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Filed Date: 5/25/22. 

Accession Number: 20220525–5166. 

Comment Date: 5 p.m. ET 6/15/22. 

Take notice that the Commission 

received the following public utility 

holding company filings: 

Docket Numbers: PH22–15–000. 

Applicants: Unison Energy, LLC, AIM 

Universal Holdings, LLC, Hunt 

Companies, Inc. 

Description: Unison Energy, LLC, et 

al., submits FERC–65A Notice of Change 

in Fact to Waiver Notification. 

Filed Date: 5/25/22. 

Accession Number: 20220525–5109. 

Comment Date: 5 p.m. ET 6/15/22. 

The filings are accessible in the 

Commission’s eLibrary system (https://

elibrary.ferc.gov/idmws/search/ 

fercgensearch.asp) by querying the 

docket number. 

Any person desiring to intervene or 

protest in any of the above proceedings 

must file in accordance with Rules 211 

and 214 of the Commission’s 

Regulations (18 CFR 385.211 and 

385.214) on or before 5:00 p.m. Eastern 

time on the specified comment date. 

Protests may be considered, but 

intervention is necessary to become a 

party to the proceeding. 

eFiling is encouraged. More detailed 

information relating to filing 

requirements, interventions, protests, 

service, and qualifying facilities filings 

can be found at: http://www.ferc.gov/ 

docs-filing/efiling/filing-req.pdf. For 

other information, call (866) 208–3676 

(toll free). For TTY, call (202) 502–8659. 

Dated: May 25, 2022. 

Debbie-Anne A. Reese, 

Deputy Secretary. 

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BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Western Area Power Administration 

Proposed 2025 Olmsted Power 

Marketing Plan 

AGENCY: Western Area Power 

Administration, DOE. 

ACTION: Notice of proposed 2025 

Olmsted power marketing plan and 

announcement of public information 

and comment forum. 

SUMMARY: Western Area Power 

Administration (WAPA), a federal 

Power Marketing Administration of the 

Department of Energy (DOE), is seeking 

comments on its proposed 2025 

Olmsted Power Marketing Plan 

including the general power marketing 

criteria to be used as the basis for 

marketing the hydroelectric generation 

of the Olmsted Powerplant Replacement 

Project (Olmsted Project). The current 

Olmsted Power Marketing Plan will 

expire on September 30, 2024, and the 

proposed 2025 Olmsted Power 

Marketing Plan would take effect 

October 1, 2024. 

DATES: The public comment period on 

the Proposed 2025 Olmsted Power 

Marketing Plan begins June 1, 2022 and 

ends August 30, 2022. To be assured of 

consideration, WAPA must receive all 

written comments by the end of the 

comment period. 

WAPA will hold a virtual public 

information forum about this proposed 

marketing plan on Thursday, June 28, 

2022, from 9:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. MDT. 

The virtual public comment forum is 

scheduled for the afternoon of the same 

day, Thursday, June 28, 2022, beginning 

at 1:00 p.m. MDT and concluding when 

comments are complete, or no later than 

4:00 p.m. MDT. Due to the COVID–19 

pandemic, neither the public 

information nor comment forums will 

be held in-person. Information on the 

virtual meeting may be found on the 

Colorado River Storage Project (CRSP) 

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

regions/CRSP/PowerMarketing/Pages/ 

power-marketing.aspx. WAPA will post 

webinar and dial in information at this 

link 14 days before the scheduled 

forums. 

ADDRESSES: Submit written comments 

about this proposed marketing plan to: 

Mr. Rodney Bailey, Acting CRSP 

Manager, CRSP Management Center 

(MC), Western Area Power 

Administration, 1800 South Rio Grande 

Avenue, Montrose, CO 81401. 

