Notice of Availability of Record of Decision for Direct Service Industrial Customer General (Integration of Resources) Transmission Agreement 15-Year Extension

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This notice announces the availability of the ROD to extend the length of the Direct Service Industrial Customer General (Integration of Resources (IR)) Transmission Agreement an additional 15 years. The Business Plan Environmental Impact Statement (BP EIS) (DOE/ EIS-0183) of June 1995 supports this decision and was previously provided. In response to a need for sound policy to guide its business direction under changing market conditions, BPA explored six alternative plans of action in its BP EIS. In the subsequent BP EIS Record of Decision (August 15, 1995), the BPA Administrator selected the Market-Driven alternative as the best course of action. The EIS and ROD were also intended to guide BPA in a series of related decisions on specific issues and actions. The subject of this ROD is one of those actions. Consistent with the Business Plan, the BP EIS, and the BP EIS ROD, BPA is offering to extend the Direct Service Industries' (DSIs) existing 5-year General Transmission Agreement (IR Agreement) for an additional 15 years. BPA has decided to make this offer in order to continue to provide open and equitable access to the DSIs, allow the DSIs to diversify their power supply to red