INDEX

A check-list of policies with chapter ref-

erences.

National policies

Anti-monopoly, Ch 3, 9
Conservation, Ch 2, 37

Energy conservation, Ch 32, 37
Energy independence, Ch 32
Environment, Ch 26, 32,36
Flood control, Ch 6

Internal improvements, Ch 2, 3
Irrigation, Ch 6, 31
Job creation, Ch 5

Marketing at lowest cost, Ch 11
Multi-purpose, Ch 2, 5
Navigation, Ch 6
Partnership, Ch 24

Power for defense, Ch 16, 17
Preference, Ch 10

Public works, Ch 2

Regional development, Ch 8, 18
Renewable energy, Ch 35
River basins, Ch 2, 3, 6
Rural electrification, Ch 7,18

Transmission lines, Ch 7, 15, 22, 26, 30
Upstream storage, Ch 2, 23, 29
Water power, Ch 3
Water resources, Ch 3

Bonneville Project Act policies
Anti-monopoly, Ch 9, 10

Columbia River Treaty, Ch 29
Exchange, Ch 30
Marketing, Ch 9

Postage stamp rate, Ch 11
Power at cost, Ch 12
Preference, Ch 10

Regional preference, Ch 10
Transmission lines, Ch 15
Wheeling, Ch 25

Wholesale rate, Ch 9, 12
Widespread use, Ch 9, 11

Bonneville Power Adm. policies
Coordination, Ch 27

Economic development, Ch 9
Employment opportunities, Ch 33
Energy conservation, Ch 37
Environment, Ch 37

Hydro-thermal power, Ch 34
Industrial sales, Ch 17, 33
Interties, Ch 30

Natural resource development, Ch 21, 25, 38
Nuclear power, Ch 28

Personnel, Ch 19

Power planning, Ch 21

Power pooling, Ch 27

Public utility responsibility. Ch 23, 38

Regional transmission system, Ch 7, 15, 22, 26,
30, 38

Regionalism, Ch 32

Renewable energy, Ch 35

Research, Ch 22

Upstream storage, Ch 21, 23, 29

GENERAL INDEX

Aandahl, Fred G., 193, 194, 200

Agriculture, 11, 14, 29, 265-66: Columbia Basin,
43; use of electricity, 138, 140-141, 142, 148; see
also Rural electrification, Irrigation

Albeni Falls Dam, 160, 162, 230, 247
Alumax Pacific Corporation, 276

Aluminum Company of America, 123, 132, 133-34,
135

Aluminum industry:

Bonneville power use, 133, 134-135, 276; in U.S.,
132-33; Pacific Northwest, 132, 133, 134, 161,
186, 240, 265, 267, 271-72, 302; post-war
growth, 134-35, 160; see also Alumax Pacific
Corp., Aluminum Co. of America, Kaiser Alu-
minum

Alvey, J. Perry, 106, 107, 114,169

American Public Power Association, 163,194
Applegate, L. M., 115

Arrow Lakes, 180,230,236

Atomic Energy Act, 194, 222

Atomic Energy Commission, 222-23:

research budget, 281, 293

Baldino, John, x-xi
Banker, E. F., 106

Banks, Frank, 117,121
Beck, Robert, 106, 111, 117
Bessey, Roy, 55, 122, 167
Big Cliff Dam, 162

Big Eddy d.c. test station, 213, 243
Billington, Ken, 216

Bingham, George S., 177

Bixby, Horace E., 117

Bjorquist, C. H., 115

Black, David S., 125, 257, 274

Bloch, Ivan, 106, 107, 136

Boettiger, John, 66, 105, 109-110

Bohn Aluminum and Brass Corporation, 132
Bone, Homer T., 59, 62, 65, 70

Bonneville Advisory Board, 92, 114, 128, 167, 168,
195

Bonneville Dam, 11, 25, 29, 36, 37, 40, 41, 45, 56,
65, 85, 88, 179, 283:

acts legalizing construction, 35, 38, 48, 120; ded-
icated, 40; first transmission line, 47; fish
facilities, 41, 179, 287, 289; marketing of power,
50, 53, 55, 59-60, 81-82, 83, see also Bonneville
Power Admin.; navigation locks, 41, 43; reasons
for building, 129, 132; second powerhouse, 179,
251; see also Transmission lines
Bonneville Power Administration:

