[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 54 (Friday, March 20, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 13716-13717]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-7412]


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TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY


Sunshine Act Meeting

Agency Holding the Meeting: Tennessee Valley Authority (Meeting No. 
1502).

Time and Date: 9:30 a.m. (CST), March 24, 1998.

Place: Arab High School Auditorium, 511 Arabian Drive, Arab, Alabama.

Status: Open.

Agenda

    Approval of minutes of meeting held on February 20, 1998.

New Business

C--Energy
    C1. Delegation of authority to the Vice President, Fuel Supply and 
Engineering, to award 11 coal contracts with varying terms under 
Requisition 36 and to supplement an existing rail transportation coal 
contract.
B--Purchase Award
    B1. Supplement to Contract No. TV-92582V with Fitzgerald & Company 
for the continuation of advertising support.
    B. Contract with Chattanooga Printing and Engraving for offset 
printing services to supplement TVA's in-house print shop.
    B3. Contract with BOC Gases for industrial gases and cylinder, tube 
trailer, and bulk storage management for all TVA locations.
E--Real Property Transactions
    E1. Public auction sale of approximately 2.52 acres of land on the 
Ocoee No. 1
    Reservation in Polk County, Tennessee (Tract Nos. XOCR-11 and -12).
    E2. Sale of a permanent easement to the State of Tennessee for a 
highway improvement project affecting 0.22 acre of the Lonsdale 
substation property in Knox County, Tennessee (Tract No. XLONSS-6H, 
Parcels 1, 2, 3, and 4).
    E3. Sale of two noncommercial, nonexclusive permanent recreation 
easements affecting 0.77 acre of Tellico Lake shoreline in Loudon and 
Monroe Counties, Tennessee (Tract Nos. XTELR-203RE and XTELR-196RE).
    E4. Approval of a sale by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 
Forest Service, of 0.36 acre of former TVA land on Fontana Lake in 
Graham County, North Carolina (Tract No. XTFR-2).
    E5. Public auction sale of approximately 5.66 acres of land on 
Pickwick Lake for Industrial development purposes in Tishomingo County, 
Mississippi (Tract No. XYECR-12).
    E6. Modifications of a grant of easement affecting approximately 
0.07 acre of former TVA land on Chickamauga Lake in Meigs County, 
Tennessee (Tract No. XCR-221).
    E7. Sale of a nonexclusive permanent easement to Red Creek Ranch, 
Inc., for an access road affecting approximately 0.11 acre of land on 
Cherokee Lake in Hawkins County, Tennessee (Tract No. XCK-578AR).
    E8. Modification of deed restrictions in two deeds affecting 
approximately 4.2 acres of former TVA land (portions of Tract Nos. 
XWBR-446 and -447), and sale of a permanent commercial recreation 
easement affecting approximately 22.2 acres of TVA land (Tract No. 
XWBR-709RE) on Watts Bar Lake in Roane County, Tennessee.
Unclassified
    F1. Approval to file condemnation cases in connection with 
permanent easements and rights-of-way for a natural gas pipeline to the 
Gallatin Fossil Plant, easements and rights-of-way for an electric 
power transmission line, and the right to remove and dispose of danger 
trees along a transmission line. The gas line easement is in Wilson 
County, Tennessee, and the affected transmission lines are Wolf Creek-
Summer Shade Tap to West Tompkinsville, Monroe County, Kentucky; and 
Portland-Westmoreland, Sumner County, Tennessee.
Information Items
    1. Termination of the Bulk Power Sales Incentive Compensation Plan.
    2. Approval to file condemnation cases for the following 
transmission lines: New Albany-Holly Springs Tap to Martintown, Union 
County, Mississippi; Portland-Westmoreland, Summer County, Tennessee; 
and Carriage House-Madison West Section, Madison County, Tennessee.
    3. Amendments to the Rules and Regulations of the TVA Retirement 
System and the provisions of the TVA Savings and Deferral Retirement 
Plan. For Fiscal Year 1998, many employees

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received lump-sum payments but no salary increase in base salary. The 
Retirement System Board has responded favorably to requests from its 
members and from TVA in finding a way that credit for TVA Retirement 
System purposes can be given for these specific lump-sum payments of up 
to 3 percent of regular salary or wages made in fiscal year 1998.
    4. Approval of an agreement between TVA and Entergy Mississippi, 
Inc., for TVA's Freeport-Miller 161-kV Transmission Line Project which 
includes shared use by each party of land and easements and rights-of-
way held by the other and delegation of authority to the Executive Vice 
President, Transmission/Power Supply Group, or a designated 
representative, to conclude final contract negotiations with Entergy 
and to enter into, execute, deliver, and accept on TVA's behalf the 
agreement and the documents providing for the shared use of land and 
easements and rights-of-way.
    5. Approval for the sale of Tennessee Valley Authority Power Bonds.
    6. Abandonment of easement rights over portions of the Bull Run-
Solway and the Bull Run-Solway No. 2 transmission lines in Know County, 
Tennessee (Tract Nos. BRSW-36, -37, -38, and -39 and BAST-27, -28, -29, 
and -30.
    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: March 17, 1998.
William L. Osteen,
Associate General Counsel and Assistant Secretary.
[FR Doc. 98-7412 Filed 3-18-98; 11:52 am]
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