This bill requires the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) to significantly increase public participation in its planning processes by establishing a new Office of Public Participation and implementing more transparent integrated resource planning procedures. The TVA would need to create a formal public engagement process within one year of the bill's enactment, including opportunities for public comments, testimony, and evidentiary hearings, with the comment period beginning at least 100 days before a draft plan is released. The bill also requires the TVA Board to oversee these planning processes directly, share modeling assumptions publicly before releasing draft plans, and explain how public input shaped final decisions. Additionally, the legislation expands the TVA's planning requirements to consider resilience, extreme weather risk, and public health impacts alongside traditional cost factors. The changes affect anyone served by the TVA or interested in its energy decisions, though no new federal funding is specified in the legislation.
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