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 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 Defi-
nite Plan Report, with regard to power development within 
the Diamond Fork System, shall be considered final costs 
as well as costs in excess of the total maximum 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. 
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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 purpose 
of Colorado River Storage Project ratemaking. 
SEC. 5. PROHIBITION ON TAX-EXEMPT FINANCING. 
No facility for the generation or transmission of hydro-
electric power on the Diamond Fork System may be fi-
nanced 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 Revenue 
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 sub-
mit a report to the Committee on Natural Resources of the 
House of Representatives and the Committee on Energy and 
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Natural Resources of the Senate stating this fact, the rea-
sons such production has not yet commenced, and a detailed 
timeline for future hydropower production. 
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Union Calendar No. 174 
111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 2008 
[Report No. 111–308] 
A BILL 
To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to facili-
tate the development of hydroelectric power on 
the Diamond Fork System of the Central Utah 
Project. 
OCTOBER 21, 2009 
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Com-
mittee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, 
and ordered to be printed 
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