---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 C.F.R. § 905.50"
title: "10"
number: "905.50"
heading: "Resource acquisition principles."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/10/905.50"
---

# §905.50. Resource acquisition principles.


Western's resource acquisition activities will be determined by project-specific power marketing plans, hydropower production capability, and the application of the following principles of IRP:

- (a) Western will consider a full range of resource options, both supply-side and demand-side, as well as renewable resource options.
- (b) On a project-by-project basis, Western, through a public process involving interested stakeholders will develop criteria to be used in evaluating power resource alternatives.
- (c) Evaluation criteria will address cost, environmental impact, dependability, dispatchability, risk, diversity, and the ability to verify demand-side alternatives. Evaluation criteria will be reviewed as the need for resources changes or when long-term commitments to purchase power expire.
- (d) Evaluation criteria will be consistent with Western's power marketing policy, which states that Federal power is to be marketed in such a manner as to encourage the most widespread use thereof at the lowest possible rates to consumers consistent with sound business principles. The policy, found in Delegation Order No. 00-037.00A, is derived from statutes authorizing the sale of power from both Department of the Army and Department of the Interior hydroelectric projects. These statutes include section 5 of the Flood Control Act of 1944, [16 U.S.C. 825(s)](/usc/16/825.md?p=s) and section 9(c) of the Reclamation Project Act of 1939.
- (e) Resource acquisition planning will be consistent with power marketing plans and associated contractual obligations.
- (f) Resource acquisition decisions will be documented and made available to Western's power customers and the public.

## Notes

### Source

Source: 79 FR 56481, Sept. 22, 2014, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7152, 7191; 42 U.S.C. 7275-7276c.

### Source

Source: 60 FR 54174, Oct. 20, 1995, unless otherwise noted.