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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 158 / Thursday, August 19, 2021 / Notices
Dated: August 13, 2021.
Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Southeastern Power Administration Notice of Interim Approval of Rate Schedules for Jim Woodruff Project Southeastern Power Administration, DOE.
ACTION: Notice of interim approval.
AGENCY:

SUMMARY: The Administrator for the Southeastern Power Administration Southeastern has confirmed and approved, on an interim basis, rate schedules JW1L and JW2F for the sale of power from the Jim Woodruff Project. The rate schedules are approved on an interim basis through September 30, 2026, and are subject to confirmation and approval by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission FERC on a final basis.
DATES: The approval of rates on an interim basis is effective October 1, 2021.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Samuel W. Loggins, Assistant Administrator, Finance and Marketing, Southeastern Power Administration, U.S. Department of Energy, 1166 Athens Tech Road, Elberton, GA 306356711, 706 2133805; Email:
Samuel.Loggins@sepa.doe.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: FERC, by order issued October 20, 2016, 157
FERC 62,043, confirmed and approved Rate Schedules JW1K and JW2F for the period October 1, 2016 through September 30, 2021. This order replaces these rate schedules on an interim basis, subject to final approval by FERC.
Department of Energy Administrator, Southeastern Power Administration In the Matter of:
Southeastern Power Administration Rate Order No. SEPA65
Jim Woodruff Project Power Rates
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Order Confirming and Approving Power Rates on an Interim Basis Pursuant to Section 302a of the Department of Energy Organization Act Pub. L. 9591, 42 U.S.C. 7152a, the functions of the Secretary of the Interior and the Federal Power Commission under Section 5 of the Flood Control Act of 1944 16 U.S.C. 825s, relating to the Southeastern Power Administration
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Southeastern, were transferred to and vested in the Secretary of Energy. By Delegation Order No. 00037.00B, effective November 19, 2016, the Secretary of Energy delegated to the Administrator, Southeastern Power Administration, the authority to develop power and transmission rates, to the Deputy Secretary of Energy the authority to confirm, approve, and place such rates into effect on an interim basis, and to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission FERC the authority to confirm, approve, and place into effect on a final basis, or to disapprove, rates developed by the Administrator under the delegation. By Delegation Order No. S1DELS42021, effective February 25, 2021, the Acting Secretary of Energy also delegated the authority to confirm, approve, and place such rates into effect on an interim basis to the Under Secretary for Science and Energy. By Redelegation Order No. S4
DELOE12021, effective March 25, 2021, the Acting Under Secretary for Science and Energy redelegated the authority to confirm, approve, and place such rates into effect on an interim basis to the Assistant Secretary for Electricity.
By Redelegation Order No. 00002.10
03, effective July 8, 2020, the Assistant Secretary for Electricity further redelegated the authority to confirm, approve, and place such rates into effect on an interim basis to the Administrator, Southeastern Power Administration. This last redelegation, despite predating the February 2021
delegation and March 2021
redelegation, remains valid. This rate is confirmed, approved, and placed into effect on an interim basis by the Administrator, Southeastern Power Administration, pursuant to the authority delegated in Redelegation Order No. 00002.1003.
Background Power from the Jim Woodruff Project is presently sold under Wholesale Power Rate Schedules JW1K and JW
2F. These rate schedules were approved by FERC on October 20, 2016, for a period ending September 30, 2021
157 FERC 62,043.
Public Notice and Comment Notice of a proposed rate adjustment and opportunities for public review and comment for the Jim Woodruff Project was published in the Federal Register 86 FR 16717 on March 31, 2021.
Southeastern proposed an increase and to extend existing schedules of rates and charges applicable to the sale of power from the Jim Woodruff Project to become effective October 1, 2021, through September 30, 2026. The notice
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advised interested parties that a public information and comment forum for this rate action would be held virtually by Microsoft Teams Meeting on May 11, 2021. Written comments were due on or before June 29, 2021.
The proposed rate schedule JW1L
would increase the capacity charge from $7.74 per kilowatt per month to $8.46
per kilowatt per month. The energy charge would be increased from 20.44
mills per kilowatt-hour to 22.32 mills per kilowatt-hour. In addition to the capacity and energy charges, each preference customer would continue to be charged for power purchased by Southeastern on behalf of the preference customer. This pass-through would continue to be computed as described in the current rate schedules.
Rate schedule JW2F, available to Duke Energy Florida DEF, would continue the current rate of 100 percent of DEFs fuel cost.
Public Comments Southeastern received oral comments from two participants as part of the public information and comment forum on May 11, 2021. Southeastern received one written response to the Notice of proposed rates, public forum, and opportunities for public review and comment published in the Federal Register at 86 FR 16717 on March 31, 2021.
Oral Comment: Commenter 1 I know that when we reviewed a lot of the revenue requirementsits been a little over a month ago, the Jim Woodruff customers were very satisfied with the staffs presentations and theall of the questions were answered in a satisfactory manner, so we have no follow-up questions at this time.
Oral Comment: Commenter 2 A
couple of questions. I believe it was stated earlier that there was a 7 percent drop in repayment from 2016 to 2020.
Is that a simple function of revenues being insufficient due to low water years? Is there a sense in terms of why thatthe repayment was off by 7
percent?
Oral Response: No, that is just the straight percentage when we compared what we used as estimates in the last rate adjustment study from 2016. We compared FY16 through FY20 estimates with the actuals, and that was just kind of an indication of the difference in what we estimated repayment to be with what was actually repaid.
Oral Comment: Commenter 2 And then looking at the SEPA marketing expense, we note that theres a 13
percent increase between 2019 to 2020.
If you compare 2019 through 2021, you have a 15 percent increase in the SEPA

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