Sunshine Act Meeting

TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY

Sunshine Act Meeting

AGENCY HOLDING THE MEETING: Tennessee Valley Authority (Meeting No.

1490).

TIME AND DATE: 10 a.m. (CST), November 20, 1996.

PLACE: TVA Environmental Research Center Auditorium, Muscle Shoals,

Alabama.

STATUS: Open.

Agenda

Approval of minutes of meeting held on October 16, 1996.

Discussion Item

Environmental Research Center

New Business

A--Budget and Financing

A1. Adoption of Tennessee Valley Authority Financial Statements for

Fiscal Year 1996.

A2. Retention of Net Power Proceeds and Nonpower Proceeds and

Payments to the U.S. Treasury in March 1997, pursuant to Section 26 of

the TVA Act.

C--Energy

C1. Extension of Contract No. TV-94218V through September 30, 1999,

with Team Associates, Inc. The supplement will add $2.4 million to the

contract.

C2. Approval for Fossil and Hydro to enter into a 3-year contract

with McDaniel Fire Systems for systemwide fire-protection upgrades at

TVA's fossil, hydroelectric, and combustion turbine facilities. The

contract is not to exceed $30 million.

C3. Two-year contract with Piping and Equipment Company (with

provisions for up to three extension periods of one year each) to

provide pipe and fittings for TVA fossil, hydro, and nuclear plants.

The contract is not to exceed $25 million.

E--Real Property Transactions

E1. Sale of noncommercial, nonexclusive permanent easement

affecting 0.09 acre of land on Tellico Lake in Loudon County,

Tennessee, to Vernon J. Lowe for construction and maintenance of

recreational water-use facilities (Tract No. XTELR-185RE).

E2. Sale of a permanent easement affecting 0.3 acre of land on

Nickajack Lake in Marion County, Tennessee, to Doyle Morrison for a

road and utilities right-of-way (Tract No. XNJR-22H).

F--Unclassified

F1. Filing of condemnation case.

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Information Items

1. Approval for the Chief Administrative Officer to enter into

indefinite quantity term contracts with BTG, Inc., CDI Information

Services, and National Systems and Research Company for information

technology and professional and technical support services.

2. Approval for the Chief Administrative Officer to enter into

indefinite quantity term contracts with BTG, Inc., Tennessee Computer

Specialties, Inc., and Computer Resource Systems to provide computer

desktop systems.

3. Approval of an agreement with Venture Alliance Capital Fund,

LLC, to purchase membership shares in Venture Alliance Capital Fund,

LLC, a board-managed, limited liability company which invests in

companies in the Tennessee Valley region. The purpose of this agreement

is to promote economic development, increase power demand, and create

jobs in the Tennessee Valley region.

4. Approval of an agreement to make a loan to and purchase

membership shares in Workplace Wellness, LLC (WW), to help promote

economic development in the Tennessee Valley region. WW is a member-

managed, limited liability company developed by Alliance, LLC. WW

operates a mobile lab to perform onsite drug testing of employees and

applicants and provides drug testing services for TVA Nuclear.

5. Approval of the 1997 power system operating and capital budgets.

6. Abandonment of easement rights affecting approximately 2.1 acres

of land on the Ocoee No. 1 Chickamauga Dam Transmission Line (Tract No.

OR-134A).

7. Approval for the Chief Administrative Officer to enter into an

indefinite quantity term contract with Coleman Research Corporation for

an electronic document management system.

8. Filing of a condemnation case.

For more information: Please call TVA Public Relations at (423)

632-6000, Knoxville, Tennessee. Information is also available at TVA's

Washington Office (202) 898-2999.

Dated: November 13, 1996.

Edward S. Christenbury,

General Counsel and Secretary.

[FR Doc. 96-29524 Filed 11-14-96; 9:43 am]

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