Central Valley Project, California-Oregon Transmission Project, Pacific Alternating Current Intertie, and Third-Party Transmission Service-Rate Order No. WAPA-185, 30712-30714 [2019-13714]
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Trans-Foreland Pipeline Company,
LLC; Notice of Schedule for
Environmental Review of the Kenai
LNG Cool Down Project
On March 29, 2019, Trans-Foreland
Pipeline Company, LLC filed an
application in Docket No. CP19–118–
000 requesting an authorization
pursuant to Section 3(a) of the Natural
Gas Act to construct and operate certain
liquefied natural gas (LNG) facilities.
The proposed project is known as the
Kenai LNG Cool Down Project (Project),
and would allow the Kenai LNG Plant
to provide up to 7.0 million standard
cubic feet per day of natural gas to
Trans-Foreland’s affiliated Kenai
Refinery adjacent to the Kenai LNG
Plant.
On April 12, 2019, the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission (Commission or
FERC) issued its Notice of Application
for the Project. Among other things, that
notice alerted agencies issuing federal
authorizations of the requirement to
complete all necessary reviews and to
reach a final decision on a request for
a federal authorization within 90 days of
the date of issuance of the Commission
staff’s Environmental Assessment (EA)
for the Project. This instant notice
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identifies the FERC staff’s planned
schedule for the completion of the EA
for the Project.
Schedule for Environmental Review
Issuance of EA—December 13, 2019
90-day Federal Authorization Decision
Deadline—March 12, 2020
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provided so that the relevant agencies
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progress.
Project Description
Trans-Foreland proposes to make
facility modifications to bring parts of
Kenai LNG Plant out of its current warm
idle status to allow for the import of
LNG. Trans-Foreland proposes to
install, construct, and operate a new
1,000 horsepower electric-driven boiloff-gas (BOG) booster compressor unit,
trim vaporizers, additional LNG transfer
system valves, equipment to manage the
existing BOG facilities (collectively
referred to as the BOG Management
System), and ancillary facilities to
facilitate the import of LNG to cool
down the existing LNG storage tanks
and associated LNG facilities.
Background
On May 13, 2019, the Commission
issued a Notice of Intent to Prepare an
Environmental Assessment for the
Proposed Kenai LNG Cool Down Project
and Request for Comments on
Environmental Issues (NOI). The NOI
was sent to affected landowners; federal,
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Historic Preservation Office regarding
the Section 106 of the National Historic
Preservation Act consultation, noting
that the existing LNG facilities may be
a historic property. All substantive
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Dated: June 19, 2019.
Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr.,
Deputy Secretary.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Western Area Power Administration
Central Valley Project, CaliforniaOregon Transmission Project, Pacific
Alternating Current Intertie, and ThirdParty Transmission Service—Rate
Order No. WAPA–185
Western Area Power
Administration, DOE.
ACTION: Notice of rate order extending
Sierra Nevada Region’s power,
transmission, and ancillary services
formula rates.
AGENCY:
The Under Secretary of
Energy confirms, approves, and places
into effect, on an interim basis, the
extension of the existing Central Valley
Project power, transmission, and
ancillary service; California-Oregon
Transmission Project transmission;
Pacific Alternating Current Intertie
transmission; and third-party
transmission formula rates. Western
Area Power Administration (WAPA)
will submit them to the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission (FERC) for
confirmation and approval on a final
basis. The existing formula rates are set
to expire on September 30, 2019. This
rate extension makes no changes to the
existing formula rates and extends them
through September 30, 2024.
DATES: The formula rates will be placed
into effect on an interim basis on
October 1, 2019.
SUMMARY:
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Ms.
