96-12826. Templates (New Power Sales Contracts) and Amendatory Agreement No. 7

[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 100 (Wednesday, May 22, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 25657]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-12826]



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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Bonneville Power Administration


Templates (New Power Sales Contracts) and Amendatory Agreement 
No. 7

AGENCY: Bonneville Power Administration (BPA), Department of Energy 
(DOE).

ACTION: Notice of availability of Record of Decision (ROD).

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SUMMARY: This notice announces the availability of the ROD to offer 
BPA's public utility customers choices about their business 
relationships with BPA over the next 5 years. One choice being offered 
is for the public utility customers, and potentially other types of 
customers, to negotiate a new tailored contract for firm load 
requirements service based on contract templates that have been 
negotiated through a public process and comment period. Requirements 
service is the firm power products that a BPA customer has a right to 
purchase from BPA for the customer's general firm power load 
requirements and its new large single loads. Contracts based on the 
templates will be available at least through August 1, 1996.
    The other key choice BPA is offering is an opportunity to amend 
their 1981 or 1984 Power Sales Contracts. With Amendatory Agreement No. 
7, BPA is offering terms that will address certain changes in the 
electric power marketplace and in the needs of BPA customers. This 
amendment is offered in the context of the market-driven approach 
selected in BPA's Business Plan process. This amendment is planned to 
be the final step in a sequence of offers to public utility customers 
intended to strengthen BPA's competitive position in the electric power 
market and to strengthen its business relationships with its customers. 
This decision is consistent with BPA's Business Plan, the Business Plan 
Final Environmental Impact Statement (DOE/EIS-0183, June 1995), and the 
Business Plan ROD (August 15, 1995).

ADDRESSES: Copies of this ROD, the Business Plan Environmental Impact 
Statement, and the Business Plan ROD may be obtained by calling BPA's 
toll-free document request line: 1-800-622-4520.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: Katherine S. Pierce--EC, Bonneville 
Power Administration, P.O. Box 3621, Portland, Oregon, 97208-3621, 
phone number [phone], fax number [phone].

    Issued in Portland, Oregon, on May 13, 1996.
Randall W. Hardy,
Administrator and Chief Executive Officer.
[FR Doc. 96-12826 Filed 5-21-96; 8:45 am]
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