Notice of Issuance of Final Power Marketing Policy, for the Jim Woodruff System Project, 74173-74179 [2023-23906]

Agencies

• DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
• Southeastern Power Administration

[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 208 (Monday, October 30, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 74173-74179]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-23906]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Southeastern Power Administration


Notice of Issuance of Final Power Marketing Policy, for the Jim 
Woodruff System Project

AGENCY: Southeastern Power Administration (Southeastern), DOE.

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ACTION: Notice of final power marketing policy.

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SUMMARY: The Administrator has adopted the attached Final Power 
Marketing Policy for the Jim Woodruff System Project. The policy will 
be effective thirty days after publication in the Federal Register. The 
policy was developed in accordance with Southeastern's Procedure for 
Public Participation in the Formulation of Marketing Policy published 
July 6, 1978, pursuant to a notice of intent to formulate a power 
marketing policy published in the Federal Register of August 5, 2022, 
and a proposed policy published in the Federal Register of April 7, 
2023. A public comment forum was held via a virtual web based meeting 
on June 8, 2023. Comments were due on or before June 23, 2023. Twelve 
comments were received relative to the proposed policy. The 
Administrator appointed a Staff Committee to prepare a Staff Evaluation 
of all oral and written comments and responses received by Southeastern 
and to make appropriate recommendations. The Staff Evaluation was 
completed on Sept 5, 2023. Following the Staff Evaluation, the 
Administrator decided to adopt the policy as modified.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    The Final Power Marketing Policy sets forth the guidelines which 
Southeastern will follow in the future disposition of power from the 
Jim Woodruff System. The policy covers power from the Jim Woodruff 
project and establishes the marketing area and specifies the allocation 
of power to area preference customers. The policy also deals with 
utilization of area utility systems for essential purposes, wholesale 
rates, and energy and economic efficiency measures.
    Southeastern has determined this action fits within the following 
categorical exclusions listed in appendix B to subpart D of 10 CFR 
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.
    A recital of the primary comments regarding the proposed power 
marketing policy, responses to those comments, and specific decisions 
and changes in the proposed power marketing policy approved by the 
Administrator precede the text of the final policy as adopted.