Sonja Anderson, Regional Manager,
Sierra Nevada Region, Western Area
Power Administration, 114 Parkshore
Drive, Folsom, CA 95630–4710, (916)
353–4418, e-mail: sanderso@wapa.gov;
or Ms. Autumn Wolfe, Rates Manager,
Sierra Nevada Region, (916) 353–4686,
e-mail: wolfe@wapa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: By
Delegation Order No. 00–037.00B,
effective November 19, 2016, the
Secretary of Energy delegated: (1) The
authority to develop power and
transmission rates to WAPA’s
Administrator; (2) the authority to
confirm, approve, and place such rates
into effect on an interim basis to the
Deputy Secretary of Energy; and (3) the
authority to confirm, approve, and place
into effect on a final basis, or to remand
or disapprove such rates, to FERC. In
Delegation Order No. 00–002.00Q,
effective November 1, 2018, the
Secretary of Energy also delegated to the
Under Secretary of Energy the authority
to confirm, approve, and place into
effect on an interim basis power and
transmission rates for WAPA. By
Redelegation Order 00–002.10D,
effective June 4, 2019, the Under
Secretary of Energy further delegated
the authority to confirm, approve, and
place such rates into effect on an
interim basis to the Assistant Secretary
for Electricity. This extension is issued
in accordance with the Delegation Order
and DOE’s rate extension procedures at
10 CFR 903.23(a).1
On July 14, 2016, FERC approved Rate
Order No. WAPA–173: WAPA’s rates for
the Central Valley Project power,
transmission, and ancillary service; and
transmission service for CaliforniaOregon Transmission Project, Pacific
Alternating Current Intertie, and ThirdParty Transmission.2 FERC approved
the rates for three years from October 1,
2016, through September 30, 2019.
Under the approved formula rates,
WAPA recalculates the charges and
revenue requirements each year based
on updated financial and operational
data. The existing formula rates provide
sufficient revenue to repay all annual
expenses, including interest expense,
and repay capital investments within
the allowable periods; this ensures
repayment within the cost recovery
criteria set forth in DOE Order RA
6120.2. Given the pending expiration of
these rates, WAPA proposed to extend
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1 84
FR 5347 (Feb. 21, 2019).
2 Order Confirming and Approving Rate Schedule
on Final Basis, FERC Docket No. EF16–3–000, 156
FERC ¶ 62,039 (2016). FERC originally approved the
rate on December 2, 2011. Order Confirming and
Approving Rate Schedule on a Final Basis, FERC
Docket No. EF11–9–000, 137 FERC ¶ 62,201 (2011).
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them under Rate Order No. 185.3 The
rate extension makes no change to the
existing formula rates and extends the
rates through September 30, 2024.
Following DOE’s review of WAPA’s
proposal,4 I hereby confirm, approve,
and place into effect Rate Order No.
WAPA–185 on an interim basis. This
extends, without adjustment, the
existing rate schedules listed below,
through September 30, 2024:
• CV–F13 (Base Resource and First
Preference Power),
• CPP–2 (Custom Product Power),
• CV–T3 (Firm and Non-Firm Point-toPoint Transmission Service),
• CV–NWT5 (Network Integration
Transmission Service),
• COTP–T3 (Firm and Non-Firm Pointto-Point Transmission Service),
• PACI–T3 (Firm and Non-Firm Pointto-Point Transmission Service),
• CV–TPT7 (Third-Party Transmission
Service),
• CV–UUP1 (Unreserved Use Penalties),
• CV–RFS4 (Regulation and Frequency
Response),
• CV–SPR4 (Spinning Reserves),
• CV–SUR4 (Supplemental Reserves),
• CV–EID4 (Energy Imbalance Service),
and
• CV–GID1 (Generator Imbalance).
WAPA will submit Rate Order No.
WAPA–185 and the extended rate
schedules to FERC for confirmation and
approval on a final basis.
Dated: June 21, 2019.
Bruce J. Walker,
Assistant Secretary.
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
UNDER SECRETARY
In the Matter of: Western Area Power
Administration Extension for the Central
Valley Project, California-Oregon
Transmission Project, Pacific Alternating
Current Intertie, and Third-Party
Transmission Service Formula Rates.
