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Letter to The Honorable Judd Gregg, Chairman, Senate Budget Committee and The Honorable Kent Conrad, Ranking Member, Senate Budget Committee

By: Ron Wyden
By: Ron Wyden
Date: Feb. 24, 2006
Issues: Government Budget and Spending


Letter to The Honorable Judd Gregg, Chairman, Senate Budget Committee and The Honorable Kent Conrad, Ranking Member, Senate Budget Committee

February 24, 2006

The Honorable Judd Gregg
Chairman, Senate Budget Committee
624 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510

The Honorable Kent Conrad
Ranking Member, Senate Budget Committee
624 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510

Dear Chairman Gregg and Senator Conrad,

We are writing to voice our unified opposition to the proposal included in the Office of Management and Budget's (OMB's) Fiscal Year 2007 budget request, which would raise Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) electricity rates and undermine decades of regionally-based decision-making on issues critical to the Northwest economy. Moreover, we have raised serious questions as to whether the Department of Energy has the authority to pursue this proposal without additional legislation. As such, we ask that you reject this proposal and do not include it in the assumptions contained in the Senate's Fiscal Year 2007 budget resolution.

OMB's latest plan would increase rates beginning in Fiscal Year 2008, and would redirect almost a billion dollars of projected BPA revenues over the next decade, to accelerate payments to the U.S. Treas.

http://cantwell.senate.gov/news/record.cfm?id=251892&&days=30&

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