[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 234 (Monday, December 7, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 67501-67502]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-32487]


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TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY


Sunshine Act Meeting

AGENCY HOLDING THE MEETING: Tennessee Valley Authority (Meeting No. 
1510).

TIME AND DATE: 9. a.m. (CST), December 9, 1998.

PLACE: Shawnee Fossil Plant Auditorium, Paducah, Kentucky.

STATUS: Open.

Agenda

    Approvial of minutes of meetings held on September 23 and October 
23, 1998.

New Business

C--Energy
    C1. Contract with Asea Brown Boveri Power Transmission and 
Distribution Company, Inc., for supply of power transformers.
    C2. Contracts with Gardner Service Corporation, Brentwood, 
Tennessee; Raines Brothers, Inc., Schaerer Contracting Company, Inc., 
and Vega Corporation of Tennessee, Chattanooga, Tennessee; and Turner 
Construction Company, Nashville, Tennessee, for construction and/or 
modification services at TVA facilities located in the metropolitan and 
surrounding areas of Chattanooga and Nashville, Tennessee.
    C3. Contract with Ecolochem, Inc., for chemicals, equipment, and 
related services for bulk, package, lab, herbicide, pesticide, dust 
suppression, boiler cleaning, and water treatment for all TVA 
locations.
    C4. Contract with Southeastern Construction and Equipment Company,

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LLC, for initial clearing, restoration, and reclamation of right-of-way 
areas to support construction of new transmission lines for the central 
TVA region.
    C5. 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.
    C6. Contract with Calgon Corporation for raw water and speciality 
chemicals and raw water chemical treatment services at TVA nuclear 
facilities.
    C7. Supplements to engineering services contracts with Midpoint 
International Corporation (TV-95252V) and Martin-Williams 
International, Inc. (TV-95264V), to provide engineering services in a 
staff augmentation role to TVA.
    C8. Supplement to Contract No. TV-89742V with Gilbert/Commonwealth, 
Inc.
    C9. Contracts with ABB Environmental Systems, Inc., for selective 
catalytic reduction process equipment for Paradise Fossil Plant Units 1 
and 2, and Cormetech, Inc., for furnishing catalyst for Paradise Fossil 
Plant Units 1 and 2 and long-term catalyst supply.
    C10. Contract with ABB Power Generation for generator uprating and 
related system upgrade for Raccoon Mountain Pumped-Storage Plant.
    C11. Contract with General Electric Company for generator field 
rewinds of the GE combustion turbine generating units.
    C12. Contract with General Electric Company for the combustion 
turbine dual fuel conversion project at Johnsonville Fossil Plant.
    C13. 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).
E--Real Property Transactions
    E1. Grant of a 25-year public recreation easement affecting 35.3 
acres of Chatuge Lake land in Towns County, Georgia (Tract No. XTCHR-
29RE).

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 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. Modification of a permanent easement to the Utilities Board, 
City of Muscle Shoals, affecting 0.9 acre of land on the Muscle Shoals 
Reservation, Colbert County, Alabama (Tract No. XT2NPT-16E).
    7. Rescission of a February 1, 1995, authorization of a grant of 
permanent easement for highway improvements to the Tennessee Department 
of Transportation affecting approximately 21 acres of land on Cherokee 
Lake, Grainger County, Tennessee (Tract No. XTCK-61H), and grant of a 
permanent easement for highway improvements to the Tennessee Department 
of Transportation affecting approximately 34 acres of land on Cherokee 
Lake (Tract No. XTCK-61H).
    8. 1999 edition of the Transmission Service Guidelines, providing 
open access transmission service over the TVA system, and the rates for 
transmission service and ancillary services included in the Guidelines.
    9. Delegation of authority to the Senior Vice President, 
Procurement, to enter into contractual obligations required for TVA to 
obtain financial market data.
    10. Approval of Fiscal Year 1998 tax-equivalent payments to states 
and counties and estimated tax-equivalent payments for FY 1999.
    11. Approval of the sale of TVA Power Bonds.
    12. Approval of the Chief Financial Officer's proposed power system 
operating budget and power system capital budget for Fiscal Year 1999.
    13. Approval for the sale of TVA Power Bonds and delegation of 
authority to enter into currency swap arrangements with Morgan Guaranty 
Trust Company.
    14. Approval to file a condemnation case affecting the Oneida-
McCreary Loop into Winfield Transmission Line.
    15. Approval of amendments to resolutions adopted on March 2, 1998 
(and amended June 10, 1998), relating to the sale of Tennessee Valley 
Authority Power Bonds.
    16. Approval of changes in accounting policies in conjunction with 
the Fiscal Year 1999 budget.
    17. Approval for an increase in the amount of short-term debt that 
may be issued through the book-entry system of the Federal Reserve 
Banks.

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: December 2, 1998.
Edward S. Christenbury,
General Counsel and Secretary.
[FR Doc. 98-32487 Filed 12-3-98; 12:25 pm]
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