80 FR 16666 - Hooper Springs Transmission Project
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Bonneville Power Administration Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 60 (March 30, 2015)
Bonneville Power Administration
Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 60 (March 30, 2015)
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| FR Document | 2015-07199 |
[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 60 (Monday, March 30, 2015)] [Notices] [Pages 16666-16667] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2015-07199] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY Bonneville Power Administration Hooper Springs Transmission Project AGENCY: Bonneville Power Administration (BPA), Department of Energy (DOE). ACTION: Notice of availability of Record of Decision (ROD). ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: This notice announces the availability of the ROD to implement the Hooper Springs Transmission Project in Caribou County, Idaho. BPA has decided to implement the South Alternative's Option 3A (Option 3A) identified in the Hooper Springs Transmission Project Final Environmental Impact Statement (DOE/EIS-0451, January 2015). Option 3A consists of: (1) A new 138/115-kilovolt (kV) Hooper Springs Substation located near the city of Soda Springs, Idaho; (2) a new, approximately 24-mile-long, double-circuit 115-kV transmission line extending generally north then east from the Hooper Springs Substation to a new BPA connection facility that will connect the new line to Lower Valley Energy's (LVE) existing transmission system in northeastern Caribou County; (3) a new, approximately 0.2-mile-long, single-circuit 138-kV transmission line extending generally south from the Hooper Springs Substation to [[Page 16667]] PacifiCorp's existing Threemile Knoll Substation to connect the new line to the regional transmission grid; and (4) required ancillary facilities such as access roads. The new Hooper Springs Substation will be constructed as a 138/115- kV substation, meaning that it will include a transformer capable of converting 138-kV electricity to 115-kV electricity. BPA will acquire 100-foot-wide right-of-way for the length of the 115-kV line. Approximately 174 new double-circuit 115-kV steel structures, ranging in height from 55 to 120 feet with an average span length between structures of 730 feet, will be installed in this new right-of-way. The BPA connection facility will be located about two miles southeast of the intersection of Blackfoot River Road and Diamond Creek Road and will consist of overhead line disconnect switches to connect the new 115-kV line to the existing LVE line. For the single-circuit 138-kV transmission line, two wood, H-frame structures approximately 80 to 85 feet tall will be installed within a new 125-foot-wide right-of-way. A fiber optic cable also will be installed along the 138-kV transmission line. About 14 miles of new access roads will be constructed and about 2.4 miles of existing access roads will be improved or reconstructed. All mitigation measures identified in the EIS are adopted. ADDRESSES: Copies of the ROD and EIS may be obtained by calling BPA's toll-free document request line, 1-800-622-4520. The ROD and EIS are also available on our Web site, http://efw.bpa.gov/environmental_services/Document_Library/HooperSprings/. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tish Eaton, Bonneville Power Administration--KEC-4, P.O. Box 3621, Portland, Oregon 97208-3621; toll-free telephone number 1-800-622-4519; fax number 503-230-5699; or email [email protected]. Issued in Portland, Oregon on March 16, 2015. Elliot E. Mainzer, Administrator and Chief Executive Officer. [FR Doc. 2015-07199 Filed 3-27-15; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6450-01-P
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potential effects on historic properties. 4 (3) You can file a paper copy of your selected an appropriate date range. For
We will define the project-specific Area comments by mailing them to the assistance, please contact FERC Online
of Potential Effects (APE) in following address: Kimberly D. Bose, Support at FercOnlineSupport@ferc.gov
consultation with the SHPO as the Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory or toll free at (866) 208–3676, or for
project develops. On natural gas facility Commission, 888 First Street NE., Room TTY, contact (202) 502–8659. The
projects, the APE at a minimum 1A, Washington, DC 20426. eLibrary link also provides access to the
encompasses all areas subject to ground texts of formal documents issued by the
Environmental Mailing List
disturbance (examples include Commission, such as orders, notices,
construction right-of-way, contractor/ The environmental mailing list and rulemakings.
