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Williston Basin’s blanket certificate
issued in Docket No. CP82–487–000 for
the construction, authorization, and
abandonment of mainline natural gas
facilities (compression and
measurement) in McKenzie and
Williams County, as more fully set forth
in the application, which is on file with
the Commission and open to public
inspection. The facilities will allow
Williston Basin to deliver incremental
firm transportation service to shippers
that signed precedent agreements
resulting from an open season ended
November 30, 2007. Williston Basin
states that the estimated cost to
construct the facilities is approximately
$7,300,000. The filing may also be
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Enter the docket number excluding the
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toll-free, (886) 208–3676 or TTY, (202)
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Any questions concerning this
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Williston Basin Interstate Pipeline
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and the instructions on the
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Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Western Area Power Administration
2015 Resource Pool
Western Area Power
Administration, DOE.
ACTION: Notice of Proposed 2015
Resource Pool Size and Revised
Eligibility Criteria.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: The Western Area Power
Administration (Western), a Federal
power marketing administration of the
U.S. Department of Energy (DOE),
published its 2004 Power Marketing
Plan (Marketing Plan) for Western’s
Sierra Nevada Customer Service Region
(SNR) in the Federal Register on June
25, 1999 (64 FR 34417). The Marketing
Plan specifies the terms and conditions
under which Western will market power
from the Central Valley Project (CVP)
and the Washoe Project beginning
January 1, 2005, and continuing through
December 31, 2024. The Marketing Plan
provides for a 2015 Resource Pool of up
to 2 percent of SNR’s marketable power
resources. The 2015 Resource Pool will
be available for power allocations to
preference entities that meet the
Eligibility Criteria. This notice begins
the public process to establish the
resources available and to revise the
Eligibility Criteria provided in the
Marketing Plan for the 2015 Resource
Pool. Once Western establishes the final
amount of power to be made available
under the 2015 Resource Pool and the
associated Eligibility Criteria, preference
entities who wish to apply for an
allocation of power from SNR must
submit formal applications in response
to Western’s Call for 2015 Resource Pool
Applications to be published under a
separate notice.
DATES: Entities interested in submitting
comments on Western’s Proposed 2015
Resource Pool size and revised
Eligibility Criteria must submit
comments to the SNR office at the
address below. To ensure consideration,
comments must be received by the end
of the comment period which closes at
4 p.m. PST on July 7, 2008. The public
comment forum date is: May 21, 2008,
1 p.m. PST, Folsom, CA. Please refer to
Western’s Web page https://
www.wapa.gov/sn/marketing/
2015ResourcePool.asp for additional
information including updates to the
date, time, and location of the forum.
ADDRESSES: Western will hold the
public comment forum at the Lake
Natoma Inn, 702 Gold Lake Drive,
Folsom, CA. Written comments can be
mailed to Ms. Sonja A. Anderson, Power
Marketing Manager, Sierra Nevada
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Region, Western Area Power
Administration, 114 Parkshore Drive,
Folsom, CA 95630–4710, e-mail
sanderso@wapa.gov. Oral comments
must be presented at the public
comment forum which will be held on
May 21, 2008.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms.
Jeanne Haas, Power Contracts and
Energy Services Manager, Sierra Nevada
Customer Service Region, Western Area
Power Administration, 114 Parkshore
Drive, Folsom, CA 95630–4710,
telephone (916) 353–4438, e-mail
haas@wapa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
The Marketing Plan provides that,
effective January 1, 2015, Western will
reduce all Customers’ allocations by up
to 2 percent to establish a 2015 Resource
Pool. In addition, the Marketing Plan
explains that as a result of a settlement,
the Sacramento Municipal Utility
District (SMUD) did not contribute to
the 2005 Resource Pool. Beginning in
2015, SMUD’s percentage will be
adjusted pursuant to the Marketing Plan
to be consistent with all other Existing
Customers, and the percentage it did not
provide to the 2005 Resource Pool will
be included in the 2015 Resource Pool.
