[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 81 (Wednesday, April 28, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 22423-22424]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-9805]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Reclamation


Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program, Eastern and Western Division 
Proposed Project Use Power Rate

AGENCY: Bureau of Reclamation, Interior.

ACTION: Reopening of comment period for review of the Pick-Sloan 
Missouri Basin Program, Eastern and Western Divisions, Proposed Project 
Use Power Rate Adjustment.

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SUMMARY: The Bureau of Reclamation is reopening the comment period for 
the Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program, Eastern and Western Division 
Proposed Project Use Power Rate Adjustment for an additional 30 days 
from the date of publication of this Notice. The initial Notice 
proposing this adjustment was published in the Federal Register on 
January 11, 2010 (75 FR 1408). The public comment period ended on 
February 10, 2010.

DATES: Written comments on the proposed power rate adjustment will be 
accepted on or before May 28, 2010.

ADDRESSES: Please send written comments to Mike Ferguson, GP-2020, 
Power O&M Administrator, P.O. Box 36900, Billings, MT 59107-6900.
    All booklets, studies, comments, letters, memoranda, and other 
documents made or kept by Reclamation for the purpose of developing the 
proposed rate for Project Use Power will be made available for 
inspection and copying at the Great Plains Regional Office, located at 
316 North 26th Street, Billings, MT 59101.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mike Ferguson, Bureau of Reclamation, 
Great Plains Regional Office at 406-247-7705 or by e-mail at 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Proposed Rate Adjustment

    Power rates for the P-SMBP are established pursuant to the 
Reclamation Act of 1902 (43 U.S.C. 391 et seq.), as amended and 
supplemented by subsequent enactments, particularly section 9(c) of the 
Reclamation Project Act of 1939 (43 U.S.C. 485h (c)) and the Flood 
Control Act of 1944 (16 U.S.C. 825s).
    Reclamation proposes to:
    (a) Increase the energy charge from 12.55 mills/kWh to 16.17 mills/
kWh.
    (b) the monthly demand charge will remain at zero.
    The Project Use Power Rate will be reviewed each time Western Area 
Power Administration (Western) adjusts the P-SMBP Firm Power Rate.

    Dated: April 14, 2010.
Michael J. Ryan,
Regional Director.
[FR Doc. 2010-9805 Filed 4-27-10; 8:45 am]
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