1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Western Area Power Administration Transparency Act . 2. Western Area Power Administration pilot project (a) In general Not later than 120 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator of the Western Area Power Administration (referred to in this section as the Administrator ) shall— (1) establish a pilot project, as part of the continuous process improvement program and to provide increased transparency for customers— (A) to make available a database of information relating to the Western Area Power Administration in accordance with paragraph (2); and (B) to provide annual updates to the database in accordance with subsection (b); and (2) publish on a publicly available website of the Western Area Power Administration, a database of the following information, beginning with fiscal year 2008, relating to the Western Area Power Administration: (A) By power system and in a consistent format, rates charged to customers for power and transmission service. (B) By power system, the amount of capacity or energy sold. (C) By region, an accounting, at the task level, budget activity level, organizational code level, and object class level, of all expenditures, including— (i) indirect costs, including overhead costs; (ii) direct charges and direct allocations; (iii) costs related to contract staff; (iv) costs related to independent consultants; (v) the number of full-time equivalents; (vi) charges to the region from the headquarters office of the Western Area Power Administration for all annual and capital costs; and (vii) expenses incurred on behalf of other Federal agencies or programs or third parties for the administration of programs not related to the marketing, transmission, or wheeling of Federal hydropower resources within the Western Area Power Administration marketing area, including— (I) indirect costs, including overhead costs; (II) direct charges and allocations; (III) costs related to contract staff