pipe storage yards, compressor stations, includes federal, state, and local In addition, the Commission now
and access roads). Our EA for this government representatives and offers a free service called eSubscription
project will document our findings on agencies; elected officials; which allows you to keep track of all
the impacts on historic properties and environmental and public interest formal issuances and submittals in
summarize the status of consultations groups; Native American Tribes; other specific dockets. This can reduce the
under Section 106. interested parties; and local libraries amount of time you spend researching
and newspapers. This list also includes proceedings by automatically providing
Public Participation all affected landowners (as defined in you with notification of these filings,
You can make a difference by the Commission’s regulations) who are document summaries, and direct links
providing us with your specific potential right-of-way grantors, whose to the documents. Go to www.ferc.gov/
comments or concerns about the project. property may be used temporarily for docs-filing/esubscription.asp.
Your comments should focus on the project purposes, or who own homes Finally, public meetings or site visits
potential environmental effects, within certain distances of aboveground will be posted on the Commission’s
reasonable alternatives, and measures to facilities, and anyone who submits calendar located at www.ferc.gov/
avoid or lessen environmental impacts. comments on the project. We will EventCalendar/EventsList.aspx along
The more specific your comments, the update the environmental mailing list as with other related information.
more useful they will be. To ensure that the analysis proceeds to ensure that we
Dated: March 20, 2015.
your comments are timely and properly send the information related to this
Kimberly D. Bose,
recorded, please send your comments so environmental review to all individuals,
that the Commission receives them in organizations, and government entities Secretary.
Washington, DC on or before April 20, interested in and/or potentially affected [FR Doc. 2015–07143 Filed 3–27–15; 8:45 am]
2015. by the proposed project. BILLING CODE 6717–01–P
For your convenience, there are three If we publish and distribute the EA,
methods which you can use to submit copies will be sent to the environmental
your comments to the Commission. In mailing list for public review and DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
all instances please reference the project comment. If you would prefer to receive
Bonneville Power Administration
docket number (CP15–87–000) with a paper copy of the document instead of
your submission. The Commission the CD version or would like to remove Hooper Springs Transmission Project
encourages electronic filing of your name from the mailing list, please
comments and has expert staff available return the attached Information Request AGENCY: Bonneville Power
to assist you at (202) 502–8258 or (appendix 2). Administration (BPA), Department of
efiling@ferc.gov. Energy (DOE).
Becoming an Intervenor
(1) You can file your comments ACTION: Notice of availability of Record
electronically using the eComment In addition to involvement in the EA of Decision (ROD).
feature on the Commission’s Web site scoping process, you may want to
(www.ferc.gov) under the link to become an ‘‘intervenor’’ which is an SUMMARY: This notice announces the
Documents and Filings. This is an easy official party to the Commission’s availability of the ROD to implement the
method for interested persons to submit proceeding. Intervenors play a more Hooper Springs Transmission Project in
brief, text-only comments on a project; formal role in the process and are able Caribou County, Idaho. BPA has
(2) You can file your comments to file briefs, appear at hearings, and be decided to implement the South
electronically using the eFiling feature heard by the courts if they choose to Alternative’s Option 3A (Option 3A)
on the Commission’s Web site appeal the Commission’s final ruling. identified in the Hooper Springs
(www.ferc.gov) under the link to An intervenor formally participates in Transmission Project Final
Documents and Filings. With eFiling, the proceeding by filing a request to Environmental Impact Statement (DOE/
you can provide comments in a variety intervene. Instructions for becoming an EIS–0451, January 2015). Option 3A
of formats by attaching them as a file intervenor are in the User’s Guide under consists of: (1) A new 138/115-kilovolt
with your submission. New eFiling the ‘‘e-filing’’ link on the Commission’s (kV) Hooper Springs Substation located
users must first create an account by Web site. near the city of Soda Springs, Idaho; (2)
clicking on ‘‘eRegister.’’ You must select a new, approximately 24-mile-long,
Additional Information double-circuit 115-kV transmission line
the type of filing you are making. If you
are filing a comment on a particular Additional information about the extending generally north then east from
project, please select ‘‘Comment on a project is available from the the Hooper Springs Substation to a new
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Filing’’; or Commission’s Office of External Affairs, BPA connection facility that will
at (866) 208–FERC, or on the FERC Web connect the new line to Lower Valley
4 The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation’s site at www.ferc.gov using the Energy’s (LVE) existing transmission
regulations are at Title 36, Code of Federal ‘‘eLibrary’’ link. Click on the eLibrary system in northeastern Caribou County;
Regulations, Part 800. Those regulations define link, click on ‘‘General Search’’ and (3) a new, approximately 0.2-mile-long,
historic properties as any prehistoric or historic
district, site, building, structure, or object included
enter the docket number, excluding the single-circuit 138-kV transmission line
in or eligible for inclusion in the National Register last three digits in the Docket Number extending generally south from the
of Historic Places. field (i.e., CP15–87). Be sure you have Hooper Springs Substation to
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PacifiCorp’s existing Threemile Knoll DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY Accession Number: 20150320–5117.
