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Tentative Agenda 

1. U–233 Waste Briefing/Update 

2. Site-Wide Environmental Impact 

Statement Briefing/Update 

3. Nye County Drilling Presentation 

4. Industrial Sites-Closing Use 

Restriction Sites Presentation 

Public Participation: The EM SSAB, 

Nevada, welcomes the attendance of the 

public at its advisory committee 

meetings and will make every effort to 

accommodate persons with physical 

disabilities or special needs. If you 

require special accommodations due to 

a disability, please contact Barbara 

Ulmer at least seven days in advance of 

the meeting at the phone number listed 

above. Written statements may be filed 

with the Board either before or after the 

meeting. Individuals who wish to make 

oral presentations pertaining to agenda 

items should contact Barbara Ulmer at 

the telephone number listed above. The 

request must be received five days prior 

to the meeting and reasonable provision 

will be made to include the presentation 

in the agenda. The Deputy Designated 

Federal Officer is empowered to 

conduct the meeting in a fashion that 

will facilitate the orderly conduct of 

business. Individuals wishing to make 

public comments will be provided a 

maximum of five minutes to present 

their comments. 

Minutes: Minutes will be available by 

writing to Barbara Ulmer at the address 

listed above or at the following Web 

site: http://nv.energy.gov/nssab/ 

MeetingMinutes.aspx. 

Issued at Washington, DC on November 2, 

2012. 

LaTanya R. Butler, 

Acting Deputy Committee Management 

Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2012–27300 Filed 11–7–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Bonneville Power Administration 

[BPA File No. OS–14] 

Public Hearing and Opportunities for 

Public Review and Comment 

AGENCY: Bonneville Power 

Administration (BPA), Department of 

Energy (DOE). 

ACTION: Notice of Proposed 2014 

Oversupply Rates. 

SUMMARY: On March 6, 2012, BPA filed 

its Oversupply Management Protocol 

with the Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission (Docket No. EL11–44) as an 

amendment to BPA’s Open Access 

Transmission Tariff. The protocol 

authorizes BPA to displace generation 

in its balancing authority area with 

Federal hydropower and provide 

compensation to generators for certain 

costs related to the displacement. BPA 

is holding the OS–14 rate proceeding to 

establish a rate to recover the costs 

incurred under the protocol. 

DATES: Persons wishing to intervene and 

become parties to the proceeding must 

file a petition to intervene, via U.S. Mail 

or electronic mail, no later than 5:00 

p.m. on November 15, 2012. A 

prehearing conference will be held at 

9:00 a.m. on November 14, 2012. 

Written comments by non-party 

participants must be received by 

February 15, 2013, to be considered in 

the Administrator’s Record of Decision. 

ADDRESSES: 

1. Petitions to intervene should be 

directed to Hearing Clerk—L–7, 

Bonneville Power Administration, 905 

NE 11th Ave., Portland, Oregon 97232, 

or may be emailed to rateclerk@bpa.gov. 

In addition, copies of the petition must 

be served concurrently on BPA’s 

General Counsel directed to Mr. Allen 

Chan, LT–7, Office of General Counsel, 

905 NE 11th Ave., Portland, Oregon 

97232, or via email to acchan@bpa.gov 

(see section III.A. for more information 

regarding interventions). 

2. Written comments by participants 

should be submitted to the Public 

Engagement Office—DKE–7, Bonneville 

Power Administration, P.O. Box 14428, 

Portland, Oregon 97293. You may also 

email your comments to www.bpa.gov/ 

comment. BPA requests that all 

comments and documents intended to 

be part of the Official Record in this rate 

proceeding contain the designation OS– 

14 in the subject line of the email. 

3. The prehearing conference will be 

held in the BPA Rates Hearing Room, 

2nd floor, 911 NE 11th Ave., Portland, 

Oregon 97232. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Heidi Helwig—DKE–7, Public Affairs 

Specialist, Bonneville Power 

Administration, P.O. Box 3621, 

Portland, Oregon 97208–3621; by 

phone at 503–230–3458 or toll free at 

1–800–622–4519; or via email to 

hyhelwig@bpa.gov. 

Responsible Officials: Mr. Raymond D. 

Bliven, Power Rates Manager, and Ms. 

Rebecca E. Fredrickson, Transmission 

Rates Manager. 