Primary Comments and Responses

    1. Comment: The proposed policy states that the Jim Woodruff Lock 
and Dam (Project) has a total capacity of 36 MW. The Policy also lists 
the capacity allocations for each of the current preference customers 
which adds up to the total 36 MW. It was our understanding from SEPA's 
February 2, 2023, presentation that the total installed capacity of the 
Project is 43.345 MW, and the preference customers will have access to 
the total generation each hour measured at the busbar based upon each 
preference customer's pro-rata share. The proposed policy states that 
if the actual generation is less than the allocated capacity in any 
hour then the amount delivered to each preference customer will be 
reduced, pro-rata; however, the proposed policy is silent as to what 
happens if the actual generation in any hour is in excess of the 36 MW. 
Is it the intention that any generation in excess of 36 MW would be 
allocated pro-rata share as well? Should the proposed policy be amended 
to address how total generation in excess of 36 MW will be handled?
    Response: Southeastern states its goal in the proposed policy is to 
allocate all available and usable system power to preference customers. 
The legacy capacity value of 36 MW is used in the proposed Marketing 
policy as a denominator for calculating the pro-rata share. Nameplate 
capacity is 48.165 MVA but maximum operating capacity is limited to 
43.345 MW. There are many hours, depending on streamflow, where the 
project generates less than 36 MW and hours where generation is above 
36 MW--up to the plant maximum operating capacity. As a ``run-of-the-
river'' project, there is limited ability to dispatch against 
streamflow. ``Preference customers'' are those entities with customer 
contracts. Preference customers would receive a pro-rata share of 
energy generated. Southeastern does not think an amended Policy is 
needed to address total energy allocations.
    2. Comment: If the preference customers do have access to their 
pro-rata share of the actual Project generation each hour, under the 
new contracts, what will the billing demand determinant be based upon? 
Will it be based upon the actual Project peak generation for the month 
or capped at the total 36 MW?
    Response: The rate structure for Jim Woodruff currently contains a 
metered energy and a monthly demand charge. This construct is subject 
to periodic rate-development proceedings and will be addressed there. 
The Jim Woodruff rates are effective through September 30, 2026. 
Southeastern intends to keep the current JW-1-L rate where monthly 
billing demand will be based on capacity allocations. Energy billing 
will be based on the customer ratio-share of monthly project net 
metered generation at the bus-bar.
    3. Comment: The proposed policy states that the Final Marketing 
Policy will be implemented through contracts for terms not to exceed 
ten years and the existing preference customers can continue with their 
current allocated shares of capacity. Will all Preference-Eligible 
customers listed in Appendix A have access to a pro-rata share of the 
total capacity of the Project capacity after the end of the ten-year 
contracts with the existing preference customers (i.e., subject to the 
500 kW limitation) or will the existing preference customers have right 
of first refusal?
    Response: Southeastern's marketing area in the Final Policy is the 
entire state of Florida and contains 53 preference-eligible public 
bodies and cooperatives based on 2020 load information. Southeastern 
currently has contracts with six of these preference-eligible entities. 
Southeastern does not expect any additional power or energy to be 
marketable for the foreseeable future as a result of the Duke Energy 
Florida contract termination so Southeastern proposes to continue 
arrangements with these six customers. However, Southeastern has 
included a mechanism in the proposed policy to allow power and energy 
to be allocated should any become available in the future. Thus, the 
expiration of the initial contract term could allow system power or 
energy to be made available to other preference-eligible customers. The 
proposed policy does not convey a ``right of first refusal'' to any 
customer nor an obligation on the government to allocate a pro-rata 
share of the total system capacity across all preference-eligible 
customers at the end of the contract term.
    4. Comment: The proposed policy states that ``both existing and 
preference-eligible customers will be eligible to share equitably in 
any capacity remaining after reductions for reserves, losses or 
capacity and energy relinquished by existing customers''. What is meant 
by the term ``reserves''?
    Response: Reserves include capacity to meet station service needs 
and any other operational requirements at the Project.
    5. Comment: Under the Utilization at Utility Systems section of the 
proposed policy, there is a statement that it may be necessary for 
Southeastern to contract with a third party to ``dispose'' of system 
power under ``reasonable and acceptable marketing arrangements''. If 
the preference customers are receiving a pro-rata share of all of the 
output, when