Rate Order No. WAPA-185
ORDER CONFIRMING, APPROVING,
AND PLACING THE FORMULA RATES
FOR THE CENTRAL VALLEY
PROJECT, CALIFORNIA-OREGON
TRANSMISSION PROJECT, PACIFIC
ALTERNATING CURRENT INTERTIE,
AND THIRD-PARTY TRANSMISSION
SERVICE FORMULA RATES INTO
EFFECT ON AN INTERIM BASIS
This Rate Order extends formula
rates. The extension is undertaken
pursuant to section 302 of the
Department of Energy (DOE)
Organization Act (42 U.S.C. 7152),
which transferred to, and vested in, the
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Secretary of Energy the power marketing
functions of the Secretary of the Interior
and the Bureau of Reclamation under
the Reclamation Act of 1902 (ch. 1093,
32 Stat. 388), as amended and
supplemented by subsequent laws,
particularly section 9(c) of the
Reclamation Project Act of 1939 (43
U.S.C. 485h(c)), and other acts that
specifically apply to the project
involved.
By Delegation Order No. 00-037.00B,
effective November 19, 2016, the
Secretary of Energy delegated: (1) the
authority to develop power and
transmission rates to the Administrator
of the Western Area Power
Administration (WAPA); (2) the
authority to confirm, approve, and place
into effect such rates on an interim basis
to the Deputy Secretary of Energy; and
(3) the authority to confirm, approve,
and place into effect on a final basis, or
to remand or disapprove such rates, to
the Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission (FERC). By Delegation
Order No. 00-002.00Q, effective
November 1, 2018, the Secretary of
Energy also delegated the authority to
confirm, approve, and place such rates
into effect on an interim basis to the
Under Secretary of Energy. By
Redelegation Order No. 00-002.10D,
effective June 4, 2019, the Under
Secretary of Energy further delegated
the authority to confirm, approve, and
place such rates into effect on an
interim basis to the Assistant Secretary
for Electricity. This Rate Order’s
extension is issued under the latter
Delegation Order and DOE’s rate
extension procedures codified at 10 CFR
903.23(a).1
BACKGROUND
On July 14, 2016, FERC confirmed,
approved, and placed into effect Rate
Order No. WAPA-173,2 which extended
the rates listed below for three years
from October 1, 2016, through
September 30, 2019:
• CV-F13 (Base Resource and First
Preference Power),
• CPP-2 (Custom Product Power),
• CV-T3 (Firm and Non-Firm Point-toPoint Transmission Service),
• CV-NWT5 (Network Integration
Transmission Service),
• COTP-T3 (Firm and Non-Firm Pointto-Point Transmission Service),
1 84
FR 5347 (Feb. 21, 2019).
Confirming and Approving Rate Schedule
on Final Basis, FERC Docket No. EF16-3-000, 156
FERC ¶ 62,039 (2016). FERC originally approved
the rate on December 2, 2011. Order Confirming
and Approving Rate Schedule on a Final Basis,
FERC Docket No. EF11-9-000, 137 FERC ¶ 62,201
(2011).
2 Order
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• PACI-T3 (Firm and Non-Firm Pointto-Point Transmission Service),
• CV-TPT7 (Third-Party Transmission
Service),
• CV-UUP1 (Unreserved Use Penalties),
• CV-RFS4 (Regulation and Frequency
Response),
• CV-SPR4 (Spinning Reserves),
• CV-SUR4 (Supplemental Reserves),
• CV-EID4 (Energy Imbalance Service),
and
• CV-GID1 (Generator Imbalance).
These rates apply to power,
transmission, and ancillary services for
the Central Valley Project, and
transmission service for the Pacific AC
Intertie, California-Oregon Transmission
Project, and third party transmission.
On December 12, 2018, pursuant to 10
CFR 903.23(a), WAPA filed a notice in
the Federal Register proposing to
extend, without adjustment, the above
rates as Rate Order No. WAPA-185.3
WAPA determined it was not necessary
to hold public information or public
comment forums on the proposed
formula rate extension, but provided a
30-day consultation and comment
period. The consultation and comment
period ended on January 11, 2019, and
WAPA received no comments on the
proposed formula rate extension.
