TVA IRP Act

This bill would create an Office of Public Participation within the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) to educate the public, help people follow TVA proceedings, and recommend process improvements. Within one year, the office would set up a public engagement process for TVA's integrated resource plan, including intervention, discovery, comments or testimony, and an evidentiary hearing. The TVA Board would oversee that process, preside over hearings, release modeling assumptions 100 days before a draft plan, and approve, deny, or require changes to the draft plan. The bill also adds resilience, extreme weather risk, and public health impacts to the factors TVA must consider in its least-cost planning.

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Sponsors

• Steve Cohen Democrat sponsor
• 2 cosponsors