[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 201 (Monday, October 19, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 55914-55915]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-28027]


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TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY


Sunshine Act Meeting

AGENCY HOLDING THE MEETING: Tennessee Valley Authority (Meeting No. 
1509).

TIME AND DATE: 9 a.m. (CDT), October 21, 1998.

PLACE: Legislative Plaza Room 16, 19 Legislative Plaza, Union and 6th 
Streets, Nashville, Tennessee.

STATUS: Open.

AGENDA: Approval of minutes of meeting held on September 23, 1998.

New Business

A--Budget and Financing

    A1. Fiscal year 1998 Tax-Equivalent Payments.

C--Energy

    C1. Abandonment of surface rights overlying coal and associated 
right to mine and remove such coal affecting approximately 176.84 acres 
of Koppers Coal Reserve in Campbell County, Tennessee (Tract No. EKCR-
10).
    C2. Contract with Crisp & Crisp, Inc., for initial clearing, 
restoration, and reclamation of right-of-way areas to support 
construction of new transmission lines for the eastern TVA region.
    C3. Contract with Southeastern Construction and Equipment Company, 
LLC, for the initial clearing, restoration, and reclamation of right-
of-way areas to support construction of new transmission lines for the 
central TVA region.
    C4. Contract with ASEA Brown Boveri Power Transmission and 
Distribution Company, Inc., for the supply of power transformers.
    C5. Contract with Ecolochem, Inc., to provide chemical management 
of industrial chemical needs, for example, boiler cleaners, laboratory 
supplies, herbicides, and pesticides, for all TVA locations.

E--Real Property Transactions

    E1. Abandonment of a portion of TVA's Athens-Pulaski and Pulaski-
Fayetteville transmission line easements and right-of-way in Giles 
County, Tennessee, affecting approximately 8.16 acres designated in 
TVA's records as Parcels A and B of Tract No AP-104, Parcels A and B of 
Tract No. AP-105, and Parcels A, B, and C of Tract No. PF-3.
    E2. Grant of permanent easement to the State of Tennessee affecting 
approximately 34 acres of land on Cherokee Lake in Grainger County, 
Tennessee, for improvements of Highways 11W and 25E (Tract No. XTCK-
61H).

F--Unclassified

    F1. Filing of condemnation cases to acquire easements and right-of-
way for an expansion to an existing electric power substation affecting 
the following transmission lines: Charleston District-Riceville, 
Bradley County, Tennessee; East Cleveland-Charleston District, Bradley 
County, Tennessee; Johnsonville-West Nashville Tap to Pomona and Burns, 
Dickson, Tennessee. The expansion of the Pinhook, Tennessee, Substation 
involves land, road, and right-of-way easements in Davidson County, 
Tennessee.

Information Items

    1. Medical contribution plan for certain employees, retirees, and 
dependents not eligible for the TVA Retirement System supplement 
benefit, future access to retiree medical coverage, future access to 
contributions toward retiree health coverage costs for Civil Service 
and Federal Employees Retirement System retirees.
    2. Approval of land exchange by the United States Department of 
Agriculture, Forest Service, affecting approximately 3.7 acres of 
former TVA land on Fontana Lake in Swain County, North Carolina (Tract 
No. XTFR-3).
    3. Approval to file a condemnation case affecting the New Albany-
Holly Springs Loop to Hickory Flat Transmission Line (Tract No. THSHF-
2).
    4. Approval to award a fixed-price contract with General Electric 
Company

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for the manufacture and turnkey installation of eight combustion 
turbine generating units for operation beginning June 2000.
    5. Approval of land exchange by the United States Department of 
Agriculture, Forest Service, affecting approximately 2.93 acres of 
former TVA land on Watauga Lake in Carter County, Tennessee (Tract No. 
XTWAR-30).
    6. Ratification and confirmation of interpretation of the TVA Act 
respect in revenues from exchange power arrangements and Section 13 in-
lieu-of-tax payments.
    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: October 14, 1998.
Edward S. Christenbury,
General Counsel Secretary.
[FR Doc. 98-28027 Filed 10-15-98; 10:43 am]
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