"beautility,", 214-15, 287, 288; coal-fired plants,
273, 274; commitment to conservation, xi, 286-
90, 294-97, 305; coordination agreement, 217-
20,227, 251, 295; environmental impact state-
ments, 260, 263, 276, 285, 286, 290; established,
vii, 63, 66, 68; field offices, 144, 146, 163, 166,
168; financial deficits, 212, 213, 240, 260, 267;
future policy trends, 304-305; 306; Hanford ex-
change agreement, 224-25; history, vii-xi;
labor-management policy, 149, 151-55; market-
ing of power, 111, 124-25, 127, 132, 134, 136, 185,

202, 248; net billing, 274, 275-76, 304; notices of
insufficiency, 264, 275, 276-78; personnel, vii,
72, 106, 111, 114, 122-23, 146, 155, 163, 166-68,
201; personnel policies, 150, 152, 155, 196-97,
259; post-war problems, 157-62, 182; postage
stamp rate policy, 66, 79-86, 87-88, 92, 106, 304;
power load forecasting, 161, 166, 169, 179, 258-
59, 275, 276, 290; power partnership policy,
193-94, 198-200, 204-205, 207; power revenues,
215, 249; power sale policies, 74, 76, see also
Bonneville Project Act preference clause; public
utility responsibility, 185-86, 194, 306; relations
with aluminum industry, 134-35; relations with
industrial users, 95, 129, 132, 133, 136, 265-72;
relations with private utilities, 95, 162, 193-94,
223-24; renewable resource studies, 281, 284,
290; revenue bond financing, 199, 276; rural
power sales, 142, 145, 166-67, 204; self-financing
authority, 256; service boundaries, 76-77, 146-
48, 185, 213, 304; transfer policy, 204; treasury
bond financing, 260; wheeling policy, 199, 200,
201, 202-207, 244, 304; World War II impact on,
119, 128, 134, 144, 148, 162, 168, 175, 204, 295
Bonneville Project Act, 27, 47, 50, 53, 55-56, 61-62,
83, 102, 202:

administrator, 66, 68, 75-76, 93, 102, 114, 164;
amendments, 68, 90, 152, 186; drafted, 129; his-
tory, vii, viii; interchange clauses, 203, 204-205;
major policies, x, 64-65, 68, 179, 304-305; pref-
erence clause, 64, 65, 67, 68, 69-78, 86, 137, 194;
provisions, 63-65, 71, 76, 112, 114, 128, 129, 184,
203-204; rate schedules, 64, 65, 66, 67, 84, 86,
137, 194, 262, 304; signed, 62, 66, 68, 87, 96
Bonneville Regional Advisory Council, 127-28,
168, 186, 194, 199, 212, 238

Boulder Canyon Project, 25, 26, 47, 61, 62, 82, 98,
191, 229

Box Canyon Dam, 204, 205

British Columbia, 230, 232, 236

British Columbia Hydro and Power Authority,
232, 236, 300

Brown, Edmund, 241, 242

Brownell, Herbert, Jr., 72

Brownlee Dam, 193, 197, 218

Bruces Eddy Dam, see Dworshak Dam

Buchanan, Thomas C., 92

Bureau of Land Management, 87

Bureau of Reclamation, 14, 17, 35, 38, 43, 54, 56,

87, 132, 144, 146, 155, 158, 180, 193, 218, 228-29,
238, 239, 240

Burley, Idaho, electric coop, 95, 141

Butler, John S., 45, 180

Cain, Walter, 117

Catifornia, 233, 235, 296; see also Pacific

Northwest-Pacific Southwest Intertie
California-Oregon Power Company, 193, 240
California Pacific Utilities Company, 194

Cambell, Donald S., 115

Carey, Charles, E., 106, 108, 115, 117, 177, 202, 237
Canada, 212; see also Columbia River Treaty

Carney, Byron G., 106

Central Valley Project, 238, 239
Chamberlain, Fred J., 106
Chandler Dam, 162
Chapman, Oscar, 122, 186
Chief Joseph Dam, 160, 162
Childs, Marquis, 137
Climate:

California drought, 237-38, 240; Columbus Day
storm, 175, 213; Dust Bowl, 16, 39-40; Pacific
Northwest, 6, 7, 227-28; semi-arid lands, 16-17,
40

