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 PUBLIC LAW 96-571—DEC. 22, 1980

94 STAT. 3341

Public Law 96-571 96th Congress An Act To provide certain authority for the purchase and sale of electric energy by Federal departments in Alaska, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, SHORT TITLE

Dec. 22, 1980 [S. 1784] Alaska FederalCivilian Energy Efficiency Swap Act of 1980.

1. This Act shall be referred to as the "Alaska Federal- 40 USC 795 note. Civilian Energy Efficiency Swap Act of 1980". SECTION

DEFINITIONS

SEC. 2. As used in this Act— 40 USC 795. (1) The term "non-Federal electric energy" means electric energy generated by any facility other than a federally owned electric generating facility. (2) The term "agency' means the head of any department, agency, or instrumentality of the United States. (3) The term "federally generated electric energy" means any electric power generated by an electric generating facility owned and operated by an agency. (4) The term "non-Federal person" means any corporation, cooperative, municipality, or other non-Federal entity which generates non-Federal electric energy. AUTHORITY TO SELL CERTAIN ELECTRIC ENERGY

SEC. 3. (a) For the purposes of conserving oil and natural gas and 40 USC 795a. better utilizing coal, any agency is authorized to sell to any nonFederal person, and to enter into contracts for the sale to any nonFederal person of, electric energy generated by coal-fired electric generating facilities of such agency in Alaska without regard to any provision of law which precludes such sale where such energy is available from other local sources, if the agency determines that— (1) such energy is generated by an existing coal-fired generating facility; (2) such energy is surplus to such agency's needs and is in excess of the electric energy specifically generated for consumption by, or necessary to serve the requirements of, any department, agency, or instrumentality of the United States; (3) the costs to the ultimate consumers of such energy is less than the costs which, in the absence of such sale, would be incurred by such consumers for the purchase of an equivalent amount of energy; and (4) such sale will result in a reduction in the total consumption of oil or natural gas by the non-Federal person purchasing such electric energy below that consumption which would occur in the absence of such sale.

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