81_FR_87267 81 FR 87035 - Proposed 2018 Olmsted Power Marketing Plan

81 FR 87035 - Proposed 2018 Olmsted Power Marketing Plan

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Western Area Power Administration

Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 232 (December 2, 2016)

Page Range87035-87036
FR Document2016-28976

Western Area Power Administration (WAPA), a Federal power marketing agency of the Department of Energy, is seeking comments about this Proposed Olmsted Power Marketing Plan. WAPA has responsibility for the marketing of energy from the Colorado River Storage Project (CRSP), among other projects, and operates the transmission infrastructure associated with these Federal projects.

Federal Register, Volume 81 Issue 232 (Friday, December 2, 2016) 
[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 232 (Friday, December 2, 2016)]
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[FR Doc No: 2016-28976]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Western Area Power Administration


Proposed 2018 Olmsted Power Marketing Plan

AGENCY: Western Area Power Administration, Department of Energy (DOE).

ACTION: Notice of Proposed Olmsted Power Marketing Plan and 
announcement of public information and comment forum.

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SUMMARY: Western Area Power Administration (WAPA), a Federal power 
marketing agency of the Department of Energy, is seeking comments about 
this Proposed Olmsted Power Marketing Plan. WAPA has responsibility for 
the marketing of energy from the Colorado River Storage Project (CRSP), 
among other projects, and operates the transmission infrastructure 
associated with these Federal projects.

DATES: The public comment period on the Proposed Olmsted Power 
Marketing Plan begins December 2, 2016 and ends March 2, 2017. To be 
assured of consideration, WAPA must receive all written comments by the 
end of the comment period. WAPA reserves the right not to consider any 
comments received after the prescribed date and time.
    WAPA will hold a public information forum about this proposed 
marketing plan on Friday, January 13, 2017, from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. MST 
at the Bureau of Reclamation, 125 South State Street, Salt Lake City, 
Utah. The public comment forum is scheduled for the afternoon of the 
same day Friday, January 13, 2017, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. MST at the 
Bureau of Reclamation, 125 South State Street, Salt Lake City, Utah.

ADDRESSES: Submit written comments about this proposed marketing plan 
to: Ms. Lynn C. Jeka, CRSP Manager, CRSP Management Center, Western 
Area Power Administration, 150 East Social Hall Avenue, Suite 300, Salt 
Lake City, UT 84111-1580. Comments may also be emailed to [email protected] 
or be faxed to (801) 524-5017. All documentation developed or retained 
by WAPA for the purpose of developing the proposed marketing plan will 
be available for inspection and copying at the CRSP Management Center 
office, 150 East Social Hall Avenue, Suite 300, Salt Lake City, Utah.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Brent Osiek, CRSP Power Marketing 
Manager, [email protected], (801) 524-5495; or Mr. Steve Mullen, CRSP 
Public Utilities Specialist, [email protected], (801) 524-6383. Written 
requests for information should be mailed to CRSP Management Center, 
Western Area Power Administration, 150 East Social Hall Avenue, Suite 
300, Salt Lake City, UT 84111-1580, or faxed to (801) 524-5017.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Olmsted Powerplant, located in northern 
Utah, was acquired in condemnation proceedings by the United States in 
1990 in order to secure water rights associated with the Olmsted 
Powerplant deemed essential to the Central Utah Project (CUP). The CUP 
is a participating project of the CRSP. As part of the condemnation 
proceedings, PacifiCorp continued Olmsted operations until 2015, after 
which time the operation of the facility became the responsibility of 
the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation.
    The existing Olmsted Powerplant is over 100 years old and has 
greatly exceeded its operational life. A replacement facility is being 
constructed for the generation of power and the preservation of 
associated non-consumptive water rights necessary for the CUP. On 
February 4, 2015, an Implementation Agreement (Agreement) for the 
Olmsted Powerplant Replacement Project (Project) was signed by Central 
Utah Water Conservancy District (District); Department of the Interior, 
Bureau of Reclamation; and Department of Energy, WAPA (Participants). 
The Agreement sets forth the responsibilities of the Participants and 
how the Project will be funded. The District will construct, operate, 
maintain, and replace the Olmsted facilities in connection with its CUP 
operations, including power generation.
    The Olmsted facilities are a feature of the CUP, which is a 
participating project of CRSP. WAPA markets the hydropower generated 
from the CRSP facilities as well as the participating projects of CRSP. 
In accordance with Acts of Congress approved April 11, 1956 (70 Stat. 
105); August 4, 1977 (91 Stat. 565); October 30, 1992 (106 Stat. 
46050); and Acts amendatory or supplementary to the foregoing Acts, 
WAPA will be responsible for marketing the energy from the Olmsted 
Powerplant. WAPA plans to begin marketing energy from the Olmsted

