nation shall not affect any agreement entered into
pursuant to this section prior to the date of termi-
nation.
(2) REPORT.—The Commission shall report to
Congress by January 1, 2003, on the effect of this
section on the availability of electricity and shall rec-
ommend whether the authority of this section should
be extended beyond the date of termination.
SEC. 
102. 
PRICE 
MITIGATION 
IN 
WESTERN 
MARKET
THROUGH DEMAND MANAGEMENT INCEN-
TIVES.
(a) REDUCED
CONSUMPTION
INCENTIVES.—Not
later than 30 days after the date of enactment of this Act,
the Commission shall implement a program that author-
izes any electric consumer of any electric utility within the
Western Systems Coordinating Council to sell at market
prices an amount of electric load the electric consumer is
willing to forego equal to a portion of either of the fol-
lowing:
(1) The total amount of electric load which
such consumer is entitled to consume under contract
or applicable regulation.
(2) Where the amount the consumer is entitled
to consume is not specifically limited by contract or
regulation, the total amount of electric load the con-
sumer would otherwise reasonably be expected to
consume, as determined by the Commission.
Such foregone load may be sold for a period not to exceed
the term of the electric consumer’s entitlement to the con-
sumption and may be sold to either (A) the electric utility
serving the electric consumer, or (B) any other electric
utility or Federal Power Marketing Agency as defined in
section 3(19) of the Federal Power Act. For any sales re-
ferred to in subparagraph (B), the electric utility shall
make available to the purchaser of the foregone electric
load an amount of electric energy equal to the foregone
load. For any sale of foregone load under this section, the
electric utility of the consumer shall receive the full
amount of the contract price or rate under applicable reg-
ulation to which such electric utility would otherwise be
entitled for the foregone load. The program authorized by
this subsection shall remain in effect until October 2003.
Any agreement entered into pursuant to this section be-
fore such date shall remain valid thereafter.
(b) EFFECT
ON
OTHER
STATE
AND
FEDERAL
LAWS.—No agreement to sell, or sale, of foregone electric
load under this section shall be treated as a sale or resale
of electric energy for purposes of the Federal Power Act
(16 U.S.C 792 and following) or the the Public Utility
Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 (16 U.S.C. 2602). No
person shall be treated as an electric utility company for
purposes of the Public Utility Holding Company Act (15
U.S.C. 79a and following) solely by reason of any such
agreement or sale. Nothing in this section shall be con-
strued to permit a retail consumer of electricity to choose
its supplier of electricity.
(c) DEFINITION.—As used in this section, the terms
‘‘electric consumer’’ and ‘‘electric utility’’ shall have the
meanings provided by section 3 of the Public Utility Regu-
latory Policies Act of 1978 (16 U.S.C. 2602).
SEC. 103. TRANSMISSION CONSTRAINTS STUDY.
The Secretary of Energy and the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission shall undertake a joint study of
electric power transmission congestion and develop a plan
to relieve constraints that reduce the efficiency of the
transmission of electric power within the various regions
of the country and with Canadian and Mexican electric
transmission systems. The Secretary and the Commission
shall submit a report to Congress within 6 months after
the enactment of this Act, containing the findings and rec-
ommendations of the joint study.
SEC. 104. PATH 15 TRANSMISSION EXPANSION.
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Administrator of the Western
Area Power Administration System (hereinafter in this
section referred to as ‘‘WAPA’’) is authorized to expand
WAPA’s transmission system to remove the PATH 15
constraint. All costs of such expansion shall be recovered
on behalf of the United States by WAPA from trans-
mission fees imposed by WAPA on transmission of electric
energy or from the sale of ownership interests in such
transmission facilities. WAPA shall offer to all electric
utilities on a not unduly discriminatory or preferential
basis the expanded electric power transmission capacity
made available as provided in this section.
(b) AUTHORIZATION.—There is authorized to be ap-
propriated not more than $220,000,000 to carry out this
subsection.
SEC. 105. TRIBAL ENERGY OFFICE.
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.— There shall be within the De-
partment of Energy an Office of Tribal Energy to be head-
ed by a Director, who shall be appointed by the Secretary.