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would a condition exist that would result in the disposal of system 
power? It is our understanding from the February 2nd meeting that the 
contracting preference customers will be responsible for contracting 
with Duke Energy Florida (DEF) for the transmission of the Project 
power (either network transmission service or presumably point-to-point 
transmission service for those preference customers that need to wheel 
power across DEF's transmission system). We understand that 
Southeastern will be entering into an interconnection agreement with 
DEF. Does Southeastern expect a need to contract with DEF or another 
utility for any other transmission or marketing arrangement (i.e., 
other than the interconnection agreement with DEF)?
    Response: Dispose is referred to Southeastern's authorizing 
legislation, section 5, Flood Control Act 1944, 16 U.S.C. 825s. The 
proposed policy specifies delivery to the project bus-bar (Point of 
Interconnection with DEF). Southeastern may be required to enter into a 
re-imbursement agreement with the Host Balancing Authority (DEF) in the 
event arrangements need to be implemented to allow Jim Woodruff to be 
treated as a Pseudo-Tied generator, as that term is defined by the 
North American Electric Reliability Corporation. It is expected that if 
this becomes necessary, it will be a financial transaction and not a 
bartered marketing arrangement.
    6. Comment: For Seminole to schedule the Project power each hour 
under the DEF transmission agreement, Seminole will require real time 
telemetry access to the actual Project net generation. Seminole will 
plan to contact Carter Edge to make those arrangements.
    Response: Southeastern does not have real-time telemetry at Jim 
Woodruff. It is expected that this information is available from DEF 
via the Eastern Interconnection Data Sharing Network (EIDSN).
    7. Comment: The proposed power marketing policy indicates it will 
be implemented through contracts with terms not to exceed ten years. 
How was the ten-year term chosen? Why or under what circumstances would 
the Southeastern Power Administration (``SEPA'') consider a term of 
less than ten-years? Did SEPA consider a contract term that lasts for 
the life of the project, with rights for a preference customer to exit 
earlier, if it desires to do so? Will the terms of all preference 
customer contracts have to be the same? To the extent that other SEPA 
power marketing policies have standard contract terms of 20 years, with 
evergreen provisions, the Cities would urge SEPA that the Jim Woodruff 
System Project should, at least, have contract terms of the same 
length.
    Response: The proposed power marketing policy supports the 
statutory authority granted to the Administrator in section 5 of the 
Flood Control Act of 1944, 16 U.S.C. 825s, allowing power and energy 
not required in the operation of project to be transmitted and sold in 
such a manner to as to encourage the most widespread use thereof at the 
lowest rates possible to consumers consistent with sound business 
principles. Southeastern agrees that providing for a contract term up 
to twenty years would give maximum flexibility in the negotiations 
under this policy and will allow for contracts to be entered into for a 
term greater than ten years if necessary or if found desirable during 
contract negotiations. Contracts can be extended beyond the initial 
term if acceptable by the parties.
    8. Comment: The proposed power marketing policy states: ``Resale 
rate provisions requiring the benefits of Southeastern's power to be 
passed on to the ultimate consumer will be included in each customer 
contract with Southeastern which provides for Southeastern to supply 
more than 25% of the customer's total power requirements . . . .'' Why 
are these resale rate provisions necessary? And, why do they only apply 
to a preference customer whose supply from SEPA is more than 25% of the 
customer's total power requirement? How the 25% is calculated, and is 
it a one-time calculation, or is it periodically redone to pick up 
changes in total power requirements? Will these resale rate provisions 
apply to imbalance sales? Specifically, does SEPA expect the Cities to 
be subject to such resale rate provisions? If so, it will be important 
that the resale rate provisions not conflict with the imbalance sale 
terms of filed FERC tariffs for the relevant transmission provider. 
Further, any resale rate or other provisions should be cognizant that 
the Cities are members of a joint action agency and that there needs to 
be a mechanism available for the cities to integrate their wholesale 
power supply needs with the portfolio of the joint action agency, 
including the possibility of assigning or transferring the output of 
the SEPA power to the joint action agency for the duration of term the 
joint action agency may be supplying the balance of each of the City's 
wholesale power needs.
    Response: After review of Southeastern's other three marketing 
areas the agency will modify the policy to eliminate the Resale Rates 
section. Southeastern will modify the policy to add the Florida 
Municipal Power Agency as a preference eligible customer as it 
represents solely municipal customers.
    9. Comment: The proposed power marketing policy indicates that SEPA 
can dispose of system power under reasonable and acceptable marketing 
arrangements. Who determines the reasonability and acceptability of the 
marketing arrangements? Will there be an opportunity for preference 
customers to provide input on those determinations? Under what 
circumstances would SEPA anticipate having to dispose of system power? 
To the extent that SEPA does dispose of system power, how will revenue 
from those transactions be applied to SEPA's revenue requirements, as a 
credit to the benefit of the preference customers? If the disposal of 
system power results in a net cost to SEPA, will preference customers 
be responsible for any of that cost and, if so, to what extent?
    Response: Southeastern has used a public participation process for 
formulating power marketing policies since 1978 with procedures 
outlined in the Procedure for Public Participation in the Formulation 
of Marketing Policy (43 FR 29186, 29187, July 6, 1978) to dispose of 
system power. The Jim Woodruff System will continue to be 
hydraulically, electrically, and financially integrated as a single 
project system. Revenue requirements are calculated to recover 
operating expenses and the federal capital investment and rates are set 
for the sale of power and energy in excess of use at the project to 
preference customers in a manner consistent with sound business 
principles. A periodic rate filing process where costs and revenues are 
calculated and shared via public forums allows for public participation 
and rates to be reviewed and approved by the Federal Energy Regulatory 
Commission (FERC). Southeastern will continue to use cost-based rates 
subject to Congressional, FERC and Department of Energy mandates.
    10. Comment: The proposed power marketing policy states: ``Each 
customer purchasing Southeastern's power shall agree to take reasonable 
measures to encourage the conservation of energy by ultimate 
consumers.'' Where will this referenced agreement to encourage 
conservation reside? As a part of the project contracts, or elsewhere? 
Why is this conservation encouragement measure included here? Will SEPA 
require quantitative or qualitative tracking and reporting of 
conservation encouragement measures? If efforts to encourage 
conservation to not prove to

