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Charter
1. Official Designation: This advisory committee
will be known as the Pacific Northwest Electric Power and Conservation
Planning Council's Demand Forecasting Advisory Committee.
2. Background: The Pacific Northwest Electric Power
Planning and Conservation Act, P.L. 96-501, 16 U.S.C. 839 et seq.
(?Act?), in section 4.(e)(3)(D),
requires the Pacific Northwest Electric Power and Conservation Planning
Council ("Council'') to develop ?a regional conservation and
electric power plan.? The plan is to include a twenty year
forecast of electricity demands and a resource plan for the development of
conservation and generation to meet the demand at the lowest cost
consistent with adequate and reliable electricity service. The
Demand Forecasting Advisory Committee is being formed to assist the
Council in its development of the Pacific Northwest Conservation and
Electric Power Plan by advising on important assumptions and analyses
regarding the future demand for electricity in the region. This
advisory committee is established as part of a network of advisory
committees satisfying the Council's obligation under the Act to establish
a Scientific and Statistical Advisory Committee. 16 U.S.C.
839b(c)(11). Under section 4(a)(4)
of the Act, the terms of the Federal Advisory Committee Act, 5 U.S.C.
Appendix I, sections 1-14, apply 'to the extent appropriate'' to the
Council's advisory committees. 16 U.S.C. 839b(a)(4).
3. Objectives and Scope of Activity: The Demand
Forecasting Advisory Committee will advise the Council during the
development of its power plan by:
- assisting the Council to identify significant changes in electricity
markets and their implications for future electricity demand and
price;
- assisting the Council to evaluate analytical tools and assumptions,
and advising on the most appropriate study designs;
- helping to identify sources of information and data about
electricity demand and its determinants; and
- assisting in the review and interpretation of demand forecast
results.
4. Official to Whom the Advisory Committee Reports:
The Demand Forecasting Advisory Committee will report to the Executive
Director of the Council.
5. Authority of the Advisory Committee: The Demand
Forecasting Advisory Committee will serve in an advisory capacity
only. Neither the Committee nor its members are authorized to make
statements or commitments on behalf of the Council. Committee
members will not be considered to be members of the Council staff.
6. Estimated Annual Operating Costs in Dollars and Staff Time:
$7,500 plus one month of staff time.
7. Advisory Committee Management Officer: The
Advisory Committee Management Officer ('Management Officer'') for the
Demand Forecasting Advisory Committee will be the Director of the
Council's Division of Power Planning. The Management Officer will
designate members of the Council's staff to coordinate and attend meetings
of the Committee.
8. Chairperson:
- The Chairperson of the Demand Forecasting Advisory Committee will be
appointed by the Chairman of the Council, with the concurrence of the
Council members, and will serve at the pleasure of the Council.
- The Chairperson may be called upon to report to the Executive
Director of the Council on appropriate matters, including the Advisory
Committee's progress on the tasks described in Part 3 of this Charter.
- The duties of the Chairperson will include presiding over Demand
Forecasting Advisory Committee meetings, ensuring that detailed
minutes of such meetings are prepared and submitted to the Executive
Director of the Council in a timely manner, and maintaining
communication between the Committee and the Council's staff.
- The Chairperson will certify detailed minutes of meetings of the
Demand Forecasting Advisory Committee. The minutes should
include a complete and accurate description of matters discussed,
conclusions reached, actions taken, persons invited to meet with the
Committee, and persons in attendance. The minutes also will
include copies of reports received, issued or approved by the
Committee. Minutes of meetings will be prepared and released
within ten days of the meeting, unless an extension is granted by the
Management Officer. The Management Officer will distribute
copies of the minutes to members of the Committee and the other
interested persons.
- Small sub-groups of the Demand Forecasting Advisory Committee may be
established by the Chairperson of the Committee to undertake
particular aspects of the Committee's work. Methods for
organizing the work and procedures of the Committee must follow the
scope of responsibilities assigned to the Committee by the
Council. The work of the staff for the Committee will include
making arrangements for Committee meetings, solving logistical
problems, and providing clerical services.
9. Vice-Chairperson: A Vice-Chairperson of the
Demand Forecasting Advisory Committee may be appointed by the Chairman of
the Council, with the concurrence of the Council members, and will serve
at the pleasure of the Council. The Vice-Chairperson will perform
the duties of the Chairperson of the Committee, in the absence of that
Chairperson, and such other duties as the Chairperson of the Committee may
assign.
10. Rules: The advisory committee rules approved and
adopted by the Council on March 17, 1982, as amended from time to time,
will apply to the Demand Forecasting Advisory Committee.
11. Estimated Frequency of Committee Meetings: The
Chairperson of the Demand Forecasting Advisory Committee, after
consultation with the Management Officer, or his designee, will call
meetings as necessary. All meetings will be open to the public,
unless closed pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 552b(c). Timely notice of
meetings, including agendas, will be made. Interested persons may
attend Committee meetings and appear before or file statements with the
Committee, subject to such reasonable rules as the Council may prescribe.
12. Reimbursement of Expenses: The Council will
reimburse public members of the Demand Forecasting Advisory Committee for
travel, including per diem in lieu of subsistence in accordance with the
Council's travel regulations for contractors and advisory committee
members, for the purpose of attending Committee meetings as authorized by
5 U.S.C. Section 5703. The Executive Director shall determine
who are public members.
13. Duration: The Demand Forecasting Advisory
Committee will terminate two years from the filing date of this Charter,
unless renewed in accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee
Act. All Members of the Committee serve at the pleasure of the
Council.
This Charter for the Demand Forecasting Advisory Committee was approved
and adopted at a duly called meeting of the Pacific Northwest Power and
Conservation Planning Council, December 11-12, 2001 at Portland, Oregon.
PACIFIC NORTHWEST ELECTRIC POWER
AND CONSERVATION PLANNING COUNCIL
By: Frank L. (?Larry?) Cassidy, Jr., Chairman
Date Filed: December 12, 2001
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