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      "id": 303279,
      "date": "2003-08-26",
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      "title": "Electric Utility Policy: Comparison of House-Passed H.R. 6 and S.Amdt. 1412, 108th Congress",
      "summary": "Electric utility provisions are included in comprehensive energy legislation that has passed both\nthe\nHouse and Senate. The House passed  H.R. 6  on April 11, 2003. On July 31, 2003, the\nSenate suspended debate on  S. 14 , the comprehensive energy bill that had been reported\nby the Energy and Natural Resources Committee. It then passed H.R.  6 with the text of\nthe Senate-passed version of  H.R. 4  from the 107th Congress. For a comparison of the\nHouse- and Senate-passed versions of the bill, see CRS Report RL32033,  Omnibus Energy\nLegislation: Side-by-Side Comparison of Non-Tax Provisions .\n Before debate on  S. 14  was suspended, Senator Domenici proposed\n S.Amdt. 1412  on July 29, 2003, to completely replace the electricity title of S.\n 14 as introduced in the Senate. The proposed amendment was withdrawn on July 31,\n2003. Although  S.Amdt. 1412  is not included in the Senate-passed bill that will be\nconsidered in conference, there are indications that provisions of the amendment might be brought\nup.\n Both the House-passed electricity provisions in  H.R. 6  and those in\n S.Amdt. 1412  would give limited rate authority to the Federal Energy Regulatory\nCommission (FERC) over municipal and cooperative transmission systems; create an electric\nreliability organization; repeal the Public Utility Holding Company Act (PUHCA) and give FERC\nand state public utility commissions access to books and records; prospectively repeal the mandatory\npurchase requirement of the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act (PURPA); explicitly prohibit\nround-trip trading; establish market transparency rules; protect native load consumers (existing\ncustomers); and increase criminal penalties under the Federal Power Act.  Title VI of the\nHouse-passed bill would, in part, provide for incentive-based\ntransmission rates, allow transmission owners in certain instances to exercise the right of eminent\ndomain to site new transmission lines, create an electric reliability organization, and clarify the right\nof transmission owners to serve existing customers (native load). Unlike the House-passed bill,\n S.Amdt. 1412  does not contain provisions that would allow transmission owners to\nexercise the right of eminent domain to site new transmission lines.\n  S.Amdt. 1412  contains provisions that are not included in the House-passed\n H.R. 6 . These include provisions that prohibit FERC from requiring utilities to transfer\noperational control of transmission facilities to a regional transmission organization (RTO), give\nauthority to power marketing administrations and the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) to join\nRTOs, remand the FERC Standard Market Design (SMD) notice of proposed rulemaking, and\nstrengthen FERC's merger review authority.\n This report will not be updated.",
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