(b) DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES.—It shall be the
duty and responsibility of the Director to—
(1) promote tribal energy efficiency;
(2) advise the Secretary with respect to the de-
velopment of energy resources on tribal land, includ-
ing renewable energy, electricity power plants and
transmission lines, oil and gas, hydropower, and
coal;
(3) assist Indian tribes that support develop-
ment of energy resources on tribal land, providing
energy information and technical assistance to such
tribes; and
(4) coordinate with the Department of the Inte-
rior and Bureau of Indian Affairs on development
on energy resources on tribal lands.
(c) AUTHORIZATION
OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There
are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be
necessary to carry out this section.
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for
such Act is amended by adding the following new item
at the end of the items relating to title II:
‘‘Sec. 213. Office of Tribal Energy.’’.
SEC. 106. FEDERAL TRANSMISSION CORRIDORS.
The Secretary of Energy, in consultation with Fed-
eral land managing agencies, is authorized and directed
to establish electric power transmission corridors across
Federal lands, after conducting a study of the need for
transmission expansion and determining that siting of
transmission facilities on Federal land is necessary or ap-
propriate to promote transmission of electric energy in
interstate commerce. The Department of Energy shall be
the lead agency for conducting environmental review of the
establishment of such corridors for purposes of the Na-
tional Environmental Policy Act of 1969. The Secretary
of Energy is authorized to be a party to any proceeding
regarding electric power transmission siting on Federal
lands. For purposes of this section, the term ‘‘Federal
land managing agencies’’ means the Bureau of Land Man-
agement, the United States Forest Service, the United
States Fish and Wildlife Service, the National Park Serv-
ice, and the Department of Defense.
SEC. 107. GUARANTEE OF PAYMENT REQUIRED FOR CER-
TAIN EMERGENCY POWER SALES.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, neither
the Secretary of Energy, the Commission, any other offi-
cer or agency in the Executive branch, nor any court may
issue an order that requires a seller of electric energy or
natural gas to sell, on or after the date of enactment of
this Act, electric energy or natural gas to a purchaser un-
less there is a guarantee that is sufficient, as determined
by the Commission, to ensure that the seller will be paid
the full purchase price when due.
SEC. 108. SALE OF TRANSMISSION ASSETS TO STATE OF
CALIFORNIA.
Notwithstanding section 201(f) of the Federal Power
Act (16 U.S.C. 824b(f)), if the State of California, or any
entity established by the State, owns or operates trans-
mission facilities acquired from any public utility subject
to the jurisdiction of the Commission, the State, or such
entity, shall be subject to the jurisdiction of the Commis-
sion under part II of such Act with respect to such facili-
ties to the same extent and in the same manner as would
be the public utility from which such transmission facili-
ties were acquired.
TITLE II—FEDERAL ASSISTANCE
AVAILABLE 
IN 
ELECTRIC
EMERGENCIES
SEC. 201. EMERGENCY CONSERVATION AWARENESS.
The Secretary of Energy, in consultation and coordi-
nation with affected States, is authorized and directed to
conduct an emergency awareness campaign to promote
conservation in geographic areas where demand for elec-
tric energy is expected to exceed available supplies. Such
campaign shall use broadcast, print, and other media as
appropriate to raise public awareness of the likelihood and
consequences of electric energy shortages and to promote
specific actions to reduce consumption of electric energy
for non-essential purposes during periods of peak demand.
SEC. 202. PREPARATION FOR ELECTRICITY BLACKOUTS.
The Secretary of Energy, in consultation and coordi-
nation with the Director of the Federal Emergency Man-
agement Agency, is authorized and directed to make prep-
arations to handle emergency situations caused by wide-
spread electric energy blackouts. Such preparations shall
include each of the following specific actions:
(1) Establishing an office in States in which
electric energy blackouts are expected to occur.
(2) Conducting an educational campaign pre-
paring the public for electric energy blackouts.
(3) Preparing an emergency plan ready to pro-
vide immediate assistance during blackouts, includ-
ing coordination with police, fire and safety agencies
to address emergency situations resulting from elec-
tric energy blackouts.
SEC. 203. CONSERVATION AT FEDERAL FACILITIES.
(a) REQUIREMENT.—If an electricity emergency is in
effect in a State pursuant to a declaration by the Governor
of the State, each Federal agency shall apply electricity
conservation measures to its Federal buildings in use in
a State so that the electricity consumption per gross
square foot of its Federal buildings in use in the State
during any period for the duration of the electricity emer-
gency is at least 10 percent less than the electricity con-
sumption per gross square foot of its Federal buildings
in use in the State during the comparable period of the
last year during which that comparable period did not
occur during an electricity emergency.