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reduce energy consumption by a preference customer's ultimate 
consumers, will that have a negative impact on preference customers in 
any manner?
    Response: Power marketing policies in other systems marketed by 
Southeastern include the referenced wording which encourages energy 
conservation by preference customers consistent with guidance in the 
Department Energy Organization Act, 42 U.S.C. 7112 (1977), where 
departmental elements are directed ``to promote maximum possible energy 
conservation measures in connection with the activities within their 
respective jurisdictions.'' Southeastern currently has no plans for 
qualitative and quantitative tracking of performance for conservation 
measures employed by ultimate users. This topic will be addressed in 
customer contracts.
    11. Comment: SEPA has indicated that it will now have to enter into 
a large generator interconnection agreement (``LGIA''), and take 
interconnection service, from Duke Energy Florida (``DEF''), following 
the termination of the existing DEF arrangement with SEPA on April 20, 
2024. If studies associated with the LGIA indicate system impacts on 
the DEF system, that have to be paid for by SEPA to receive 
interconnection service, when does SEPA expect to receive those cost 
estimates? Assuming that there are any costs that must be paid to DEF 
under the LGIA, the Cities expect those costs to be borne 
proportionately through rates by each of the preference customers. 
Under any circumstance, would that not be the case? If there are costs 
that have to be paid to DEF for interconnection service, subject to 
refund, how will those refund amounts be distributed to preference 
customers?
    Response: Southeastern does not anticipate initial or normal 
recurring costs associated with implementing the LGIA with Duke Energy 
Florida. Any special occurrence costs would be accounted for in a 
manner acceptable to Southeastern and the preference customers in the 
rate setting process.
    12. Comment: The SeFPC supports the following determinations made 
by SEPA in the proposed policy:
    1. SEPA will follow the guidance of the Flood Control Act of 1944;
    2. SEPA will deliver power at the bus-bar and pursue appropriate 
rate design and operational solutions to maintain ``the Jim Woodruff 
system financially, electrically, and hydraulically independent of any 
other Southeastern system'';
    3. Considering the equitable contributions made by existing SEPA 
customers who receive the benefit of the Jim Woodruff system;
    4. Continuing with the allocated share of capacity for existing 
customers;
    5. Including a process for the distribution of Renewable Energy 
Certificates (``RECs'') for preference customers of the Jim Woodruff 
system; and
    6. Declaring that no rates will be established for the RECs.
    The proposed policy indicates that the existing customers will be 
offered new contracts for a term of ten years upon the adoption of the 
marketing policy. The ten-year term reflects an approach adopted by 
SEPA forty years ago with the Cumberland System of Projects. Since that 
time, SEPA has adopted approaches for other marketing areas which 
provide assurances for the availability of the preference resource for 
a longer term. Notably, although SEPA proposed a ten-year term for the 
customers of the Kerr-Philpott projects, SEPA explained that 
``contracts can be extended if acceptable by all parties.'' Nine years 
later, SEPA was encouraged to allow for contracts up to twenty years 
for the Georgia-Alabama-South Carolina (``GA-AL-SC'') system of 
projects. SEPA agreed explaining that providing for contracts for a 
term up to twenty years would ``give maximum flexibility in the 
negotiation of contracts under [the] policy and will allow for 
contracts to be entered into for a term of greater than ten years if 
necessary or if found desirable during contract negotiations.''
    The most recent marketing policy for the GA-AL-SC system of 
projects provides the most recent approach for determining contract 
length. Many of the customers in the GA-AL-SC marketing area purchase 
power from SEPA under twenty-year contracts. SEPA should follow the 
same approach adopted in the GA-AL-SC marketing policy and provide for 
twenty-year contracts during negotiations on final contract terms. 
Similarly, SEPA should also include an evergreen clause to allow for 
renewal of the contract. This approach would track the sentiment 
expressed in the Kerr-Philpott marketing policy in which contracts 
should be renewed if acceptable to all parties.
    Response: Southeastern agrees that providing for a contract term up 
to twenty years would give maximum flexibility in the negotiations 
under this policy and will allow for contracts to be entered into for a 
term greater than ten years if necessary or if found desirable during 
contract negotiations.
    Changes or modifications in the Final Power Marketing Policy: It 
was determined to allow for contracts to be entered into for a period 
of time greater than ten years if necessary or if found desirable 
during contract negotiations (see comments 7 and 12).
    The Resale Rates section has been eliminated and will be addressed 
in contract negotiations to ensure the ultimate customer is benefiting 
from the Federal Hydropower Program. The Florida Municipal Power Agency 
was added to the list of preference eligible customers given two of the 
municipalities they represent have allocations from the Jim Woodruff 
Project bringing the total to 53 preference eligible customers in the 
policy (see comment 8).

