83 FR 61707 - Meeting of the Regional Energy Resource Council

TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY

Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 231 (November 30, 2018)

Page Range		61707-61708
FR Document		2018-26070

The TVA Regional Energy Resource Council (RERC) will hold a meeting on Tuesday, December 18, 2018, to discuss the metrics and evaluation criteria that TVA is establishing for the 2019 Integrated Resource Plan (IRP). The RERC was established to advise TVA on its energy resource activities and the priority to be placed among competing objectives and values. Notice of this meeting is given under the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA).

Federal Register, Volume 83 Issue 231 (Friday, November 30, 2018)

[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 231 (Friday, November 30, 2018)]
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TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY


Meeting of the Regional Energy Resource Council

AGENCY: Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA).

ACTION: Notice of meeting.

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SUMMARY: The TVA Regional Energy Resource Council (RERC) will hold a 
meeting on Tuesday, December 18, 2018, to discuss the metrics and 
evaluation criteria that TVA is establishing for the 2019 Integrated 
Resource Plan (IRP). The RERC was established to advise TVA on its 
energy resource activities and the priority to be placed among 
competing objectives and values. Notice of this meeting is given under 
the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA).

DATES: The public meeting will be held on Tuesday, December 18, 2018, 
from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., EST.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the Hilton Downtown Knoxville, 
501 Church Street, Knoxville, Tennessee 37902, and will be open to the 
public. Anyone needing special access or accommodations should let the 
contact below know at least a week in advance.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Liz Upchurch, 865-632-8305, 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The meeting agenda includes the following:

1. Introductions
2. Overview of the 2019 Integrated Resource Plan and Supplemental 
Environmental Impact Statement Status
3. Overview of the Metrics and Scorecard Identified for the 2019 IRP
4. Public Comments
5. Council Discussion and Advice

    The RERC will hear opinions and views of citizens by providing a 
public comment session starting at 10:00 a.m., EST, lasting up to one 
hour, on Tuesday, December 18, 2018. Persons wishing to speak are 
requested to register at the door between 9:00 a.m. and 10:00 a.m., 
EST, on Tuesday, December 18, 2018, and will be called

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on during the public comment period. TVA will set time limits for 
providing oral comments, once registered. Handout materials should be 
limited to one printed page. Written comments are also invited and may 
be mailed to the Regional Energy Resource Council, Tennessee Valley 
Authority, 400 West Summit Hill Drive, WT-9-D, Knoxville, Tennessee 
37902.

