[5] The consulting architect for the project was Paul Thiry of Seattle, and the commission for its large granite bas-relief was awarded to sculptor Albert Wein by competition.

The electricity is managed by the Bonneville Power Administration and services eight states: Montana, Idaho, Washington, Wyoming, California, Utah, Oregon, and Nevada.

The money earned from electricity sales goes to the United States Treasury to repay the cost of building and operating Libby Dam.

[7] President Gerald Ford was among the five thousand in attendance at the opening in 1975, along with Senator Mike Mansfield, the majority leader, and Governor Thomas Judge.

[3] At his first official event after a two-week vacation in Vail, Colorado,[2] Ford "threw the switch" with Donald Macdonald, Canadian minister of energy.