Western is starting the public process
for the allocation of the 2015 Resource
Pool now to ensure that Customers have
adequate time to secure power and
delivery arrangements to start on
January 1, 2015.
CVP power facilities include 11
powerplants with a maximum operating
capability of about 2,044 megawatts
(MW) and an estimated average annual
generation of 4.6 million megawatthours
(MWh). Western markets and transmits
the power available from the CVP.
The Washoe Project’s Stampede
Powerplant has a maximum operating
capability of 3.65 MW with an estimated
annual generation of 10,000 MWh. The
Sierra Pacific Power Company owns and
operates the only transmission system
available for access to the Stampede
Powerplant.
Western owns the 94 circuit-mile
Malin-Round Mountain, 500-kilovolt
(kV) Transmission Line (an integral
section of the Pacific Northwest-Pacific
Southwest Alternating Current Intertie),
803 circuit miles of 230-kV transmission
line, 7 circuit miles of 115-kV
transmission line, and 44 circuit miles
of 69-kV and below transmission line.
Western also has part ownership in the
342-mile California-Oregon
Transmission Project and owns the 84mile Path 15 Upgrade Project. Many of
Western’s Customers have no direct
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access to Western’s transmission lines
and receive service over transmission
lines owned by other utilities.
The Marketing Plan describes how
SNR will market its power resources
beginning January 1, 2005, through
December 31, 2024. The Marketing Plan
requires Western to establish a Resource
Pool and to reallocate an amount of
power for the period of January 1, 2015,
through December 31, 2024. This public
process will determine the exact amount
of power Western will reallocate and
revises the Eligibility Criteria the
entities must meet to qualify for an
allocation of power from Western
during this period. After or
simultaneous to publishing its final
decision on the 2015 Resource Pool size
and revised Eligibility Criteria, Western
will publish a Call for 2015 Resource
Pool Applications in this Federal
Register notice which will begin the
formal allocation process. The
Marketing Plan will continue in full
force and effect and will govern the
formal allocation process. However,
Western will apply the revised
Eligibility Criteria developed through
this process for the 2015 Resource Pool.
Entities interested in an allocation of
power from SNR must apply pursuant to
the Call for 2015 Resource Pool
Applications.
Acronyms and Definitions
CRD: Contract Rate of Delivery: The
maximum amount of capacity made
available to a Customer for a period
specified under a contract.
Customer: A preference customer who
has a contract to purchase power under
the Marketing Plan.
Eligibility Criteria: Conditions that
must be met to qualify for an allocation.
Existing Customer: A preference
customer who had a contract to
purchase firm power offered under a
previous allocation process or
Marketing Plan that extended through
December 31, 2004. Note: the definition
includes those entities who succeeded
in interest to an Existing Customer; e.g.,
if Western approved the assignment of
an Existing Customer’s Federal power
allocation to another preference
customer, the assigned Federal power
falls within the definition.
Extension CRD: An Existing
Customer’s CRD exclusive of diversity
and curtailable power and peaking/
excess capacity, as it may be adjusted in
accordance with the Marketing Plan.
2015 Resource Pool Size
As described in the Marketing Plan,
effective January 1, 2015, Western will
recalculate the percentages of all
Customers. For the period of January 1,
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2015, through December 31, 2024,
Western will derive each Customer’s
new percentage in the manner described
below.
Pursuant to the procedures
established in the Marketing Plan,
Western will determine the amount of
Federal resources available for the 2015
Resource Pool in the following steps:
1. Western will adjust SMUD’s
allocation to be consistent with the
other Existing Customers. In other
words, the Marketing Plan requires
Western to adjust SMUD’s Base
Resource percentages to equal what
SMUD would have been required to
contribute to the 2005 Resource Pool.
Western will then adjust the ratio of
each Existing Customer’s Extension CRD
to the total of all Existing Customers’
Extension CRD. This step reflects what
each Existing Customer’s allocation
percentage would have been beginning
January 1, 2005, if not for the Settlement
Agreement with SMUD. Beginning
January 1, 2015, SMUD will be treated
as, and included with, all of the Existing
Customers.
