H.R. 6357

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6357 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 6357

To amend the Tennessee Valley Authority Act to provide for further 
transparency of the Tennessee Valley Authority, and for other purposes.

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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

December 2, 2025

Mr. Cohen (for himself and Mr. Burchett) introduced the following bill; 
which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and 
Infrastructure

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A BILL

To amend the Tennessee Valley Authority Act to provide for further 
transparency of the Tennessee Valley Authority, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the ``TVA Increase Rate of Participation 
Act'' or the ``TVA IRP Act''.

SEC. 2. OFFICE OF PUBLIC PARTICIPATION.

The Tennessee Valley Authority Act of 1933 (16 U.S.C. 831k-1) is 
amended by inserting after section 12a the following:

``SEC. 12B. OFFICE OF PUBLIC PARTICIPATION.

``(a) Establishment.--There is established in the Corporation an 
Office of Public Participation to engage with the public through direct 
outreach and education to facilitate greater understanding of the 
processes of the Authority and solicit broader participation in matters 
of the Authority affecting the public.
``(b) Hiring.--Hiring authority for the Office of Public 
Participation shall lay with the Board and such authority may not be 
delegated to Corporation staff.
``(c) Duties.--The Office of Public Participation established under 
subsection (a) shall--
``(1) act as a liaison to members of the public affected by 
and interested in Corporation proceedings, by providing ongoing 
process information on individual proceedings and responding to 
requests for technical assistance;
``(2) coordinate with other program offices of the 
Corporation to improve, or, as appropriate, make 
recommendations to improve processes in a manner responsive to 
public input, with the goal of ensuring processes are 
inclusive, fair, and easy to navigate; and
``(3) with public participation and feedback, create and 
facilitate a process not later than 1 year after the date of 
enactment of this section, for meaningful and open public 
engagement in the Authority's integrated resource planning 
process, including opportunities for intervention, discovery, 
filed comments or testimony, and an evidentiary hearing.
``(d) Public Participation in Integrated Resource Planning 
Process.--The process required under subsection (b)(3) shall include--
``(1) a public comment period that begins not later than 
100 days before release of a draft of an integrated resource 
plan and ends on the last day of the evidentiary hearing for 
such plan; and
``(2) a requirement for a response to any request for 
discovery from an intervenor not later than 15 days after such 
request is submitted.''.

SEC. 3. INTEGRATED RESOURCE PLAN.

(a) In General.--In drafting an integrated resource plan pursuant 
to section 113 of the Energy Policy Act of 1992 (16 U.S.C. 831m-1), the 
Board of Directors of the Tennessee Valley Authority shall--
(1) oversee the process for meaningful and open public 
engagement in the integrated resource planning process 
established under section 12b of the Tennessee Valley Authority 
Act of 1933 (as added by this Act), including presiding over 
any evidentiary hearing required under such process;
(2) include in such plan--
(A) a long-term forecast of the Authority's sales 
and peak demand under various reasonable scenarios;
(B) a summary of electrical transmission 
investments planned by the Authority;
(C) resource portfolios developed with the purpose 
of fairly evaluating the range of demand-side and 
supply-side technologies and services available to meet 
the Authority's service obligations; and
(D) sensitivity analysis related to fuel costs, 
environmental regulations, electrification, distributed 
energy resources, and other uncertainties or risks;
(3) not later than 100 days before the public release of a 
draft of the plan, provide to the public the modeling 
assumptions used in developing such a plan, including costs and 
constraints on the model;
(4) provide in such draft plan details of how and where 
public input informed the plan;
(5) evaluate whether the draft plan takes into account the 
features required under section 113(b)(2) of the Energy Policy 
Act of 1992 (16 U.S.C. 831m-1); and
(6) issue a decision to approve, deny, or require 
modifications to such draft plan as necessary based on the 
evaluation under paragraph (5) and public input provided 
through the public comment period and evidentiary hearing 
required under section 12b of the Tennessee Valley Authority 
Act of 1933 (as added by this Act).
(b) Tennessee Valley Authority Least-Cost Planning Program.--
Section 113(b)(2)(A) of the Energy Policy Act of 1992 (16 U.S.C. 831m-
1) is amended by inserting ``resilience, extreme weather risk, impacts 
to public health,'' after ``dispatchability''.
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