Washington State Senate Energy and Utilities Committee, Causes of Cost Overruns and Schedule Delays on the Five WPPSS Nuclear Power Plants, Volumes 1 and 2 (Olympia, WA: Washington State Senate Energy and Utilities Committee, January 12, 1981), p. 40.
2.
Washington Public Power Supply System, Report on Implementation Status of Consultant Recommendations—Parts I, II, and III (Richland, WA: Washington Public Power Supply System, August 8, 1980), p. 1–1.
3.
For a description of the special needs and characteristics of “threshold” companies, see CliffordDonald K., Managing the Threshold Company (New York, NY: McKinsey & Co., 1973).
4.
Cresap, McCormick and Paget Inc., Study of Management Organizations and Related Issues, Washington Public Power Supply System (San Francisco, CA: Cresap, McCormick and Paget Inc., August 1976).
5.
Ibid., p. II-3.
6.
For a useful description of the stages through which boards may evolve, see, BoultonWilliam R., “The Evolving Board: A Look at the Board's Changing Roles and Information Needs,”Academy of Management Review3 (October 1978): 827–36.
7.
For an extensive discussion of public authority boards, see, WalshAnnmarie H., The Public's Business: The Politics and Practices of Government Corporations (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1978), Chapter 7.
8.
Cresap, McCormick and Paget Inc., op. cit., p. III-17.
9.
See, Theodore Barry & Associates, Management Study of the Roles and Relationships of Bonneville Power Administration and Washington Public Power Supply System (Los Angeles, CA: Theodore Barry & Associates, January 1979).
10.
See the following reports to the WPPSS Board of Directors by the Institute of Public Administration: Survey of WPPSS Board (New York, NY: Institute of Public Administration, July 1979); Federal, State and Regional Oversight (New York, NY: Institute of Public Administration, October 1979); Organization of Public and Community Relations (New York, NY: Institute of Public Administration, October 1979); Report on Top Management Structure (New York, NY: Institute of Public Administration, November 14, 1979); Role and Organization of the Board of Directors (New York, NY: Institute of Public Administration, January 1980).
11.
ConnellyJoel, “‘Mr. Public Power’ Blames the Experts,”Seattle Post-Intelligencer, March 28, 1982, p. D-7.