Federal Register 2nd Notice (30 days) TVA Recreation User Survey 2015-206

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For additional information, contact
Alan Krill, Office of Economic Policy
Analysis and Public Diplomacy, Bureau
of Economic and Business Affairs, at
(202) 647–0812, or [email protected].
Dated: October 19, 2015.
Alan Krill,
Designated Federal Official, U.S. Department
of State.
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Dated: October 14, 2015.
William Gibbons-Fly,
Director, Office of Marine Conservation,
Department of State.

DEPARTMENT OF STATE
[Public Notice 9325]

Notice of Public Meeting

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The U.S. Department of State,
Bureau of Oceans and International
Environmental and Scientific Affairs
(OES), Office of Marine Conservation
announces that the Advisory Panel to
the U.S. Section of the North Pacific
Anadromous Fish Commission will
meet on November 23, 2015.
DATES: The meeting will take place via
teleconference on November 23rd, 2015
from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Eastern time.
Meeting Details: The teleconference
call-in number is toll-free 877–336–
1831, passcode 6472335, and will have
a limited number of lines for members
of the public to access from anywhere
in the United States. Callers will hear
instructions for using the passcode and
joining the call after dialing the toll-free
number noted. Members of the public
wishing to participate in the
teleconference must contact the OES
officer in charge as noted in the FOR
MORE INFORMATION section below no
later than close of business on Friday,
November 20th, 2015.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Elana Katz-Mink, Office of Marine
Conservation, OES, Room 2758, U.S.
Department of State, 2201 C Street NW.,
Washington, DC 20520. Telephone (202)
647–1073, fax (202) 736–7350, email
address [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In
accordance with the requirements of the
Federal Advisory Committee Act, notice
is given that the Advisory Panel to the
U.S. Section of the North Pacific
Anadromous Fish Commission (NPAFC)
will meet on the date and time noted
above. The panel consists of members
from the states of Alaska and
Washington who represent the broad
range fishing and conservation interests
in anadromous and ecologically related
species in the North Pacific. Certain
members also represent relevant state
and regional authorities. The panel was
established in 1992 to advise the U.S.
Section of the NPAFC on research needs

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and priorities for anadromous species,
such as salmon, and ecologically related
species occurring in the high seas of the
North Pacific Ocean. The upcoming
Panel meeting will focus on three major
topics: (1) Review of the agenda for the
2015 annual meeting of the NPAFC
(May 11–15, 2015; Kobe, Japan); and (2)
planning for the work of the Advisory
Panel in 2016. Background material is
available from the point of contact noted
above and by visiting www.npafc.org.

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DEPARTMENT OF STATE

Delegation to Thomas A. Shannon of
Authorities Normally Vested in the
Under Secretary of State for Political
Affairs
By virtue of the authority vested in
the Secretary of State by the laws of the
United States, including Section 1 of the
State Department Basic Authorities Act,
as amended (22 U.S.C. 2651a), I hereby
delegate to Thomas A. Shannon the
authorities and functions of the Under
Secretary of State for Political Affairs; as
well as, to the extent authorized by law,
all authorities and functions that have
been or may be delegated to the Under
Secretary of State for Political Affairs.
This delegation of authority does not
revoke, supersede, or affect any other
delegation of authority. Any authority
covered by this delegation may also be
exercised by the Secretary, the Deputy
Secretary, or the Deputy Secretary for
Management and Resources.
This delegation shall expire upon the
appointment and entry upon duty of an
individual to replace Wendy R.
Sherman as the Under Secretary of State
for Political Affairs.
This delegation of authority shall be
published in the Federal Register.
Dated: October 14, 2015.
John F. Kerry,
Secretary of State.
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TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request

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30-Day notice of submission of
information collection approval and
request for comments.

ACTION:

This survey will be used to
determine estimates for the numbers
annual recreation visits, associated user
economic impacts and will target both
reservoir and tailwater general
recreation users and shoreline property
owners. The proposed information
collection described below will be
submitted to the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) at, oira_submission@
omb.eop.gov, for review, as required by
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(44 U.S.C. chapter 35, as amended). The
Tennessee Valley Authority is soliciting
public comments on this proposed
collection as provided by 5 CFR
1320.8(d)(1).

SUMMARY:

Comments should be sent to the
Agency Clearance Officer and the OMB
Office of Information & Regulatory
Affairs, Attention: Desk Officer for
Tennessee Valley Authority,
Washington, DC, 20503, or email: oira_
[email protected], no later than
November 25, 2015.

DATES:

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AGENCY:

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Requests for information,
including copies of the information
collection proposed and supporting
documentation, should be directed to
the Agency Clearance Officer: Philip D
Propes, Tennessee Valley Authority,
1101 Market Street (SP–5S–108),
Chattanooga, Tennessee 37402–2801;
(423) 751–8593.

ADDRESSES:

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Type of Request: Regular request. New
collection.
Title of Information Collection: TVA
Recreation User Survey.
Frequency of Use: As funding is
available.
Type of Affected Public: Individuals
or households.
Small Businesses or Organizations
Affected: No.
Federal Budget Functional Category
Code: 271.
Estimated Number of Annual
Responses: 3000.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 1000.0.
Estimated Average Burden Hours per
Response: .20.
Need For and Use of Information:
TVA will contract with the University of
Tennessee to Survey by mail and in
person recreation users on the TVA
reservoir system to determine estimates
for the numbers annual recreation visits
and associated economic impacts from

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the recreation activities on the reservoir
system.
Philip D. Propes,
Director, Enterprise Information Security and
Policy.
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TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Proposed Collection;
Comment Request
Tennessee Valley Authority.
30-day notice of submission of
information collection approval and
request for comments.