Comments also may be emailed to 

Olmsted-Marketing@wapa.gov or faxed 

to 970–240–6282. All documentation 

developed or retained by WAPA for the 

purpose of developing the proposed 

marketing plan is available for 

inspection and copying at the CRSP MC. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Randolph Manion, CRSP Contracts and 

Energy Services Manager, Manion@

wapa.gov, 720–201–3285. Written 

requests for information should be 

mailed to the CRSP Management Center 

at the ADDRESSES section. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: WAPA is 

responsible for marketing power from 

CRSP, of which the Olmsted Project is 

a feature. WAPA is also responsible for 

marketing power from other CRSP 

projects which include the Salt Lake 

City Area Integrated Projects, the 

Falcon-Amistad Project, and the Provo 

River Project. CRSP operates 

approximately 2,316 miles of 

transmission line and associated 

infrastructure related to these federal 

hydroelectric projects across Arizona, 

New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, and 

Wyoming. This Federal Register notice 

formally initiates WAPA’s public 

process and request for public 

comments on the proposed 2025 

Olmsted Power Marketing Plan. WAPA 

will prepare and publish the final 2025 

Olmsted Power Marketing Plan after 

considering public comments on the 

proposed marketing plan. This Federal 

Register notice is not a call for 

applications. A call for applications 

from those interested in an allocation of 

Olmsted Project power will occur in a 

future notice. 

The Olmsted Project is located at the 

mouth of Provo Canyon in northern 

Utah and is part of the Central Utah 

Project, a participating project of CRSP. 

In 1987, the United States Department 

of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation 

(Reclamation) secured ownership of the 

Olmsted Flowline, located in northern 

Utah, from PacifiCorp (formerly known 

as Utah Power and Light), and the 

associated water rights as an essential 

part of the Central Utah Project. In the 

related 1990 Settlement Agreement, the 

Olmsted facilities were acquired in 

condemnation proceedings by the 

United States and added to the Central 

Utah Project to better secure and 

develop water rights. As part of the 

condemnation proceedings, PacifiCorp 

continued Olmsted operations until 

September 22, 2015. Power generation 

at the site ceased on that date, and the 

Department of Interior (DOI) assumed 

responsibility for operating the Olmsted 

Project. 

The continued operation of the 

Olmsted facilities is essential to 

maintaining the non-consumptive 

Olmsted water rights necessary for the 

Central Utah Project. A comprehensive 

evaluation of the 100-year-old project 

determined the facility greatly exceeded 

its operational life, and a replacement 

hydroelectric facility was necessary. On 

February 4, 2015, an Implementation 

Agreement (Agreement) for the Olmsted 

Project was signed by the Central Utah 

Water Conservancy District (District), 

Reclamation, DOE, and WAPA 

(Participants). The Agreement set forth 

the responsibilities of the Participants 

and how the Olmsted Project would be 

funded. The second quarter of calendar 

year 2016, pursuant to the Agreement, 

the District began construction of the 

12-megawatt, $42 million replacement 

hydroelectric facility and new power 

transmission line to the Provo Power 

system. Olmsted Powerplant 

construction was completed in July 

2018 and started commercial power 

production in October 2018. The 


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Olmsted Project is a federal facility 

operated and maintained by the District 

in connection with its Central Utah 

Project operations. The Olmsted Project 

is a ‘‘run-of-the-river’’ plant producing 

power only when water demands from 

downstream users necessitate water 

deliveries. 

Current Marketing Plan Background 

WAPA published the Final 2018 

Olmsted Power Marketing Plan and Call 

for Applications in the Federal Register 

on October 11, 2017 (82 FR 47201). The 

‘‘Final Allocations of the Olmsted 

Powerplant Replacement Project’’ was 

published in the Federal Register on 

September 5, 2018 (83 FR 45121), and 

WAPA began marketing energy under 

the marketing plan on October 5, 2018. 

The Olmsted Project’s 3-year net 

generation average is 24,650,000 

kilowatt-hours (kWh). This hydropower 

is currently marketed to Utah Municipal 

Power Agency; and the District, Lehi 

City, Kaysville City, Weber Basin Water 

Conservancy District, and Springville 

City through the Utah Associated 

Municipal Power Systems (Customers). 

