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Federal Electric Power: Western Area Power Administration's Tracy/Livermore Transmission Project

RCED-88-19 Published: Oct 27, 1987. Publicly Released: Oct 27, 1987.
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Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed the Western Area Power Administration's (WAPA) construction of an independent electric power transmission line to the Department of Energy's (DOE) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and addressed an electric utility's concerns over the project's propriety.

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