AGENCY:
ACTION:

This survey is used to locate,
for monitoring purposes, rural residents,
home gardens, and milk animals within
a five mile radius of a nuclear power
plant. The Land use survey is performed
once per year. TVA uses the Land use
survey data for their effluent annual
report to the NRC normally in April
every year. The proposed information
collection described below will be
submitted to the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) at, oira_submission@
omb.eop.gov, for review, as required by
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(44 U.S.C. chapter 35, as amended). The
Tennessee Valley Authority is soliciting
public comments on this proposed
collection as provided by 5 CFR
1320.8(d)(1).

SUMMARY:

Comments should be sent to the
Agency Clearance Officer and the OMB
Office of Information & Regulatory
Affairs, Attention: Desk Officer for
Tennessee Valley Authority,
Washington, DC 20503, or email: oira_
[email protected], no later than
November 25, 2015.
ADDRESSES: Requests for information,
including copies of the information
collection proposed and supporting
documentation, should be directed to
the Agency Clearance Officer: Philip D.
Propes, Tennessee Valley Authority,
1101 Market Street (SP–5S–108),
Chattanooga, Tennessee 37402–2801;
(423) 751–8593.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Type of Request: Regular request.
Reinstatement, with change, of a
previously approved collection for
which approval has expired.
Title of Information Collection: Land
Use Survey Questionnaire—Vicinity of
Nuclear Power Plants.
Frequency of Use: Annual.
Type of Affected Public: Individuals
or households, farms and business and
other for-profit.

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Small Businesses or Organizations
Affected: Yes.
Federal Budget Functional Category
Code: 271.
Estimated Number of Annual
Responses: 150.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 75.0.
Estimated Average Burden Hours Per
Response: .50.
Need For and Use of Information: The
monitoring program is a mandatory
requirement of the Nuclear Regulatory
Commission set out in the technical
specifications when the plants were
licensed.
Philip D. Propes,
Director, Enterprise Information Security and
Policy.
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TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY
Integrated Resource Plan
Tennessee Valley Authority.
Issuance of record of decision.

AGENCY:
ACTION:

This notice is provided in
accordance with the Council on
Environmental Quality’s regulations (40
CFR 1500 to 1508) and TVA’s
procedures for implementing the
National Environmental Policy Act
(NEPA). TVA has decided to adopt the
preferred alternative in its final
supplemental environmental impact
statement (SEIS) for the Integrated
Resource Plan (IRP). The notice of
availability (NOA) of the Final
Supplemental Environmental Impact
Statement for the Integrated Resource
Plan was published in the Federal
Register on July 17, 2015. The TVA
Board of Directors approved the IRP and
authorized staff to implement the
preferred alternative at its August 21,
2015 meeting. This alternative, the
Target Power Supply Mix, will guide
TVA’s selection of energy resource
options to meet the energy needs of the
Tennessee Valley region over the next
20 years. The energy resource options
include new nuclear, natural gas-fired
and renewable generation, increased
energy efficiency and demand
reduction, and decreased coal-fired
generation.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Charles P. Nicholson, NEPA
Compliance, Tennessee Valley
Authority, 400 West Summit Hill Drive,
WT 11D, Knoxville, Tennessee 37902–
1499; telephone 865–632–3582 or email
[email protected].
Gary S. Brinkworth, IRP Project
Manager, Tennessee Valley Authority,
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1101 Market Street, MR 3K–C,
Chattanooga, Tennessee 3740s;
telephone 423–751–2193, or email
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: TVA is an
agency and instrumentality of the
United States, established by an act of
Congress in 1933, to foster the social
and economic welfare of the people of
the Tennessee Valley region and to
promote the proper use and
conservation of the region’s natural
resources. One component of this
mission is the generation, transmission,
and sale of reliable and affordable
electric energy. TVA operates the largest
public power system in the nation,
providing electricity to about 9 million
people in an 80,000-square mile area
comprised of most of Tennessee and
parts of Virginia, North Carolina,
Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and
Kentucky. It provides wholesale power
to 155 independent power distributors
and 59 directly served large industrial
and federal customers. The TVA Act
requires the TVA power system to be
self-supporting and operating on a
nonprofit basis and directs TVA to sell
power at rates as low as are feasible.
Dependable generating capability on
the TVA power system is about 37,200
megawatts (MW). TVA generates most of
this power with 3 nuclear plants, 10
coal-fired plants, 9 combustion-turbine
plants, 6 combined cycle plants, 29
hydroelectric plants, a pumped-storage
facility, and several small renewable
facilities. These facilities generated
142.2 billion kilowatt-hours in fiscal
year 2014. The major sources for this
power were coal (40 percent), nuclear
(33 percent), natural gas (13 percent),
and hydroelectric (10 percent). Other
sources comprised less than 1 percent of
TVA generation. Total power delivered
to customers in fiscal year 2014 was 161
gigawatt-hours (GWh). A portion of this
delivered power was provided through
long-term power purchase agreements.
The recently completed IRP updates
TVA’s 2011 IRP. Consistent with
Section 113 of the Energy Policy Act of
1992, codified within the TVA Act, TVA
employed a least-cost system planning
process in developing the IRP. This
process took into account the demand
for electricity, energy resource diversity,
reliability, costs, risks, environmental
impacts, and the unique attributes of
different energy resources.
Future Demand for Energy
TVA uses state-of-the-art energy
forecasting models to predict future
demands on its system. Because of the
uncertainty in predicting future
demands, TVA developed high,
medium, and low forecasts for both

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