95-22953. Notice of Availability of Record of Decision for Direct Service Industrial Customer General (Integration of Resources) Transmission Agreement 15-Year Extension

[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 179 (Friday, September 15, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 47938]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-22953]



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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Bonneville Power Administration


Notice of Availability of Record of Decision for Direct Service 
Industrial Customer General (Integration of Resources) Transmission 
Agreement 15-Year Extension

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 extend 
the length of the Direct Service Industrial Customer General 
(Integration of Resources (IR)) Transmission Agreement an additional 15 
years. The Business Plan Environmental Impact Statement (BP EIS) (DOE/
EIS-0183) of June 1995 supports this decision and was previously 
provided.
    In response to a need for sound policy to guide its business 
direction under changing market conditions, BPA explored six 
alternative plans of action in its BP EIS. In the subsequent BP EIS 
Record of Decision (August 15, 1995), the BPA Administrator selected 
the Market-Driven alternative as the best course of action. The EIS and 
ROD were also intended to guide BPA in a series of related decisions on 
specific issues and actions. The subject of this ROD is one of those 
actions.
    Consistent with the Business Plan, the BP EIS, and the BP EIS ROD, 
BPA is offering to extend the Direct Service Industries' (DSIs) 
existing 5-year General Transmission Agreement (IR Agreement) for an 
additional 15 years. BPA has decided to make this offer in order to 
continue to provide open and equitable access to the DSIs, allow the 
DSIs to diversify their power supply to reduce risk, and because BPA 
recognizes that the DSIs likely have the ability to access the 
wholesale power market indirectly through their local utilities.
    This decision, as well as others to follow, are tiered to the BP 
EIS ROD. The specific information on the IR Agreement extension and a 
summary of the environmental impacts associated with selecting this 
particular alternative are available upon request.

ADDRESSES: Copies of the ROD and BP EIS may be obtained by calling 
BPA's toll-free document request line: 1-800-622-4520.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: Allan F. Paschke--MPC, Bonneville 
Power Administration, P.O. Box 3621, Portland, Oregon 97208-3621, phone 
number 503-230-5850, fax number 503-230-7568.

PUBLIC AVAILABILITY: This ROD will be distributed to all interested and 
affected persons and agencies.

    Issued in Portland, Oregon, on August 31, 1995.
Walter E. Pollock,
Acting Administrator.
[FR Doc. 95-22953 Filed 9-14-95; 8:45 am]
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