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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Western Area Power Administration 

Proposed Allocation of Olmsted 

Powerplant Replacement Project 

AGENCY: Western Area Power 

Administration, DOE. 

ACTION: Notice of proposed allocation of 

Olmsted Powerplant Replacement 

Project. 

SUMMARY: Western Area Power 

Administration (WAPA) Colorado River 

Storage Project (CRSP) Management 

Center, a Federal power marketing 

agency of the Department of Energy, 

announces its Olmsted Powerplant 

Replacement Project (Olmsted) 

Proposed Allocation of Energy. The 

Final 2018 Olmsted Power Marketing 

Plan and Call for Applications was 

published on October 11, 2017, and set 

forth that an application for an 

allocation of energy from Olmsted was 

due by December 11, 2017. WAPA has 

reviewed and considered the 

applications received and this Federal 

Register notice outlines WAPA’s 

proposed allocations. 

DATES: All comments must be received 

by the end of the comment period to be 

assured of consideration. The comment 

period on the proposed allocation of 

power begins June 13, 2018 and ends 

July 13, 2018. WAPA will accept written 

comments any time during the 30-day 

comment period. 

ADDRESSES: All written comments 

regarding the proposed allocation of 

power should be directed to the 

following address: Mr. Brent Osiek, Vice 

President of Power Marketing for CRSP, 

CRSP Management Center, Western 

Area Power Administration, 299 South 

Main Street, Suite 200, Salt Lake City, 

UT 84111. Comments may also be faxed 

to (801) 524–5017 or emailed to: osiek@

wapa.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Brent Osiek, Vice President of Power 

Marketing for CRSP, (801) 524–5495; or 

Mr. Lyle Johnson, Public Utilities 

Specialist, (801) 524–5585. Written 

requests for information should be sent 

to CRSP Management Center, Western 

Area Power Administration, 299 South 

Main Street, Suite 200, Salt Lake City, 

UT 84111; faxed to (801) 524–5017; or 

emailed to: osiek@wapa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

United States acquired the Olmsted 

Powerplant in 1990 through 

condemnation proceedings in order to 

secure the water rights associated with 

the Olmsted Powerplant deemed 

essential to the Central Utah Project 

(CUP). The CUP is a participating 

project of the Colorado River Storage 

Project. As part of the condemnation 

proceedings, PacifiCorp continued 

Olmsted operations until 2015; after that 

time, the operation of the facility 

became the responsibility of the Bureau 

of Reclamation. 

The existing Olmsted Powerplant 

greatly exceeded its operational life, and 

a replacement facility was needed for 

the generation of power and 

preservation of associated nonconsumptive water rights. On February 

4, 2015, the Implementation Agreement 

(Agreement) for Olmsted was signed by 

Central Utah Water Conservancy District 

(District); the Department of the Interior, 

Bureau of Reclamation; and WAPA 

(Participants). The Agreement sets forth 

the responsibilities of the Participants 

and identifies funding of Olmsted. The 

District will construct, operate, 

maintain, and replace the Olmsted 

Powerplant and incidental facilities in 

connection with its CUP operations, 

including power generation. 

WAPA is responsible for marketing 

the Olmsted energy, which is 

anticipated to be available in the late 

summer of 2018. Power production will 

be incidental to the delivery of water 

and will only be available when water 

is present. Therefore, only energy, 

without capacity, will be available for 

marketing. It is expected that the annual 

energy production from Olmsted will 

average around 27,000,000 kWh per 

year. The Final 2018 Olmsted Power 

Marketing Plan and Call for 

Applications was published on October 

11, 2017 (82 FR 47201), and set forth 

that an application for an allocation of 

energy from Olmsted was due by 

December 11, 2017. 

Olmsted Proposed Allocation of Energy 

Pursuant to the Final Power 

Marketing Criteria, allocations of energy 

from Olmsted were made based on a 

percentage of annual generation rather 

than fixed quantities of energy. Olmsted 

is a ‘‘take all, pay all’’ project; the 

annual revenue requirement does not 

depend on the amount of energy 

available each year. Customers with an 

allocation will receive a share of the 

energy and will annually pay a 

proportional share of the operation, 

maintenance, and replacement (OM&R) 

expenses in 12 monthly installments. 