Customers with an allocation receive a 

proportional share of the energy and 

annually pay a proportional share of the 

operation, maintenance, and 

replacement (OM&R) expenses in 12 

monthly installments. 

Proposed 2025 Olmsted General Power 

Marketing Criteria 

In the proposed 2025 Olmsted Power 

Marketing Plan, WAPA proposes to offer 

a resource extension to existing 

Customers and a portion of the resource 

to new applicants under the following 

general marketing criteria: 

A. Marketing Area: Due to the 

relatively small size of the resource and 

its operating characteristics, eligible 

applicants must be located within the 

following counties in Utah: Davis, Juab, 

Morgan, Salt Lake, Summit, Utah, 

Weber, and Wasatch. 

B. Resource Extensions and Resource 

Pool Allocations: WAPA proposes to 

provide 95 percent of its available 

energy resource to existing Customers 

and to establish a resource pool up to 

5 percent for eligible new preference 

entities and the ‘‘June Sucker’’ fish 

restoration efforts required by the 

Central Utah Project Completion Act. 

WAPA will take into consideration all 

existing federal hydropower allocations 

an applicant is currently receiving when 

determining each new allocation. 

Allocations of Olmsted Project energy 

will be determined solely by WAPA. 

Eligible applicant(s) who receive an 

allocation will be allocated a percentage 

of the annual energy output of the 

powerplant rather than fixed quantities 

of energy. 

C. Eligible Applicants: Eligible 

applicants must qualify as preference 

entities, in accordance with section 9(c) 

of the Reclamation Project Act of 1939, 

43 U.S.C. 485h(c). WAPA will provide 

allocations only to preference entities in 

the marketing area. WAPA, through a 

separate public process, will determine 

the amount of energy to allocate in 

accordance with the marketing criteria 

and administrative discretion under 

Reclamation Law (e.g., Reclamation Act 

of 1902, 32 Stat. 388, as amended). As 

operator of the Olmsted Power Plant 

and as a result of priority status under 

the current marketing plan, the District 

will not be impacted by the 5 percent 

set aside for eligible new preference 

entities. 

D. Preference Entities: Municipalities, 

rural electric cooperatives, and political 

subdivisions including irrigation or 

other districts, and other governmental 

organizations that have electric utility 

status by October 1, 2023, and federally 

recognized Native American tribes are 

all preference entities in accordance 

with section 9(c) of the Reclamation 

Project Act of 1939, as amended (43 

U.S.C. 485h(c)). A Native American 

applicant must be an ‘‘Indian Tribe’’ as 

that term is defined in section 4 of the 

Indian Self Determination and 

Education Assistance Act, as amended 

(25 U.S.C. 5304(e)). ‘‘Electric utility 

status’’ means that the entity has 

responsibility to meet load growth, has 

a distribution system, and is ready, 

willing, and able to purchase federal 

power from WAPA on a wholesale 

basis. 

E. Ready, Willing, and Able: Eligible 

applicants must be ready, willing, and 

able to receive and distribute or 

consume energy from WAPA. ‘‘Ready, 

willing, and able’’ means the applicant 

has the facilities needed for the receipt 

of power or has made the necessary 

arrangements for transmission and/or 

distribution service, and its power 

supply contracts with third parties 

permit the delivery of WAPA’s power. 

F. Contract Obligations: Eligible 

applicants that receive an allocation 

must execute electric service contracts 

within 6 months of receiving a contract 

offer from WAPA, unless WAPA agrees 

otherwise in writing. Furthermore, 

applicants must comply with all terms 

and conditions stated within that 

contract, including scheduling, 

accounting, and billing procedures; 

Energy Planning and Management 

Program requirements; General Power 

Contract Provisions; and power factor, 

among others. 

G. Contract Term: The term of the 

contract will be limited to 10 years. 

