H. R. 254 
One Hundred Thirteenth Congress 
of the 
United States of America 
AT THE FIRST SESSION 
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Thursday, 
the third day of January, two thousand and thirteen 
An Act 
To authorize the Secretary of the Interior to facilitate the development of hydro-
electric power on the Diamond Fork System of the Central Utah Project. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Bonneville Unit Clean Hydro-
power 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 facili-
tate 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 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. 
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 transmission 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 hydroelectric 
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 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.
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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 com-
menced, the Secretary of the Interior shall submit a report to 
the Committee on Natural Resources of the House of Representa-
tives 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 by the Chairman of the House Budget Com-
mittee, provided 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. 
Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
Vice President of the United States and
President of the Senate.