Cluck, Jack R., 106

Cohen, Ben, 65

Columbia Basin Irrigation Project, 136

Columbia Basin Inter-Agency Committee, 128,
164, 168, 180, 194, 288

Columbia Power Storage Exchange, 214, 219, 235
Columbia Power Trades Council, 151
Columbia River, 3, 20, 47, 63, 102, 111:

annual discharge, 6-7, 179, 180-81, 228; cas-
cades, 9, 10, 11; Corps of Engineers surveys,
44-45; diversions, 231, 238, 239; fish resources,
11, 283, 287, 304; flood control, 45, 179, 180, 181,
214, 227, 229-30, 273, 283-84, 295, 299, 300;
floods, 159, 175, 181, 185, 228; headwaters, 6-7,
228; Indian fishing rights, 212; navigation, 9-10,
11, 41, 43, 86, 91, 107, 179, 228, 273, 299, 302, 303
Columbia River Basin:

area, 227; geography, 5-6, 227; geology, 4;
hydroelectric development, 26-27, 29, 36, 45,
132, 142, 179-80, 213, 227, 229, 258, 273-74, 280,
283, 299; industry, 134, 181; irrigation, 38, 45,
86, 136, 248-49, 251, 297, 299, 303-304; multi-
purpose development, 185-86, 283-84, 294; up-
stream water storage, 215, 219, 228-31, 236, 247,
283, 295; watershed, 6-7, 76, 227-28
Columbia River Gorge, 9, 10, 11, 43, 81, 130, 286,
289

Columbia River Treaty, 181, 199, 200, 207, 209,
211, 212, 214, 215, 220, 242-43, 247-48, 251, 257,
259, 295, 300, 303:

Canadian entitlement, 218, 219, 220, 232-33,
235-36, 242, 244; provisions, 227, 232-33; sig-
natories, 218

Columbia Valley Authority (proposed), 56, 57, 59,
160

Comeau, Isaac, 106, 117

Committee on National Power Policy, 61, 62,
64-65:

Bonneville project bill, 74, 83, 89, 92, 111
Compton, Wilson, 186

Conkling, Roger L., 123

Conservation, 12, 13, 68, 95, 163, 169:

energy, 177, 253-54, 256, 261-63, 275, 279, 280;
environment, 253-55, 258-59, 280, 281, 283,
285-86; movement beginnings, 16, 17-18; natu-
ral resources, 14-18, 189, 294-95; opposition to,
18; power renewables, 279, 280, 284; U.S. policy
history, 13-14, 275, 291-93

Cooke, Morris L., 138-40, 141
Coon, Sam, 199

Cascade Range, 2-4, 6, 9-10, 173, 176

Corcoran, Tom, 65

Cordon, Guy, 196, 240

Cougar Dam, 195

Creim, Ben W., 117, 144, 238-39, 241
Culp, Gordon, 219

Dams, 11, 17, 25, 27, 95:

federal support of non-public, 192; legislation,
21, 64, 71, 91, 182; multi-purpose, 191, 192-93,
195, 228-29; storage, 179-80, 192-93, 229-31; see
also names of dams

Dana, Marshall, 55, 60
Davidson, C. Girard, 122

Davis, Clarence, 192, 300

Davis, Lillian, vii, 107, 122, 123, 134

Defense Electric Power Administration, 192, 239
Delano, Frederic A., 18-19, 60, 81

Democratic Party, 13-14, 33, 48-49, 74, 98, 157-58,
160, 162, 182, 189, 190, 197

Demuth, Orin A., 115

Detroit Dam, 162

Dexter Dam, 162

Diddle, Barry, 117

Dill, C. C., 35, 36

Dittmer, William, 122, 238

Dittmer Control Center, 215-16, 259

Dodson, W. D. B., 60, 81

Dondero, George A., 72, 159

Dunbar, Glen, 115

Duncan Project, 236

Durocher, Hector, J., x, 168

Dworshak (Bruces Eddy) Dam, 195, 230, 259
Edison, Thomas Alva, 171, 172
Edwards, Frank, 105

Einstein, Albert, 221

Eisenhower, Dwight D., 122, 158, 170, 230:

"give-away" charges, 190, 195; power partner-
ship policy, 190, 191-94, 196, 197-200, 201, 205;
quoted, 189-90, 192

Electric power, 11-12, 21:

history in U.S., 22-24, 29, 30-33, 96, 98-101, 151;
holding company monopolies, 22-24, 29, 30-32;
private utilities, Pacific NW, 95-96, 99, 144, 161,
181; public utilities, Pacific NW, 95-96, 101, see
also Public (peoples') utility districts; public vs
private issue; 32-33, 96, 98-101, 131; rural
cooperatives, 95-96, 101, 125, 141, 144, 148; rural
electrification, 48, 52, 67, 68, 70, 74, 76-77, 79,
80, 86, 95, 119, 136, 137-48, 158, 167, 168;
shortages, 161-62, 185, 194, 216, 253, 260-61,
264, 269, 275-78, 295-96, 297, 300; U.S. power
policy, 27, 33, 43-44, 70, 75, 77-78, 80, 87, 88,
142, 162, 186-87, 190-95, 242, 274, 284, 300-302;
see also Geothermal power, Hydroelectric
power, Nuclear power, Solar power, Thermal
power