BPA Attorney Advisor: Mr. Allen Chan 

is the principal BPA attorney in this 

matter. Mr. Chan may be contacted by 

U.S. Mail at: Mr. Allen Chan, Office 

of General Counsel, LT–7, Bonneville 

Power Administration, P.O. Box 3621, 

Portland, OR 97208–3621 or via email 

at: acchan@bpa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Part I—Introduction and Procedural 

Background 

The Pacific Northwest Electric Power 

Planning and Conservation Act 

(Northwest Power Act) provides that 

BPA must establish and periodically 

review and revise its rates so that they 

recover, in accordance with sound 

business principles, the costs associated 

with the acquisition, conservation, and 

transmission of electric power, 

including amortization of the Federal 

investment in the Federal Columbia 

River Power System (FCRPS) over a 

reasonable number of years and BPA’s 

other costs and expenses. The 

Northwest Power Act also requires that 

BPA’s rates be established based on the 

record of a formal hearing, and for 

transmission rates only, that the costs of 

the Federal transmission system be 

equitably allocated between Federal and 

non-Federal power utilizing the system. 

This proceeding is being conducted 

under the rule for general rate 

proceedings, section 1010.9 of BPA’s 

Procedures. A proposed schedule for the 

proceeding is provided below. A final 

schedule will be established by the 

Hearing Officer at the prehearing 

conference. 

BPA Direct Case November 14, 2012 

Prehearing Conference November 14, 

2012 

Parties File Petition to Intervene

November 15, 2012 

Motions to Strike December 7, 2012 

Data Request Deadline December 7, 

2012 

Answers to Motions to Strike

December 14, 2012 

Data Response Deadline December 14, 

2012 

Parties file Direct Case January 18, 

2013 

Clarification January 29–February 1, 

2013 

Motions to Strike February 6, 2013 

Data Request Deadline February 6, 

2013 

Answers to Motions to Strike February 

13, 2013 

Data Response Deadline February 13, 

2013 

Close of Participant Comments

February 15, 2013 

Litigants file Rebuttal March 5, 2013 

Clarification March 7–8, 2013 

Motions to Strike March 13, 2013 

Data Request Deadline March 13, 2013 

Answers to Motions to Strike March 

20, 2013 

Data Response Deadline March 20, 

2013 

Cross-Examination March 25–29, 2013 

Initial Briefs Filed April 29, 2013 

Oral Argument May 9, 2013 


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Draft ROD issued June 11, 2013 

Briefs on Exceptions June 28, 2013 

Final ROD—Final Studies July 22, 

2013 

Section 1010.7 of BPA’s Procedures 

prohibits ex parte communications. The 

ex parte rule applies to all BPA and 

DOE employees and contractors. Except 

as provided below, any outside 

communications with BPA and/or DOE 

personnel regarding the merits of any 

issue in BPA’s rate proceeding by other 

Executive Branch agencies, Congress, 

existing or potential BPA customers 

(including tribes), and nonprofit or 

public interest groups are considered 

outside communications and are subject 

to the ex parte rule. The general rule 

does not apply to communications 

relating to: (1) Matters of procedure only 

(the status of the rate proceeding, for 

example); (2) exchanges of data in the 

course of business or under the Freedom 

of Information Act; (3) requests for 

factual information; (4) matters for 

which BPA is responsible under statutes 

other than the ratemaking provisions; or 

(5) matters which all parties agree may 

be made on an ex parte basis. The ex 

parte rule remains in effect until the 

Administrator’s Final ROD is issued, 

which is scheduled to occur on or about 

July 22, 2013. 

Part II—Description of the Rate 

Proceeding 

A. Purpose of the Hearing 

During periods of high water flows on 

the Columbia River, primarily during 

the spring and early summer, BPA, the 

Army Corps of Engineers (Corps), and 

the Bureau of Reclamation (Bureau) 

must take all reasonable actions to avoid 

excess spill in order to protect 

endangered fish and other aquatic 

species in accordance with the Clean 

Water Act, Endangered Species Act, and 

court orders. At times, spilling water 

over the dams, rather than running 

water through the turbines to generate 

electricity, increases the levels of 

nitrogen, oxygen, and other gases in the 

water, beyond state water quality 

standards. To meet applicable 

environmental responsibilities, during 

periods of high flows BPA, the Corps, 

and the Bureau attempt to moderate 

spill and avoid total dissolved gases 

(TDG) beyond state water quality 

standards by running more water 

through the turbines. 