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Powerplant in the summer of 2018. Only energy, without capacity, will 
be available for marketing (power production will be non-dispatchable 
and incidental to the delivery of water). It is expected that annual 
energy production from the replacement Olmsted Powerplant will average 
approximately 27,000,000 kWh per year.

Proposed 2018 Olmsted Power Marketing Plan

    WAPA proposes to apply the following criteria to applicants seeking 
an allocation of energy under the proposed 2018 Olmsted Power Marketing 
Plan:
    1. Contract Term: Due to the lack of actual generating data, the 
term of the contract will be limited. Service is expected to begin on 
July 1, 2018, or as soon as the Project is declared commercially 
operable; and the contract term will be effective through September 30, 
2024.
    2. Marketing Area: Due to the relatively small size of the resource 
and its operating characteristics, eligible applicants must be 
preference entities, in accordance with section 9(c) of the Reclamation 
Project Act of 1939 (43 U.S.C. 485h(c)), located within the following 
counties in Utah: Davis, Morgan, Salt Lake, Summit, Utah, Weber, and 
Wasatch.
    3. Delivery Point: 12.47-kV bus at PacifiCorp's Hale Substation or 
another substation that may be identified that can be electrically 
interconnected to the Project.
    4. Transmission: Any associated transformation/transmission beyond 
PacifiCorp's 12.47-kV bus at the Hale Substation, or other identified 
substation if delivery is not made at the Hale Substation, is the sole 
responsibility of the applicant. Applicants must have the necessary 
arrangements for transmission and/or distribution service in place by 
April 1, 2018.
    5. Eligible Applicants: WAPA will provide allocations only to 
preference entities in the marketing area. WAPA, through the public 
process, will determine the amount of energy, if any, to allocate in 
accordance with the marketing criteria and administrative discretion 
under Reclamation Law. Priority will be given to the District as the 
operator of the Olmsted Powerplant.
    6. Resource Pool: WAPA will take into consideration all existing 
Federal hydropower allocations an applicant is currently receiving when 
determining each allocation. Allocations of Olmsted energy will be 
determined solely by WAPA. Applicants who receive an allocation will be 
allocated a percentage of the annual energy output of the Powerplant.
    7. Preference Entities: Preference will be given to entities in 
accordance with section 9(c) of the Reclamation Project Act of 1939, 43 
U.S.C. 485h(c), as amended and supplemented, including Municipalities, 
Rural Cooperatives, and political subdivisions including irrigation or 
other districts, municipalities, and other governmental organizations 
that have electric utility status by April 1, 2018; and, Federally 
recognized Native American tribes as defined in the Indian Self 
Determination Act of 1975, 25 U.S.C. 5304 as amended. ``Electric 
utility status'' means that the entity has responsibility to meet load 
growth, has a distribution system, and is ready, willing, and able to 
purchase Federal power from WAPA on a wholesale basis.
    8. Ready, Willing, and Able: Eligible applicants must be ready, 
willing, and able to receive and distribute or use energy from WAPA. 
Ready, willing, and able means the applicant has the facilities needed 
for the receipt of power or has made the necessary arrangements for 
transmission and/or distribution service, and its power supply 
contracts with third parties permit the delivery of WAPA's power.
    9. Rates and Payment: Each applicant who receives an allocation 
will pay its proportional share of the annual expenses of the Project 
based on its proportional share of the energy produced. WAPA, through a 
separate public process, will establish a rate methodology for the 
Project. Rather than pay a stated rate per kWh for energy, applicants 
who receive allocations will pay their proportional shares of the 
Project's total annual OM&R expenses in return for their proportional 
shares of total marketable energy production.