DISCUSSION
The power, transmission, and
ancillary service formula rates,
approved under Rate Order No. WAPA173, expire on September 30, 2019.
WAPA recalculates the charges under
the existing formula rate methodologies
at least annually, which provides
adequate revenue to recover annual
expenses, including interest expense,
and repay capital investments within
allowable time. This ensures repayment
within the cost recovery criteria set
forth in DOE Order RA 6120.2.
Rate Order No. WAPA-185 extends,
without adjustment, the existing
formula rates listed above, through
September 30, 2024, thereby continuing
to ensure project repayment within the
cost recovery criteria.
ORDER
In view of the above and under the
authority delegated to me, I hereby
confirm, approve, and place into effect,
on an interim basis, Rate Order No.
WAPA-185, which extends the existing
power, transmission, and ancillary
services formula rates: Rate Schedules
CV-F13, CPP-2, CV-T3, CV-NWT5,
COTP-T3, PACI-T3, CV-TPT7, CVUUP1, CV-SPR4, CV-SUR4, CV-RFS4,
CV-EID4, and CV-GID1, through
September 30, 2024. The rates will
remain in effect on an interim basis
until: (1) FERC confirms and approves
this extension on a final basis; (2)
subsequent rates are confirmed and
approved; or (3) such rates are
superseded.
Dated: June 21, 2019.
Bruce J. Walker,
Assistant Secretary.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Western Area Power Administration
Central Valley Project, California-Oregon Transmission Project,
Pacific Alternating Current Intertie, and Third-Party Transmission
Service--Rate Order No. WAPA-185
AGENCY: Western Area Power Administration, DOE.
ACTION: Notice of rate order extending Sierra Nevada Region's power,
transmission, and ancillary services formula rates.
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SUMMARY: The Under Secretary of Energy confirms, approves, and places
into effect, on an interim basis, the extension of the existing Central
Valley Project power, transmission, and ancillary service; California-
Oregon Transmission Project transmission; Pacific Alternating Current
Intertie transmission; and third-party transmission formula rates.
Western Area Power Administration (WAPA) will submit them to the
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) for confirmation and
approval on a final basis. The existing formula rates are set to expire
on September 30, 2019. This rate extension makes no changes to the
existing formula rates and extends them through September 30, 2024.
DATES: The formula rates will be placed into effect on an interim basis
on October 1, 2019.
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Sonja Anderson, Regional Manager,
Sierra Nevada Region, Western Area Power Administration, 114 Parkshore
Drive, Folsom, CA 95630-4710, (916) 353-4418, e-mail:
[email protected]; or Ms. Autumn Wolfe, Rates Manager, Sierra Nevada
Region, (916) 353-4686, e-mail: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: By Delegation Order No. 00-037.00B,
effective November 19, 2016, the Secretary of Energy delegated: (1) The
authority to develop power and transmission rates to WAPA's
Administrator; (2) the authority to confirm, approve, and place such
rates into effect on an interim basis to the Deputy Secretary of
Energy; and (3) the authority to confirm, approve, and place into
effect on a final basis, or to remand or disapprove such rates, to
FERC. In Delegation Order No. 00-002.00Q, effective November 1, 2018,
the Secretary of Energy also delegated to the Under Secretary of Energy
the authority to confirm, approve, and place into effect on an interim
basis power and transmission rates for WAPA. By Redelegation Order 00-
002.10D, effective June 4, 2019, the Under Secretary of Energy further
delegated the authority to confirm, approve, and place such rates into
effect on an interim basis to the Assistant Secretary for Electricity.
This extension is issued in accordance with the Delegation Order and
DOE's rate extension procedures at 10 CFR 903.23(a).\1\
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\1\ 84 FR 5347 (Feb. 21, 2019).
