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ALUMINUM CO. OF AMERICA v. BONNEVILLE POWER ADMIN.

Nos. 87-7303, 87-7308 and 87-7313.

903 F.2d 585 (1989)

ALUMINUM COMPANY OF AMERICA; Arco Metals Company; Columbia Falls Aluminum Company, Petitioners, Association of Public Agency Customers, Petitioner-Intervenor, v. BONNEVILLE POWER ADMINISTRATION; Federal Energy Regulatory Commission; Respondents, Portland General Electric Company; Puget Sound Power & Light Company; Public Generating Pool (PGP), Respondents-Intervenors. CALIFORNIA ENERGY COMMISSION, Petitioner, v. BONNEVILLE POWER ADMINISTRATION; Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Respondents. PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION OF the STATE OF CALIFORNIA; Southern California Edison Company; Pacific Gas and Electric Company; San Diego Gas & Electric Company; Department of Water and Power of the City of Los Angeles, et al., Petitioners, v. BONNEVILLE POWER ADMINISTRATION; Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Respondents.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided December 11, 1989.

As Amended May 14, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Matthew Cohen, Heller, Ehrman, White & McAuliffe, Seattle, Wash., Jonathon Blees, Deputy General Counsel, Sacramento, Cal., Peter G. Fairchild, San Francisco, Cal., John D. McGrane, Reid & Priest, Washington, D.C., Stephen E. Pickett, Rosemead, Cal., Glenn West, Jr., San Francisco, Cal., Thomas C. Hokinson, Sr. Asst. City Atty., Los Angeles, Cal., for petitioners.

Max M. Miller, Tonkon, Torp, Galen, Marmaduke & Booth, Portland, Or., Judith Bearzi, Gordon, Thomas, Honeywell, et al., Seattle, Wash., for petitioner-intervenor.

Kurt R. Casad, Portland, Or., Joanne Leveque, Washington, D.C., for respondents.

Pamela G. Rapp and J. Jeffrey Dudley, Portland, Or., Frederic A. Morris and Perkins Coie, Seattle, Wash., Jay T. Waldron, Schwabe, Williamson, Wyatt, Moore & Roberts, Portland, Or., for respondents-intervenors.

Before CANBY, THOMPSON and LEAVY, Circuit Judges.

LEAVY, Circuit Judge:

OVERVIEW

These consolidated cases challenge the first nonfirm energy rates that the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) established, and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) approved, under section 7(k) of the Pacific Northwest Electric Power Planning and Conservation Act (the Regional Act), 16 U.S.C. § 839e(k) (1982).1 Nonfirm power is energy in excess of firm power, and is provided only...

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