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[CITE: 42USC7276]

 
                 TITLE 42--THE PUBLIC HEALTH AND WELFARE
 
                    CHAPTER 84--DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
 
                SUBCHAPTER VI--ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS
 
                Part C--General Administrative Provisions
 
Sec. 7276. Regulations to require integrated resource planning


(a) Regulations

    Within 1 year after October 24, 1992, the Administrator shall, by 
regulation, revise the Final Amended Guidelines and Acceptance Criteria 
for Customer Conservation and Renewable Energy Programs published in the 
Federal Register on August 21, 1985 (50 F.R. 33892), or any subsequent 
amendments thereto, to require each customer purchasing electric energy 
under a long-term firm power service contract with the Western Area 
Power Administration to implement, within 3 years after October 24, 
1992, integrated resource planning in accordance with the requirements 
of sections 7275 to 7276c of this title.

(b) Certain small customers

    Notwithstanding subsection (a) of this section, for customers with 
total annual energy sales or usage of 25 Gigawatt Hours or less which 
are not members of a joint action agency or a generation and 
transmission cooperative with power supply responsibility, the 
Administrator may establish different regulations and apply such 
regulations to customers that the Administrator finds have limited 
economic, managerial, and resource capability to conduct integrated 
resource planning. The regulations under this subsection shall require 
such customers to consider all reasonable opportunities to meet their 
future energy service requirements using demand-side techniques, new 
renewable resources and other programs that will provide retail 
customers with electricity at the lowest possible cost, and minimize, to 
the extent practicable, adverse environmental effects.

(Pub. L. 98-381, title II, Sec. 202, as added Pub. L. 102-486, title I, 
Sec. 114, Oct. 24, 1992, 106 Stat. 2800.)

                          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 7276, Pub. L. 98-381, title II, Sec. 202, Aug. 17, 
1984, 98 Stat. 1341, related to regulations of Western Area Power 
Administration, including amendment of regulations after notice and 
comment, evaluation of energy conservation programs, and allowance by 
Western for incorporation of elements of such programs, 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 7275, 7276a, 7276b, 7276c of 
this title.