Electric Power Research Institute, 177
Eliot, Charles W., II, 60

Engle, Clare, 238, 241

Federal Columbia River Power System, 72, 213,
263, 276, 284: capacity, 1952-60, 200
Federal Columbia River Transmission System
Act, 276, 303

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 283; see
also Federal Power Commission

Federal Power Commission, 22, 43-44, 56, 59, 60,
72, 82, 83, 92-93, 98, 132, 179, 191, 197, 217:

creation of, 191; defense power plan, 123; inves-
tigation of anti-PUD funds, 99-101; name
change, 283; regulation of interstate private
utilities, 88, 93, 98, 101, 158, 192-93; relation to
Bonneville Power Adm., 87-93; responsibilities
under Bonneville Project Act, 63, 65, 84, 86, 87,
92, 114; see also Federal Energy Regulatory
Comm.

Federal Reserve Board, 30, 49

Federal Trade Commission, 23, 24

Federal Power Act, 17, 22, 25, 88, 98, 191, 218
Fisher, John, 106

Fitts, Frank F., 106

Flathead Lake, 45, 127, 180

Flood control acts, 27, 63, 69, 71-72, 91, 92, 127,
159, 191

Ford, Gerald R., 244, 254, 255

Forest industries, 11, 14, 18

Frenke, Clarence, 115

Gens, Ralph S., 177

Geothermal power, 177, 279, 281, 284

Giant Power Survey Board, 120, 138

Gill, Ray, 85

Glen Canyon Dam, 197

Goldhammer, Bernard, viii, 216, 246, 268-69, 275
Goss, Albert S., 35

Grand Coulee Dam, 11, 17, 25, 29, 36, 40, 41, 45, 56,
136, 158, 163, 166, 179, 283, 302:

acts legalizing construction, 35, 37, 38, 48, 120;
construction description, 40; flood control, 213;
high us low dam, 37, 38, 43, 45, 180; irrigation,
43, 107, 181; marketing power, 50, 55, 117, 124,
144; third powerhouse, 209, 215, 227, 247-51,
259; see also Transmission lines

Great Depression, 25-26, 29-30, 34, 39, 48, 102:
economic recovery, 49; electric utility holding
companies, 29-32

Green Peter Dam, 195
Griffith, Franklin T., 85
Gunther, John, 137
Hampton, Robert E., 155

Hanford Reservation, 86, 125, 134, 136, 200, 209,
212, 213, 221-26, 257, 295
Harlan, Kenneth G., 52
Hart, C. Alan, 117, 122, 203-204
Hatfield, Mark O., 241, 263
Hells Canyon, 5, 192, 283
Hells Canyon Dam:

high us low dam, 192, 195, 197, 230; licensed, 197
Hickel, Walter, 187, 194, 255, 274

Hill, Knute, 38, 56, 60

Hodel, Donald Paul, vii, viii, 259-62, 275, 289:
energy conservation policy, 296
Hogan, Harry, 216

Holt, Russ, x, 216
Holum, Kenneth, 210
Honeyman, Nan Wood, 62

Hoover, Herbert C., 20, 25, 33, 34

Hoover Dam, see Boulder Canyon Project
Hungry Horse Dam, 45, 127, 146, 160, 161, 162,
170, 180, 181, 182, 183, 229, 247
Hydro-Electric Commission of Ontario, 52, 70 274
Hydroelectric power, 12, 13, 16, 17, 22:

as national election issue, 189, 190, 197; federal

licensing, 21, 22, 72, 88, 98, 191; history, 21;
private development, 22-24, 26, 29, 30-32, 70,
191-92; public development, 17, 20, 25, 26-27,
33; renewables, 279, 280; U.S. policy, 25-27, 38,
69-70, 71-72, 95, 190-96; see also Electric power
Hydro-Thermal Power Program, 207, 216, 254,
255, 259, 260, 269, 273-78
Ice Harbor Dam, 127

Ickes, Harold L., 37, 38, 55, 61-62, 65, 66, 67, 89,
112, 113, 121, 123, 125, 164-66, 186, 194, 211
Idaho Power Company, 192-93, 197, 215, 218
Industrial revolution, 129-30