2. Once the Existing Customers’
allocation percentages have been
adjusted as indicated in paragraph 1
above, Western will then reduce each
Existing Customer’s right to purchase
the Base Resource by 4 percent. This
step reflects the amount that the
Existing Customers would have been
required to contribute to the 2005
Resource Pool if not for the Settlement
Agreement with SMUD.
3. Finally, Western proposes to reduce
all Customers’ right to purchase the
Base Resource by an additional 2
percent to create the 2015 Resource
Pool. To clarify, this 2 percent reduction
applies to all Customers, including
those that received an allocation under
the Marketing Plan through the 2005
Resource Pool.
The Marketing Plan provides for
Western to reduce all Customers’
allocations by up to 2 percent. Western
is proposing to reduce all Customers’
Base Resource percentage by 2 percent
to provide for a 2015 Resource Pool
sufficient to promote wide-spread use of
Federal power. Through this Federal
Register notice, Western is seeking
comments on the proposed 2 percent
reduction in its Customers’ allocations.
Revised Eligibility Criteria
The Marketing Plan established
Eligibility Criteria to apply to all
applicants seeking a resource pool
allocation, including the following:
Existing Customers may apply for a
resource pool allocation if their Extension
CRD, set forth in Appendix A [of the
Marketing Plan Federal Register 64 FR
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34417], is not more than 15 percent of their
peak load in the calendar year prior to the
Call for Applications, and not more than 10
MW.
Western is proposing to delete the
paragraph above from its Eligibility
Criteria. Western believes that this
criterion may be too restrictive to ensure
full subscription of its resources.
Further, the 2015 Resource Pool is based
on a percentage of the Base Resource.
The 2005 Resource Pool was determined
from an Extension CRD which is no
longer applicable. Western seeks
comments on the change it is proposing
to the Eligibility Criteria applicable
under the Marketing Plan for applicants
seeking an allocation of the 2015
Resource Pool.
Proposed 2015 Resource Pool Size
and Revised Eligibility Criteria
The proposed 2015 Resource Pool size
and revised Eligibility Criteria are
preliminary and may be changed based
on comments received. This Federal
Register notice formally requests
comments related to Western’s
proposals. Western will respond to
comments received on the 2015
Resource Pool size and revised
Eligibility Criteria and publish its final
decision on the 2015 Resource Pool size
and revised Eligibility Criteria after the
end of the public comment period.
After, or simultaneous to, publishing its
final decision on the 2015 Resource
Pool size and revised Eligibility Criteria,
Western will publish a Call for
Application in the Federal Register
which will begin the formal allocation
process. The Marketing Plan will
continue in full force and effect and will
govern the formal allocation process.
However, Western will apply the
revised Eligibility Criteria developed
through this process for the 2015
Resource Pool.
Authorities
The Marketing Plan for marketing
power by SNR after 2004, published in
the Federal Register (64 FR 34417) on
June 25, 1999, was established pursuant
to the Department of Energy
Organization Act (42 U.S.C. 7101–7352);
the Reclamation Act of June 17, 1902
(ch. 1093, 32 Stat. 388), as amended and
supplemented by subsequent
enactments, particularly section 9(c) of
the Reclamation Project Act of 1939 (43
U.S.C. 485(c)); and other acts
specifically applicable to the projects
involved. This action falls within the
Marketing Plan and, thus, is covered by
the same authority.
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clearance of this notice by the Office of
Management and Budget is required.
