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citation: "16 U.S.C. §§ 835j–835m"
title: "16"
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url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/835j..835m"
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# §835j. Projects marketing commercial power and energy; consolidated financial statement to President and Congress; adjustment of rates to assure return of reimbursable construction costs within prescribed period


The [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior shall prepare, maintain, and present annually to the President and the Congress a consolidated financial statement for all [projects](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-4) heretofore or hereafter authorized, including the third powerplant at Grand Coulee Dam, from or by means of which commercial power and energy is marketed through the facilities of the Federal Columbia River power [system](/usc/16/668ee.md?p=14) and for all other [projects](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-4) associated therewith to the extent that the costs of these [projects](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-4) are required by law to be charged to and returned from net revenues derived from the power and energy, or any power and energy, so marketed, and he shall, if said consolidated statement indicates that the reimbursable construction costs of the [projects](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-4), or any of the [projects](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-4), covered thereby which are chargeable to and returnable from the commercial power and energy so marketed are likely not to be returned within the period prescribed by law, take prompt action to adjust the rates charged for such power and energy to the extent necessary to assure such return.


# §835k. Return of construction costs from marketing revenues in event of inability of irrigation water users to repay within repayment period and lack of other sources of revenue


Subject to the provisions of [section 835l](/usc/16/835l.md) of this title, that portion of the construction cost of any [project](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-4) hereafter authorized to be constructed, operated, and maintained by the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior under the Federal reclamation laws (Act of June 17, 1902, 32 Stat. 388, and Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto) within the Pacific Northwest which, though allocated to irrigation, is beyond the ability of the irrigation water users to repay within the repayment period prescribed by law for that [project](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-4) and cannot be returned within the same period from other [project](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-4) sources of revenue shall be charged to and returned within that period from net revenues derived from the marketing of commercial power and energy through the Federal Columbia River power [system](/usc/16/668ee.md?p=14), unless otherwise provided by law. As used in this section, the term “Pacific Northwest” has the meaning ascribed to it in [section 837 of this title](/usc/16/837.md).


# §835l. Congressional declaration of financial policy; limitations on assistance; analyses and studies; “net revenues” defined


It is declared to be the policy of the Congress that reclamation [projects](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-4) hereafter authorized in the Pacific Northwest to receive financial assistance from the Federal Columbia River power [system](/usc/16/668ee.md?p=14) shall receive such assistance only from the net revenues of that [system](/usc/16/668ee.md?p=14) as provided in this section, and that their construction shall be so scheduled that such assistance, together with similar assistance for previously authorized reclamation [projects](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-4) (including [projects](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-4) not now receiving such assistance for which the Congress may hereafter authorize financial assistance) will not cause increases in the rates and charges of the Bonneville Power Administration. It is further declared to be the policy of the Congress that the total assistance to all irrigation [projects](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-4), both existing and future, in the Pacific Northwest shall not average more than $30,000,000 annually in any period of twenty consecutive years. Any analyses and studies authorized by the Congress for reclamation [projects](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-4) in the Pacific Northwest shall be prepared in accordance with the provisions of [sections 835j to 835m](/usc/16/835j..835m.md) of this title. As used in [sections 835j to 835m](/usc/16/835j..835m.md) of this title, the term “net revenues” means revenues as determined from time to time which are not required for the repayment of (1) all costs allocated to power at [projects](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-4) in the Pacific Northwest then existing or authorized, including the cost of acquiring power by purchase or exchange, and (2) presently authorized assistance from power to irrigation at [projects](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-4) in the Pacific Northwest existing and authorized prior to September 7, 1966.


# §835m. Recommendations for changes in limitations on financial assistance; time and frequency of submission


On December 20, 1974, and thereafter at intervals coinciding with anniversary dates of Federal Energy Regulatory [Commission](/usc/16/410cc–1.md?p=3) general review of the rates and charges of the Bonneville Power Administration, the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior shall recommend to the Congress any changes in the dollar limitations herein placed upon financial assistance to Pacific Northwest reclamation [projects](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-4) that he believes justified by changes in the cost-price levels existing on July 1, 1966, or by other relevant changes of circumstances.