Final Power Marketing Policy

Jim Woodruff System Project

    General: The project and power products subject to this policy are:

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                     Name                        Capacity (kw)       (MWh)              Energy attribute
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Jim Woodruff Lock and Dam.....................          36,000         193,530  Renewable Energy Certificate.
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    This Power Marketing Policy for electric power and energy not 
required in the operation of Jim Woodruff Lock and Dam will replace the 
arrangements in the contract between Duke Energy Florida and 
Southeastern Power Administration (Southeastern) dated July 19, 1957 
(Rate Schedule No. 65), which provided for a fair and reasonable 
arrangement for the circumstances prevailing at the time the power was 
sold. Arrangements for the sale, purchase, wheeling and firming of 
power from the Jim Woodruff Lock and Dam will be implemented as soon as 
contract revisions pursuant to this policy can be negotiated.

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    The Final Marketing Policy will be implemented through negotiated 
contracts terms of approximately ten years but may be negotiated for 
terms of up to 20 years with consideration for extensions if acceptable 
to all parties during contract negotiations.
    Deliveries will be made at the project bus-bar. The project will be 
hydraulically, electrically, and financially integrated as a single 
project system and will be operated to make maximum contribution to the 
respective utility areas. Preference in the sale of the power will be 
given to public bodies and cooperatives.
    Marketing Area: Southeastern's marketing area shall be the entire 
state of Florida. The marketing area contains 53 eligible public bodies 
and cooperatives, as listed on Appendix A attached hereto.
    Allocations of Power: It is Southeastern's goal to allocate all 
available and usable system power (that power remaining after provision 
for reserves and losses) to preference customers.
    As to the power sold to the existing preference customers prior to 
contracts executed to implement this policy, each existing preference 
customer within the Duke Energy Florida service area will continue with 
its allocated share of the marketed capacity and resulting pro-rata 
share of the associated energy. Current capacity allocations are 
summarized below:

