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Federal Register / Vol. 88, No. 13 / Friday, January 20, 2023 / Notices
DEPARTMENT OF STATE
[Public Notice: 11969]
Notice of Charter Renewal for the
Advisory Committee on Historical
Diplomatic Documentation
The Advisory Committee on
Historical Diplomatic Documentation
has renewed its charter for a period of
two years. This Advisory Committee
will continue to make recommendations
to the Historian and the Department of
State on all aspects of the Department’s
program to publish the Foreign
Relations of the United States series as
well as on the Department’s
responsibility under statute to open its
25-year-old and older records for public
review at the National Archives and
Records Administration.
The Committee consists of nine
members drawn from among historians,
political scientists, archivists,
international lawyers, and other social
scientists who are distinguished in the
field of U.S. foreign relations. Questions
concerning the Committee and the
renewal of its Charter should be
directed to Adam M. Howard, Executive
Secretary, Advisory Committee on
Historical Diplomatic Documentation,
Department of State, Office of the
Historian, 2300 E Street NW,
Washington, DC 20372 (Navy Potomac
Annex), telephone (202) 955–0214
(email history@state.gov).
The Charter was renewed on
November 13, 2022.
For further information about the
Board, please contact Adam Howard,
Executive Secretary, Office of the
Historian at History@state.gov.
Adam M. Howard,
Executive Secretary, Office of the Historian,
Department of State.
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TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY
Cumberland Fossil Plant Retirement
Environmental Impact Statement
Tennessee Valley Authority.
Record of decision.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
The Tennessee Valley
Authority (TVA) has made a decision to
adopt the Preferred Alternative
identified in the Cumberland Fossil
Plant Retirement Final Environmental
Impact Statement (EIS). The Notice of
Availability of the Final EIS for the
Cumberland Fossil Plant Retirement
was published in the Federal Register
on December 9, 2022. TVA’s preferred
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alternative, Alternative A, involves the
retirement and demolition of TVA’s
two-unit, coal-fired Cumberland Fossil
Plant (CUF) and the construction and
operation of a natural gas-fueled
combined cycle (CC) plant on the CUF
Reservation to replace the generation
capacity of one of the two retired units.
This least-cost alternative would
achieve the purpose and need of the
project to retire and decommission the
two CUF units, one unit by the end of
2026 and the other unit by the end of
2028, and to provide replacement
generation that can supply 1,450
megawatts (MW) of firm, dispatchable
power by the time the first unit is
retired by the end of 2026 to ensure that
TVA is able to meet required year-round
generation, maximum capacity system
demands and planning reserve margin
targets, particularly during peak load
events.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Ashley Pilakowski, NEPA Project
Manager, Tennessee Valley Authority,
400 West Summit Hill Drive, Knoxville,
Tennessee 37902; telephone 865–632–
2256; or email aapilakowski@tva.gov.
The Final EIS, this Record of Decision
(ROD) and other project documents are
available on TVA’s website https://
www.tva.gov/nepa.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This
notice is provided in accordance with
the Council on Environmental Quality’s
regulations for implementing the
National Environmental Policy Act
(NEPA) (40 Code of Federal Regulations
(CFR) 1500 through 1508) and TVA’s
NEPA procedures (18 CFR 1318). TVA
is a corporate agency of the United
States that provides electricity for
business customers and local power
distributors serving 10 million people in
the Tennessee Valley—an 80,000square-mile region comprised of
Tennessee and parts of Virginia, North
Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi,
and Kentucky. TVA receives no
taxpayer funding and derives virtually
all revenues from the sale of electricity.
In addition to operating and investing
revenues in its power system, TVA
provides flood control, navigation, and
land management for the Tennessee
Valley watershed and provides
economic development and job creation
assistance within the Service area.
In 2019, TVA completed its Integrated
Resource Plan (IRP) and associated
Final EIS. The IRP identified the various
energy resource options that TVA
intends to pursue to meet the energy
needs of the Tennessee Valley region
over a 20-year planning period.
Following the completion of the TVA
2019 IRP, TVA began conducting end-
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of-life evaluations of its operating coalfired generating plants not already
scheduled for retirement to inform longterm planning. This evaluation
confirmed that the aging TVA coal fleet
is among the oldest in the nation and is
experiencing performance challenges as
well as deteriorating material condition.
The performance challenges are
projected to increase because of the coal
fleet’s advancing age and the difficulty
of adapting the fleet’s generation within
the changing generation profile. The
continued long-term operation of TVA’s
coal plants is contributing to
environmental, economic, and
reliability risks. CUF is the largest plant
in the TVA coal fleet with a summer net
generating capacity of 2,470 MW. CUF
is situated on a 2,388-acre reservation
on the Cumberland River in
Cumberland City, Stewart County,
Tennessee.
CUF was built between 1968 and 1973
and used primarily as baseload
generation. As TVA’s generating fleet
evolved, primarily with the additions of
nuclear, gas, and renewable resources
over the past 10–15 years, there was less
of a need for CUF to consistently
operate at full power. This has resulted
in frequent cycling of the large supercritical units or turning them on and off
as needed to meet demand. The plant
was not originally designed for this type
of operation, which presents reliability
challenges that are difficult to anticipate
and expensive to mitigate. As TVA
continues to transition the rest of its
fleet to cleaner and more flexible
technologies, CUF will continue to be
challenged to reliably operate on this asneeded basis. Based on this analysis,
TVA has developed planning
assumptions for CUF retirement. These
assumptions include retirement of both
CUF units and the addition of at least
1,450 MW of firm, dispatchable
generation to replace the generation
capacity lost from retirement of one of
the CUF units, which is in-line with the
recommendations in the 2019 IRP.
Replacement generation of this kind
will allow TVA to replace the
dependable capacity of the first unit as
well as account for modest anticipated
load increases. The replacement
generation would need to be online
prior to retirement of the first CUF unit
by the end of 2026. Planning for the
replacement generation for the second
retired CUF unit will be deferred to
allow consideration of a broader range
of replacement generation alternatives
depending on system needs and the
state of technology at the time
replacement is needed.
TVA has prepared the Final EIS
pursuant to NEPA to assess the
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE
[Public Notice: 11969]
Notice of Charter Renewal for the Advisory Committee on
Historical Diplomatic Documentation
The Advisory Committee on Historical Diplomatic Documentation has
renewed its charter for a period of two years. This Advisory Committee
will continue to make recommendations to the Historian and the
Department of State on all aspects of the Department's program to
publish the Foreign Relations of the United States series as well as on
the Department's responsibility under statute to open its 25-year-old
and older records for public review at the National Archives and
Records Administration.
The Committee consists of nine members drawn from among historians,
political scientists, archivists, international lawyers, and other
social scientists who are distinguished in the field of U.S. foreign
relations. Questions concerning the Committee and the renewal of its
Charter should be directed to Adam M. Howard, Executive Secretary,
Advisory Committee on Historical Diplomatic Documentation, Department
of State, Office of the Historian, 2300 E Street NW, Washington, DC
20372 (Navy Potomac Annex), telephone (202) 955-0214 (email
[email protected]).
The Charter was renewed on November 13, 2022.
For further information about the Board, please contact Adam
Howard, Executive Secretary, Office of the Historian at
[email protected]
Adam M. Howard,
Executive Secretary, Office of the Historian, Department of State.
[FR Doc. 2023-01089 Filed 1-19-23; 8:45 am]
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