To avoid spilling water beyond 

approved TDG levels, other generation 

serving load is reduced or shut down 

and an equal amount of additional 

hydroelectric generation is delivered to 

that load. In May 2011, the BPA 

Administrator issued a Final Record of 

Decision adopting an Interim 

Environmental Redispatch policy, under 

which BPA could displace generation 

within its balancing authority area with 

free Federal hydropower. On June 13, 

2011, a group of wind customers filed 

a complaint with the Commission, 

requesting, among other things, that the 

Commission use its authority under 

section 211A of the Federal Power Act 

to order BPA to cease its environmental 

redispatch policy because it failed to 

provide transmission service on terms 

and conditions that are comparable to 

those under which BPA provides 

service to itself and that are not unduly 

discriminatory or preferential. 

On December 7, 2011, the 

Commission issued an order finding 

that BPA’s environmental redispatch 

policy failed to provide comparable 

transmission service and ordered BPA 

to file revisions to its Open Access 

Transmission Tariff to comply with the 

order. On March 6, 2012, BPA filed the 

Oversupply Management Protocol with 

the Commission, under which 

generators can elect to be compensated 

for certain costs related to displacement. 

Such costs are limited to (1) Production 

tax credits; (2) renewable energy credits 

unbundled from the sale of energy; and 

(3) for contracts executed prior to March 

6, 2012, costs related to bundled sales 

of renewable energy credits and energy. 

The Oversupply Management Protocol 

is set to expire on March 30, 2013. 

This OS–14 rate proceeding will 

establish rates to recover the costs 

already incurred under the Oversupply 

Management Protocol, and any future 

costs incurred up to September 30, 

2015, in the event the Oversupply 

Management Protocol is renewed after it 

expires on March 30, 2013. The 

extension of the effective period of the 

rates is contingent on further guidance 

from the Commission. BPA will revise 

its proposal as necessary to conform to 

such guidance. BPA is proposing to 

adopt a power rate to collect 50 percent 

of the costs from power customers and 

a new control area services rate to 

collect the other 50 percent of the costs 

from those generators that elect to be 

compensated for displacement. 

B. The National Environmental Policy 

Act 

BPA is in the process of assessing the 

potential for environmental effects 

resulting from implementation of the 

proposed OS–14 rates, consistent with 

the National Environmental Policy Act 

(NEPA). BPA has previously prepared 

an Environmental Clearance 

Memorandum, dated March 23, 2012, 

for the Oversupply Management 

Protocol, which considered 

environmental implications of the 

protocol and documented the 

categorical exclusion of the protocol 

from further NEPA review. BPA will 

evaluate whether the OS–14 rate 

proposal is covered within the scope of 

this previous NEPA documentation or 

whether additional NEPA 

documentation is necessary for any 

aspects of the OS–14 rate proposal. If 

additional NEPA documentation is 

necessary, a preliminary review of the 

OS–14 rate proposal indicates that it 

involves primarily administrative and 

financial matters that appear to fall 

within a class of actions that are also 

categorically excluded from further 

NEPA review pursuant to applicable 

NEPA regulations. Persons may submit 

comments regarding potential 

environmental effects of the proposal to 

Katherine Pierce, NEPA Compliance 

Officer, KEC–4, Bonneville Power 

Administration, 905 NE 11th Avenue, 

Portland, OR 97232. Any such 

comments received by the comment 

deadline for Participant Comments 

identified in section III.A. below will be 

considered by BPA’s NEPA compliance 

staff in its environmental evaluation of 

the OS–14 rate proposal. 

C. Oversupply Workshops 

In preparation for the OS–14 rate 

proceeding, BPA staff held three public 

workshops with customers and 

interested parties from March 2012 

through May 2012. BPA published 

notices for all workshops, which were 

well attended. During the workshops, 

BPA staff presented and discussed 

information about the potential costs 

arising from oversupply conditions, the 

functionalization of oversupply costs 

between power and transmission, and 

the allocation of the functionalized costs 

among customers. BPA also shared 

drafts of rate schedule language for the 

oversupply rates and potential 

procedural schedules. Staff has used the 

comments received at the workshops to 

assist in constructing the Initial 

Proposal. 

Part III—Public Participation 

A. Distinguishing Between 

‘‘Participants’’ and ‘‘Parties’’ 

BPA distinguishes between 

‘‘participants in’’ and ‘‘parties to’’ the 

hearing. Apart from the formal hearing 

process, BPA will receive written 

comments, views, opinions, and 

information from ‘‘participants,’’ who 

are defined in BPA’s Procedures as 

persons who may submit comments 

without being subject to the duties of, or 

having the privileges of, parties. 

