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[CITE: 42USC7275]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                    CHAPTER 84--DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
 
                SUBCHAPTER VI--ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
 
                Part C--General Administrative Provisions
 
Sec. 7275. Definitions

    As used in sections 7275 to 7276c of this title:
        (1) The term ``Administrator'' means the Administrator of the 
    Western Area Power Administration.
        (2) The term ``integrated resource planning'' means a planning 
    process for new energy resources that evaluates the full range of 
    alternatives, including new generating capacity, power purchases, 
    energy conservation and efficiency, cogeneration and district 
    heating and cooling applications, and renewable energy resources, in 
    order to provide adequate and reliable service to its electric 
    customers at the lowest system cost. The process shall take into 
    account necessary features for system operation, such as diversity, 
    reliability, dispatchability, and other factors of risk; shall take 
    into account the ability to verify energy savings achieved through 
    energy conservation and efficiency and the projected durability of 
    such savings measured over time; and shall treat demand and supply 
    resources on a consistent and integrated basis.
        (3) The term ``least cost option'' means an option for providing 
    reliable electric services to electric customers which will, to the 
    extent practicable, minimize life-cycle system costs, including 
    adverse environmental effects, of providing such service. To the 
    extent practicable, energy efficiency and renewable resources may be 
    given priority in any least-cost option.
        (4) The term ``long-term firm power service contract'' means any 
    contract for the sale by Western Area Power Administration of firm 
    capacity, with or without energy, which is to be delivered over a 
    period of more than one year.
        (5) The terms ``customer'' or ``customers'' means any entity or 
    entities purchasing firm capacity with or without energy, from the 
    Western Area Power Administration under a long-term firm power 
    service contract. Such terms include parent-type entities and their 
    distribution or user members.
        (6) For any customer, the term ``applicable integrated resource 
    plan'' means the integrated resource plan approved by the 
    Administrator under sections 7275 to 7276c of this title for that 
    customer.

(Pub. L. 98-381, title II, Sec. 201, as added Pub. L. 102-486, title I, 
Sec. 114, Oct. 24, 1992, 106 Stat. 2799.)

                          Codification

    Section was enacted as part of the Hoover Power Plant Act of 1984, 
and not as part of the Department of Energy Organization Act which 
comprises this chapter.


                            Prior Provisions

    A prior section 7275, Pub. L. 98-381, title II, Sec. 201, Aug. 17, 
1984, 98 Stat. 1340, related to energy conservation program of Western 
Area Power Administration, prior to the general amendment of title II of 
Pub. L. 98-381 by section 114 of Pub. L. 102-486.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 7276, 7276a, 7276b, 7276c of 
this title.
