40 U.S.C. § 17903 — Purchase of electric power
submitted 24 years ago by Pub. L. 107-217 to r/title-40-PUBLIC-BUILDINGS-PROPERTY-AND-WORKS · 136 words · no verdicts yet
A federal agency head should try to buy electric power from non-federal sellers in Alaska when practical. The agency must weigh its own generating equipment's remaining life and standby costs first. The purchase must save money for other customers or for the buying agency, without raising anyone else's costs.
For economy, efficiency, and to conserve oil and natural gas, the head of a federal agency*, when practical and consistent with other applicable laws, must try to buy electric energy from a non-federal person* for use by that agency's facility in Alaska. Before buying, the agency must weigh the remaining useful life of any generating facility it already has and the cost of keeping it on standby. The purchase must result in either: (1) savings for other customers of that non-federal seller, without raising costs to any federal agency; or (2) cost savings for the buying agency, without raising costs to other customers.
For purposes of economy, efficiency, and conserving oil and natural gas, the head of a federal agency*, when practicable and consistent with other laws and requirements applicable to that agency, shall endeavor to purchase electric energy from a non-federal person* for consumption in Alaska by a facility of that agency when (taking into account the remaining useful life of any facility available to that agency to generate electric energy for that agency and the cost of maintaining the facility on a standby basis) the purchase will result in—
a savings to other consumers of electric energy sold by that non-federal person without increasing the cost incurred by any federal agency for electric energy; or
a cost savings to the federal agency purchasing the electric energy without increasing costs to other consumers of electric energy.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 107–217, Aug. 21, 2002, 116 Stat. 1289.)
- 2002Enacted · Pub. L. 107-217 · 116 Stat. 1289
A history note hasn’t been published yet. The record shows enactment by Pub. L. 107-217 on 2002-08-21.
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