Availability of Information

    Documents developed or retained by WAPA during this public process 
will be available, by appointment, for inspection and copying at the 
CRSP Management Center, located at 150 East Social Hall Avenue, Suite 
300, Salt Lake City, Utah. Written comments received as part of the 
Olmsted Marketing Plan formal public process will be available for 
viewing on WAPA's Web site after the close of the comment period.

Procedural Requirements

Environmental Compliance

    WAPA Olmsted Power Marketing Plan will comply with the National 
Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321-4347), the 
Council on Environmental Quality Regulations (40 CFR parts 1500-1508), 
and DOE NEPA Regulations (10 CFR 1021).

Review Under the Regulatory Flexibility Act

    The Regulatory Flexibility Act of 1980 (RFA; 5 U.S.C. 601, et seq.) 
requires a Federal agency to perform a regulatory flexibility analysis 
whenever the agency is required by law to publish a general notice of 
proposed rulemaking for any proposed rule, unless the agency can 
certify that the rule will not have a significant economic impact on a 
substantial number of small entities. In defining the term ``rule,'' 
the RFA specifies that a ``rule'' does not include ``a rule of 
particular applicability relating to rates [and] services . . . or to 
valuations, costs or accounting, or practices relating to such rates 
[and] services . . .'' (5 U.S.C. 601). WAPA has determined that this 
action relates to rates or services offered by WAPA and, therefore, is 
not a rule within the purview of the Regulatory Flexibility Act.

Determination Under Executive Order 12866

    WAPA has an exemption from centralized regulatory review under 
Executive Order 12866; accordingly, no clearance of this notice by the 
Office of Management and Budget is required.