Resource extensions and new 

allocations would begin on October 1, 

2024, and remain in effect through 

September 30, 2034. However, the 

contract will automatically renew for up 

to two additional 5-year terms, 

commencing on October 1, 2034, and 

October 1, 2039, respectively, unless no 

later than 3 years before the beginning 

of an extension (by October 1, 2031, and 

October 1, 2036, respectively), any party 

to the contract gives written notice not 

to renew. If such notice is given, the 

automatic renewal option will be 

revoked, and all contracts will expire on 

September 30, 2034, or September 30, 

2039, respectively. 

H. Delivery Point: The Olmsted 

Project is electrically interconnected to 

the City of Provo, Utah, distribution and 

transmission facilities (Provo System), 

and delivery of power to each Customer 

will be where the 12.47 Provo System 

interconnects at PacifiCorp’s Hale 

Substation. 

I. Transmission Beyond Delivery 

Point: Any associated transformation/ 

transmission beyond the delivery point 

at Hale Substation is the sole 

responsibility of each Customer. Eligible 

applicants that receive an allocation 

must have the necessary arrangements 

for transmission and/or distribution 

service in place by October 1, 2023. 

J. Regional Transmission 

Organization: Should PacifiCorp, as the 

balancing authority operator where the 

Olmsted Project is interconnected, join 

a full electricity market (e.g., Regional 

Transmission Organization and/or an 

Independent System Operator), and in 

joining that market create unintended 

delivery point/point of receipt financial 

impacts to the Olmsted Project, and/or 

other unintended financial impacts, 

such financial impacts will be included 

as part of the Olmsted operation 

expenses, and WAPA will work with 

the Customers in good faith in an 

attempt to minimize those financial 

impacts. 

K. Rates and Payment: Olmsted 

Project is a ‘‘take all, pay all’’ project 

(i.e. the Olmsted Project annual revenue 

requirement is not dependent upon the 

amount of energy available each year). 

For additional information see the 

Provisional Formula Rate Schedule 

Olmsted F–1, effective through May 6, 

2023, under Olmsted Powerplant 

Replacement Project-Rate Order No. 

WAPA–177, published in the Federal 

Register on May 7, 2018 (83 FR 20065). 

Legal Authority 

WAPA is responsible for marketing 

the Federal power produced by the 


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1The determination was done in compliance with 

NEPA (42 U.S.C. 4321–4347); the Council on 

Environmental Quality Regulations for 

implementing NEPA (40 CFR parts 1500–1508); and 

DOE NEPA Implementing Procedures and 

Guidelines (10 CFR part 1021). 

Olmsted Project, as well as the other 

participating projects of CRSP, in 

accordance with the following Acts of 

Congress: Reclamation Act of June 17, 

1902 (Pub. L. 57–161) (32 Stat. 388), 

Revision of the Reclamation Act of 

August 4, 1939 (Pub. L. 76–260) (53 

Stat. 1187), Colorado River Storage 

Project Act of April 11, 1956 (Pub. L. 

84–485) (70 Stat. 105), Department of 

Energy Organization Act of August 4, 

1977 (Pub. L. 95–91) (91 Stat. 565), 

Energy Policy Act of October 30, 1992 

(Pub. L. 102–575) (106 Stat. 4600, 4605), 

as amended. 

Availability of Information 

Documents developed or retained by 

WAPA during this public process will 

be available on WAPA’s website, by 

appointment, for inspection and 

copying at the CRSP MC at the 

ADDRESSES Section above. Written 

comments received as part of the 

Proposed 2025 Olmsted Power 

Marketing Plan formal public process 

will be available for viewing on CRSP’s 

website. 

Regulatory Procedure Requirements 

A. Review Under the National 

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) 

WAPA has determined that this 

proposed action fits within the 

categorical exclusion listed in appendix 

B to subpart D of 10 CFR part 1021 (B4.1 

Contracts, policies, and marketing and 

allocation plans for electric power). 