Regulatory Procedure Requirements
Environmental Compliance
In compliance with the National
Environmental Policy Act of 1969
(NEPA) (42 U.S.C. 4321, et seq.); the
Council on Environmental Quality
Regulations for implementing NEPA (40
CFR parts 1500–1508); and DOE NEPA
implementing regulations (10 CFR part
1021), Western completed an
environmental impact statement (EIS)
on its Energy Planning and Management
Program. The Record of Decision was
published in the Federal Register (60
FR 53181, October 12, 1995). Western
also completed the 2004 Power
Marketing Program EIS (2004 EIS), and
the Record of Decision was published in
the Federal Register (62 FR 22934, April
28, 1997). The Marketing Plan falls
within the range of alternatives
considered in the 2004 EIS. This NEPA
review identified and analyzed
environmental effects related to the
Marketing Plan. This action falls within
the Marketing Plan and, thus, is covered
by the 2004 EIS.
Determination Under Executive Order
12866
Western has an exemption from
centralized regulatory review under
Executive Order 12866; accordingly, no
Dated: April 22, 2008.
Timothy J. Meeks,
Administrator.
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION
AGENCY
[EPA–R09–OAR–2008–0324; FRL–8561–8]
Adequacy Status of Motor Vehicle
Emissions Budgets in Submitted Early
Progress Plan Imperial County 8-Hour
Ozone for Transportation Conformity
Purposes; California
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice of Adequacy.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: In this notice, EPA is
notifying the public that the Agency has
found that the motor vehicle emissions
budgets for 8-hour ozone in the Imperial
County 8-hour Ozone Early Progress
Plan are adequate for transportation
conformity purposes. The Imperial
County 8-hour Ozone Early Progress
Plan was submitted to EPA on March
24, 2008 by the California Air Resources
Board as a revision to the California
State Implementation Plan (SIP). As a
result of our adequacy findings, the
Southern California Association of
Governments and the U.S. Department
of Transportation must use these
budgets in future conformity analyses
once the finding becomes effective.
DATES: This finding is effective May 20,
2008.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Adrienne Priselac, U.S. EPA, Region IX,
Air Division AIR–2, 75 Hawthorne
Street, San Francisco, CA 94105–3901;
(415) 972–3285 or
priselac.adrienne@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Throughout this document, whenever
‘‘we,’’ ‘‘us,’’ or ‘‘our’’ is used, we mean
EPA.
Today’s notice is simply an
announcement of a finding that we have
already made. EPA Region IX sent a
letter to the California Air Resources
Board on April 16, 2008 stating that the
motor vehicle emissions budgets in the
submitted Imperial County 8-hour
Ozone Early Progress Plan for 2009 are
adequate. The finding is available at
EPA’s conformity Web site: https://
www.epa.gov/otaq/stateresources/
transconf/adequacy.htm. The adequate
motor vehicle emissions budgets are
provided in the following table:
MOTOR VEHICLE EMISSIONS BUDGETS
Budget year
Volatile organic
compounds 1
(tons per day)
Nitrogen oxides
(tons per day)
2009 .................................................................................................................................................................
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plan uses a comparable State term, reactive organic gases (ROG).
Transportation conformity is required
by Clean Air Act section 176(c). EPA’s
conformity rule requires that
transportation plans, transportation
improvement programs, and projects
conform to state air quality
implementation plans (SIPs) and
establishes the criteria and procedures
for determining whether or not they do.
Conformity to a SIP means that
transportation activities will not
produce new air quality violations,
worsen existing violations, or delay
timely attainment of the national
ambient air quality standards.
The criteria by which we determine
whether a SIP’s motor vehicle emission
budgets are adequate for conformity
purposes are outlined in 40 CFR
93.118(e)(4). We have described our
process for determining the adequacy of
submitted SIP budgets in our July 1,
2004 preamble starting at 69 FR 40038
and we used the information in these
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resources in making our adequacy
determination. Please note that an
adequacy review is separate from EPA’s
completeness review, and should not be
used to prejudge EPA’s ultimate
approval action for the SIP. Even if we
find a budget adequate, the SIP could
later be disapproved.
Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq.
Dated: April 16, 2008.
Laura Yoshii,
Deputy Regional Administrator, Region IX.
