This bill, introduced in March 2024, would increase public participation and transparency in the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), a major federal utility serving the Southeast. The legislation creates a new Office of Public Participation within the TVA to serve as a liaison between the agency and the public, provide technical assistance, and help improve TVA processes based on public feedback. Most significantly, the bill establishes a formal public engagement process for the TVA's integrated resource planning, which determines the agency's long-term energy strategy, requiring a 100-day public comment period, opportunities for intervention and evidentiary hearings, and mandatory responses to discovery requests within 15 days. The bill also requires the TVA Board to oversee this public engagement directly rather than delegating it to staff, provide modeling assumptions to the public before releasing draft plans, and evaluate how public input shaped final decisions. No specific funding amounts or implementation costs are specified in the legislation.
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