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the comment period, TVA held seven 

public meetings to describe the project 

and accept comments. TVA received 

about 200 comments signed by more 

than 2,400 individuals. After 

considering and responding to all 

substantive comments, further 

evaluating the alternative strategies, and 

developing the Target Power Supply 

Mix, TVA issued the Final IRP and 

SEIS. The NOA for the Final IRP and 

SEIS was published in the Federal 

Register on July 17, 2015. 

Environmentally Preferred Alternative 

All of the alternative strategies, as 

well as the Target Power Supply Mix, 

have several common features that affect 

their anticipated environmental 

impacts. The only new baseload 

generation added is the extended power 

uprate of three nuclear units, a 

component of all alternative strategies. 

All result in decreases in coal-fired 

generation and increases in the reliance 

on energy efficiency and renewable 

resources. All also add varying amounts 

of new natural gas-fueled generation to 

meet peak loads. Emissions of air 

pollutants and CO2, and generation of 

coal waste would decrease significantly 

under all alternative strategies, 

including the Target Power Supply Mix. 

Water-related impacts would also 

decrease, although by smaller 

proportions. The major differences in 

the alternative strategies that affect their 

environmental impacts are in the 

expansion of energy efficiency and 

natural gas and renewable resources. 

Strategies A–C and the Target Power 

Supply Mix have similar environmental 

impacts and their impacts to most 

environmental resources are greater 

than those of Strategies D and E. 

Because of its greater reliance on 

generation by fossil fuels, Strategy D has 

somewhat greater impacts to most 

environmental resources than Strategy 

E. Strategy E has the greatest reliance on 

renewable energy resources, which, 

particularly for utility-scale solar 

generation, have large land 

requirements. Strategy E would 

therefore directly affect the largest land 

area, almost twice that of the other 

alternative strategies and the Target 

Power Supply Mix. Relative to other 

types of generation, impacts of solar 

facilities on land resources are low. 

Overall, Strategy E is considered the 

environmentally preferred alternative. 

Decision 

On August 21, 2015, the TVA Board 

of Directors approved the preferred 

alternative, the Target Power Supply 

Mix. The Board also directed staff to 

monitor future developments to help 

determine when deviations from the 

recommended resource ranges should 

be made and to initiate an update to the 

IRP no later than 2020 and earlier if 

future developments make this 

appropriate. 

Mitigation Measures 

The reduction of environmental 

impacts was an important goal in TVA’s 

integrated resource planning process 

and all of the alternatives assessed by 

TVA do that. Because this is a 

programmatic review, measures to 

reduce potential environmental impacts 

on a site-specific level were not 

identified. As TVA deploys specific 

energy resources, it will review and take 

measures to reduce their potential 

environmental impacts as appropriate. 

TVA’s siting process for generation and 

transmission facilities, as well as 

processes for modifying these facilities, 

are designed to avoid and/or minimize 

potential adverse environmental 

impacts. Potential impacts will also be 

reduced through pollution prevention 

measures and environmental controls 

such as air pollution control systems, 

wastewater treatment systems, and 

thermal generating plant cooling 

systems. Other potentially adverse 

unavoidable impacts will be mitigated 

by measures such as compensatory 

wetlands mitigation, payments to in-lieu 

stream mitigation programs and related 

conservation initiatives, enhanced 

management of other properties, 

documentation and recovery of cultural 

resources, and infrastructure 

improvement assistance to local 

communities. 

Dated: October 16, 2015. 

Van M. Wardlaw, 

Executive Vice President and Chief External 

Relations Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2015–27129 Filed 10–23–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 8120–08–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

Public Notice for Waiver of 

Aeronautical Land-Use Assurance; 

Airport Property at Palmer Municipal 

Airport, Palmer, Alaska 

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration, Department of 

Transportation. 

ACTION: Notice of intent of waiver with 

repect to land. 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given per 49 

U.S.C. 47107(h)(1)(A) that the Federal 

Aviation Administration (FAA) is 

considering a proposal to change 

approximately 9.1 acres of airport land 

from aeronautical use to nonaeronautical use and to authorize the 

sale of this airport property. 

As described in the 2011 approved 

Airport Layout Plan, the 9.1 acres of 

airport land are composed of Tract C 

Lots LL 2 and LL 3, and Tract D Lot LL 

1C. Precently these properties are 

occupied as follows: LL 2 Mat-Su 

Borough Nutrition Center, LL 3 Baseball 

Fields, and LL 1C City Water Well. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before November 25, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: Send comments on this 

document to Mike Edelmann, Aviation 

Planner, Federal Aviation 

Administration, Alaskan Region 

Airports Division, 222 W. 7th Avenue, 

#14, Anchorage, AK 99513–7587. In 

addition, one copy of any comments 

submitted to the FAA must be mailed or 

delivered to: City of Palmer Alaska POC 

Jeffrey Combs Airport Superintendent 

(907) 761–1334 JJCOMBS@palmerak.org 

231 West Evergreen, Palmer AK 99645. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Michael Edelmann, Federal Aviation 

Administration, Alaskan Region 

Airports Division, 222 W. 7th Avenue, 

#14, Anchorage, AK 99513–7587, 

telephone 907–271–5026, email 

mike.edelmann@faa.gov or Jeffrey 

Combs Airport Superintendent (907) 

761–1334, JJCOMBS@palmerak.org, 231 

West Evergreen, Palmer AK 99645. 

Issued in Anchorage, Alaska, on October 

20, 2015. 

Byron Huffman, 

Division Manager, FAA, Alaskan Region. 

[FR Doc. 2015–27185 Filed 10–23–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–13–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Requests for Comments; 

Clearance of Renewed Approval of 

Information Collection: Aviation 

Medical Examiner Program 

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, FAA 

invites public comments about our 

intention to request the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) 

approval to renew an information 

collection. The Federal Register Notice 

with a 60-day comment period soliciting 

comments on the following collection of 

information was published on August 


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