(b) EXPIRATION.—This section shall not apply after
October 1, 2003.
SEC. 204. DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME.
(a) AUTHORITY.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding the Act of
March 19, 1918 (15 U.S.C. 261–264), if the legisla-
ture of any of the States of California, Nevada, Or-
egon, or Washington makes a finding that adjusting
the standard time is necessary to help alleviate an
electricity crisis, the legislature of such State may
make any adjustments to the standard time, on a
statewide basis, as it considers necessary.
(2) SUBSEQUENT STATE AUTHORITY.—The leg-
islature of any State referred to in paragraph (1)
may make the same adjustment made by any other
State that has acted under paragraph (1), without
making the finding required by that paragraph.
(b) STANDARD TIME.—For the purposes of the Act
of March 19, 1918 (15 U.S.C. 261–264), adjusted time
implemented pursuant to subsection (a) of this section
shall be considered the standard time in those States
where it is in effect.
(c) EXPIRATION.—The authority to have adjusted
time in effect pursuant to subsection (a) shall expire after
December 31, 2003.
SEC. 205. PURPA CONTRACTS.
(a) NONPAYMENT
FOR POWER.—Within 60 days
after the enactment of this subsection, the Commission
shall revise the rules under section 210 of the Public Util-
ity Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 to provide that if—
(1) the owner or operator of a qualifying small
power production facility, or qualifying cogeneration
facility, as defined in the Public Utility Regulatory
Policies Act of 1978 (16 U.S.C. 824a–3), has sold
electric energy pursuant to a contract under this
section to an electric utility, and
(2) such owner or operator has not been paid
for such energy within the payment period provided
in the contract,
such owner or operator may suspend so much of the con-
tract as requires the power and energy from the facility
to be sold to such electric utility. During any such suspen-
sion, such owner or operator may sell the electric energy
covered by such contract to any other person or any other
party designated to receive such power or energy.
(b) TERMINATION.—A suspension under this sub-
section shall terminate on the first day of the contract
month after which the utility pays for the electric energy
received from the qualifying small power production facil-
ity or qualifying cogeneration facility concerned except as
otherwise provided in a judicial resolution of the contract
dispute or in a negotiated resolution between the parties.
(c) OTHER SERVICES.—During any suspension under
this subsection, the electric utility shall provide such
transmission, interconnection, and distribution services as
may be necessary to deliver electric energy from the quali-
fying small power production facility, or qualifying cogen-
eration facility, to the purchaser or to another trans-
mission system from which the purchaser may obtain de-
livery of the electric energy, subject to the requirements
of the Federal Power Act relating to transmission services.
(d) INTERCONNECTION.—Nothing in this subsection
shall affect the obligation of an electric utility to inter-
connect with a qualifying small power production facility
or qualifying cogeneration facility or to provide electric en-
ergy to such facility at rates that meet the requirements
of section 210(c) of the Public Utility Regulatory Policies
Act of 1978 pursuant to the rules of the Commission.
Where a qualifying facility exercises its rights under this
section, the electric utility party to the power purchase
contract 
shall 
maintain 
interconnection 
services
unimpeded and without interruption.
(e) SUNSET.—This section shall cease to apply on Oc-
tober 1, 2003.
TITLE 
III—FEDERAL 
ASSIST-
ANCE 
AVAILABLE 
UPON 
A
GOVERNOR’S REQUEST
SEC. 301. HYDROELECTRIC POWER LICENSE CONDITIONS.
The Commission shall promulgate a standard article
under section 10 of the Federal Power Act (16 U.S.C.
803) in order to permit increased generation at licensed
hydroelectric facilities to assist in alleviating any electric
supply, generating, or system reliability emergency that
has been declared by the Governor of the State in which
such facilities are located. Any licensee may include such
article in a license issued under Part II of such Act, in-
cluding any license issued before the enactment of this
Act. Such standard article shall provide that, if the Gov-
ernor submits a request for such action to the licensee,
upon notice to the Commission and after consultation with
the relevant resource agencies, the licensee may operate
with a temporary modification or suspension of any min-
imum flow requirement or other operational requirement
of the license during such emergency. Such temporary
modification or suspension shall not continue for more
than 2 years.
SEC. 302. FEDERAL HYDROPOWER GENERATION.
(a) BONNEVILLE POWER ADMINISTRATION.—During
any period (not in excess of 2 years) during which an elec-