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made part of the official record and 

considered by the Administrator. 

Participants are not entitled to 

participate in the prehearing conference; 

may not cross-examine parties’ 

witnesses, seek discovery, or serve or be 

served with documents; and are not 

subject to the same procedural 

requirements as parties. BPA customers 

whose rates are subject to this 

proceeding, or their affiliated customer 

groups, may not submit participant 

comments. Persons who are members or 

employees of organizations that have 

intervened in the rate proceeding may 

submit general comments as 

participants but may not use the 

comment procedures to address specific 

issues raised by their intervenor 

organization. 

Written comments by participants 

will be included in the record if they are 

received by February 15, 2013, and 

should be submitted to the address 

listed in the ADDRESSES section of this 

notice. 

Entities or persons become parties to 

the proceeding by filing petitions to 

intervene, which must state the name 

and address of the entity or person 

requesting party status and their interest 

in the hearing. BPA customers and 

affiliated customer groups will be 

granted intervention based on a petition 

filed in conformance with BPA’s 

Procedures. Other petitioners must 

explain their interests in sufficient 

detail to permit the Hearing Officer to 

determine whether such petitioners 

have a relevant interest in the hearing. 

Pursuant to Rule 1010.1(d) of BPA’s 

Procedures, BPA waives the 

requirement in Rule 1010.4(d) that an 

opposition to an intervention petition be 

filed and served 24 hours before the 

prehearing conference. Any opposition 

to an intervention petition must instead 

be made at the prehearing conference. 

Any party, including BPA, may oppose 

a petition for intervention. All timely 

petitions will be ruled on by the Hearing 

Officer. Late interventions are strongly 

disfavored. Opposition to an untimely 

petition to intervene must be filed and 

received by BPA within two days after 

service of the petition. 

BPA is holding the OS–14 rate 

proceeding at the same time as the BP– 

14 rate proceeding for power, 

transmission, and ancillary and control 

area service rates. However, these 

proceedings are separate. As a result, 

entities or persons wishing to intervene 

in both dockets must file separate 

petitions to intervene, and all filings 

must be made in the rate proceeding to 

which the filing pertains. 

B. Developing the Record 

The record will include, among other 

things, the transcripts of the hearing; 

testimony, evidence, and argument 

entered into the record by BPA and the 

parties; written comments from 

participants; and other material 

accepted into the record by the Hearing 

Officer. The Hearing Officer then will 

review the record and certify the record 

to the Administrator for final decision. 

Parties will have the opportunity to 

file initial briefs after the close of crossexamination. BPA then will issue a 

Draft Record of Decision that will 

include the Administrator’s preliminary 

decisions. Parties may file briefs on 

exceptions, after which the 

Administrator will issue the Final 

Record of Decision establishing the rate. 

The Administrator will develop a 

final rate based on the entire record. The 

Administrator will serve copies of the 

Final Record of Decision on all parties 

and will file its rates with the 

Commission for confirmation and 

approval. 

Part IV—Oversupply OS–14 

A. Scope of the Oversupply Rate 

Proceeding 

Pursuant to Rule 1010.3(f) of BPA’s 

Procedures, the Administrator limits the 

scope of this proceeding to issues 

concerning the rates for recovering the 

costs of the Oversupply Management 

Protocol described in Part II.A of this 

notice. In particular, the following 

issues are not part of the scope of the 

case, and the Hearing Officer is directed 

to strike all testimony concerning these 

issues: the terms of the Oversupply 

Management Protocol; whether the 

Oversupply Management Protocol 

complies with the Commission’s Order 

issued on December 7, 2011; whether 

BPA took all actions to avoid using the 

Oversupply Management Protocol, 

including the payment of negative 

prices to generators outside of BPA’s 

balancing authority area; the scope of 

BPA’s environmental obligations; 

program levels and program level 

forecasts for any BPA program; and rates 

previously established or to be 

established in any other rate case. In 

addition, potential environmental 

impacts are not an issue in this 

proceeding. Environmental impacts are 

addressed in a concurrent NEPA 

process. See section II.B. Pursuant to 

§ 1010.3(f) of BPA’s Procedures, the 

Administrator directs the Hearing 

Officer to exclude from the record all 

argument, testimony, or other evidence 

that seeks in any way to address the 

potential environmental impacts of the 

rate being developed in this OS–14 rate 

proceeding. 

