Delivery of the Canadian Entitlement

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The United States Entity (the Administrator of the Bonneville Power Administration [BPA] and the Division Engineer, North Pacific Division of the US Army Corps of Engineers [Corps]) has decided to fulfill its obligation under the Columbia River Treaty (Treaty) between the United States of America (United States) and Canada by delivering Canada's Entitlement under the Treaty to points on the border between Canada and the United States near Blaine, Washington and Nelway, British Columbia (BC). Delivering the full Entitlement at existing interconnections at those locations will require no new transmission facilities in the United States or in Canada. However, construction of cross-Cascades transmission in the United States would be accelerated, to as early as 2005. Delivery of the Canadian Entitlement will begin April 1, 1998. The Treaty, signed in 1961, led to the construction of three storage dams on the Columbia River system in Canada and one in the United States. Under the Treaty, Canada and the United States equally share the benefits of the additional power that can be generated at dams downstream in the United States because of the storage at the upstream Treaty reservoirs. Can