PR 32 05 BONNEVILLE POWER ADMINISTRATION FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: MONDAY, March 21, 2005 Contact: Mike Hansen | , BPA (503)-230-5131     Oregon City resident recognized for heroic act PORTLAND, Ore. - The Bonneville Power Administration, an agency under the U.S. Department of Energy, presented one of its highest honors, the BPA Award for Exemplary or Courageous Act, to Tom Wolcott at a ceremony held March 18 at its Portland headquarters. On Dec. 14, Wolcott (a BPA general certified appraiser) was at work in BPA's Vancouver, Wash., office when he heard a commotion coming from nearby. Wolcott, who is an emergency preparedness warden, immediately ran to the site. He found a BPA employee choking on vitamin pills. While others were calling for emergency help, he performed the Heimlich maneuver on the person, and it dislodged the pills. The person checked in with the Public Health Service nurse and then returned to work. Wolcott's swift action saved a fellow employee from passing out and possibly sustaining injuries or choking to death. BPA Administrator Steve Wright said that the award recognizes Tom Wolcott ". . . for his selfless and courageous act of heroism." The award, part of the agency's 2005 Administrator's Excellence Awards program, recognizes outstanding achievements by employees whose innovation, initiative, superior service or courageous acts have made exceptional contributions to BPA's mission, the electric utility industry or to the local community. The agency, a wholesale power-marketing agency that sells electric power from 31 federal dams and one nuclear plant, employs about 3,000 people throughout its 300,000-square-mile service territory. In addition to owning and operating 75 percent of the region's high-voltage transmission system, BPA provides nearly half the electric power consumed in the Northwest. Wolcott, who currently resides in Oregon City with his wife, Marian, who is also a BPA employee, graduated from Southern Oregon University in 1972 with a degree in accounting. He is one of ten children and has three of his own. Wolcott has worked at BPA since 1981. Prior to joining BPA, he was in the U.S. Army from 1966 to 1969 that included one tour of duty in Viet Nam. For more information about BPA and the Administrator's Excellence Awards, go to the BPA Web site at www.bpa.gov. For a photo, please go to http://www.bpa.gov/corporate/AwardWinners/2005/. Submitted for distribution on 03-21-2005 at 3:31 PM

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