Talquin Elec Coop 13,500 kW
City of Quincy 8,400 kW
Tri County Elec Coop 5,200 kW
Suwannee Valley Elec Coop 4,800 kW
Central Florida Elec Coop 2,300 kW
City of Chattahoochee 1,800 kW

    Southeastern does not expect any additional capacity or energy to 
be marketable from the project in the foreseeable future. However, both 
existing and preference-eligible customers will be eligible to share 
equitably in any capacity remaining after reductions for reserves, 
losses or capacity and energy relinquished by existing customers. 
Allocations of any newly available power and energy to a particular 
preference customer will be based on the relationship of such 
customer's maximum 2020 demand to the sum of the 2020 maximum demands 
of all preference customers sharing such power so long as such customer 
demand is expected to be and will be treated hereunder in each month as 
not less than 500 kW. Southeastern recognizes that West Florida 
Electric Cooperative Association Incorporated was previously included 
in Jim Woodruff allocations but is now served by Southeastern's GA-AL-
SC system. For allocation purposes, they will be treated as if they are 
a preference-eligible customer.
    There will be times when hydraulic conditions reduce the operating 
head or the available streamflow of the project and not all the 
allocated capacity can be made available. The power available from the 
project shall be reduced, pro-rata based on project capability.
    Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs): Southeastern has included a 
process for REC distribution in this marketing policy. The REC 
distribution process will not impact power allocation within the System 
marketing area.
    The M-RETS Tracking System creates and tracks certificates 
reporting generation attributes, by generating unit, for each megawatt-
hour (MWh) of energy produced by registered generators. The System 
project is registered within M-RETS. The RECs potentially satisfy 
Renewable Portfolio Standards, state policies, and other regulatory or 
voluntary clean energy standards in a number of states. Southeastern 
has subscribed to M-RETS and has an account in which RECs are collected 
and tracked for each MWh of energy produced from the System. Within M-
RETS, certificates can be transferred to other M-RETS subscribers or to 
a third-party tracking system. M-RETS creates a REC for every MWh of 
renewable energy produced, tracks the life cycle of each REC created, 
and ensures against any double counting or double-use of each REC.
    REC Distribution: M-RETS (or a successor application) will be the 
transfer mechanism for all RECs related to the System. Southeastern 
shall maintain an account with M-RETS and collect RECs from the 
generation at the System project. Southeastern will verify the total 
amount of RECs each month. Preference Customers with an allocation of 
power from the System are eligible to receive RECs by transfer from 
Southeastern's M-RETS account to their M-RETS account or that of their 
agent. Transfers to each customer will be based on the customer's 
monthly invoices during the same three-month period (quarter). All RECs 
distributed by Southeastern shall be transferred within forty-five days 
of the end of a quarter. Each customer must submit to Southeastern, by 
the tenth business day after the quarter, any notice of change to M-
RETS account or agent. Any REC transfers that were not claimed, or if a 
transfer account was not provided to Southeastern, will be forfeited if 
they become nontransferable as described in the M-RETS terms of 
service, procedures, policies, or definitions of reporting and trading 
periods, or any subsequent rules and procedures for transfers as 
established. The initial transfer process in M-RETS will be 
accomplished by the sixtieth day after the end of the first completed 
quarter subsequent to publication of the final policy.
    Any balance of RECs that exist in Southeastern's M-RETS account, 
other than the first quarter after policy revision publication, may 
also be transferred to Preference Customers according to the customer's 
invoiced energy at the time of the REC creation.
    Rates: No rates shall be established by Southeastern for RECs 
transferred to Preference Customers. Any cost to Southeastern, such as 
the M-RETS subscription, will be incorporated into marketing costs and 
included in recovery through the energy and capacity rates of the 
System.
    Utilization at Utility Systems: In the absence of transmission 
facilities of its own, Southeastern may use area generation and 
transmission systems as may be necessary to dispose of system power 
under reasonable and acceptable marketing arrangements. Utility systems 
providing such services shall be entitled to adequate compensation.
    Wholesale Rates: Rate schedules shall be drawn to recover all costs 
associated with producing and transmitting the power in accordance with 
then current repayment criteria. Production costs will be determined on 
a system basis and rate schedules will be related to the integrated 
output of the project. Rates schedules may be revised periodically.
    Conservation Measures: Each customer purchasing Southeastern's 
power shall agree to take reasonable measures to encourage the 
conservation of energy by ultimate consumers.

