Water & Power The Subcommittee on Water and Power has
jurisdiction over the Bureau of Reclamation, the Water Division
of the United States Geological Survey, and the four Federal
Power Marketing Administrations- Bonneville Power Administration
(BPA), Western Area Power Administration (WAPA), Southwestern
Power Administration(SWPA) and Southeastern Power Administration
(SEPA). The Bureau of Reclamation is the largest water purveyor
in the nation, delivering the water needs for 31 million people,
and providing one out of five Western farmers (140,000) with
irrigation water. Reclamation's 58 hydropower facilities have an
installed capacity of 14,000 MW, producing enough electricity
for 3.5 million homes. The Federal Power Marketing
Administrations (PMAs) were created to market and deliver cost-
based wholesale electric power generated mainly at federal dams
owned by the Bureau of Reclamation and the U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers. The PMAs deliver to approximately 1,200 public power
systems and rural electric coope