2025 Resource Pool-Loveland Area Projects, Proposed Power Allocation

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April 26, 2022

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Energy DepartmentWestern Area Power Administration

Abstract

Western Area Power Administration (WAPA), a Federal Power Marketing Administration of the Department of Energy (DOE), announces its Loveland Area Projects (LAP) 2025 Resource Pool proposed power allocation. WAPA developed the proposed power allocation under its LAP 2025 Power Marketing Initiative (2025 PMI), as published in the Federal Register on December 30, 2013.

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[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 80 (Tuesday, April 26, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 24555-24556]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2022-08861]

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Western Area Power Administration

2025 Resource Pool--Loveland Area Projects, Proposed Power
Allocation

AGENCY: Western Area Power Administration, DOE.

ACTION: Notice of proposed power allocation.

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SUMMARY: Western Area Power Administration (WAPA), a Federal Power
Marketing Administration of the Department of Energy (DOE), announces
its Loveland Area Projects (LAP) 2025 Resource Pool proposed power
allocation. WAPA developed the proposed power allocation under its LAP
2025 Power Marketing Initiative (2025 PMI), as published in the Federal
Register on December 30, 2013.

DATES: The comment period on this Notice of proposed power allocation
begins April 26, 2022 and ends at 4:00 p.m., MDT, on June 10, 2022.
WAPA will accept comments by email or delivered by U.S. mail. WAPA
reserves the right not to consider comments received after the
prescribed date and time.
A single public information and comment forum (not to exceed three
hours) about the proposed power allocation will be held on Monday, May
23, 2022, at 1:30 p.m., MDT. WAPA will hold the public information and
comment forum online. The comment forum will begin immediately
following the conclusion of the information forum. The forum will be
accessible 15 minutes in advance of the start time by copying and
pasting the following link into a web browser: <a href="https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_ZjA2YTE1NjMtMmI2ZC00MGIyLWE2NWItNjVkMTY2NWJhMzE5%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2231ae220f-b94f-463a-9cfd-15bbc9909df5%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22840a7135-304c-46b4-bb91-183fb9ec6880%22%7d">https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_ZjA2YTE1NjMtMmI2ZC00MGIyLWE2NWItNjVkMTY2NWJhMzE5%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%2231ae220f-b94f-463a-9cfd-15bbc9909df5%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22840a7135-304c-46b4-bb91-183fb9ec6880%22%7d</a>.

ADDRESSES: Send written comments to Barton V. Barnhart, Regional
Manager, Rocky Mountain Region, Western Area Power Administration, 5555
East Crossroads Boulevard, Loveland, CO 80538-8986. If submitting
comments electronically, please email to Parker Wicks, Contracts and
Energy Services Manager, Rocky Mountain Region, Western Area Power
Administration, at <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#60101709030b1320170110014e070f16"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="84f4f3ede7eff7c4f3e5f4e5aae3ebf2">[email&#160;protected]</span></a>. Comments must be received by WAPA
within the time required in the DATES section. Information about the
2025 Resource Pool, including allocation procedures, is available on
WAPA-RMR's website at: <a href="https://www.wapa.gov/regions/RM/PowerMarketing/Pages/2025-Loveland-Area-Projects-Resource-Pool.aspx">https://www.wapa.gov/regions/RM/PowerMarketing/Pages/2025-Loveland-Area-Projects-Resource-Pool.aspx</a>.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Parker Wicks, Contracts and Energy
Services Manager, Rocky Mountain Region, Western Area Power
Administration, (970) 461-7202, email <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#cbbbbca2a8a0b88bbcaabbaae5aca4bd"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="5727203e343c24172036273679303821">[email&#160;protected]</span></a>.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 2025 PMI, as published in the Federal
Register December 30, 2013 (78 FR 79444), provides the basis for
marketing the LAP long-term firm hydroelectric resource beginning
October 1, 2024, through September 30, 2054. The 2025 PMI established
three resource pools available for reallocation to eligible new
preference entities. Reallocations will occur at the beginning of the
October 1, 2024, contract term and again every 10 years thereafter on
October 1, 2034, and October 1, 2044. Each resource pool contains up to
one percent of the marketable resource under contract, at that time.
WAPA notified the public of the 2025 Resource Pool allocation
procedures, including the General Eligibility Criteria, and called for
applications in the Federal Register on September 20, 2021 (86 FR
52145). WAPA accepted applications until 4:00 p.m., MST, November 15,
2021. Review of those applications resulted in this Notice of proposed
power allocation.
WAPA seeks comments relevant to the proposed power allocation
during the comment period. After considering public comments received,
WAPA will publish the Final Power Allocation in the Federal Register.

