7) The Administrator shall be deemed to have sufficient resources for the purpose of entering into the initial contracts specified in paragraph (1)(A) through (D).
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