(Formerly, Total OMA)

Dollars (in millions)

	99/00	00/01	01/02	02/03	03/04	04/05
Operations & Administration Expenditures	344	N/A	N/A	302	358	385
Maintenance Expenditures	97	N/A	N/A	271	263	246
Total Operating Costs	441	755	550	573	621	631

Operations and Administrative expenses in 2004/2005 were higher than the previous year primarily due to the increase in provision for contaminated sites ($24 million), legal provisions for California and the Peace Region ($23 million) and establishment of the British Columbia Transmission Corporation ($8 million). The increase in costs was partly offset by reduced IT costs ($9 million) due to projects completed in the prior year, and the provision for the Georgia Strait Crossing project ($22 million) that was recorded in 2003/2004.

Maintenance expenditures were lower than the previous year primarily due to maintenance performed as a result of forest fire damage and system restoration due to storms in 2003/2004.