(F) a summary of any expenditures de-
scribed in this paragraph, with the total 
amount paid by each region and power system; 
and 
(G) expenses incurred on behalf of other 
Federal agencies or programs or third parties 
for the administration of programs not related 
to the marketing, transmission, or wheeling of 
Federal hydropower resources, including— 
(i) indirect costs, including overhead 
costs; 
(ii) direct charges and allocations; 
(iii) the number of contract staff; and 
(iv) the number of full-time equiva-
lents. 
(5) Capital expenditures, including— 
(A) capital investments delineated by the 
year in which each investment is placed into 
service; and 
(B) the sources of capital for each invest-
ment. 
(b) ANNUAL SUMMARY.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—Not later than 120 days 
after the end of each fiscal year in which the pilot 
project is being carried out under this section, the 
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Administrator shall make available on a publicly 
available website— 
(A) updates to documents made available 
on the date of the initial publication of the in-
formation on the website under subsection (a); 
(B) an identification of the magnitude of 
annual changes in the information published on 
the website under subsection (a); 
(C) a description of the reasons for the 
changes identified under subparagraph (B); 
(D) subject to paragraph (2), the total 
amount of the unobligated balances retained by 
the Western Area Power Administration at the 
end of the prior fiscal year within each mar-
keting area and headquarters by— 
(i) purpose or function; 
(ii) source of funding; 
(iii) anticipated program allotment; 
and 
(iv) underlying authority for each 
source of funding; and 
(E) the anticipated level of unobligated 
balances that the Western Area Power Adminis-
tration expects to retain at the end of the fiscal 
year in which the annual summary is published, 
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as delineated by each of the categories de-
scribed in clauses (i) through (iv) of subpara-
graph (D). 
(2) LIMITATION.—Amounts in the Upper Colo-
rado River Basin Fund established by section 5(a) 
of the Act of April 11, 1956 (commonly known as 
the ‘‘Colorado River Storage Project Act’’) (43 
U.S.C. 620d(a)), shall not considered to be an unob-
ligated balance retained by the Western Area Power 
Administration for purposes of paragraph (1)(D). 
(c) TERMINATION.—The pilot project under this sec-
tion shall terminate on the date that is 7 years after the 
date of enactment of this Act. 
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Union Calendar No. 533 
116TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 4444 
[Report No. 116–649] 
A BILL 
To require the Administrator of the Western Area 
Power Administration to establish a pilot project 
to provide increased transparency for customers, 
and for other purposes. 
DECEMBER 15, 2020 
Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the 
State of the Union and ordered to be printed 
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