[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 159 (Thursday, August 18, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 50853-50854]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-17722]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Western Area Power Administration
2025 Resource Pool--Loveland Area Projects, Final Power
Allocation
AGENCY: Western Area Power Administration, DOE.
ACTION: Notice of final power allocation.
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SUMMARY: Western Area Power Administration (WAPA), a Federal Power
Marketing Administration of the Department of Energy (DOE), announces
its Loveland Area Projects (LAP) 2025 Resource Pool final power
allocation. WAPA developed the final power allocation under the
requirements of subpart C-Power Marketing Initiative of the Energy
Planning and Management Program (Program) Final Rule and WAPA's LAP
2025 Power Marketing Initiative (2025 PMI), as published in the Federal
Register on December 30, 2013. The final power allocations are
established prior to the contractual phase of the 2025 Resource Pool
process. Firm electric service contracts negotiated between WAPA and
eligible allottees will permit delivery of hydroelectric power
beginning October 1, 2024, through September 30, 2054.
DATES: The LAP 2025 Resource Pool final power allocation will become
effective September 19, 2022, and will remain in effect through
September 30, 2054.
ADDRESSES: Information about the LAP 2025 Resource Pool allocation
procedures, including correspondence and supporting documents, is
available for public inspection and copying at the Rocky Mountain
Region office, Western Area Power Administration, 5555 East Crossroads
Boulevard, Loveland, CO.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 2025 PMI, as published in the Federal
Register December 30, 2013 (78 FR 79444), provides the basis for
marketing the LAP long-term firm hydroelectric resource beginning
October 1, 2024, through September 30, 2054. The 2025 PMI established
three resource pools available for reallocation to eligible new
preference entities. Reallocations will occur at the beginning of the
October 1, 2024, contract term and again every 10 years thereafter on
October 1, 2034, and October 1, 2044. Each resource pool contains up to
one percent of the marketable resource under contract at that time.
WAPA notified the public of the 2025 Resource Pool allocation
procedures, including the General Eligibility Criteria, and called for
applications in the Federal Register on September 20, 2021 (86 FR
52145). It then published its 2025 Resource Pool, Loveland Area
Projects, Proposed Power Allocation and initiated a public comment
period in the Federal Register (87 FR 24555, April 26, 2022). A public
information and comment forum on the proposed power allocation was held
at 1:30 p.m., MDT, on May 23, 2022. Public comments were due to WAPA by
4:00 p.m., MDT, on June 10, 2022. There were no comments received
during the public comment period. WAPA is now finalizing the proposed
power allocations with publication of this notice in the Federal
Register.
2025 Resource Pool Resources
WAPA will allocate up to one percent of the LAP long-term firm
hydroelectric resource available as of October 1, 2024. The amount of
the resource that will become available on October 1, 2024, is
approximately 6.9 megawatts (MW) for the summer season and 6.1 MW for
the winter season. The 2025 Resource Pool will be created by reducing
existing customers' firm electric service allocations by up to one
percent.
Final Power Allocation
In response to WAPA's allocation procedures and call for
applications (86 FR 52145), WAPA received 13 applications for the 2025
Resource Pool, by the due date of November 15, 2021. Of the
applications received by the due date, WAPA determined that one
applicant did not meet the 2025 Resource Pool General Eligibility
Criteria and was therefore ineligible to receive an allocation. After
the application due date, WAPA learned that the Town of Basin, Wyoming
(Basin), faxed its Applicant Profile Data (APD) form application to
WAPA on November 10, 2021. Basin's APD form was not successfully
received by WAPA, and WAPA was unaware that Basin submitted an
application. Basin resubmitted its APD form to WAPA on May 5, 2022.
WAPA reviewed Basin's APD form but determined that Basin did not meet
the 2025 Resource Pool General Eligibility Criteria and was therefore
ineligible to receive an allocation.
The resource pool will be allocated proportionately by season to 12
qualified allottees based on average seasonal load for calendar year
2020. The final power allocations for the 12
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qualified allottees, shown in the table below, are based on the LAP
marketable resource currently available and are subject to the minimum
allocation (100 kilowatts) and maximum allocation (5,000 kilowatts)
criteria. If the LAP marketable resource is adjusted in the future, all
allocations may be adjusted accordingly.