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AGENCY
[EPA–R09–OAR–2008–0326; FRL–8561–7]
Adequacy Status of Motor Vehicle
Emissions Budgets in Submitted Early
Progress Plan Western Mojave Desert
8-Hour Ozone for Transportation
Conformity Purposes; California
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice of Adequacy.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: In this notice, EPA is
notifying the public that the Agency has
found that the motor vehicle emissions
budgets for 8-hour ozone in the Western
Mojave Desert 8-hour Ozone Early
Progress Plan are adequate for
transportation conformity purposes. The
Western Mojave Desert 8-hour Ozone
Early Progress Plan was submitted to
EPA on March 24, 2008 by the
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Western Area Power Administration
2015 Resource Pool
AGENCY: Western Area Power Administration, DOE.
ACTION: Notice of Proposed 2015 Resource Pool Size and Revised
Eligibility Criteria.
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SUMMARY: The Western Area Power Administration (Western), a Federal
power marketing administration of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE),
published its 2004 Power Marketing Plan (Marketing Plan) for Western's
Sierra Nevada Customer Service Region (SNR) in the Federal Register on
June 25, 1999 (64 FR 34417). The Marketing Plan specifies the terms and
conditions under which Western will market power from the Central
Valley Project (CVP) and the Washoe Project beginning January 1, 2005,
and continuing through December 31, 2024. The Marketing Plan provides
for a 2015 Resource Pool of up to 2 percent of SNR's marketable power
resources. The 2015 Resource Pool will be available for power
allocations to preference entities that meet the Eligibility Criteria.
This notice begins the public process to establish the resources
available and to revise the Eligibility Criteria provided in the
Marketing Plan for the 2015 Resource Pool. Once Western establishes the
final amount of power to be made available under the 2015 Resource Pool
and the associated Eligibility Criteria, preference entities who wish
to apply for an allocation of power from SNR must submit formal
applications in response to Western's Call for 2015 Resource Pool
Applications to be published under a separate notice.
DATES: Entities interested in submitting comments on Western's Proposed
2015 Resource Pool size and revised Eligibility Criteria must submit
comments to the SNR office at the address below. To ensure
consideration, comments must be received by the end of the comment
period which closes at 4 p.m. PST on July 7, 2008. The public comment
forum date is: May 21, 2008, 1 p.m. PST, Folsom, CA. Please refer to
Western's Web page https://www.wapa.gov/sn/marketing/2015ResourcePool.asp for additional information including updates to
the date, time, and location of the forum.
ADDRESSES: Western will hold the public comment forum at the Lake
Natoma Inn, 702 Gold Lake Drive, Folsom, CA. Written comments can be
mailed to Ms. Sonja A. Anderson, Power Marketing Manager, Sierra Nevada
Region, Western Area Power Administration, 114 Parkshore Drive, Folsom,
CA 95630-4710, e-mail sanderso@wapa.gov. Oral comments must be
presented at the public comment forum which will be held on May 21,
2008.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Jeanne Haas, Power Contracts and
Energy Services Manager, Sierra Nevada Customer Service Region, Western
Area Power Administration, 114 Parkshore Drive, Folsom, CA 95630-4710,
telephone (916) 353-4438, e-mail haas@wapa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
The Marketing Plan provides that, effective January 1, 2015,
Western will reduce all Customers' allocations by up to 2 percent to
establish a 2015 Resource Pool. In addition, the Marketing Plan
explains that as a result of a settlement, the Sacramento Municipal
Utility District (SMUD) did not contribute to the 2005 Resource Pool.
Beginning in 2015, SMUD's percentage will be adjusted pursuant to the
Marketing Plan to be consistent with all other Existing Customers, and
the percentage it did not provide to the 2005 Resource Pool will be
included in the 2015 Resource Pool. Western is starting the public
process for the allocation of the 2015 Resource Pool now to ensure that
Customers have adequate time to secure power and delivery arrangements
to start on January 1, 2015.
CVP power facilities include 11 powerplants with a maximum
operating capability of about 2,044 megawatts (MW) and an estimated
average annual generation of 4.6 million megawatthours (MWh). Western
markets and transmits the power available from the CVP.
