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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 172 / Thursday, September 9, 2021 / Notices
Secretary of Defense, or the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy.
The Board is composed of not more than 20 members who have distinguished backgrounds in defense and national security affairs. These members will come from varied backgrounds including prior government or military service, multinational corporations, academia, or other non-government organizations.
Individual members will be appointed according to DoD policy and procedures, and serve a term of service of one-to-four years with annual renewals. One member will be appointed as Chair of the Board. No member, unless approved according to DoD policy and procedures, may serve more than two consecutive terms of service on the Board, or serve on more than two DoD Federal advisory committees at one time.
Members of the Board who are not full-time or permanent part-time Federal civilian officers or employees, or active duty members of the Uniformed Services, will be appointed as experts or consultants pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 3109 to serve as special government employee members. Board members who are fulltime or permanent part-time Federal civilian officers or employees, or active duty members of the Uniformed Services, will be appointed pursuant to 41 CFR 1023.130a to serve as regular government employee members.
All members of the Board are appointed to provide advice based on their best judgment without representing any particular point of view and in a manner that is free from conflict of interest. Except for reimbursement of official Board-related travel and per diem, members serve without compensation.
The public or interested organizations may submit written statements to the Board membership about the Boards mission and functions. Written statements may be submitted at any time or in response to the stated agenda of planned meeting of the Board. All written statements shall be submitted to the DFO for the Board, and this individual will ensure that the written statements are provided to the membership for their consideration.
Dated: September 3, 2021.
Aaron T. Siegel, Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison Officer, Department of Defense.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Southwestern Power Administration Sam Rayburn Dam Rate Schedule Southwestern Power Administration, DOE.
ACTION: Notice of extension of Sam Rayburn Dam rate schedule.
AGENCY:

The Administrator, Southwestern Power Administration Southwestern has approved and placed into effect on an interim basis Rate Order No. SWPA78, which extends the following existing Southwestern Sam Rayburn Dam Hydropower Project rate schedule: Rate Schedule SRD15, Wholesale Rates for Hydro Power and Energy. This is an interim rate action effective October 1, 2021, extending for a period of two years through September 30, 2023.
DATES: The effective period for the rate schedule specified in Rate Order No.
SWPA78 is October 1, 2021, through September 30, 2023.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms.
Fritha Ohlson, Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Office of Corporate Operations, Southwestern Power Administration, U.S. Department of Energy, One West Third Street, Tulsa, Oklahoma 74103, 918 5956684 or email: fritha.ohlson@swpa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Rate Order No. SWPA78 is approved and placed into effect on an interim basis for the period October 1, 2021, through September 30, 2023, for the following Southwestern Sam Rayburn Dam rate schedule: Rate Schedule SRD15, Wholesale Rates for Hydro Power and Energy.
SUMMARY:

Decision Rationale The Southwestern Administrator completed an annual review of the continuing adequacy of the existing rate schedule for the Sam Rayburn Dam.
This review, as presented in the 2021
Sam Rayburn Dam Power Repayment Studies PRSs, indicated the need for a 3.5 percent revenue increase to continue to satisfy cost recovery criteria. It is Southwestern practice for the Administrator to defer, on a case-bycase basis, revenue adjustments for an isolated project if such adjustments are within plus or minus five percent of the revenue estimated from the current rate schedule. The deferral of a revenue adjustment rate change provides for rate stability and savings on the administrative cost of implementation.
The Administrator determined it to be prudent to defer the increase and allow the current rate schedule, which is set
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to expire September 30, 2021, to remain in effect.
To ensure that Southwestern has a rate schedule in effect for collection of revenue in order to meet its repayment obligations, the Administrator has approved and placed into effect a twoyear extension of the Sam Rayburn Dam rate schedule for the period October 1, 2021, through September 30, 2023.
The Administrator followed part 903, subpart A of title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations CFR, Procedures for Public Participation in Power and Transmission Rate Adjustments and Extensions for the extension to the rate schedule. The public was informed by publication in the Federal Register 86
FR 31500 June 14, 2021 of the proposed extension of the rate schedule and of the opportunity to provide written comments for a period of 30
days ending July 14, 2021. No comments were received.
Legal Authority By Delegation Order No. 00037.00B, effective November 19, 2016, the Secretary of Energy delegated: 1 The authority to develop power and transmission rates to the Southwestern Administrator; 2 the authority to confirm, approve, and place such rates into effect on an interim basis to the Deputy Secretary of Energy; and 3 the authority to confirm, approve, and place into effect on a final basis, or to remand or disapprove such rates, to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission FERC.
By Delegation Order No. S1DELS4
2021, 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. S4DELOE1
2021, 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. And by Redelegation Order No. 00002.10
04, 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 Southwestern Administrator. This redelegation order, despite predating the February 2021
delegation and March 2021
redelegation, remains valid. By these delegations, and in accordance with 10
CFR 903.22h and 10 CFR 903.23a, as amended 84 FR 5347, 5350 Feb. 21, 2019, the Administrator may approve and extend, on an interim basis, rates previously confirmed and approved by
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