[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 81 (Wednesday, April 28, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 22423-22424]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-9805]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Reclamation
Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program, Eastern and Western Division
Proposed Project Use Power Rate
AGENCY: Bureau of Reclamation, Interior.
ACTION: Reopening of comment period for review of the Pick-Sloan
Missouri Basin Program, Eastern and Western Divisions, Proposed Project
Use Power Rate Adjustment.
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SUMMARY: The Bureau of Reclamation is reopening the comment period for
the Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program, Eastern and Western Division
Proposed Project Use Power Rate Adjustment for an additional 30 days
from the date of publication of this Notice. The initial Notice
proposing this adjustment was published in the Federal Register on
January 11, 2010 (75 FR 1408). The public comment period ended on
February 10, 2010.
DATES: Written comments on the proposed power rate adjustment will be
accepted on or before May 28, 2010.
ADDRESSES: Please send written comments to Mike Ferguson, GP-2020,
Power O&M Administrator, P.O. Box 36900, Billings, MT 59107-6900.
All booklets, studies, comments, letters, memoranda, and other
documents made or kept by Reclamation for the purpose of developing the
proposed rate for Project Use Power will be made available for
inspection and copying at the Great Plains Regional Office, located at
316 North 26th Street, Billings, MT 59101.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mike Ferguson, Bureau of Reclamation,
Great Plains Regional Office at 406-247-7705 or by e-mail at
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Proposed Rate Adjustment
Power rates for the P-SMBP are established pursuant to the
Reclamation Act of 1902 (43 U.S.C. 391 et seq.), as amended and
supplemented by subsequent enactments, particularly section 9(c) of the
Reclamation Project Act of 1939 (43 U.S.C. 485h (c)) and the Flood
Control Act of 1944 (16 U.S.C. 825s).
Reclamation proposes to:
(a) Increase the energy charge from 12.55 mills/kWh to 16.17 mills/
kWh.
(b) the monthly demand charge will remain at zero.
The Project Use Power Rate will be reviewed each time Western Area
Power Administration (Western) adjusts the P-SMBP Firm Power Rate.
Dated: April 14, 2010.
Michael J. Ryan,
Regional Director.
[FR Doc. 2010-9805 Filed 4-27-10; 8:45 am]
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