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On July 14, 2016, FERC approved Rate Order No. WAPA-173: WAPA's
rates for the Central Valley Project power, transmission, and ancillary
service; and transmission service for California-Oregon Transmission
Project, Pacific Alternating Current Intertie, and Third-Party
Transmission.\2\ FERC approved the rates for three years from October
1, 2016, through September 30, 2019. Under the approved formula rates,
WAPA recalculates the charges and revenue requirements each year based
on updated financial and operational data. The existing formula rates
provide sufficient revenue to repay all annual expenses, including
interest expense, and repay capital investments within the allowable
periods; this ensures repayment within the cost recovery criteria set
forth in DOE Order RA 6120.2. Given the pending expiration of these
rates, WAPA proposed to extend them under Rate Order No. 185.\3\ The
rate extension makes no change to the existing formula rates and
extends the rates through September 30, 2024.
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\2\ Order Confirming and Approving Rate Schedule on Final Basis,
FERC Docket No. EF16-3-000, 156 FERC ] 62,039 (2016). FERC
originally approved the rate on December 2, 2011. Order Confirming
and Approving Rate Schedule on a Final Basis, FERC Docket No. EF11-
9-000, 137 FERC ] 62,201 (2011).
\3\ 80 FR 51556 (Aug. 25, 2015).
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Following DOE's review of WAPA's proposal,\4\ I hereby confirm,
approve, and place into effect Rate Order No. WAPA-185 on an interim
basis. This extends, without adjustment, the existing rate schedules
listed below, through September 30, 2024:
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\4\ 83 FR 63857 (Dec. 12, 2018).
CV-F13 (Base Resource and First Preference Power),
CPP-2 (Custom Product Power),
CV-T3 (Firm and Non-Firm Point-to-Point Transmission Service),
CV-NWT5 (Network Integration Transmission Service),
COTP-T3 (Firm and Non-Firm Point-to-Point Transmission
Service),
PACI-T3 (Firm and Non-Firm Point-to-Point Transmission
Service),
CV-TPT7 (Third-Party Transmission Service),
CV-UUP1 (Unreserved Use Penalties),
CV-RFS4 (Regulation and Frequency Response),
CV-SPR4 (Spinning Reserves),
CV-SUR4 (Supplemental Reserves),
CV-EID4 (Energy Imbalance Service), and
CV-GID1 (Generator Imbalance).
WAPA will submit Rate Order No. WAPA-185 and the extended rate
schedules to FERC for confirmation and approval on a final basis.
Dated: June 21, 2019.
Bruce J. Walker,
Assistant Secretary.
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
UNDER SECRETARY
In the Matter of: Western Area Power Administration Extension
for the Central Valley Project, California-Oregon Transmission
Project, Pacific Alternating Current Intertie, and Third-Party
Transmission Service Formula Rates.
Rate Order No. WAPA-185
ORDER CONFIRMING, APPROVING, AND PLACING THE FORMULA RATES FOR THE
CENTRAL VALLEY PROJECT, CALIFORNIA-OREGON TRANSMISSION PROJECT, PACIFIC
ALTERNATING CURRENT INTERTIE, AND THIRD-PARTY TRANSMISSION SERVICE
FORMULA RATES INTO EFFECT ON AN INTERIM BASIS
This Rate Order extends formula rates. The extension is undertaken
pursuant to section 302 of the Department of Energy (DOE) Organization
Act (42 U.S.C. 7152), which transferred to, and vested in, the
Secretary of Energy the power marketing functions of the Secretary of
the Interior and the Bureau of Reclamation under the Reclamation Act of
1902 (ch. 1093, 32 Stat. 388), as amended and supplemented by
subsequent laws, particularly section 9(c) of the Reclamation Project
Act of 1939 (43 U.S.C. 485h(c)), and other acts that specifically apply
to the project involved.
By Delegation Order No. 00-037.00B, effective November 19, 2016,
the Secretary of Energy delegated: (1) the authority to develop power
and transmission rates to the Administrator of the Western Area Power
Administration (WAPA); (2) the authority to confirm, approve, and place
into effect such rates on an interim basis to the Deputy Secretary of
Energy; and (3) the authority to confirm, approve, and place into
effect on a final basis, or to remand or disapprove such rates, to the
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). By Delegation Order No.
