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118TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 7595 

To amend the Tennessee Valley Authority Act to provide for further 

transparency of the Tennessee Valley Authority, and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

MARCH 8, 2024 

Mr. COHEN (for himself and Mr. BURCHETT) introduced the following bill; 

which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure 

A BILL 

To amend the Tennessee Valley Authority Act to provide 

for further transparency of the Tennessee Valley Authority, and for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘TVA Increase Rate 

5 of Participation Act’’ or the ‘‘TVA IRP Act’’. 

6 SEC. 2. OFFICE OF PUBLIC PARTICIPATION. 

7 The Tennessee Valley Authority Act of 1933 (16 

8 U.S.C. 831k–1) is amended by inserting after section 12a 

9 the following: 


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1 ‘‘SEC. 12b. OFFICE OF PUBLIC PARTICIPATION. 

2 ‘‘(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—There is established in the 

3 Corporation an Office of Public Participation to engage 

4 with the public through direct outreach and education to 

5 facilitate greater understanding of the processes of the 

6 Authority and solicit broader participation in matters of 

7 the Authority affecting the public. 

8 ‘‘(b) HIRING.—Hiring authority for the Office of 

9 Public Participation shall lay with the Board and such au10 thority may not be delegated to Corporation staff. 

11 ‘‘(c) DUTIES.—The Office of Public Participation es12 tablished under subsection (a) shall— 

13 ‘‘(1) act as a liaison to members of the public 

14 affected by and interested in Corporation pro15 ceedings, by providing ongoing process information 

16 on individual proceedings and responding to requests 

17 for technical assistance; 

18 ‘‘(2) coordinate with other program offices of 

19 the Corporation to improve, or, as appropriate, make 

20 recommendations to improve processes in a manner 

21 responsive to public input, with the goal of ensuring 

22 processes are inclusive, fair, and easy to navigate; 

23 and 

24 ‘‘(3) with public participation and feedback, 

25 create and facilitate a process not later than 1 year 

26 after the date of enactment of this section, for 


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1 meaningful and open public engagement in the 

2 Authority’s integrated resource planning process, in3 cluding opportunities for intervention, discovery, 

4 filed comments or testimony, and an evidentiary 

5 hearing. 

6 ‘‘(d) PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IN INTEGRATED RE7 SOURCE PLANNING PROCESS.—The process required 

8 under subsection (b)(3) shall include— 

9 ‘‘(1) a public comment period that begins not 

10 later than 100 days before release of a draft of an 

11 integrated resource plan and ends on the last day of 

12 the evidentiary hearing for such plan; and 

13 ‘‘(2) a requirement for a response to any re14 quest for discovery from an intervenor not later than 

15 15 days after such request is submitted.’’. 

16 SEC. 3. INTEGRATED RESOURCE PLAN. 

17 (a) IN GENERAL.—In drafting an integrated resource 

18 plan pursuant to section 113 of the Energy Policy Act 

19 of 1992 (16 U.S.C. 831m–1), the Board of Directors of 

20 the Tennessee Valley Authority shall— 

21 (1) oversee the process for meaningful and open 

22 public engagement in the integrated resource plan23 ning process established under section 12b of the 

24 Tennessee Valley Authority Act of 1933 (as added 


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1 by this Act), including presiding over any evidentiary 

2 hearing required under such process; 

3 (2) include in such plan— 

4 (A) a long-term forecast of the Authority’s 

5 sales and peak demand under various reason6 able scenarios; 

7 (B) a summary of electrical transmission 

8 investments planned by the Authority; 

9 (C) resource portfolios developed with the 

10 purpose of fairly evaluating the range of de11 mand-side and supply-side technologies and 

12 services available to meet the Authority’s serv13 ice obligations; and 

14 (D) sensitivity analysis related to fuel 

15 costs, environmental regulations, electrification, 

16 distributed energy resources, and other uncer17 tainties or risks; 

18 (3) not later than 100 days before the public 

19 release of a draft of the plan, provide to the public 

20 the modeling assumptions used in developing such a 

21 plan, including costs and constraints on the model; 

22 (4) provide in such draft plan details of how 

23 and where public input informed the plan; 

24 (5) evaluate whether the draft plan takes into 

25 account the features required under section 


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1 113(b)(2) of the Energy Policy Act of 1992 (16 

2 U.S.C. 831m–1); and 

3 (6) issue a decision to approve, deny, or require 

4 modifications to such draft plan as necessary based 

5 on the evaluation under paragraph (5) and public 

6 input provided through the public comment period 

7 and evidentiary hearing required under section 12b 

8 of the Tennessee Valley Authority Act of 1933 (as 

9 added by this Act). 

10 (b) TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY LEAST-COST

11 PLANNING PROGRAM.—Section 113(b)(2)(A) of the En12 ergy Policy Act of 1992 (16 U.S.C. 831m–1) is amended 

13 by inserting ‘‘resilience, extreme weather risk, impacts to 

14 public health,’’ after ‘‘dispatchability’’. 

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