Applications were received from four 

entities representing a total of 14 

eligible applicants. In considering the 

Power Marketing Criteria, priority was 

given to the District due to its role in the 

construction, operation, maintenance, 

and replacement of Olmsted. The 

District will receive 30 percent of 

Olmsted’s annual generation. 

Olmsted will be electrically 

interconnected to Provo City’s (Provo) 

distribution and transmission facilities. 

Provo is a participant of the Utah 

Municipal Power Agency (UMPA), a 

joint-action agency responsible for 

supplying the wholesale power needs to 

Provo and other municipal electric 

utilities in the area. UMPA, a long-term 

power customer of WAPA, has agreed to 

accept all Olmsted energy as it is 

generated and, under a scheduling and 

displacement agreement with WAPA, 

provide Olmsted customers with their 

respective Olmsted allocation amounts 

from a portion of UMPA’s allocation of 

Salt Lake City Area Integrated Projects 

(SLCA/IP) resources, which is also 

marketed by WAPA. This arrangement 

will allow the Olmsted recipients more 

flexibility as it will be easier to schedule 

this SLCA/IP resource, which is 

essentially exchanged for Olmsted 

generation, and it allows the use of 

existing scheduling and transmission 

wheeling arrangements. In 

consideration for providing these 

arrangements, UMPA will receive a 30 

percent allocation of Olmsted 

generation. 

After consideration of the allocations 

to the District and UMPA, WAPA 

determined it would use the remaining 

Olmsted energy to increase the 

allocations of those applicants that have 

the lowest percentages of their current 

loads served by Federal power. Four of 

the applicants receive less than 10 

percent of their energy resources from 

Federal power. All of the other 

applicants currently receive over 20 

percent of their energy requirements 

from Federal allocations. Therefore, 

WAPA awarded 10 percent of the 

Olmsted generation to the four 

applicants receiving less than 10 

percent of their energy from Federal 

sources. The following table shows the 

proposed allocation percentages of the 

annual energy production of Olmsted: 

Applicant Percentage 

Central Utah Water Conservancy District ......................... 30 

Utah Municipal Power Agency 30 

Lehi City, Utah .......................... 10 

Kaysville City, Utah .................. 10 

Weber Basin Water Conservancy District ......................... 10 

Springville City, Utah ................ 10 

WAPA will respond to the comments 

received regarding the Olmsted 

Proposed Allocation of Energy and 

publish its final allocations after the 

public comment period ends. If any 

adjustments or corrections are necessary 

in a recipient’s percentage allocation, 

the allocations of all other recipients 


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may change. WAPA plans to enter into 

contracts with customers after 

publication of the Final Allocation of 

Power Federal Register notice. 

Availability of Information 

Documents developed or retained by 

WAPA during this public process will 

be available, by appointment, for 

inspection and copying at the CRSP 

Management Center, 299 South Main 

Street, Suite 200, Salt Lake City, Utah. 

Any comments received during the 30- 

day comment period will be posted to 

WAPA’s website at the following 

address: https://www.wapa.gov/regions/ 

CRSP/PowerMarketing/Pages/powermarketing.aspx. 

Procedural Requirements 

Environmental Compliance 

In compliance with the National 

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 

1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321–4347), the Council 

on Environmental Quality Regulations 

(40 CFR parts 1500–1508), and DOE 

NEPA Regulations (10 CFR part 1021), 

WAPA issued a Finding of No 

Significant Impact (FONSI) on January 

13, 2017. The FONSI and other NEPA 

compliance documentation may be 

found at https://www.wapa.gov/regions/ 

CRSP/environment/Pages/ 

environment.aspx. 

Regulatory Flexibility Analysis 

The Regulatory Flexibility Act of 1980 

(RFA), 5 U.S.C. 601, et seq., requires a 

Federal agency to perform a regulatory 

flexibility analysis whenever the agency 

is required by law to publish a general 

notice of proposed rulemaking for any 

proposed rule unless the agency can 

certify that the rule will not have a 

significant economic impact on a 

substantial number of small entities. In 

defining the term ‘‘rule,’’ the RFA 

specifies that a ‘‘rule’’ does not include 

‘‘a rule of particular applicability 

relating to rates [and] services . . . or to 

valuations, costs or accounting, or 

practices relating to such rates [and] 

services . . . .’’ 5 U.S.C. 601. WAPA 

has determined that this action relates 

to rates or services offered by WAPA 

and, therefore, is not a rule within the 

purview of the RFA. 

