United States Ninth Circuit

Petitions for review of the 2002-06 wholesale power rates set by the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) during a rate proceeding are granted in part, denied in part, and dismissed in part where: 1) BPA acted lawfully when it allocated to its preference customers part of the cost of acquiring power to serve its direct-service industrial customers; 2) however, BPA acted contrary to law when it allocated to its preference customers part of the cost of a settlement BPA reached with its investor-owned utility customers; and 3) BPA's fish and wildlife cost estimates, and rates based on such estimates, were not supported by substantial evidence.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/16/2005
• Decided 05/03/2007
• Published 05/03/2007

Judges

• WILLIAM A. FLETCHER, Circuit Judge., Before STEPHEN REINHARDT, W. FLETCHER, and JAY S. BYBEE, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Paul M. Murphy, Murphy & Buchal, LLP, Portland, OR;  Jay T. Waldron & Raymond S. Kindley, Schwabe Williamson & Wyatt, Portland, Oregon;  R. Erick Johnson, Portland, OR;  Daniel Seligman, Vancouver, WA;  John H. Hammond, Jr., Beery Elsner & Hammond, Portland, OR;  Gary A. Dahlke & R. Blair Strong, Paine Hamblen Coffin Brooke & Miller, LLP, Spokane, Washington;  Scott G. Seidman & Michael M. Morgan, Tonkon Torp, LLP, Portland, OR;  Cheryl Chevis, Portland General Electric, Portland, OR;  Barton L. Kline, Boise, ID;  Kirstin S. Dodge, Perkins Coie, Bellevue, Washington;  Stephen C. Hall, Stoel Rives, LLP, Portland, OR;  Wayne W. Harper, Montana Power Company, Butte, MT;  Mark R. Thompson, Public Power Council, Portland, OR;  Terence L. Mundorf, Marsh Mundorf Pratt Sullivan & McKenzie, Millcreek, WA;  Christopher W. Leahy, Fredericks Pelcyger Hester & White, Louisville, CO;  Timothy R. Weaver, Yakima, WA;  Paul M. Murphy, Murphy & Buchal, LLP, Portland, OR;  William H. Walters, Miller Nash, LLP, Portland, OR;  Frank V. Langfitt, Ater Wynne, LLP, Portland, OR, for the petitioners.


• For Appellees:
  
• William H. Walters, Miller Nash, LLP, Portland, OR;  Kurt R. Casad, Jeffrey K. Handy, Stephen J. Odell & Thomas C. Lee, Office of the United States Attorney, Portland, OR;  Randy A. Roach, Office of General Counsel-BPA, Portland, OR, for respondent BPA., Dennis Lane, Beth G. Pacella, Robert H. Solomon, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Washington, D.C., for Respondent FERC., Scott G. Seidman & Michael M. Morgan, Tonkon Torp, LLP, Portland, OR, Cheryl Chevis, Portland General Electric Co., for respondent-intervenor PGE.