B. Summary of the 2014 Oversupply 

Rate Proposal 

The proposed OS–14 rates are formula 

rates designed to recover BPA’s 

oversupply costs. See Part II.A for a 

description of oversupply, the 

Oversupply Management Protocol, and 

BPA’s incurrence of costs to mitigate 

oversupply conditions. 

The rates will recover the following 

costs incurred between March 31, 2012, 

and September 30, 2015 (again, costs 

will be recovered for periods after 

March 30, 2013, if the protocol is 

renewed and pending Commission 

guidance): (1) Costs of an independent 

evaluator; and (2) payments to 

generators for (a) production tax credits, 

(b) renewable energy credits, and (3) 

losses with respect to certain power 

sales contracts. Under the proposed 

formula rates, BPA would recover actual 

costs rather than forecast costs, therefore 

avoiding the need to perform a later 

true-up between forecast costs and 

actual costs. 

The OS–14 rate proposal consists of 

two parts: (1) A power rate that applies 

as a separate charge to the Priority Firm 

Power (PF–14) rate, the Industrial Firm 

Power (IP–14) rate, and the New 

Resource Firm Power (NR–14) rate; and 

(2) a new control area service rate. The 

oversupply costs to be recovered would 

be allocated equally between the power 

rate and the control area services rate— 

one-half of the costs to the power 

Oversupply rate and the other half to 

the control area service Oversupply rate. 

The costs would then be charged to the 

customers that are subject to the two 

rates. 

The power Oversupply rate would be 

charged to customers subject to PF–14, 

IP–14, and NR–14 rates. The 

Oversupply charge would be 50 percent 

of the costs incurred under the 

Oversupply Management Protocol 

multiplied by the customer’s load, 

divided by the sum of all power 

customers’ load. For PF customers’ 

loads, BPA proposes to use the lesser of 

each customer’s Rate Period High Water 

Mark (RHWM) and the customer’s net 

requirement. For IP customers’ loads, 

BPA proposes to use each customer’s 

contract energy load. Currently, there 

are no customers being served at the NR 

rate and BPA does not expect any such 

customers during the effective period of 

the OS–14 rates. 

The control area service Oversupply 

rate would be charged to each generator 

that elects compensation pursuant to the 

Oversupply Management Protocol, 

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in kilowatts. The control area service 

charge would be 50 percent of the costs 

incurred under the Oversupply 

Management Protocol multiplied by the 

nameplate capacity of each participating 

generator, divided by the sum of all 

generating facility nameplate capacities 

of all participating generators. 

BPA proposes to bill for costs 

incurred prior to the effective date of the 

OS–14 rate after the effective date of the 

OS–14 rate. BPA would include charges 

for costs incurred after the effective date 

on the bill for the month those costs 

were incurred, subject to a rate cap as 

discussed below. BPA proposes to make 

the OS–14 rates effective until all costs 

have been billed and such bills have 

been fully paid. 

BPA is proposing to cap the total 

amount that would be billed under each 

Oversupply rate at $4,000,000 in any 

one month. The rate cap would allow 

the billing to be spread over several 

months to ease the cash flow effect on 

customers. Any oversupply costs in 

excess of the cap will carry over to 

subsequent months’ bills until the 

balance is completely billed. 

Part V—Proposed Oversupply Rate 

Schedules 

BPA’s proposed 2014 control area 

service Oversupply Rate Schedule and 

power General Rate Schedule Provision 

Oversupply Rate are a part of this notice 

and are available for viewing and 

downloading on BPA’s Web site at 

www.bpa.gov/goto/OS14Schedule 

Copies of the proposed rate schedules 

also are available for viewing in BPA’s 

Public Reference Room at the BPA 

Headquarters, 1st Floor, 905 NE 11th 

Avenue, Portland, OR 97232. 

Issued this 29th day of October, 2012. 

Stephen J. Wright, 

Administrator and Chief Executive Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2012–27306 Filed 11–7–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Bonneville Power Administration 

[BPA File No. BP–14] 

Fiscal Year (FY) 2014–2015 Proposed 

Power and Transmission Rate 

Adjustments; Public Hearing and 

Opportunities for Public Review and 

Comment 

AGENCY: Bonneville Power 

Administration (BPA or Bonneville), 

Department of Energy (DOE). 

ACTIONS: Notice of FY 2014–2015 

Proposed Power and Transmission Rate 

Adjustments. 

SUMMARY: BPA is holding a consolidated 

rate proceeding, Docket No. BP–14, to 

establish power and transmission rates 

for FY 2014–2015. 

