Sunshine Act Meeting

[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 114 (Tuesday, June 15, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 32086-32087]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-15181]


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TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY


Sunshine Act Meeting

    Agency Holding the Meeting: Tennessee Valley Authority (Executive 
Meeting No. 1).
    Time and Date: 9 a.m. (CDT), June 16, 1999.
    Place: TVA Environmental Research Center Auditorium, Muscle Shoals, 
Alabama.
    Status: Open.

Agenda

New Business

Energy
    C1. Supplement to Contract No. 96NNX-161365-003 with Stone & 
Webster Construction Company, Inc., for modification and supplemental 
maintenance services at TVA nuclear plants.
    C2. Contracts with Adecco, Westaff, and Midpoint International, 
Inc., for staff augmentation engineering and technical support services 
for TVA.
    C3. Supplement to Blanket Purchase Order No. 97X1E-197652 with ABB 
Power T&D for transmission and distribution equipment.
    C4. Contract with Indus International, Incorporated, for PassPort 
Supply Chain Management Software, implementation services, EMPAC work 
management software, and maintenance support.
    C5. Contract with Anixter, Inc., for miscellaneous 
telecommunications equipment.
    C6. Contracts with Siemens Information and Communication Networks, 
Inc., and Ameritech Data Networking Solutions, Inc., for local area 
network equipment.
    C7. Contract with Government Technology Services, Inc., and Federal 
Data Corporation for network management tools.
    C8. Contract with AEI Resources, Inc., to replace renegotiated 
contracts with Crockett Collieries, Inc.; Mountain Coals Corporation; 
and Leslie Resources, Inc., all of which are subsidiaries of AEI 
Resources, Inc.
    C9. Delegation of authority to the Vice President, Fuel Supply and 
Engineering Services, or a designee, to award a 10-year coal contract 
under Requisition 36, Request for Proposals of Bituminous Term Coal to 
Oxbow Mining, Inc.
    C10. Fixed-price contracts with ABB CE Services, Inc., and Babcock 
& Wilcox Company for long-term alliances to furnish pulverizer parts 
and technical support.

Information Items

    1. Filing of condemnation cases to acquire a temporary right to 
enter to survey and appraise for an electric power transmission line: 
Madison West-South Jackson Transmission Line, Madison County, 
Tennessee.
    2. Filing of condemnation cases to acquire a temporary right to 
enter to survey and appraise for an electric power transmission line: 
Murfreesboro-Smyrna No. 2 Transmission Line, Rutherford County, 
Tennessee.
    3. Filing of condemnation cases to acquire easements and rights-of-
way for pipeline and access road affecting the following transmission 
line: Johnsonville Fossil Plant Pipeline, Humphreys County, Tennessee.
    4. Contribution to Tennessee Aquarium, a nonprofit organization, 
located in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
    5. Agreement with The University of Tennessee at Knoxville to cover 
all future activities being conducted by the respective TVA business 
units, with a monetary limit of $6 million.
    6. Approval of recommendations resulting from negotiations with the 
Office and Professional Employees' International Union over 
compensation for annual and hourly employees.
    7. New investment manager and proposed new Investment Management 
Agreement between the TVA Retirement System and Smith Breeden 
Associated, Inc.
    8. Amendments to the Rules and Regulations of the TVA Retirement 
System and the provisions of the TVA Savings and Deferral Retirement 
Plan (401(k) Plan).
    9. Approval to sell TVA Power Bonds.
    10. Delegation of authority to the Chief Financial Officer to 
authorize loan write-offs of up to $250,000 on loans managed by 
Economic Development and authority to execute any appropriate documents 
to effectuate the write-off.
    11. Approval to establish a Public Power Institute within the Chief 
Operating Officer's organization to be located in Muscle Shoals.
    12. Approval of member of and designation of chair of the Land 
Between The Lakes Advisory Committee and delegation of authority to the 
Chief Operating Officer, subject to the concurrence of the Board during 
such periods as there are at least two Board members in office and in 
the absence of at least two Board members in office with the 
concurrence of the Chairman, to fill future vacancies.
    13. Award of contract to Carl E. Smith, Incorporated, for the 
construction, testing, and commissioning of a 28-mile natural gas 
pipeline, meter station, pressure regulation, and plant piping for 
Johnsonville Combustion Turbines and

