Federal Register, Volume 62 Issue 148 (Friday, August 1, 1997)

[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 148 (Friday, August 1, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 41461-41462]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-20435]


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TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY


Sunshine Act Meeting; (Meeting No. 1496)

TIME AND DATE: 9 a.m. (EDT), August 5, 1997.

PLACE: TVA Chattanooga Office Complex Auditorium, 1101 Market Street, 
Chattanooga, Tennessee.

STATUS: Open.

Agenda:

    Approval of minutes of meeting held on June 19, 1997.

New Business

A--Budget and Financing

    A1. Proposed Fiscal Year 1998 Pricing (rates), budget, and 
workforce recommendations.

B--Purchase Awards

    B1. Approval to enter into a contract with Vallen Safety Supply 
Company/Tennessee Fire & Equipment Company for safety/health physics 
items for all TVA locations.

C--Energy

    C1. Approval for Fossil and Hydro Power to award a fixed-price 
contract to Foster Wheeler Energy Corporation for a low nitrogen oxide 
burner system for Cumberland Fossil Plant Units 1 and 2.

E--Real Property Transactions

    E1. Sale of a nonexclusive permanent easement to Billy G. Mattox 
for an access road affecting approximately 0.34 acre of land on 
Guntersville Lake (Tract No. XGR-738H) in Jackson County, Alabama.

Information Items

    1. Delegation of authority to the Vice President of Fuel Supply and 
Engineering to enter into a contract with Temple-Inland Forest Products 
Corporation for the purchase and sale of scrubber gypsum produced by 
the Cumberland Fossil Plant, to amend and restate an existing contract 
with Synthetic Materials for the marketing of the remainder of the 
scrubber gypsum, to auction, at the request of Temple-Inland, a tract 
of land located on the Cumberland Fossil Plant site, and to grant an 
easement on a tract of land located on the plant site to Synthetic 
Materials.
    2. Amendment to Contract No. ICC-NS-8225 with Norfolk Southern 
Railway Company to provide for a 3-year extension and delegation of 
authority to the Vice President, Fuel Supply and Engineering, or a 
designated representative, to enter into such amendment.
    3. Delegation of authority to the Chief Operating Officer and 
Executive Vice President to modify term coal Contract No. 95P01-139359 
with Arclar Company for Johnsonville Fossil Plant.
    4. Approval for TVA Nuclear to enter into a contract with Balcke 
Durr, Inc.,

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for a mechanical draft crossflow cooling tower for the Browns Ferry 
Nuclear Plant.
    5. Approval to provide network integration transmission service to 
Cinergy Services, Inc., to serve Bristol, Virginia, in accordance with 
the provisions of the TVA Transmission Service Guidelines, as amended, 
including the requirements of recovery by TVA of its stranded cost 
claim against Bristol and acknowledgment by Bristol of its reciprocal 
transmission obligation.
    6. Amendments to the Rules and Regulations of the TVA Retirement 
System to allow vested members who voluntarily leave TVA employment to 
receive immediate retirement benefits regardless of age.
    7. Abandonment of an existing road right-of-way easement and grant 
of road right-of-way easement to Randy Nunley, affecting 0.66 acre of 
land and 0.46 acre of TVA's Chickamauga Lake land (Tract Nos. XCR-418 
and XCR-693H) in Hamilton County, Tennessee.
    8. Sale of a permanent easement for construction and maintenance of 
an access road to Montana Land Company, L.L.C., affecting 2.2 acres of 
land on Pickwick Lake in Hardin County, Tennessee (Tract No. XPR-455H).
    9. Grant of a 30-year easement to Chattanooga Gas Company affecting 
approximately .02 acre of the Sequoyah Access Railroad property in 
Hamilton County, Tennessee (Tract No. XSNPRR-8P), for a natural gas 
pipeline.
    10. Grant of a permanent easement to Lowndes County, Mississippi, 
affecting approximately 5.83 acres of land for a road that was 
relocated by TVA (Tract No. XTLNDSS-1H).
    11. Grant of a permanent easement to the City of Tupelo, 
Mississippi, affecting 2.79 acres of land at TVA's Tupelo Primary 161-
kV Substation in Lee County, Mississippi (Tract No. XTSC-2RE), for a 
city park.
    12. Public auction sale affecting 42.67 acres of TVA's Nashville, 
Tennessee, Power Service Center, Davidson County, Tennessee (Tract No. 
XNTPSC-3).
    13. Approval to file a condemnation case.
    14. Approval of revision to TVA's power contract with Fort Payne, 
Alabama.
    15. Approval of a grant of permanent easement for public recreation 
to the State of Tennessee affecting approximately 221 acres of land on 
Tims Ford Lake in Franklin and Moore Counties, Tennessee (Tract Nos. 
XTTMFR-13RE, -14RE, -15RE, -17RE, -18RE, -19RE, and -21RE).
    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: July 29, 1997.
William L. Osteen,
Associate General Counsel and Assistant Secretary.
[FR Doc. 97-20435 Filed 7-30-97; 10:42 am]
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