    Dated: November 23, 2016.
Mark A. Gabriel,
Administrator.
[FR Doc. 2016-28976 Filed 12-1-16; 8:45 am]
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Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 232 / Friday, December 2, 2016 / Notices 87035 Description: Compliance filing: 2016– Dated: November 28, 2016. Social Hall Avenue, Suite 300, Salt Lake 11–28_Compliance filing to address 9/ Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr., City, Utah. 28/2016 Order on Entergy Settlement to Deputy Secretary. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. be effective 12/19/2013. [FR Doc. 2016–28938 Filed 12–1–16; 8:45 am] Brent Osiek, CRSP Power Marketing Filed Date: 11/28/16. BILLING CODE 6717–01–P Manager, osiek@wapa.gov, (801) 524– Accession Number: 20161128–5194. 5495; or Mr. Steve Mullen, CRSP Public Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 12/19/16. Utilities Specialist, smullen@wapa.gov, Docket Numbers: ER16–1956–001. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY (801) 524–6383. Written requests for Applicants: Western Antelope Dry information should be mailed to CRSP Ranch LLC. Western Area Power Administration Management Center, Western Area Description: Compliance filing: Power Administration, 150 East Social Western Antelope Dry Ranch LLC MBR Proposed 2018 Olmsted Power Hall Avenue, Suite 300, Salt Lake City, Tariff to be effective 6/18/2016. Marketing Plan UT 84111–1580, or faxed to (801) 524– Filed Date: 11/28/16. AGENCY: Western Area Power 5017. Accession Number: 20161128–5102. Administration, Department of Energy SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 12/19/16. (DOE). Olmsted Powerplant, located in Docket Numbers: ER17–418–000. ACTION: Notice of Proposed Olmsted northern Utah, was acquired in Applicants: Seward Generation, LLC. Power Marketing Plan and condemnation proceedings by the Description: Compliance filing: announcement of public information United States in 1990 in order to secure Reactive Rate Schedule eTariff and comment forum. water rights associated with the Compliance Filing to be effective 11/29/ Olmsted Powerplant deemed essential 2016. SUMMARY: Western Area Power to the Central Utah Project (CUP). The Filed Date: 11/28/16. Administration (WAPA), a Federal CUP is a participating project of the Accession Number: 20161128–5207. power marketing agency of the CRSP. As part of the condemnation Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 12/19/16. Department of Energy, is seeking proceedings, PacifiCorp continued Docket Numbers: ER17–419–000. comments about this Proposed Olmsted Olmsted operations until 2015, after Applicants: American Electric Power Power Marketing Plan. WAPA has which time the operation of the facility Service Corporate, PJM Interconnection, responsibility for the marketing of became the responsibility of the L.L.C. energy from the Colorado River Storage Department of the Interior, Bureau of Description: § 205(d) Rate Filing: Project (CRSP), among other projects, Reclamation. Transource PA and MD submit revisions and operates the transmission The existing Olmsted Powerplant is to OATT to add Attachments H–29 and infrastructure associated with these over 100 years old and has greatly H–30 to be effective 2/1/2017. Federal projects. exceeded its operational life. A Filed Date: 11/28/16. DATES: The public comment period on replacement facility is being constructed Accession Number: 20161128–5221. the Proposed Olmsted Power Marketing for the generation of power and the Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 12/19/16. Plan begins December 2, 2016 and ends preservation of associated non- Take notice that the Commission March 2, 2017. To be assured of consumptive water rights necessary for received the following qualifying consideration, WAPA must receive all the CUP. On February 4, 2015, an facility filings: written comments by the end of the Implementation Agreement (Agreement) Docket Numbers: QF17–318–000. comment period. WAPA reserves the for the Olmsted Powerplant Applicants: Fresh Air Energy II, LLC. right not to consider any comments Replacement Project (Project) was Description: Form 556 of Fresh Air received after the prescribed date and signed by Central Utah Water Energy II, LLC [Shoshoni PV1]. time. Conservancy District (District); Filed Date: 11/28/16. WAPA will hold a public information Department of the Interior, Bureau of Accession Number: 20161128–5065. forum about this proposed marketing Reclamation; and Department of Energy, Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 11/28/16. plan on Friday, January 13, 2017, from WAPA (Participants). The Agreement The filings are accessible in the 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. MST at the Bureau sets forth the responsibilities of the Commission’s eLibrary system by of Reclamation, 125 South State Street, Participants and how the Project will be clicking on the links or querying the Salt Lake City, Utah. The public funded. The District will construct, docket number. comment forum is scheduled for the operate, maintain, and replace the Any person desiring to intervene or afternoon of the same day Friday, Olmsted facilities in connection with its protest in any of the above proceedings January 13, 2017, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. CUP operations, including power must file in accordance with Rules 211 MST at the Bureau of Reclamation, 125 generation. and 214 of the Commission’s South State Street, Salt Lake City, Utah. The Olmsted facilities are a feature of Regulations (18 CFR 385.211 and ADDRESSES: Submit written comments the CUP, which is a participating project 385.214) on or before 5:00 p.m. Eastern about this proposed marketing plan to: of CRSP. WAPA markets the time on the specified comment date. Ms. Lynn C. Jeka, CRSP Manager, CRSP hydropower generated from the CRSP Protests may be considered, but Management Center, Western Area facilities as well as the participating intervention is necessary to become a Power Administration, 150 East Social projects of CRSP. In accordance with party to the proceeding. Hall Avenue, Suite 300, Salt Lake City, Acts of Congress approved April 11, asabaliauskas on DSK3SPTVN1PROD with NOTICES eFiling is encouraged. More detailed UT 84111–1580. Comments may also be 1956 (70 Stat. 105); August 4, 1977 (91 information relating to filing emailed to jeka@wapa.gov or be faxed to Stat. 565); October 30, 1992 (106 Stat. requirements, interventions, protests, (801) 524–5017. All documentation 46050); and Acts amendatory or service, and qualifying facilities filings developed or retained by WAPA for the supplementary to the foregoing Acts, can be found at: http://www.ferc.gov/ purpose of developing the proposed WAPA will be responsible for marketing docs-filing/efiling/filing-req.pdf. For marketing plan will be available for the energy from the Olmsted other information, call (866) 208–3676 inspection and copying at the CRSP Powerplant. WAPA plans to begin (toll free). For TTY, call (202) 502–8659. Management Center office, 150 East marketing energy from the Olmsted VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:55 Dec 01, 2016 Jkt 241001 PO 00000 Frm 00019 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\02DEN1.SGM 02DEN1