I. 2025 Pool Resources

WAPA will allocate up to one percent of the LAP long-term firm
hydroelectric resource available as of October 1, 2024. The amount of
the resource that will become available on October 1, 2024, is
approximately 6.9 megawatts (MW) for the summer season and 6.1 MW for
the winter season. The 2025 Resource Pool will be created by reducing
existing customers' allocation by up to one percent.

II. Proposed Power Allocation

In response to WAPA's allocation procedures and call for
applications (86 FR 52145), WAPA received 13 applications for the 2025
Resource Pool. WAPA determined that one applicant did not meet the
General Eligibility Criteria and therefore was ineligible to receive an
allocation. The resource pool will be allocated proportionately by
season to the 12 qualified allottees based on average seasonal loads
for calendar year 2020. The proposed allocations for the 12 qualified
allottees, shown in the table below, are based on the LAP marketable
resource currently available and are subject to the minimum (100
kilowatts) and maximum (5,000 kilowatts) allocation criteria. If the
LAP marketable resource is adjusted in the future, all allocations may
be adjusted accordingly.

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Proposed LAP 2025 resource pool power allocation
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Allottees Summer kilowatt- Winter kilowatt-
hours hours Summer kilowatts Winter kilowatts
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City of Alma, KS.................... 1,641,046 1,174,939 1,003 781
City of Blue Mound, KS.............. 219,242 176,015 134 117
Buckley Space Force Base, CO........ 4,198,329 3,598,531 2,566 2,392
City of Elwood, KS.................. 921,145 648,398 563 431

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City of Luray, KS................... 214,334 156,458 131 104
City of Montezuma, KS............... 1,353,086 1,036,534 827 689
City of Morrill, KS................. 163,614 150,440 100 100
Village of Paxton, NE............... 595,554 570,169 364 379
City of Prescott, KS................ 163,614 150,440 100 100
City of Robinson, KS................ 163,614 150,440 100 100
Village of Trenton, NE.............. 571,012 532,559 349 354
City of Wathena, KS................. 1,097,848 761,228 671 506
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Total 2025 Resource Pool........ 11,302,438 9,106,151 6,908 6,053
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All of the 12 qualified allottees reside beyond the boundary of
WAPA's LAP transmission system. As a result, delivery of the allocation
will require each allottee to obtain additional transmission
arrangements, acceptable to WAPA, for delivery of the proposed power
allocation to the allottee's point of delivery.
By June 1, 2024, each allottee must have firm delivery arrangements
in place to be effective October 1, 2024, unless otherwise agreed to in
writing by WAPA. WAPA must receive a letter of commitment from each
allottee's serving utility or transmission provider by June 1, 2024,
confirming the allottee will be able to receive the benefit of WAPA's
2025 Resource Pool. If WAPA does not receive a commitment letter by
June 1, 2024, unless otherwise agreed in writing by WAPA, WAPA will
withdraw its offer of an allocation.

III. Regulatory Procedure Requirements

A. Review Under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)

WAPA has determined this action fits within the following
categorical exclusion listed in appendix B to subpart D of 10 CFR part
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.\1\ Specifically, WAPA has determined this
rulemaking is consistent with activities identified in part B4,
Categorical Exclusions Applicable to Specific Agency Actions (see 10
CFR part 1021, appendix B to subpart D, part B4). A copy of the
categorical exclusion determination is available on WAPA-RMR's website
at: <a href="https://www.wapa.gov/regions/RM/environment/Pages/CX2021.aspx">https://www.wapa.gov/regions/RM/environment/Pages/CX2021.aspx</a>. Look
for the file entitled ``2021-091 LAP 2025 Resource Pool CX.''
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\1\ The determination was done in compliance with NEPA (42
U.S.C. 4321-4347); the Council on Environmental Quality Regulations
for implementing NEPA (40 CFR parts 1500-1508); and DOE NEPA
Implementing Procedures and Guidelines (10 CFR part 1021).
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B. Review Under Paperwork Reduction Act

In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501 et
seq.), WAPA has received approval from the Office of Management and
Budget for the collection of customer information in this rule, under
OMB control number 1910-5136.

C. Determination Under Executive Order 12866

WAPA 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 April 5,
2022, by Tracey A. LeBeau, Administrator, Western Area 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 April 21, 2022.
Treena V. Garrett,
Federal Register Liaison Officer, U.S. Department of Energy.
[FR Doc. 2022-08861 Filed 4-25-22; 8:45 am]
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