The Washoe Project's Stampede Powerplant has a maximum operating
capability of 3.65 MW with an estimated annual generation of 10,000
MWh. The Sierra Pacific Power Company owns and operates the only
transmission system available for access to the Stampede Powerplant.
Western owns the 94 circuit-mile Malin-Round Mountain, 500-kilovolt
(kV) Transmission Line (an integral section of the Pacific Northwest-
Pacific Southwest Alternating Current Intertie), 803 circuit miles of
230-kV transmission line, 7 circuit miles of 115-kV transmission line,
and 44 circuit miles of 69-kV and below transmission line. Western also
has part ownership in the 342-mile California-Oregon Transmission
Project and owns the 84-mile Path 15 Upgrade Project. Many of Western's
Customers have no direct
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access to Western's transmission lines and receive service over
transmission lines owned by other utilities.
The Marketing Plan describes how SNR will market its power
resources beginning January 1, 2005, through December 31, 2024. The
Marketing Plan requires Western to establish a Resource Pool and to
reallocate an amount of power for the period of January 1, 2015,
through December 31, 2024. This public process will determine the exact
amount of power Western will reallocate and revises the Eligibility
Criteria the entities must meet to qualify for an allocation of power
from Western during this period. After or simultaneous to publishing
its final decision on the 2015 Resource Pool size and revised
Eligibility Criteria, Western will publish a Call for 2015 Resource
Pool Applications in this Federal Register notice which will begin the
formal allocation process. The Marketing Plan will continue in full
force and effect and will govern the formal allocation process.
However, Western will apply the revised Eligibility Criteria developed
through this process for the 2015 Resource Pool. Entities interested in
an allocation of power from SNR must apply pursuant to the Call for
2015 Resource Pool Applications.
Acronyms and Definitions
CRD: Contract Rate of Delivery: The maximum amount of capacity made
available to a Customer for a period specified under a contract.
Customer: A preference customer who has a contract to purchase
power under the Marketing Plan.
Eligibility Criteria: Conditions that must be met to qualify for an
allocation.
Existing Customer: A preference customer who had a contract to
purchase firm power offered under a previous allocation process or
Marketing Plan that extended through December 31, 2004. Note: the
definition includes those entities who succeeded in interest to an
Existing Customer; e.g., if Western approved the assignment of an
Existing Customer's Federal power allocation to another preference
customer, the assigned Federal power falls within the definition.
Extension CRD: An Existing Customer's CRD exclusive of diversity
and curtailable power and peaking/excess capacity, as it may be
adjusted in accordance with the Marketing Plan.
2015 Resource Pool Size
As described in the Marketing Plan, effective January 1, 2015,
Western will recalculate the percentages of all Customers. For the
period of January 1, 2015, through December 31, 2024, Western will
derive each Customer's new percentage in the manner described below.
Pursuant to the procedures established in the Marketing Plan,
Western will determine the amount of Federal resources available for
the 2015 Resource Pool in the following steps:
1. Western will adjust SMUD's allocation to be consistent with the
other Existing Customers. In other words, the Marketing Plan requires
Western to adjust SMUD's Base Resource percentages to equal what SMUD
would have been required to contribute to the 2005 Resource Pool.
Western will then adjust the ratio of each Existing Customer's
Extension CRD to the total of all Existing Customers' Extension CRD.
This step reflects what each Existing Customer's allocation percentage
would have been beginning January 1, 2005, if not for the Settlement
Agreement with SMUD. Beginning January 1, 2015, SMUD will be treated
as, and included with, all of the Existing Customers.
2. Once the Existing Customers' allocation percentages have been
adjusted as indicated in paragraph 1 above, Western will then reduce
each Existing Customer's right to purchase the Base Resource by 4
percent. This step reflects the amount that the Existing Customers
would have been required to contribute to the 2005 Resource Pool if not
for the Settlement Agreement with SMUD.
