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 PUBLIC LAW 99-141—NOV. 1, 1985 SEC. 503. The expenditure of any appropriation under this Act for any consulting service through procurement contract, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 3109, shall be limited to those contracts where such expenditures are a matter of public record and available for public inspection, except where otherwise provided under existing law, or under existing Executive order issued pursuant to existing law. SEC. 504. None of the funds appropriated in this Act shall be used to implement a program of retention contracts for senior employees of the Tennessee Valley Authority. SEC. 505. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act or any other provision of law, none of the funds made available under this Act or any other law shall be used for the purposes of conducting any studies relating or leading to the possibility of changing from the currently required "at cost" to a "market rate" or any other non-cost-based method for the pricing of hydroelectric power by the six Federal public power authorities, or other agencies or authorities of the Federal Government, except as may be specifically authorized by Act of Congress hereafter enacted. SEC. 506. No funds appropriated in this Act may be used to pay the salary of the Administrator of a Power Marketing Administration or the Board of Directors of the Tennessee Valley Authority unless they award contracts for the procurement of extra high voltage power equipment manufactured in the United States when such agency determines that there are one or more domestic manufacturers offering a product which meets the technical requirements of such agency at a price not exceeding 125 per centum of the bid or offering price of the most competitive foreign bidder. Such agency shall determine the incremental costs associated with implementing this section and defer or offset such incremental costs against otherwise existing repaynaent obligations. This section shall not apply to any procurement initiated before its effective date or to the acquisition of spare parts. Approved November 1, 1985.

LEGISLATIVE HISTORY—H.R. 2959: HOUSE REPORTS: No. 99-195 (Comm. on Appropriations) and No. 99-307 (Comm. of Confcrcnc^)' SENATE REPORT No. 99-110 (Comm. on Appropriations). CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 131 (1985): July 16, considered and passed House. Aug. 1, considered and passed Senate, amended. Oct. 17, House agreed to conference report; receded and concurred in Senate amendments, in others with amendments. Senate agreed to conference report; concurred in House amendments.

99 STAT. 579 Contracts.

Prohibition. Contracts. Tennessee Valley Authority. Prohibition. Energy.

Prohibition. Power Marketing Administration. Tennessee Valley Authority. Contracts.

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