Meeting of the Regional Energy Resource Council, 61707-61708 [2018-26070]
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SURFACE TRANSPORTATION BOARD
Office of Environmental Analysis
[Finance Docket 36095]
Notice of Availability of the Draft
Environmental Assessment (Draft EA)
for Palmetto Railways Camp Hall Rail
Line
Surface Transportation Board
(Board) Office of Environmental
Analysis (OEA), U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers (Corps), joint lead agencies;
U.S. Coast Guard (Coast Guard), Federal
Railroad Administration (FRA),
cooperating agencies.
ACTION: Notice of Availability of the
Draft EA on November 30, 2018 and
request for comments.
AGENCY:
On August 3, 2017, Palmetto
Railways (Applicant) filed an exemption
petition with the Board pursuant to 49
U.S.C. 10502 to construct and operate
approximately 28 miles of new rail line
between the Cross Subdivision of CSX
Transportation, Inc. (CSXT) rail network
near the Santee Cooper Cross Generating
Station and the Camp Hall Commerce
Park in Berkeley County, South
Carolina. Implementation of the
proposed rail line would bring
industrial rail service to the Volvo Cars
facility, as well as areas being developed
by Santee Cooper. FRA and the Coast
Guard are cooperating agencies in the
preparation of this Draft EA pursuant to
CEQ NEPA implementing regulations
(40 CFR 1501.6).
The purpose of this Notice of
Availability (NOA) is to notify
individuals and agencies interested in
or affected by the proposed action of the
availability of the Draft EA for review
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and comment on November 30, 2018.
The Draft EA analyzes the potential
environmental impacts of the proposed
action and alternatives, including the
no-action alternative. The Draft EA
addresses environmental issues and
concerns identified during the scoping
process. It also contains OEA’s
preliminary recommendations for
environmental mitigation measures, and
Palmetto Railways’ voluntary mitigation
measures.
The Draft EA will be available on
November 30, 2018 through the Board’s
website at https://www.stb.gov by
following the decisions link, through
the project website at https://
www.CampHallRailNEPA.com, and at
all public libraries in Berkeley County,
South Carolina.
Next Steps: Following the close of the
30-day comment period on December
30, 2018 of the Draft EA, OEA, the
Corps, and the cooperating agencies will
issue a Final EA that considers
comments on the Draft EA. The Board
will then issue a final decision based on
the Draft and Final EAs and all public
and agency comments in the public
record for this proceeding. The final
decision will address the transportation
merits of the proposed project and the
entire environmental record. That final
decision will take one of three actions:
Approve the proposed project, deny it,
or approve it with mitigation
conditions, including environmental
conditions.
Written Comments: Any interested
party may submit written comments on
the Draft EA. The procedures for
submitting written comments are
outlined below:
ADDRESSES: Please mail written
comments on the Draft EA and the
recommended environmental mitigation
to: Ms. Diana Wood, Surface
Transportation Board, Docket No. FD
36095, c/o ICF, 9300 Lee Highway,
Fairfax, VA 22031. Electronic comments
on this Draft EA may also be submitted
electronically on the joint lead agencies’
project website (https://www.CampHall
RailNepa.com) or emailed to
CampHallRailLineNEPA@icf.com.
Please refer to Docket No. FD 36095 in
all correspondence, including
electronic, addressed to the joint lead
agencies.
The EA will be available for
public review and comment on
November 30, 2018. Mailed comments
must be postmarked by December 30,
2018. Electronic comments must be
received by December 30, 2018.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Diana Wood, Surface Transportation
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Board, Docket No. FD 36095, c/o ICF,
9300 Lee Highway, Fairfax, VA 22031.
Dated: November 15, 2018.
By the Board, Victoria Ruston, Director,
Office of Environmental Analysis.
Jeffrey Herzig,
Clearance Clerk.
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TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY
Meeting of the Regional Energy
Resource Council
Tennessee Valley Authority
(TVA).
ACTION: Notice of meeting.
AGENCY:
The TVA Regional Energy
Resource Council (RERC) will hold a
meeting on Tuesday, December 18,
2018, to discuss the metrics and
evaluation criteria that TVA is
establishing for the 2019 Integrated
Resource Plan (IRP). The RERC was
established to advise TVA on its energy
resource activities and the priority to be
placed among competing objectives and
values. Notice of this meeting is given
under the Federal Advisory Committee
Act (FACA).
DATES: The public meeting will be held
on Tuesday, December 18, 2018, from
9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., EST.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at
the Hilton Downtown Knoxville, 501
Church Street, Knoxville, Tennessee
37902, and will be open to the public.
