---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 832f"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "832f"
heading: "Elements in determining rates"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/832f"
units:
  - "Chapter 12B — Bonneville Project"
---

# §832f. Elements in determining rates


It is the intent of Congress that rate schedules for the sale of electric energy which is or may be generated at the Bonneville [project](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-4) in excess of the amount required for operating the dam, locks, and appurtenant works at said [project](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-4) shall be determined with due regard to and predicated upon the fact that such electric energy is developed from water power created as an incident to the construction of the dam in the Columbia River at the Bonneville [project](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-4) for the purposes set forth in [section 832 of this title](/usc/16/832.md). Rate schedules shall be drawn having regard to the recovery (upon the basis of the application of such rate schedules to the capacity of the electric facilities of Bonneville [project](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-4)) of the cost of producing and transmitting such electric energy, including the amortization of the capital investment over a reasonable period of years. Rate schedules shall be based upon an allocation of costs made by the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of Energy. In computing the cost of electric energy developed from water power created as an incident to and a byproduct of the construction of the Bonneville [project](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-4), the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of Energy may allocate to the costs of electric facilities such a share of the cost of facilities having joint value for the production of electric energy and other purposes as the power development may fairly bear as compared with such other purposes.


## Source credit

(Aug. 20, 1937, ch. 720, § 7, 50 Stat. 735; Pub. L. 95–91, title III, § 301(b), Aug. 4, 1977, 91 Stat. 578.)

## Notes

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Transfer of Functions

“Secretary of Energy” substituted in text for “Federal Power Commission” pursuant to Pub. L. 95–91, § 301(b), which is classified to section 7151(b) of Title 42, The Public Health and Welfare.

The Federal Power Commission was terminated, and its functions, personnel, property, funds, etc., were transferred to the Secretary of Energy (except for certain functions which were transferred to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission) by sections 7151(b), 7171(a), 7172(a), 7291, and 7293 of Title 42.