00-002.00Q, effective November 1, 2018, the Secretary of Energy also
delegated the authority to confirm, approve, and place such rates into
effect on an interim basis to the Under Secretary of Energy. By
Redelegation Order No. 00-002.10D, effective June 4, 2019, the Under
Secretary of Energy further delegated the authority to confirm,
approve, and place such rates into effect on an interim basis to the
Assistant Secretary for Electricity. This Rate Order's extension is
issued under the latter Delegation Order and DOE's rate extension
procedures codified at 10 CFR 903.23(a).\1\
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\1\ 84 FR 5347 (Feb. 21, 2019).
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BACKGROUND
On July 14, 2016, FERC confirmed, approved, and placed into effect
Rate Order No. WAPA-173,\2\ which extended the rates listed below for
three years from October 1, 2016, through September 30, 2019:
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\2\ Order Confirming and Approving Rate Schedule on Final Basis,
FERC Docket No. EF16-3-000, 156 FERC ] 62,039 (2016). FERC
originally approved the rate on December 2, 2011. Order Confirming
and Approving Rate Schedule on a Final Basis, FERC Docket No. EF11-
9-000, 137 FERC ] 62,201 (2011).
CV-F13 (Base Resource and First Preference Power),
CPP-2 (Custom Product Power),
CV-T3 (Firm and Non-Firm Point-to-Point Transmission Service),
CV-NWT5 (Network Integration Transmission Service),
COTP-T3 (Firm and Non-Firm Point-to-Point Transmission
Service),
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PACI-T3 (Firm and Non-Firm Point-to-Point Transmission
Service),
CV-TPT7 (Third-Party Transmission Service),
CV-UUP1 (Unreserved Use Penalties),
CV-RFS4 (Regulation and Frequency Response),
CV-SPR4 (Spinning Reserves),
CV-SUR4 (Supplemental Reserves),
CV-EID4 (Energy Imbalance Service), and
CV-GID1 (Generator Imbalance).
These rates apply to power, transmission, and ancillary services for
the Central Valley Project, and transmission service for the Pacific AC
Intertie, California-Oregon Transmission Project, and third party
transmission. On December 12, 2018, pursuant to 10 CFR 903.23(a), WAPA
filed a notice in the Federal Register proposing to extend, without
adjustment, the above rates as Rate Order No. WAPA-185.\3\ WAPA
determined it was not necessary to hold public information or public
comment forums on the proposed formula rate extension, but provided a
30-day consultation and comment period. The consultation and comment
period ended on January 11, 2019, and WAPA received no comments on the
proposed formula rate extension.
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\3\ 83 FR 63857 (Dec. 12, 2018).
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DISCUSSION
The power, transmission, and ancillary service formula rates,
approved under Rate Order No. WAPA-173, expire on September 30, 2019.
WAPA recalculates the charges under the existing formula rate
methodologies at least annually, which provides adequate revenue to
recover annual expenses, including interest expense, and repay capital
investments within allowable time. This ensures repayment within the
cost recovery criteria set forth in DOE Order RA 6120.2.
Rate Order No. WAPA-185 extends, without adjustment, the existing
formula rates listed above, through September 30, 2024, thereby
continuing to ensure project repayment within the cost recovery
criteria.
ORDER
In view of the above and under the authority delegated to me, I
hereby confirm, approve, and place into effect, on an interim basis,
Rate Order No. WAPA-185, which extends the existing power,
transmission, and ancillary services formula rates: Rate Schedules CV-
F13, CPP-2, CV-T3, CV-NWT5, COTP-T3, PACI-T3, CV-TPT7, CV-UUP1, CV-
SPR4, CV-SUR4, CV-RFS4, CV-EID4, and CV-GID1, through September 30,
2024. The rates will remain in effect on an interim basis until: (1)
FERC confirms and approves this extension on a final basis; (2)
subsequent rates are confirmed and approved; or (3) such rates are
superseded.
Dated: June 21, 2019.
Bruce J. Walker,
Assistant Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2019-13714 Filed 6-26-19; 8:45 am]
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