Anyone needing special access or
accommodations should let the contact
below know at least a week in advance.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Liz
Upchurch, 865–632–8305, efupchurch@
tva.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
meeting agenda includes the following:
1. Introductions
2. Overview of the 2019 Integrated
Resource Plan and Supplemental
Environmental Impact Statement
Status
3. Overview of the Metrics and
Scorecard Identified for the 2019
IRP
4. Public Comments
5. Council Discussion and Advice
The RERC will hear opinions and
views of citizens by providing a public
comment session starting at 10:00 a.m.,
EST, lasting up to one hour, on
Tuesday, December 18, 2018. Persons
wishing to speak are requested to
register at the door between 9:00 a.m.
and 10:00 a.m., EST, on Tuesday,
December 18, 2018, and will be called
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on during the public comment period.
TVA will set time limits for providing
oral comments, once registered.
Handout materials should be limited to
one printed page. Written comments are
also invited and may be mailed to the
Regional Energy Resource Council,
Tennessee Valley Authority, 400 West
Summit Hill Drive, WT–9–D, Knoxville,
Tennessee 37902.
Dated: November 8, 2018.
Joseph J. Hoagland,
Vice President, Enterprise Relations and
Innovation, Tennessee Valley Authority.
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TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY
Environmental Impact Statement for
Allen Fossil Plant Ash Impoundment
Closures
Tennessee Valley Authority.
Notice of intent.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
The Tennessee Valley
Authority (TVA) intends to prepare an
Environmental Impact Statement (EIS)
to address the potential environmental
effects associated with the future
management of coal combustion
residual (CCR) material at the Allen
Fossil Plant (ALF) located in Shelby
County, Tennessee, southwest of the
City of Memphis. The purpose of this
EIS is to support the implementation of
TVA’s goal to eliminate all wet CCR
storage at its coal plants by closing CCR
surface impoundments across the TVA
system, and to assist TVA in complying
with the Environmental Protection
Agency’s (EPA) CCR Rule. In addition,
the proposed actions would make the
ALF closure area land available for
future economic development projects
in the greater Memphis area.
TVA will evaluate closure of the East
Ash Pond Complex, the West Ash Pond,
and the Metal Cleaning Pond. In
addition to these closures, TVA will
analyze potential location requirements
and associated environmental impacts
associated with construction and
utilization of a proposed beneficial reuse facility to process CCR materials.
TVA will also evaluate potential
impacts associated with actions
requiring use of permitted borrow sites
and the disposal of CCR at existing
offsite permitted landfills. TVA will
develop and evaluate various
alternatives to these actions, including
the No Action Alternative. Public
comments are invited concerning both
the scope of the review and
environmental issues that should be
addressed.
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Comments on the scope of the
EIS must be received on or before
January 4, 2019.
ADDRESSES: Written comments should
be sent to Ashley Farless, NEPA
Compliance Specialist, 1101 Market
Street, BR4A–C, Chattanooga, TN 37402.
Comments also may be submitted online
at: https://www.tva.gov/nepa or by
email to arfarless@tva.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Other related questions should be sent
to Ashley Farless, NEPA Compliance
Specialist, Tennessee Valley Authority,
at 423–751–2361 or arfarless@tva.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This
notice is provided in accordance with
the Council on Environmental Quality’s
regulations (40 CFR parts 1500 to 1508)
and TVA’s procedures for implementing
the National Environmental Policy Act
(NEPA) and Section 106 of the National
Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) and
its implementing regulations (36 CFR
part 800).
In July 2009, the TVA Board of
Directors passed a resolution for staff to
review TVA practices for storing CCRs
at its generating facilities, including
ALF, which resulted in a
recommendation to convert the wet ash
management system at ALF to a dry
storage system. On April 17, 2015, the
EPA published the final Disposal of
CCRs from Electric Utilities rule, also
known as the CCR Rule.
In June 2016, TVA issued a Final
Programmatic Environmental Impact
Statement (PEIS) that analyzed methods
for closing CCR impoundments at TVA
fossil plants and identified specific
screening and evaluation factors to help
frame its evaluation of closures at its
other facilities. A Record of Decision
was released in July 2016 that would
allow future environmental reviews of
qualifying CCR impoundment closures
to tier from the PEIS. This EIS is
intended to tier from the 2016 PEIS to
evaluate the closure alternatives for the
CCR Ash Impoundments at ALF.