3. Finally, Western proposes to reduce all Customers' right to
purchase the Base Resource by an additional 2 percent to create the
2015 Resource Pool. To clarify, this 2 percent reduction applies to all
Customers, including those that received an allocation under the
Marketing Plan through the 2005 Resource Pool.
The Marketing Plan provides for Western to reduce all Customers'
allocations by up to 2 percent. Western is proposing to reduce all
Customers' Base Resource percentage by 2 percent to provide for a 2015
Resource Pool sufficient to promote wide-spread use of Federal power.
Through this Federal Register notice, Western is seeking comments on
the proposed 2 percent reduction in its Customers' allocations.
Revised Eligibility Criteria
The Marketing Plan established Eligibility Criteria to apply to all
applicants seeking a resource pool allocation, including the following:
Existing Customers may apply for a resource pool allocation if
their Extension CRD, set forth in Appendix A [of the Marketing Plan
Federal Register 64 FR 34417], is not more than 15 percent of their
peak load in the calendar year prior to the Call for Applications,
and not more than 10 MW.
Western is proposing to delete the paragraph above from its
Eligibility Criteria. Western believes that this criterion may be too
restrictive to ensure full subscription of its resources. Further, the
2015 Resource Pool is based on a percentage of the Base Resource. The
2005 Resource Pool was determined from an Extension CRD which is no
longer applicable. Western seeks comments on the change it is proposing
to the Eligibility Criteria applicable under the Marketing Plan for
applicants seeking an allocation of the 2015 Resource Pool.
Proposed 2015 Resource Pool Size and Revised Eligibility Criteria
The proposed 2015 Resource Pool size and revised Eligibility
Criteria are preliminary and may be changed based on comments received.
This Federal Register notice formally requests comments related to
Western's proposals. Western will respond to comments received on the
2015 Resource Pool size and revised Eligibility Criteria and publish
its final decision on the 2015 Resource Pool size and revised
Eligibility Criteria after the end of the public comment period. After,
or simultaneous to, publishing its final decision on the 2015 Resource
Pool size and revised Eligibility Criteria, Western will publish a Call
for Application in the Federal Register which will begin the formal
allocation process. The Marketing Plan will continue in full force and
effect and will govern the formal allocation process. However, Western
will apply the revised Eligibility Criteria developed through this
process for the 2015 Resource Pool.
Authorities
The Marketing Plan for marketing power by SNR after 2004, published
in the Federal Register (64 FR 34417) on June 25, 1999, was established
pursuant to the Department of Energy Organization Act (42 U.S.C. 7101-
7352); the Reclamation Act of June 17, 1902 (ch. 1093, 32 Stat. 388),
as amended and supplemented by subsequent enactments, particularly
section 9(c) of the Reclamation Project Act of 1939 (43 U.S.C. 485(c));
and other acts specifically applicable to the projects involved. This
action falls within the Marketing Plan and, thus, is covered by the
same authority.
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Regulatory Procedure Requirements
Environmental Compliance
In compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969
(NEPA) (42 U.S.C. 4321, et seq.); the Council on Environmental Quality
Regulations for implementing NEPA (40 CFR parts 1500-1508); and DOE
NEPA implementing regulations (10 CFR part 1021), Western completed an
environmental impact statement (EIS) on its Energy Planning and
Management Program. The Record of Decision was published in the Federal
Register (60 FR 53181, October 12, 1995). Western also completed the
2004 Power Marketing Program EIS (2004 EIS), and the Record of Decision
was published in the Federal Register (62 FR 22934, April 28, 1997).
The Marketing Plan falls within the range of alternatives considered in
the 2004 EIS. This NEPA review identified and analyzed environmental
effects related to the Marketing Plan. This action falls within the
Marketing Plan and, thus, is covered by the 2004 EIS.
Determination Under Executive Order 12866
Western 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.
Dated: April 22, 2008.
Timothy J. Meeks,
Administrator.
[FR Doc. E8-9816 Filed 5-2-08; 8:45 am]
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