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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the ''Western Area Power Administration
Transparency Act''.

SEC. 2. WESTERN AREA POWER ADMINISTRATION PILOT PROJECT.

(a) In General.--Not later than 120 days after the date of
enactment of this Act, the Administrator of the Western Area Power
Administration (referred to in this section as the ''Administrator'')
shall establish a pilot project, as part of the continuous process
improvement program and to provide increased transparency for
customers, to publish on a publicly available website of the Western
Area Power Administration, a database of the following information,
beginning with fiscal year 2008, relating to the Western Area Power
Administration:
(1) By power system and in a consistent format, rates
charged to customers for power and transmission service.
(2) By power system, the amount of capacity or energy sold.
(3) By region, a detailed accounting, at the functional
level and the budget activity level, of all expenditures,
capital costs, and staffing costs, including--
(A) indirect costs, including overhead costs;
(B) direct charges and direct allocations;
(C) the number of contract staff;
(D) costs related to independent consultants;
(E) the number of full-time equivalents; and
(F) charges to the region from the headquarters
office of the Western Area Power Administration for all
annual and capital costs.
(4) For the headquarters office of the Western Area Power
Administration, a detailed accounting at the functional level
and the budget activity level, of all expenditures and capital
costs, including--
(A) indirect costs, including overhead costs;
(B) direct charges and direct allocations;
(C) the number of contract staff;
(D) costs related to independent consultants;
(E) the number of full-time equivalents;
(F) a summary of any expenditures described 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 equivalents.
(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 investment.
(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 Administrator shall make available
on a publicly available website--
(A) updates to documents made available on the date
of the initial publication of the information 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 marketing 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 Administration expects to
retain at the end of the fiscal year in which the
annual summary is published, as delineated by each of
the categories described in clauses (i) through (iv) of
subparagraph (D).
(2) Limitation.--Amounts in the Upper Colorado 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 unobligated
balance retained by the Western Area Power Administration for
purposes of paragraph (1)(D).
(c) Termination.--The pilot project under this section shall
terminate on the date that is 7 years after the date of enactment of
this Act.

Passed the House of Representatives February 7, 2018.

Attest:

KAREN L. HAAS,

Clerk.
. Western Area Power Administration Transparency Act (Sec.2)This bill directs the Western Area Power Administration (WAPA)to establish a pilot project to provide increased transparency for its customers. WAPA must publicly display on its website specific information dating back to FY2008, including rates charged by power systems to customers for power and transmission services, the amount of capacity or energy sold by power systems, and a detailed accounting at the functional and budget activity level of all its expenditures and capital costs by region and for the headquarters office. Additionally, WAPA must annually update the information it provides on the website, including the changes it publishes, the reasons for the changes, and the amount of the unobligated balances it retains at the end of the prior fiscal year within each marketing area and at headquarters. The pilot project shall terminate in seven years.