WASHINGTON, July 11 -- Western Area Power Administration has issued a notice called: Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program-Eastern Division-Rate Order No. WAPA-218.

The notice was published in the Federal Register on July 11 by Jennifer Hartzell, Alternate Federal Register Liaison Officer, U.S. Department of Energy.

Summary: The formula rates for the Upper Great Plains region's (UGP) Pick-Sloan Missouri Basin Program-Eastern Division (P-SMBP-ED) transmission and ancillary services for UGP's costs to be recovered under the Southwest Power Pool's (SPP) Open Access Transmission Tariff (Tariff) should UGP decide to expand its participation in SPP in the Western Interconnection, have been confirmed, approved, and placed into effect on an interim b...