Determination Under Executive Order 

12866 

WAPA has an exemption from 

centralized regulatory review under 

Executive Order 12866; accordingly, no 

clearance of this Federal Register notice 

by the Office of Management and 

Budget is required. 

Dated: May 30, 2018. 

Mark A. Gabriel, 

Administrator. 

[FR Doc. 2018–12697 Filed 6–12–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OARM–2018–0229; FRL–9979– 

22–OARM] 

Proposed Information Collection 

Request; Comment Request; Monthly 

Progress Reports (Renewal) 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) is planning to submit an 

information collection request (ICR), 

‘‘Monthly Progress Reports (Renewal)’’ 

(EPA ICR No. 1039.15, OMB Control No. 

2030–0005) to the Office of Management 

and Budget (OMB) for review and 

approval in accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act. Before doing 

so, EPA is soliciting public comments 

on specific aspects of the proposed 

information collection as described 

below. This is a proposed extension of 

the ICR, which is currently approved 

through December 31, 2018. An Agency 

may not conduct or sponsor and a 

person is not required to respond to a 

collection of information unless it 

displays a currently valid OMB control 

number. 

DATES: Comments must be submitted on 

or before August 13, 2018. 

ADDRESSES: Submit your comments, 

referencing Docket ID No. EPA–HQ– 

OARM–2018–0229 online using 

www.regulations.gov (our preferred 

method), by email to oei.docket@

epa.gov, or by mail to: EPA Docket 

Center, Environmental Protection 

Agency, Mail Code 28221T, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 

20460. 

EPA’s policy is that all comments 

received will be included in the public 

docket without change including any 

personal information provided, unless 

the comment includes profanity, threats, 

information claimed to be Confidential 

Business Information (CBI) or other 

information whose disclosure is 

restricted by statute. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Thomas Valentino, Policy Training and 

Oversight Division, Office of 

Acquisition Management (3802R), 

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200 

Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 

20460; telephone number: (202) 564– 

4522; email address: valentino.thomas@

epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Supporting documents which explain in 

detail the information that the EPA will 

be collecting are available in the public 

docket for this ICR. The docket can be 

viewed online at www.regulations.gov 

or in person at the EPA Docket Center, 

WJC West, Room 3334, 1301 

Constitution Ave. NW, Washington, DC. 

The telephone number for the Docket 

Center is 202–566–1744. For additional 

information about EPA’s public docket, 

visit https://www.epa.gov/dockets. 

Pursuant to section 3506(c)(2)(A) of 

the PRA, EPA is soliciting comments 

and information to enable it to: (i) 

Evaluate whether the proposed 

collection of information is necessary 

for the proper performance of the 

functions of the Agency, including 

whether the information will have 

practical utility; (ii) evaluate the 

accuracy of the Agency’s estimate of the 

burden of the proposed collection of 

information, including the validity of 

the methodology and assumptions used; 

(iii) enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and (iv) minimize the burden 

of the collection of information on those 

who are to respond, including through 

the use of appropriate automated 

electronic, mechanical, or other 

technological collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology, 

e.g., permitting electronic submission of 

responses. EPA will consider the 

comments received and amend the ICR 

as appropriate. The final ICR package 

will then be submitted to OMB for 

review and approval. At that time, EPA 

will issue another Federal Register 

notice to announce the submission of 

the ICR to OMB and the opportunity to 

submit additional comments to OMB. 

Abstract: Appropriate Government 

surveillance of contractor performance 

is required to give reasonable assurance 

that efficient methods and effective cost 

controls are being used for various costreimbursable and fixed-rate contracts. 

Per 48 CFR 1552.211 regulations, on a 

monthly basis the Agency requires 

contractors to provide the Contracting 

Officer’s Representative (COR) with a 

report detailing: (a) What was 

accomplished on the contract for that 

period, (b) expenditures for the same 

period of time, and (c) what is expected 

to be accomplished on the contract for 

the next month. Responses to the 

information collection are mandatory 

for contractors and are required for the 

contractors to receive monthly 

payments. 

Form Numbers: EPA Form 1900–68. 


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