Title: Environmental Compliance Cost Transparency Act of 2018
Policy area: Energy

Summary:
Environmental Compliance Cost Transparency Act of 2018
This bill requires the Bonneville Power Administration, the Western Area Power Administration, the Southwestern Power Administration, and the Southeastern Power Administration to include in monthly billing statements sent to each customer estimates of the customer's share of such administration's direct and indirect costs for compliance with any relevant federal environmental laws impacting the conservation of fish and wildlife.
Each administration must report each year on: (1) estimates of its total direct and indirect compliance costs, and (2) sources of replacement power.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5556 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5556

    To provide for transparency and reporting related to direct and 
  indirect costs incurred by the Bonneville Power Administration, the 
       Western Area Power Administration, the Southwestern Power 
 Administration, and the Southeastern Power Administration related to 
     compliance with any Federal environmental laws impacting the 
       conservation of fish and wildlife, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 18, 2018

 Mr. Gosar (for himself, Mr. Abraham, Mr. Amodei, Mr. Biggs, Mr. Brat, 
Mr. Buck, Mr. Budd, Mr. Gianforte, Mr. Gohmert, Mr. Jones, Mr. King of 
    Iowa, Mr. McClintock, Mr. McKinley, Mr. Norman, Mr. Pearce, Mr. 
   Schrader, and Mr. Yoho) introduced the following bill; which was 
             referred to the Committee on Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
    To provide for transparency and reporting related to direct and 
  indirect costs incurred by the Bonneville Power Administration, the 
       Western Area Power Administration, the Southwestern Power 
 Administration, and the Southeastern Power Administration related to 
     compliance with any Federal environmental laws impacting the 
       conservation of fish and wildlife, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Environmental Compliance Cost 
Transparency Act of 2018''.

SEC. 2. TRANSPARENCY AND REPORTING.

    (a) Information Included in Monthly Billing to Power Customers.--
The Administrators of each of the Bonneville Power Administration, the 
Western Area Power Administration, the Southwestern Power 
Administration, and the Southeastern Power Administration shall include 
in monthly billings sent to each of their power customers information 
estimating and reporting the costs of the customer's share of the 
direct and indirect costs that are incurred by the administration 
related to compliance with any Federal environmental laws impacting the 
conservation of fish and wildlife considered by the Administrator 
concerned, at that Administrator's sole discretion after consultation 
with consumers, to be relevant.
    (b) Direct Costs.--Direct costs reported under this section shall 
include Federal agency obligations related to costs of studies; 
capital, operation, maintenance, and replacement costs; and staffing 
costs.
    (c) Indirect Costs.--Indirect costs reported under this section 
shall include foregone generation and replacement power costs, 
including the net costs of any transmission.
    (d) Coordination.--The Commissioner of the Bureau of Reclamation 
and the head of any other affected Federal agency shall assist the 
Administrators with the identification of the costs.
    (e) Report.--No later than January 30 of each year, each of the 
Administrators referred to in subsection (a), in coordination with the 
Bureau of Reclamation and other affected Federal agencies, shall 
provide an annual report to the appropriate committees of the House of 
Representatives and the Senate that includes--
            (1) estimates of the total direct and indirect costs that 
        are incurred by the administration related to compliance with 
        any Federal environmental laws impacting the conservation of 
        fish and wildlife considered by the Administrator concerned, at 
        that Administrator's sole discretion after consultation with 
        consumers, to be relevant; and
            (2) the sources of replacement power.
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