BPA has issued its draft Resource Program and will accept comments through Nov. 30.  The document is intended to be a guide for BPA and its customers to ensure adequate resources are available to meet the agency’s needs for the near and long term and to ensure that resource choices are consistent with the Northwest Power and Conservation Council's power plan.  

BPA has analyzed potential resource needs to meet its power supply obligations under Regional Dialogue contracts, which go into effect in fiscal year 2012.  The draft Resource Program examines BPA’s potential power supply needs through 2019. 

The draft document is being posted on BPA’s external Web site at www.bpa.gov/power/P/ResourceProgram/index.shtml under “Documents/Publications.” Other supporting materials, including a presentation and executive summary that help explain preliminary results of the draft Resource Program, will be added to the site later.

All comments will be considered as the agency prepares its final Resource Program, scheduled for completion in FY 2010. 

Comments are numbered consecutively as they are received. Breaks in the number sequence result when comments are deleted because they were submitted in error or have inappropriate content (such as SPAM). If you do not see your comment two business days after you submit it, please contact us at (800) 622-4519.

The Bonneville Power Administration is proposing a new 500-kilovolt transmission line and substations in southwest Washington and northwest Oregon. BPA will prepare an environmental impact statement to evaluate the impacts of the proposed project. The EIS will describe the need for action, alternatives including the no action alternative, potential impacts from the alternatives, potential mitigation to avoid or reduce impacts, permits that may be required and consultation with tribes, other agencies and the public. BPA is accepting comments on scope of the EIS between Oct. 13 and Nov. 23, 2009.