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pressure regulation, and plant piping for Gallatin Combustion Turbines.
    14. Approval of a distributor bill credit program, to be 
implemented in conjunction with the reinstatement of wholesale reactive 
demand charges, under which distributors could receive credits (up to 
the amount of such reactive charges) as a rebate to the cost of 
purchasing and installing capacitors on their systems.
    15. Sale of noncommercial, nonexclusive permanent easements 
affecting less than 1 acre of land on Tellico Lake in Loudon and Monroe 
Counties. Tennessee, for the construction, operation, and maintenance 
of private water-use facilities (Tract Nos. XTELR-280RE and XTELR-
209RE).
    16. Grant of a permanent easement to the State of Alabama for a 
highway improvement project, affecting approximately 1.83 acres of land 
on Wheeler Lake in Morgan County, Alabama (Tract No. XTWR-109H).
    17. Grant of a permanent easement to Morgan County, Alabama, for 
highway improvement purposes affecting approximately 2.64 acres of land 
on Wheeler Lake, Morgan County, Alabama (Tract No. XTWR-110H).
    18. Public auction sale, under Section 31 of the TVA Act, of the 
Tupelo Line Crew Headquarters property, affecting approximately 3.07 
acres of TVA land in Tupelo, Mississippi (Tract No. XTLCH-1).
    19. Approval of various actions affecting TVA land, including the 
sale of real property and interests in real property, the grant of 
easements, the modification of deeds, and certain delegations with 
respect to the disposition of real property and the approval and 
modification of reservoir land use plans: (1) Delegation of authority 
to approve disposition of real property and to approve and modify 
reservoir land use plans; (2) sale of nonexclusive permanent easement 
to resolve encroachments for a driveway affecting 0.16 acres of land 
and a second nonexclusive permanent easement for an access road 
affecting 0.12 acre of land on Nickajack Lake in Marion County, 
Tennessee (Tract No. XNJR-24H); (3) Deed modification relative to flood 
elevations affecting 0.03 acre of land on Chickamauga Lake in Hamilton 
County, Tennessee (Tract No. XCR-30); (4) Deed modifications relative 
to flood elevations affecting approximately 4.2 acres of land on Watts 
Bar Lake in Roane County, Tennessee (Tract Nos. XWBR-446 and XWBR-447); 
(5) Grant of permanent easement to Charles H. Smith for residential and 
commercial purposes affecting approximately 1.2 acres of land on 
Chickmauga Lake in Rhea County, Tennessee (Tract No. XCR-669E); (6) 
Noncommercial, nonexclusive permanent easement for a private water-use 
facility 0.48 acre of land on Tellico Lake in Loudon County, Tennessee 
(Tract No. XTELR-207RE); and (7) Public auction sale of approximately 
13.5 acres of TVA land located on Norris Lake in Campbell County, 
Tennessee (Tract No. XNR-907).
    20. Nonexclusive, permanent easement for access road purposes to 
Charles Wilkens, affecting approximately 0.03 acre of the Mayfield-
Paducah Customer Service Center Site, Graves County, Kentucky (Tract 
No. XTMPCSC-1AR).
    21. Delegation of Authority to the Chief Administrative Officer 
during such time as a Board quorum does not exist, with the concurrence 
of the Chairman, to execute agreements with the Tennessee Valley Trades 
and Labor Annual Council.
    22. Delegation of authority to the Chief Administrative Officer, or 
a designated representative, to negotiate and enter into Amendment No. 
3 to TVA Contract No. TV-96619V between TVA and the University of 
Kentucky Research Foundation.
    23. Approval of the Charter for the Regional Resource Stewardship 
Committee and designation of the Chief Operating Officer to complete 
the chartering process and appoint committee members.
    24. Delegation of authority to the Chief Nuclear Officer, or a 
designee, subject to the concurrence of the individual Board member or 
members prior to execution of any agreement, to enter into an 
interagency agreement with the Department of Energy for TVA to provide 
irradiation services for the production of tritium at the Sequoyah and 
Watts Bar Nuclear Plants and acquire uranium, uranium hexaflouride, and 
enriched uranium from DOE for use in the units that may provide 
irradiation services.
    25. Approval to award one or more contracts for the supply and 
turnkey installation of new combustion turbine units to provide 
additional peaking generation capacity beginning in Fiscal Year 2002.
    26. Amendments to the Trust Agreement between the Board of 
Directors of the TVA Retirement System and Fidelity Management Trust 
Company.
    27. Filing of condemnation cases to acquire easements and rights-
of-way for pipeline affecting the following transmission line: 
Johnsonville Fossil Plant Pipeline, Humphreys County, Tennessee.
    28. Revisions to the Economy Surplus Power Program to limit its 
availability and to otherwise better match the needs of the TVA power 
system.
    For more information: Please call TVA Public Relations at (423) 
632-6000, Knoxville, Tennessee. Information is also available at TVA's 
Washington Office (202) 898-2999.

    Dated: June 9, 1999.
Edward S. Christenbury,
General Counsel and Secretary.
[FR Doc. 99-15181 Filed 6-10-99; 4:24 pm]
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