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Proposed LAP 2025 resource pool power allocation
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Allottees Summer kilowatt- Winter kilowatt-
hours hours Summer kilowatts Winter kilowatts
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City of Alma, KS.................... 1,641,046 1,174,939 1,003 781
City of Blue Mound, KS.............. 219,242 176,015 134 117
Buckley Space Force Base, CO........ 4,198,329 3,598,531 2,566 2,392
City of Elwood, KS.................. 921,145 648,398 563 431
City of Luray, KS................... 214,334 156,458 131 104
City of Montezuma, KS............... 1,353,086 1,036,534 827 689
City of Morrill, KS................. 163,614 150,440 100 100
Village of Paxton, NE............... 595,554 570,169 364 379
City of Prescott, KS................ 163,614 150,440 100 100
City of Robinson, KS................ 163,614 150,440 100 100
Village of Trenton, NE.............. 571,012 532,559 349 354
City of Wathena, KS................. 1,097,848 761,228 671 506
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Total 2025 Resource Pool........ 11,302,438 9,106,151 6,908 6,053
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All 12 qualified allottees reside beyond the boundary of WAPA's LAP
transmission system. As a result, delivery of the allocation will
require each allottee to obtain additional transmission arrangements,
acceptable to WAPA, for delivery of the proposed power allocation to
the allottee's point of delivery. By June 1, 2024, each allottee must
have firm delivery arrangements in place to be effective October 1,
2024, unless otherwise agreed to in writing by WAPA. WAPA must receive
a letter of commitment from each allottee's serving utility or
transmission provider by June 1, 2024, confirming that the allottee has
secured the necessary transmission arrangements. If WAPA does not
receive a commitment letter by June 1, 2024, unless otherwise agreed in
writing by WAPA, WAPA will withdraw its offer of a power allocation.
Any long-term LAP firm electric service contract offered by WAPA to
an allottee shall be executed by the allottee by December 31, 2022,
unless otherwise agreed to in writing by WAPA. Allottees which are a
member of a member-based organization and elect to temporarily assign
their allocation to the member-based organization, will be required to
execute WAPA's assignment agreement, in lieu of a LAP long-term firm
electric service contract, by December 31, 2022, unless otherwise
agreed to in writing by WAPA.
Regulatory Procedure Requirements
Environmental Compliance
WAPA has determined this action fits within the following
categorical exclusion listed in appendix B to subpart D of 10 CFR part
1021.B4.1 (Contracts, policies, and marketing and allocation plans for
electric power). Categorically excluded projects and activities do not
require preparation of either an environmental impact statement or an
environmental assessment.\1\
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\1\ The determination was done in compliance with NEPA (42
U.S.C. 4321-4347); the Council on Environmental Quality Regulations
for implementing NEPA (40 CFR parts 1500-1508); and DOE NEPA
Implementing Procedures and Guidelines (10 CFR part 1021).
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Specifically, WAPA has determined this rulemaking is consistent
with activities identified in part B4, Categorical Exclusions
Applicable to Specific Agency Actions (see 10 CFR part 1021, appendix B
to subpart D, part B4). A copy of the categorical exclusion
determination is available on WAPA-RMR's website at: https://www.wapa.gov/regions/RM/environment/Pages/CX2021.aspx. Look for the
file entitled ``2021-091 LAP 2025 Resource Pool CX.''
Determination Under Executive Order 12866
WAPA has an exemption from centralized regulatory review under
Executive Order 12866; accordingly, no clearance of this notice by the
Office of Management and Budget is required.
Signing Authority
This document of the Department of Energy was signed on August 5,
2022, by Tracey A. LeBeau, Administrator, Western Area Power
Administration, pursuant to delegated authority from the Secretary of
Energy. That document, with the original signature and date, is
maintained by DOE. For administrative purposes only, and in compliance
with requirements of the Office of the Federal Register, the
undersigned DOE Federal Register Liaison Officer has been authorized to
sign and submit the document in electronic format for publication, as
an official document of the Department of Energy. This administrative
process in no way alters the legal effect of this document upon
publication in the Federal Register.
Signed in Washington, DC, on August 12, 2022.
Treena V. Garrett,
Federal Register Liaison Officer, U.S. Department of Energy.
[FR Doc. 2022-17722 Filed 8-17-22; 8:45 am]
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