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###### Department of Energy

###### Bonneville Power Administration 

# AGENCY:

Bonneville Power Administration (BPA), DOE.

# ACTION:

Notice of document availability.

# SUMMARY:

                        Copies of the Bonneville Purchasing Instructions (BPI), which contain the policy and establish the procedures that BPA uses in the solicitation, award, and administration of its purchases of goods and services, including construction, are available in printed form for $30, or without charge at the following Internet address:                         *http://www.bpa.gov/​corporate/​business/​bpi.*                         Copies of the Bonneville Financial Assistance Instructions (BFAI), which contain the policy and establish the procedures that BPA uses in the solicitation, award, and administration of financial assistance instruments (principally grants and cooperative agreements), are available in printed form for $15 each, or available without charge at the following Internet address:                         *http://www.bpa.gov/​corporate/​business/​bfai.*

# ADDRESSES:

Unbound copies of the BPI or BFAI may be obtained by sending a check for the proper amount to the Head of the Contracting Activity, Routing DGP-7, Bonneville Power Administration, P.O. Box 3621, Portland, Oregon 97208-3621. 

# FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Manager, Communications,  1-800-622-4519. 

# SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

                    BPA was established in 1937 as a Federal Power Marketing Agency in the Pacific Northwest. BPA operations are financed from power revenues rather than annual appropriations. BPA's purchasing                           ( print page 55060)                        operations are conducted under 16 U.S.C. 832*et seq.*                     and related statutes. Pursuant to these special authorities, the BPI is promulgated as a statement of purchasing policy and as a body of interpretative regulations governing the conduct of BPA purchasing activities. It is significantly different from the Federal Acquisition Regulation, and reflects BPA's private sector approach to purchasing the goods and services that it requires. BPA's financial assistance operations are conducted under 16 U.S.C. 839*et seq.*                     and 16 U.S.C. 839*et seq.*                     The BFAI express BPA's financial assistance policy. The BFAI also comprise BPA's rules governing implementation of the principles provided in the following OMB circulars:                 

A-21 Cost Principles for Educational Institutions. 

A-87 Cost Principles for State, Local and Indian Tribal Governments. 

A-102 Grants and Cooperative Agreements with State and Local Governments. 

A-110 Uniform Administrative Requirements for Grants and Agreements with Institutions of Higher Education, Hospitals and Other Non-Profit Organizations. 

A-122 Cost Principles for Non-Profit Organizations. 

A-133 Audits of States, Local Governments and Non-Profit Organizations. 

BPA's solicitations and contracts include notice of applicability and availability of the BPI and the BFAI, as appropriate, for the information of offerors on particular purchases or financial assistance transactions. 

Issued in Portland, Oregon, on September 15, 2008. 

Damian J. Kelly, 

Manager, Purchasing/Property Governance.

 [FR Doc. E8-22357 Filed 9-23-08; 8:45 am] 

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