I 
113TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 254 
To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to facilitate the development of 
hydroelectric power on the Diamond Fork System of the Central Utah Project. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 15, 2013 
Mr. CHAFFETZ introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Natural Resources, and in addition to the Committee on the 
Budget, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in 
each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdic-
tion of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to facilitate the 
development of hydroelectric power on the Diamond Fork 
System of the Central Utah Project. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Bonneville Unit Clean 
Hydropower Facilitation Act’’. 
SEC. 2. DIAMOND FORK SYSTEM DEFINED. 
For the purposes of this Act, the term ‘‘Diamond 
Fork System’’ means the facilities described in chapter 4 
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of the October 2004 Supplement to the 1988 Definite 
Plan Report for the Bonneville Unit. 
SEC. 3. COST ALLOCATIONS. 
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in order 
to facilitate hydropower development on the Diamond 
Fork System, the amount of reimbursable costs allocated 
to project power in Chapter 6 of the Power Appendix in 
the October 2004 Supplement to the 1988 Bonneville Unit 
Definite Plan Report, with regard to power development 
upstream of the Diamond Fork System, shall be consid-
ered final costs as well as costs in excess of the total max-
imum repayment obligation as defined in section 211 of 
the Central Utah Project Completion Act of 1992 (Public 
Law 102–575), and shall be subject to the same terms 
and conditions. 
SEC. 4. NO PURCHASE OR MARKET OBLIGATION; NO COSTS 
ASSIGNED TO POWER. 
Nothing in this Act shall obligate the Western Area 
Power Administration to purchase or market any of the 
power produced by the Diamond Fork power plant and 
none of the costs associated with development of trans-
mission facilities to transmit power from the Diamond 
Fork power plant shall be assigned to power for the pur-
pose of Colorado River Storage Project ratemaking. 
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SEC. 5. PROHIBITION ON TAX-EXEMPT FINANCING. 
No facility for the generation or transmission of hy-
droelectric power on the Diamond Fork System may be 
financed or refinanced, in whole or in part, with proceeds 
of any obligation— 
(1) the interest on which is exempt from the 
tax imposed under chapter 1 of the Internal Rev-
enue Code of 1986, or 
(2) with respect to which credit is allowable 
under subpart I or J of part IV of subchapter A of 
chapter 1 of such Code. 
SEC. 6. REPORTING REQUIREMENT. 
If, 24 months after the date of the enactment of this 
Act, hydropower production on the Diamond Fork System 
has not commenced, the Secretary of the Interior shall 
submit a report to the Committee on Natural Resources 
of the House of Representatives and the Committee on 
Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate stating this 
fact, the reasons such production has not yet commenced, 
and a detailed timeline for future hydropower production. 
SEC. 7. PAYGO. 
The budgetary effects of this Act, for the purpose of 
complying with the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010, 
shall be determined by reference to the latest statement 
titled ‘‘Budgetary Effects of PAYGO Legislation’’ for this 
Act, submitted for printing in the Congressional Record 
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by the Chairman of the House Budget Committee, pro-
vided that such statement has been submitted prior to the 
vote on passage. 
SEC. 8. LIMITATION ON THE USE OF FUNDS. 
The authority under the provisions of section 301 of 
the Hoover Power Plant Act of 1984 (Public Law 98–381; 
42 U.S.C. 16421a) shall not be used to fund any study 
or construction of transmission facilities developed as a 
result of this Act. 
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