Northern States Power Builds a New Power Generating Facility About

Northern States Power builds a new power generating facility about once every seven years. Each new facility is a major decision, because the facilities require substantial investments of time, energy, money, and resources, and commit the company to a certain configuration (that is, an arrangement of buildings and equipment) for many years. According to our textbook, the decision to build this type of facility is referred to as a/an

A) project-production design decision.
B) long-term system design decision.
C) choice of methods design decision.
D) intermediate-term strategic decision.
E) facilities planning decision.