[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 29 (Monday, February 14, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Page 7489]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-2782]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Bonneville Power Administration


Policy for Power Supply Role for Fiscal Years 2007-2011 (Regional 
Dialogue)

AGENCY: Bonneville Power Administration (BPA), Department of Energy 
(DOE).

ACTION: Notice of availability of a National Environmental Policy Act 
(NEPA) Record of Decision (ROD).

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SUMMARY: This notice announces the availability of the NEPA ROD to 
adopt a policy on BPA's power supply role for fiscal years 2007-2011. 
This policy is intended to provide BPA's customers with greater clarity 
about their Federal power supply so they can effectively plan for the 
future and make capital investments in long-term electricity 
infrastructure if they choose. It is also intended to provide guidance 
on certain rate matters BPA expects to be addressed in the next rate 
period, while assisting the agency in fulfilling its long-term 
strategic goals and responsibilities to the region. Each policy issue 
has been evaluated for environmental effects and, for those involving 
NEPA, those effects have been addressed in the Business Plan 
Environmental Impact Statement (DOE/EIS-0183, June 1995). Thus, this 
NEPA ROD is consistent with and tiered to the Business Plan EIS and the 
Business Plan ROD (August 15, 1995). This policy, which is also 
referred to as the Regional Dialogue as it is the result of a regional 
discussion process beginning in April 2002, is described more fully in 
a separately issued Administrator's ROD that addresses the legal and 
policy rationale supporting the administrative decisions.

ADDRESSES: Copies of the following documents may be obtained by calling 
BPA's toll-free document request line, 1-800-622-4520, or by visiting 
the Web site at http://www.efw.bpa.gov: The NEPA ROD for the Policy for 
Power Supply Role for Fiscal Years 2007-2011; the Administrator's ROD 
on the policy; and the Business Plan EIS and ROD.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: Katherine S. Pierce, Bonneville Power 
Administration--KEC-4, P.O. Box 3621, Portland, Oregon 97208-3621; 
toll-free telephone number 1-800-282-3713; fax number 503-230-5699; or 
e-mail [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Business Plan EIS to which this NEPA ROD 
is tiered was prepared to support a number of decisions including the 
products and services BPA will market, rates for BPA's products and 
services, policy direction for BPA's sale of power products to 
customers, contract terms BPA will offer for power sales, and plans for 
BPA's resource acquisitions and power purchase contracts. Each of the 
issues in this Regional Dialogue policy that were found to have any 
environmental effects were consistent with the Market Driven 
Alternative adopted in the Business Plan ROD. For some policy issues, 
NEPA was not implicated because there were no environmental effects, 
and for other issues, NEPA was not triggered because they are a 
continuation of the status quo. For the remaining issues, any 
environmental effects have already been addressed in the Business Plan 
EIS.

    Issued in Portland, Oregon, on February 4, 2005.
Stephen J. Wright,
Administrator and Chief Executive Officer.
[FR Doc. 05-2782 Filed 2-11-05; 8:45 am]
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