Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 160 / Monday, August 23, 2021 / Notices 47099 

1 74 FR 22732 (May 14, 2009). 

2 79 FR 19065 (April 7, 2014). 

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Dated: August 17, 2021. 

Debbie-Anne A. Reese, 

Deputy Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2021–18053 Filed 8–20–21; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Western Area Power Administration 

Notice of WAPA Loan Determination 

and Administration; Transmission 

Infrastructure Program 

AGENCY: Western Area Power 

Administration, DOE. 

ACTION: Notice of WAPA loan 

determination and administration. 

SUMMARY: The Western Area Power 

Administration (WAPA), a Federal 

power marketing administration of the 

United States Department of Energy 

(DOE), will be responsible for the loan 

determination and administration of 

loan applications submitted to its 

Transmission Infrastructure Program 

(TIP or Program) for use of WAPA’s 

borrowing authority. This Federal 

Register notice (FRN) announces 

WAPA’s revised role in performing all 

activities related to loan determination 

and administration. 

DATES: This decision is effective as of 

August 23, 2021. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Stacey Harris, Transmission 

Infrastructure Program, Western Area 

Power Administration, P.O. Box 281213, 

Lakewood, CO 80228–8213, telephone 

(720) 962–7710 or email: TIP@wapa.gov. 

This notice is available on WAPA’s 

website at: https://www.wapa.gov/ 

FederalRegisterNotices/Pages/federalregister-notices.aspx. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: WAPA 

markets and transmits wholesale 

hydroelectric power generated at 

Federal dams across the western United 

States. WAPA’s transmission system 

was developed to deliver Federal 

hydroelectric power to preference 

customers. WAPA owns and operates a 

transmission system with more than 

17,000 circuit-miles of high voltage 

lines and markets power across 15 

western states and a 1.3 million squaremile service area. WAPA’s service area 

encompasses all the following states: 

Arizona, California, Colorado, Nebraska, 

Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, 

South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming; and 

parts of Iowa, Kansas, Montana, 

Minnesota, and Texas. WAPA markets 

excess capacity on its transmission 

system consistent with the policies and 

procedures outlined in its Open Access 

Transmission Tariff (OATT) on file with 

the Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission. WAPA offers 

nondiscriminatory access to its 

transmission system, including requests 

to interconnect new generating 

resources to its transmission system, 

under its OATT. 

WAPA’s TIP implements Section 402 

of the America Recovery and 

Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Pub. L. 111– 

5), which amended Section 301 of the 

Hoover Power Plant Act of 1984. The 

Program uses the authority granted 

under these statutes to borrow up to 

$3.25 billion from the U.S. Department 

of the Treasury to construct, finance, 

facilitate, plan, operate, maintain, or 

study construction of new or upgraded 

electric power transmission lines and 

related facilities, with at least one 

terminus within WAPA’s service 

territory. The projects must facilitate the 

delivery of power generated by 

renewable energy resources constructed, 

or reasonably expected to be 

constructed, demonstrate reasonable 

expectation of repayment, not adversely 

affect system reliability or operations 

and be in the public interest. The 

Program was announced in 2009 1 and 

revised in 2014.2

The 2014 FRN established WAPA 

reliance on services and direction 

provided by DOE’s Loan Programs 

Office (LPO) in setting out the financial 

terms of the lender-borrower 

relationship and the LPO would be 

responsible for administering the Project 

Finance Phase consisting of 

underwriting, financing, and loan 

monitoring and servicing. With the 

publication of this FRN, WAPA 

announces it has contracted with 

external parties to provide support in 

the performance of these services. The 

use of contractors provides TIP 

flexibility in scaling manpower up or 

down to match increased or decreased 

Program activities, while avoiding the 

need to create a fixed staff. Moreover, 

consistent with upholding the principle 

set forth in the 2014 FRN, loan 

applicants shall remain solely 

responsible for paying all costs 

associated with a loan. 

Signing Authority 

This document of the Department of 

Energy was signed on August 17, 2021, 

by Tracey A. LeBeau, Interim 

Administrator, Western Area Power 

Administration, pursuant to delegated 

authority from the Secretary of Energy. 

That document with the original 

signature and date is maintained by 

DOE. For administrative purposes only, 

and in compliance with requirements of 

the Office of the Federal Register, the 

undersigned DOE Federal Register 

Liaison Officer has been authorized to 

sign and submit the document in 

electronic format for publication, as an 

official document of the Department of 

Energy. This administrative process in 

no way alters the legal effect of this 

document upon publication in the 

Federal Register. 

Signed in Washington, DC, on August 18, 

2021. 

Treena V. Garrett, 

Federal Register Liaison Officer, U.S. 

Department of Energy. 

[FR Doc. 2021–17997 Filed 8–20–21; 8:45 am] 

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