87036 Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 232 / Friday, December 2, 2016 / Notices Powerplant in the summer of 2018. of the annual energy output of the (40 CFR parts 1500–1508), and DOE Only energy, without capacity, will be Powerplant. NEPA Regulations (10 CFR 1021). available for marketing (power 7. Preference Entities: Preference will Review Under the Regulatory production will be non-dispatchable be given to entities in accordance with Flexibility Act and incidental to the delivery of water). section 9(c) of the Reclamation Project It is expected that annual energy Act of 1939, 43 U.S.C. 485h(c), as The Regulatory Flexibility Act of 1980 production from the replacement amended and supplemented, including (RFA; 5 U.S.C. 601, et seq.) requires a Olmsted Powerplant will average Municipalities, Rural Cooperatives, and Federal agency to perform a regulatory approximately 27,000,000 kWh per year. political subdivisions including flexibility analysis whenever the agency irrigation or other districts, is required by law to publish a general Proposed 2018 Olmsted Power notice of proposed rulemaking for any Marketing Plan municipalities, and other governmental organizations that have electric utility proposed rule, unless the agency can WAPA proposes to apply the status by April 1, 2018; and, Federally certify that the rule will not have a following criteria to applicants seeking recognized Native American tribes as significant economic impact on a an allocation of energy under the defined in the Indian Self Determination substantial number of small entities. In proposed 2018 Olmsted Power Act of 1975, 25 U.S.C. 5304 as amended. defining the term ‘‘rule,’’ the RFA Marketing Plan: ‘‘Electric utility status’’ means that the specifies that a ‘‘rule’’ does not include 1. Contract Term: Due to the lack of entity has responsibility to meet load ‘‘a rule of particular applicability actual generating data, the term of the growth, has a distribution system, and is relating to rates [and] services . . . or to contract will be limited. Service is ready, willing, and able to purchase valuations, costs or accounting, or expected to begin on July 1, 2018, or as Federal power from WAPA on a practices relating to such rates [and] soon as the Project is declared wholesale basis. services . . .’’ (5 U.S.C. 601). WAPA has commercially operable; and the contract 8. Ready, Willing, and Able: Eligible determined that this action relates to term will be effective through applicants must be ready, willing, and rates or services offered by WAPA and, September 30, 2024. able to receive and distribute or use therefore, is not a rule within the 2. Marketing Area: Due to the purview of the Regulatory Flexibility energy from WAPA. Ready, willing, and relatively small size of the resource and Act. able means the applicant has the its operating characteristics, eligible facilities needed for the receipt of power Determination Under Executive Order applicants must be preference entities, or has made the necessary arrangements 12866 in accordance with section 9(c) of the for transmission and/or distribution Reclamation Project Act of 1939 (43 WAPA has an exemption from service, and its power supply contracts U.S.C. 485h(c)), located within the centralized regulatory review under with third parties permit the delivery of following counties in Utah: Davis, Executive Order 12866; accordingly, no WAPA’s power. Morgan, Salt Lake, Summit, Utah, clearance of this notice by the Office of 9. Rates and Payment: Each applicant Weber, and Wasatch. Management and Budget is required. 