[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 249 (Wednesday, December 28, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 81487-81488]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-33299]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Western Area Power Administration


Application of the Energy Planning and Management Program Power 
Marketing Initiative to the Boulder Canyon Project Post-2017 
Remarketing

AGENCY: Western Area Power Administration, Department of Energy.

ACTION: Notice of Withdrawal of Decisions and Proposals.

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SUMMARY: The Western Area Power Administration (Western), a Federal 
power marketing agency of the Department of Energy (DOE), is 
withdrawing its decisions and proposals relating to its Boulder Canyon 
Project (BCP) Post-2017 administrative marketing efforts announced in a 
notice published in the Federal Register on April 27, 2011, due to the 
enactment of the Hoover Power Allocation Act of 2011.

DATES: The withdrawal of Western's decisions and proposals is effective 
as of December 28, 2011.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Mike Simonton, Public Utilities 
Specialist, Desert Southwest Region, Western Area Power Administration, 
P.O. Box 6457, Phoenix, AZ 85005, telephone (602) 605-2675, email 
[email protected]. Information regarding Western's BCP Post-2017 
marketing efforts, the Energy Management and Planning Program 
(Program), and the Conformed General Consolidated Power Marketing 
Criteria or Regulations for Boulder City Area Projects (Conformed 
Criteria) published in the Federal Register on December 28,

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1984 (49 FR 50582), are available at http://www.wapa.gov/dsw/pwrmkt.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In the April 27, 2011, Federal Register 
Notice (FRN) (76 FR 23583), Western announced that in marketing the BCP 
as of October 1, 2017, it will apply the Program's Power Marketing 
Initiative (PMI) and that all BCP electric service contracts resulting 
from this marketing effort shall have a term of thirty (30) years 
commencing October 1, 2017. The effective date of these decisions was 
designated as May 27, 2011. Subsequently, on May 24, 2011 (76 FR 
30147), Western announced an extension of the effective date of these 
decisions to December 31, 2011.
    In the April 27, 2011, FRN, Western also made proposals and sought 
comments on the amount of marketable contingent capacity and firm 
energy to be extended to existing contractors, the size of the resource 
pool to be created, and excess energy provisions.
    On December 21, 2011 the Hoover Power Allocation Act of 2011, 
Public Law 112-72, was enacted into law. The Act directs Western to 
market contingent capacity and firm energy for delivery to existing 
contractors in amounts specified in the Act. Contracts shall have a 
fifty (50) year term, commencing October 1, 2017. The Act also directs 
Western to create a resource pool of contingent capacity and firm 
energy to be offered to new allottees. Western will implement these 
directives in subsequent FRNs. Since the Act supersedes Western's 
decisions and proposals pertaining to the BCP Post-2017 marketing 
effort, Western withdraws its decisions and proposals as set forth in 
its April 27, 2011 FRN, without further public procedure including 
further response to comments received related to the proposals.

    Dated: December 16, 2011.
Timothy J. Meeks,
Administrator.
[FR Doc. 2011-33299 Filed 12-27-11; 8:45 am]
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