Legal Authority

    The policy is developed under authority of Section 5 of the Flood 
Control Act of 1944, 16 U.S.C. 825s, and Section 302(a) of the 
Department of Energy Organization Act of 1977, 42 U.S.C. 7152. This 
power marketing policy was developed in accordance with the Procedure 
for Public Participation in the Formulation of Marketing Policy 
published July 6, 1978, 43 FR 29186.

Environmental Impact

    Southeastern has determined this action fits within the following 
categorical exclusions listed in appendix B to subpart D of 10 CFR 
1021: B4.1 (Contracts, policies, and marketing and allocation plans for 
electric power). Categorically excluded projects and activities do not 
require

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preparation of either an environmental impact statement or an 
environmental assessment.

Determination Under Executive Order 12866

    Southeastern 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 October 11, 
2023, by Virgil G. Hobbs III, Administrator, Southeastern 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 October 25, 2023.
Treena V. Garrett,
Federal Register Liaison Officer, U.S. Department of Energy.

Appendix A: Preference-Eligible Customers

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                   Municipals                       2020 Peak load MW
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Alachua........................................                       28
Bartow.........................................                       60
Blountstown....................................                        8
Bushnell.......................................                        6
Chattahoochee..................................                        6
Clewiston......................................                       22
Florida Municipal Power Agency.................                    1,512
Fort Meade.....................................                       10
Fort Pierce....................................                      113
Gainesville....................................                      410
Green Cove Springs.............................                       24
Havana.........................................                        7
Homestead Energy Services......................                      115
JEA formerly Jacksonville Electric Authority...                    2,658
Jacksonville Beach dba Beaches Energy Services.                      168
Keys Energy Services formerly Key West.........                      145
Kissimmee......................................                      374
Lake Worth Beach...............................                       96
Lakeland Electric..............................                      667
Leesburg.......................................                      118
Moore Haven....................................                        4
Mount Dora.....................................                       23
New Smyrna Beach...............................                      105
Newberry.......................................                        9
Ocala..........................................                      314
Orlando........................................                    1,294
Quincy.........................................                       28
Reedy Creek Utilities..........................                      166
St. Cloud......................................                      186
Starke.........................................                       16
Tallahassee....................................                      616
Vero Beach.....................................                      180
Wauchula.......................................                       14
Williston......................................                        8
Winter Park....................................                       94
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                  Cooperatives                      2020 Peak load MW
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Central Florida Electric Cooperative...........                      131
Choctawhatchee Electric Cooperative (CHELCO)...                      219
Clay Electric Cooperative......................                      788
Escambia River Electric Cooperative............                       43
Glades Electric Cooperative....................                       60
Gulf Coast Electric Cooperative................                       86
Lee County Electric Cooperative................                      970
Okefenoke Electric Cooperative.................                      178
Peace River Electric Cooperative...............                      205
PowerSouth Energy Cooperative (G&T)............                    2,027
SECO Energy (Sumter Electric Coop).............                      865
Suwannee Valley Electric Cooperative...........                      119
Talquin Electric Cooperative...................                      213
Tri-County Electric Cooperative................                       60
West Florida Electric Cooperative..............                      123
Withlacoochee Electric Cooperative.............                    1,002
Florida Keys Electric Cooperative..............                      156
Seminole Electric Cooperative (G&T)............                    3,409
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[FR Doc. 2023-23906 Filed 10-27-23; 8:45 a.m.]
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