3. Delivery Point: 12.47-kV bus at who receives an allocation will pay its PacifiCorp’s Hale Substation or another proportional share of the annual Dated: November 23, 2016. substation that may be identified that expenses of the Project based on its Mark A. Gabriel, can be electrically interconnected to the proportional share of the energy Administrator. Project. produced. WAPA, through a separate [FR Doc. 2016–28976 Filed 12–1–16; 8:45 am] 4. Transmission: Any associated public process, will establish a rate BILLING CODE 6450–01–P transformation/transmission beyond methodology for the Project. Rather than PacifiCorp’s 12.47-kV bus at the Hale pay a stated rate per kWh for energy, Substation, or other identified applicants who receive allocations will ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION substation if delivery is not made at the pay their proportional shares of the AGENCY Hale Substation, is the sole Project’s total annual OM&R expenses in return for their proportional shares of [ER–FRL–9030–5] responsibility of the applicant. Applicants must have the necessary total marketable energy production. Environmental Impact Statements; arrangements for transmission and/or Availability of Information Notice of Availability distribution service in place by April 1, Documents developed or retained by Responsible Agency: Office of Federal 2018. 5. Eligible Applicants: WAPA will WAPA during this public process will Activities, General Information (202) provide allocations only to preference be available, by appointment, for 564–7146 or http://www.epa.gov/nepa. entities in the marketing area. WAPA, inspection and copying at the CRSP Weekly receipt of Environmental Impact through the public process, will Management Center, located at 150 East Statements determine the amount of energy, if any, Social Hall Avenue, Suite 300, Salt Lake Filed 11/21/2016 Through 11/25/2016 to allocate in accordance with the City, Utah. Written comments received Pursuant to 40 CFR 1506.9. marketing criteria and administrative as part of the Olmsted Marketing Plan formal public process will be available Notice discretion under Reclamation Law. Priority will be given to the District as for viewing on WAPA’s Web site after Section 309(a) of the Clean Air Act the operator of the Olmsted Powerplant. the close of the comment period. requires that EPA make public its asabaliauskas on DSK3SPTVN1PROD with NOTICES 6. Resource Pool: WAPA will take Procedural Requirements comments on EISs issued by other into consideration all existing Federal Federal agencies. EPA’s comment letters hydropower allocations an applicant is Environmental Compliance on EISs are available at: http:// currently receiving when determining WAPA Olmsted Power Marketing www.epa.gov/compliance/nepa/ each allocation. Allocations of Olmsted Plan will comply with the National eisdata.html. energy will be determined solely by Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of EIS No. 20160283, Final, NPS, FL, WAPA. Applicants who receive an 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321–4347), the Council ADOPTION—Central Everglades allocation will be allocated a percentage on Environmental Quality Regulations Planning Program, Review Period VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:55 Dec 01, 2016 Jkt 241001 PO 00000 Frm 00020 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\02DEN1.SGM 02DEN1


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PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
SectionNotices
ActionNotice of Proposed Olmsted Power Marketing Plan and announcement of public information and comment forum.
DatesThe public comment period on the Proposed Olmsted Power Marketing Plan begins December 2, 2016 and ends March 2, 2017. To be assured of consideration, WAPA must receive all written comments by the end of the comment period. WAPA reserves the right not to consider any comments received after the prescribed date and time.
ContactMr. Brent Osiek, CRSP Power Marketing Manager, [email protected], (801) 524-5495; or Mr. Steve Mullen, CRSP Public Utilities Specialist, [email protected], (801) 524-6383. Written requests for information should be mailed to CRSP Management Center, Western Area Power Administration, 150 East Social Hall Avenue, Suite 300, Salt Lake City, UT 84111-1580, or faxed to (801) 524-5017.
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