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S. Rept. 115-105 1 (2017-06-13)

handle is hein.congrecreports/crptxaagg0001 and id is 1 raw text is: AUTHENTICATEO U.S. GOVERNMENT INFORMATION GP Calendar No. 141 115TH CONGRESS SEAEREPORT 1st Session SENATE 115-105 TO AUTHORIZE THE EXPANSION OF AN EXISTING HYDROELECTRIC PROJECT JUNE 13, 2017.-Ordered to be printed Ms. MURKOWSKI, from the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, submitted the following REPORT [To accompany S. 214] [Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office] The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, to which was referred the bill (S. 214) to authorize the expansion of an existing hydroelectric project, having considered the same, reports favorably thereon without amendment and recommends that the bill do pass. PURPOSE The purpose of S. 214 is to authorize the expansion of the exist- ing Terror Lake hydroelectric project in Alaska. BACKGROUND AND NEED Approval to construct the Terror Lake Hydroelectric Project in Alaska was granted by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in 1981. The 36-megawatt project has been in operation since the 1980s and the Kodiak Electric Association (KEA), which serves the city of Kodiak, including the nation's largest U.S. Coast Guard Base and one of the country's largest commercial fishing ports, now obtains 99.7 percent of its electric power from the hydroelectric project and another nearby wind farm. In order to avoid burning approximately two million gallons of diesel fuel to produce additional power, KEA seeks to increase the amount of hydropower generated at the facility by expanding oper- ations through the Upper Hidden Basin Diversion Expansion. The proposed expansion involves diverting five small streams located on Alaska State lands in the adjacent Upper Hidden Basin and allow- 69-010