    Dated: November 8, 2018.
Joseph J. Hoagland,
Vice President, Enterprise Relations and Innovation, Tennessee Valley 
Authority.
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on during the public comment period. DATES: Comments on the scope of the In July 2009, the TVA Board of
TVA will set time limits for providing EIS must be received on or before Directors passed a resolution for staff to
oral comments, once registered. January 4, 2019. review TVA practices for storing CCRs
Handout materials should be limited to ADDRESSES: Written comments should at its generating facilities, including
one printed page. Written comments are be sent to Ashley Farless, NEPA ALF, which resulted in a
also invited and may be mailed to the Compliance Specialist, 1101 Market recommendation to convert the wet ash
Regional Energy Resource Council, Street, BR4A–C, Chattanooga, TN 37402. management system at ALF to a dry
Tennessee Valley Authority, 400 West Comments also may be submitted online storage system. On April 17, 2015, the
Summit Hill Drive, WT–9–D, Knoxville, at: https://www.tva.gov/nepa or by EPA published the final Disposal of
Tennessee 37902. email to arfarless@tva.gov. CCRs from Electric Utilities rule, also
Dated: November 8, 2018. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
known as the CCR Rule.
In June 2016, TVA issued a Final
Joseph J. Hoagland, Other related questions should be sent
Programmatic Environmental Impact
Vice President, Enterprise Relations and to Ashley Farless, NEPA Compliance
Statement (PEIS) that analyzed methods
Innovation, Tennessee Valley Authority. Specialist, Tennessee Valley Authority,
for closing CCR impoundments at TVA
[FR Doc. 2018–26070 Filed 11–29–18; 8:45 am] at 423–751–2361 or arfarless@tva.gov.
fossil plants and identified specific
BILLING CODE 8120–08–P SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This screening and evaluation factors to help
notice is provided in accordance with frame its evaluation of closures at its
the Council on Environmental Quality’s other facilities. A Record of Decision
TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY regulations (40 CFR parts 1500 to 1508) was released in July 2016 that would
and TVA’s procedures for implementing allow future environmental reviews of
Environmental Impact Statement for the National Environmental Policy Act
Allen Fossil Plant Ash Impoundment qualifying CCR impoundment closures
(NEPA) and Section 106 of the National to tier from the PEIS. This EIS is
Closures Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) and intended to tier from the 2016 PEIS to
AGENCY: Tennessee Valley Authority. its implementing regulations (36 CFR evaluate the closure alternatives for the
ACTION: Notice of intent. part 800). CCR Ash Impoundments at ALF.
SUMMARY: The Tennessee Valley TVA Power System and CCR Alternatives
Authority (TVA) intends to prepare an Management
In addition to a No Action
Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) TVA is a corporate agency and Alternative, this EIS will address
to address the potential environmental instrumentality of the United States alternatives that meet the purpose and
effects associated with the future created by and existing pursuant to the need for the project. TVA plans to
management of coal combustion TVA Act of 1933 that provides consider the following: (1) No Action,
residual (CCR) material at the Allen electricity for business customers and (2) closure of the Metal Cleaning Pond
Fossil Plant (ALF) located in Shelby local power distributors. TVA serves and closure-by-removal of the East Ash
County, Tennessee, southwest of the more than 9 million people in parts of Pond Complex, the West Ash Pond and
City of Memphis. The purpose of this seven southeastern states. TVA receives the CCR surrounding the Metal Cleaning
EIS is to support the implementation of no taxpayer funding, deriving virtually Pond to an offsite landfill location (note
TVA’s goal to eliminate all wet CCR all of its revenues from sales of that the Metal Cleaning Pond would be
storage at its coal plants by closing CCR electricity. In addition to operating and removed by default while removing the
surface impoundments across the TVA investing its revenues in its electric CCR material surrounding it), (3) closure
system, and to assist TVA in complying system, TVA provides flood control, of the Metal Cleaning Pond and closure-
with the Environmental Protection navigation and land management for the by-removal of the East Ash Pond
Agency’s (EPA) CCR Rule. In addition, Tennessee River system and assists local Complex, the West Ash Pond and the
the proposed actions would make the power companies and state and local CCR surrounding the Metal Cleaning
ALF closure area land available for governments with economic Pond to a beneficial re-use facility &
future economic development projects development and job creation. offsite landfill location (see note above
in the greater Memphis area. Historically, TVA has managed its in #2), and (4) closure of the Metal
TVA will evaluate closure of the East CCRs in wet impoundments or dry Cleaning Pond and closure-in-place of
Ash Pond Complex, the West Ash Pond, landfills. On March 31, 2018, ALF’s all CCR in the East Ash Pond Complex,
and the Metal Cleaning Pond. In three coal-fired units were retired. the West Ash Pond and CCR
addition to these closures, TVA will While in operation, ALF consumed surrounding the Metal Cleaning Pond.
analyze potential location requirements approximately 7,200 tons of coal a day
and associated environmental impacts and produced approximately 5,160 Proposed Resources and Issues To Be
associated with construction and million kilowatt-hours of electricity a Considered
utilization of a proposed beneficial re- year. CCR produced by the collective This EIS will identify the purpose and
use facility to process CCR materials. units included approximately 85,000 need of the project and will contain
TVA will also evaluate potential dry tons of slag and fly ash that was wet- descriptions of the existing
impacts associated with actions sluiced to the East Ash Pond Complex environmental and socioeconomic
requiring use of permitted borrow sites every year. resources within the area that could be
and the disposal of CCR at existing It is estimated that approximately affected by the management of CCR at
offsite permitted landfills. TVA will 250,000 cubic yards (yd3) of CCR ALF. Evaluation of potential
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develop and evaluate various material remains in the West Ash Pond environmental impacts to these
alternatives to these actions, including and approximately 2.7 million cubic resources will include, but not be
the No Action Alternative. Public yards (yd3) of CCR material remains in limited to, water quality, aquatic and
comments are invited concerning both the East Ash Pond Complex. There are terrestrial ecology, threatened and
the scope of the review and approximately 193,000 cubic yards of endangered species, wetlands, land use,
environmental issues that should be CCR in the area surrounding the Metal historic and archaeological resources, as
addressed. Cleaning Pond. well as solid and hazardous waste,

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Category		Regulatory Information
Collection		Federal Register
sudoc Class		AE 2.7: GS 4.107: AE 2.106:
Publisher		Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
Section		Notices
Action		Notice of meeting.
Dates		The public meeting will be held on Tuesday, December 18, 2018, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., EST.
Contact		Liz Upchurch, 865-632-8305, [email protected]
FR Citation		83 FR 61707