TVA Power System and CCR
Management
TVA is a corporate agency and
instrumentality of the United States
created by and existing pursuant to the
TVA Act of 1933 that provides
electricity for business customers and
local power distributors. TVA serves
more than 9 million people in parts of
seven southeastern states. TVA receives
no taxpayer funding, deriving virtually
all of its revenues from sales of
electricity. In addition to operating and
investing its revenues in its electric
system, TVA provides flood control,
navigation and land management for the
Tennessee River system and assists local
power companies and state and local
governments with economic
development and job creation.
Historically, TVA has managed its
CCRs in wet impoundments or dry
landfills. On March 31, 2018, ALF’s
three coal-fired units were retired.
While in operation, ALF consumed
approximately 7,200 tons of coal a day
and produced approximately 5,160
million kilowatt-hours of electricity a
year. CCR produced by the collective
units included approximately 85,000
dry tons of slag and fly ash that was wetsluiced to the East Ash Pond Complex
every year.
It is estimated that approximately
250,000 cubic yards (yd3) of CCR
material remains in the West Ash Pond
and approximately 2.7 million cubic
yards (yd3) of CCR material remains in
the East Ash Pond Complex. There are
approximately 193,000 cubic yards of
CCR in the area surrounding the Metal
Cleaning Pond.
Alternatives
In addition to a No Action
Alternative, this EIS will address
alternatives that meet the purpose and
need for the project. TVA plans to
consider the following: (1) No Action,
(2) closure of the Metal Cleaning Pond
and closure-by-removal of the East Ash
Pond Complex, the West Ash Pond and
the CCR surrounding the Metal Cleaning
Pond to an offsite landfill location (note
that the Metal Cleaning Pond would be
removed by default while removing the
CCR material surrounding it), (3) closure
of the Metal Cleaning Pond and closureby-removal of the East Ash Pond
Complex, the West Ash Pond and the
CCR surrounding the Metal Cleaning
Pond to a beneficial re-use facility &
offsite landfill location (see note above
in #2), and (4) closure of the Metal
Cleaning Pond and closure-in-place of
all CCR in the East Ash Pond Complex,
the West Ash Pond and CCR
surrounding the Metal Cleaning Pond.
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Proposed Resources and Issues To Be
Considered
This EIS will identify the purpose and
need of the project and will contain
descriptions of the existing
environmental and socioeconomic
resources within the area that could be
affected by the management of CCR at
ALF. Evaluation of potential
environmental impacts to these
resources will include, but not be
limited to, water quality, aquatic and
terrestrial ecology, threatened and
endangered species, wetlands, land use,
historic and archaeological resources, as
well as solid and hazardous waste,
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TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY
Meeting of the Regional Energy Resource Council
AGENCY: Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA).
ACTION: Notice of meeting.
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SUMMARY: The TVA Regional Energy Resource Council (RERC) will hold a
meeting on Tuesday, December 18, 2018, to discuss the metrics and
evaluation criteria that TVA is establishing for the 2019 Integrated
Resource Plan (IRP). The RERC was established to advise TVA on its
energy resource activities and the priority to be placed among
competing objectives and values. Notice of this meeting is given under
the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA).
DATES: The public meeting will be held on Tuesday, December 18, 2018,
from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., EST.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the Hilton Downtown Knoxville,
501 Church Street, Knoxville, Tennessee 37902, and will be open to the
public. Anyone needing special access or accommodations should let the
contact below know at least a week in advance.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Liz Upchurch, 865-632-8305,
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The meeting agenda includes the following:
1. Introductions
2. Overview of the 2019 Integrated Resource Plan and Supplemental
Environmental Impact Statement Status
3. Overview of the Metrics and Scorecard Identified for the 2019 IRP
4. Public Comments
5. Council Discussion and Advice
The RERC will hear opinions and views of citizens by providing a
public comment session starting at 10:00 a.m., EST, lasting up to one
hour, on Tuesday, December 18, 2018. Persons wishing to speak are
requested to register at the door between 9:00 a.m. and 10:00 a.m.,
EST, on Tuesday, December 18, 2018, and will be called
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on during the public comment period. TVA will set time limits for
providing oral comments, once registered. Handout materials should be
limited to one printed page. Written comments are also invited and may
be mailed to the Regional Energy Resource Council, Tennessee Valley
Authority, 400 West Summit Hill Drive, WT-9-D, Knoxville, Tennessee
37902.
Dated: November 8, 2018.
Joseph J. Hoagland,
Vice President, Enterprise Relations and Innovation, Tennessee Valley
Authority.
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