Inland Waterways Commission, 21-22
Insull, Samuel, 24, 29, 33, 52, 67, 166, 171
International Joint Commission, 229-32
Irrigation, 11, 16, 44, 68, 80, 91:

arid lands, 17; see also Columbia River Basin,
Grand Coulee Dam

Jackson, Henry M., 158, 162, 189, 211, 223, 224,

248, 255, 262-63, 273

James River power bill, 22-23

Jensen, Ben, 159, 162

Jim Bridger coal-fired plant, 274, 278

John Day Dam, 160, 195, 198-99

Johnson, Louis, 107, 123

Johnson, Lyndon B., 154-55, 158, 190, 210-11, 225,

236, 237, 244, 248, 254, 288, 293

Joint Power Planning Council, 274, 276

Jolliffe, J.P., 115

Jones, Neal, 106

Jones, Sherwood, 115

Kahn, Stephen B., 106

Kaiser, Henry J., 38

Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Corporation,

230

Kaseberg, J. Kenneth, 75-76, 216

Keeler, Doris Rae, 106

Keenan, Frank, 115

Keenleyside, Hugh L., 232, 236

Keenleyside Dam, 236

Kennedy, John F., 154, 155, 158, 190, 209, 223, 224,

225, 242, 293

Kerwin, Jerome G., 22

King, Judson, 25

Kinney, Charles, 216

Klein, Kenneth, 177

Klinger, Marvin, 177

Kootenay Lakes, 180
Krug, Julius A., 75, 122
Langlie, Arthur B., 199
Leavy, Charles, 115

Lee, Robert E., 162

Lewis, Ben W., 92-93

Libby Dam, 160, 230, 231, 236, 248, 259, 283, 295
Little Goose Dam, 127

Lookout Point Dam, 162
Lower Granite Dam, 126
Lower Monumental Dam, 127

Luce, Charles Franklin, 223-24, 232, 242, 246,
251, 256, 257, 258, 267-68, 274, 280, 288, 303:
biography, 211-12; single utility concept, 217-18,
219-20; tribute to, 217; "23 actions," 212-16
Lund, C. A., 115

McFarland, Jack R., 215, 288

McGee, W. J., 18

McGuire, Milton Hunt, 168

McKay, Douglas, 122, 170, 186, 193, 195, 199, 200,
211

McKinley, Charles, 60

McNary, Charles L., 35, 56, 60, 61, 62, 74, 81, 82,
83, 84, 90

McNary Dam, 91, 127, 161, 162, 194, 213, 283:
second powerhouse, 251
McNaughton, Andrew, 230-31

McNinch, Frank R., 89, 92, 179
MacPherson, A. B., 115

Magnuson, Warren G., 50, 158, 182, 199, 210, 211,
263

Magnusson, Carl Edward, 52, 54, 57, 84, 180, 237
Mansfield, Mike, 158

Mapes, Milton C., 240
Marks, Herbert, 117, 122
Marlett, D. Loring, 122
Marple, Warren, 122, 144
Martin, Charles H., 36, 56, 66
Martin, Clarence D., 35
Mead, Elwood, 18

Mica Dam, 230, 236, 295
Miller, Claude A., 117
Minidoka Project, 17
Mining, 11, 14

Moore, George Holmes, 106

Montana Power Company, 52, 146, 182, 218, 278

Morse, Wayne, 162, 199

Morthland, J. Lane, 201-202, 204

Morton, Rogers, 275

Mott, James M. 62

Mount St. Helens, 2-3

Munro, Sanford Sterling, 262-64:

conservation program, 294-95, 297; renewable

resources, 284

Murray, James E., 154

Muscle Shoals, 17, 24-25, 26, 47, 70, 98, 120

Nance, R. M., 117

National Conservation Association, 22

National Defense Power Committee, 107-108, 123

National Electric Light Association, 138

National Energy Conservation Policy Act, 293-94
National Environmental Policy Act, 255, 280,

285-86, 293: citizen involvement, 286, 290; pro-
ductive harmony policy, 285, 286

National forests, 21, 22

National Hells Canyon Assn., 192, 197

National Industrial Recovery Act, 35, 38, 48, 55,
120

National Park Service, 14

National Planning Board, 55

National Power Policy Committee, 129, 132, 142
National Resources Committee:

Columbia Basin report, 55, 59, 60-61, 62, 73-74,
80, 81, 83, 88

National Rural Electric Cooperative Association,
164, 194

Neuberger, Richard L., 40, 74, 106, 111, 197, 199-
200, 230-31, 240, 241, 265, 274

New Deal, 14, 24, 48-49, 63, 74, 103, 123, 191
New York State Power Authority, 55, 66, 72, 105,
138, 192