The Pacific Northwest Electric Power 

Planning and Conservation Act 

(Northwest Power Act) provides that 

BPA must establish and periodically 

review and revise its rates so that they 

recover, in accordance with sound 

business principles, the costs associated 

with the acquisition, conservation, and 

transmission of electric power, 

including amortization of the Federal 

investment in the Federal Columbia 

River Power System (FCRPS) over a 

reasonable number of years and BPA’s 

other costs and expenses. The 

Northwest Power Act also requires that 

BPA’s rates be established based on the 

record of a formal hearing, and for 

transmission rates only, that the costs of 

the Federal transmission system be 

equitably allocated between Federal and 

non-Federal power utilizing the system. 

By this notice, BPA announces the 

commencement of a power and 

transmission rate adjustment proceeding 

for power, transmission, control area 

services, and ancillary services rates 

proposed to be effective on October 1, 

2013. 

DATES: Anyone wishing to become a 

party to the BP–14 proceeding must 

provide written notice, via U.S. Mail or 

electronic mail, which must be received 

by BPA no later than 3:00 p.m. on 

November 15, 2012. 

The BP–14 rate adjustment 

proceeding begins with a prehearing 

conference at 9:00 a.m. on November 14, 

2012, in the BPA Rates Hearing Room, 

2nd floor, 911 NE 11th Avenue, 

Portland, Oregon 97232. 

Written comments by non-party 

participants must be received by 

February 15, 2013, to be considered in 

the Administrator’s Record of Decision 

(ROD). 

ADDRESSES: 

1. Petitions to intervene should be 

directed to: Hearing Clerk—L–7, 

Bonneville Power Administration, 905 

NE 11th Avenue, Portland, Oregon 

97232, or may be emailed to 

rateclerk@bpa.gov. In addition, copies 

of the petition must be served 

concurrently on BPA’s General Counsel 

and directed to both Mr. Peter J. Burger, 

LP–7, and Mr. Barry Bennett, LC–7, 

Office of General Counsel, 905 NE 11th 

Avenue, Portland, Oregon 97232, or via 

email to pjburger@bpa.gov and 

bbennett@bpa.gov (see section III.A. for 

more information regarding 

interventions). 

2. Written comments by participants 

should be submitted to the Public 

Engagement Office, DKE–7, Bonneville 

Power Administration, P.O. Box 14428, 

Portland, Oregon 97293. Participants 

may also submit comments by email at: 

www.bpa.gov/comment. BPA requests 

that all comments and documents 

intended to be part of the Official 

Record in this rate proceeding contain 

the designation BP–14 in the subject 

line. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Heidi Y. Helwig, DKC–7, Public Affairs 

Specialist, Bonneville Power 

Administration, P.O. Box 3621, 

Portland, Oregon 97208; by phone toll 

free at 1–800–622–4520; or via email to 

hyhelwig@bpa.gov. 

Responsible Officials: Mr. Raymond 

D. Bliven, Power Rates Manager, is the 

official responsible for the development 

of BPA’s power rates, and Ms. Rebecca 

E. Fredrickson, Transmission Rates 

Manager, is the official responsible for 

the development of BPA’s transmission, 

ancillary and control area services 

(ACS) rates. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Table of Contents 

Part I. Introduction and Procedural 

Background 

Part II. Scope of 2014 Rate Proceeding 

Part III. Public Participation in BP–14 

Part IV. Summary of Rate Proposals 

Part V. Proposed 2014 Rate Schedules 

Part I—Introduction and Procedural 

Background 

Section 7(i) of the Northwest Power 

Act, 16 U.S.C. 839e(i), requires that 

BPA’s rates be established according to 

certain procedures, including 

publication in the Federal Register of 

this notice of the proposed rates; one or 

more hearings conducted as 

expeditiously as practicable by a 

Hearing Officer; opportunity for both 

oral presentation and written 

submission of views, data, questions, 

and arguments related to the proposed 

rates; and a decision by the 

Administrator based on the record. 

BPA’s rate proceedings are further 

governed by BPA’s Procedures 

Governing Bonneville Power 

Administration Rate Hearings, 51 

Federal Register 7611 (1986), which 

implement and expand the statutory 

requirements. 

This proceeding is being conducted 

under the rule for general rate 

proceedings, section 1010.4 of BPA’s 

Procedures. A proposed schedule for the 

proceeding is provided below. A final 

schedule will be established by the 

Hearing Officer at the prehearing 

conference. 

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