White River Minimum Flows--Proposed Determination of Federal and Non-Federal Hydropower Impacts

Thu, Jul 3 2008 11:00:00 GMT

Section 132 of Public Law 109-103 (2005) authorized and directed the Secretary of the Army to implement alternatives BS3 and NF7, as described in the White River Minimum Flows Reallocation Study Report, Arkansas and Missouri, dated July 2004.

The law states that the Administrator, Southwestern Power Administration (Southwestern), shall determine any impacts on electric energy and capacity generated at Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Project No. 2221 caused by the storage reallocation at Bull Shoals Lake. Further, the licensee of Project No. 2221 shall be fully compensated by the Corps of Engineers for those impacts on the basis of the present value of the estimated future lifetime replacement costs of the electrical energy and capacity at the time of implementation of the White River Minimum Flows project.

The law also states that losses to the Federal hydropower purpose of the Bull Shoals and Norfork Projects shall be offset by a reduction in the costs allocated to the Feder

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White River Minimum Flows--Proposed Determination of Federal and Non-Federal Hydropower Impacts