Categorically excluded projects and 

activities do not require preparation of 

either an environmental impact 

statement or an environmental 

assessment.1 Specifically, WAPA has 

determined that this rulemaking is 

consistent with activities identified in 

part B4, Categorical Exclusions 

Applicable to Specific Agency Actions 

(see 10 CFR part 1021, appendix B to 

subpart D, part B4). A copy of the 

categorical exclusion determination is 

available on the CRSP website at: 

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

environment/Pages/environment.aspx. 

B. Review Under the Regulatory 

Flexibility Act 

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. For 

purposes of the RFA, 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 services offered by WAPA 

and, therefore, is not a rule within the 

purview of the RFA. 

C. Determination Under Executive Order 

12866 

WAPA has an exemption from 

centralized regulatory review under 

Executive Order 12866. Accordingly, no 

clearance of this notice by the Office of 

Management and Budget is required. 

D. Review Under Paperwork Reduction 

Act 

In accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501, et seq.), 

WAPA has received approval from the 

Office of Management and Budget to 

collect applicant data, under OMB 

control number 1910–5136. 

Signing Authority 

This document of the Department of 

Energy was signed on [DATE], by 

Tracey A. LeBeau, 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 May 24, 

2022. 

Treena V. Garrett, 

Federal Register Liaison Officer, U.S. 

Department of Energy. 

[FR Doc. 2022–11475 Filed 5–31–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Western Area Power Administration 

Proposed 2025 Provo River Project 

Marketing Plan 

AGENCY: Western Area Power 

Administration, DOE. 

ACTION: Notice of proposed 2025 Provo 

River project marketing plan and 

announcement of public information 

and comment forum. 

SUMMARY: Western Area Power 

Administration (WAPA), a federal 

Power Marketing Administration of the 

Department of Energy (DOE), is seeking 

comments on this proposed 2025 Provo 

River Project (PRP) Marketing Plan, 

including the general power marketing 

criteria to be used as the basis for 

marketing the hydroelectric generation 

of the PRP. The current PRP Marketing 

Plan expires September 30, 2024, and 

the proposed 2025 PRP Marketing Plan 

would take effect October 1, 2024. 

DATES: The public comment period on 

the Proposed 2025 PRP Marketing Plan 

begins June 1, 2022 and ends August 30, 

2022. To be assured of consideration, 

WAPA must receive all written 

comments by the end of the comment 

period. 

WAPA will hold a virtual public 

information forum about this proposed 

marketing plan on Thursday, June 28, 

2022, from 9:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. MDT. 

The virtual public comment forum is 

scheduled the same day, Thursday, June 

28, 2022, beginning at 1:00 p.m. MDT 

and concluding when comments are 

complete, or no later than 4:00 p.m. 

MDT. Due to the COVID–19 pandemic, 

neither the public information nor 

comment forums will be held in-person. 

Information on the virtual meeting may 

be found on the Colorado River Storage 

Project (CRSP) website at: https://

www.wapa.gov/regions/CRSP/

PowerMarketing/Pages/powermarketing.aspx. WAPA will post 

webinar and dial in information at this 

link 14 days before the scheduled 

forums. 

ADDRESSES: Submit written comments 

about this proposed marketing plan to: 

Mr. Rodney Bailey, Acting CRSP 

Manager, CRSP Management Center 

(MC), Western Area Power 

Administration, 1800 South Rio Grande 

Avenue, Montrose, CO 81401. 

Comments also may be emailed to 

Provo-Marketing@wapa.gov or be faxed 

to 970–240–6282. All documentation 

developed or retained by WAPA for the 

purpose of developing the proposed 

marketing plan is available for 

inspection and copying at the CRSP MC. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Randolph Manion, CRSP Contracts and 

Energy Services Manager, Manion@

wapa.gov, 720–201–3285. Written 

requests for information should be 

mailed to CRSP MC at the ADDRESSES

section. 


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