Substation to connect the new line to Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 4/1/15.
the regional transmission grid; and (4) Federal Energy Regulatory Docket Numbers: RP15–662–000.
required ancillary facilities such as Commission Applicants: Leaf River Energy Center
access roads. LLC.
Combined Notice of Filings Description: Compliance filing per
The new Hooper Springs Substation
Take notice that the Commission has 154.203: Leaf River Energy Center
will be constructed as a 138/115-kV
received the following Natural Gas LLC—Order No. 801 Compliance Filing
substation, meaning that it will include
Pipeline Rate and Refund Report filings: to be effective 4/1/2015.
a transformer capable of converting 138- Filed Date: 3/20/15.
kV electricity to 115-kV electricity. BPA Filings Instituting Proceedings Accession Number: 20150320–5154.
will acquire 100-foot-wide right-of-way Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 4/1/15.
Docket Numbers: RP15–656–000.
for the length of the 115-kV line. Docket Numbers: RP15–663–000.
Applicants: Transcontinental Gas
Approximately 174 new double-circuit Pipe Line Company. Applicants: ANR Storage Company.
115-kV steel structures, ranging in Description: Section 4(d) rate filing Description: Compliance filing per
height from 55 to 120 feet with an per 154.403: LSS and SS–2 Fuel Tracker 154.203: Compliance to Order 801—
average span length between structures Filing 2015 to be effective 4/1/2015. Docket No. RM14–21–000 to be effective
of 730 feet, will be installed in this new Filed Date: 3/18/15. 6/1/2015.
right-of-way. The BPA connection Accession Number: 20150318–5147. Filed Date: 3/23/15.
facility will be located about two miles Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 3/30/15. Accession Number: 20150323–5052.
southeast of the intersection of Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 4/6/15.
Docket Numbers: RP15–657–000.
Blackfoot River Road and Diamond Applicants: Equitrans, L.P. Docket Numbers: RP15–664–000.
Creek Road and will consist of overhead Description: Section 4(d) rate filing Applicants: Blue Lake Gas Storage
line disconnect switches to connect the per 154.204: Negotiated Capacity Company.
new 115-kV line to the existing LVE Release Agreement—3/19/2015 to be Description: Compliance filing per
line. For the single-circuit 138-kV effective 3/19/2015. 154.203: Compliance to Order 801—
transmission line, two wood, H-frame Filed Date: 3/19/15. Docket No. RM14–21–000 to be effective
structures approximately 80 to 85 feet Accession Number: 20150319–5025. 6/1/2015.
tall will be installed within a new 125- Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 3/31/15. Filed Date: 3/23/15.
foot-wide right-of-way. A fiber optic Accession Number: 20150323–5053.
Docket Numbers: RP15–658–000. Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 4/6/15.
cable also will be installed along the Applicants: Enable Gas Transmission,
138-kV transmission line. About 14 Docket Numbers: RP15–665–000.
LLC.
miles of new access roads will be Applicants: Bison Pipeline LLC.
Description: Section 4(d) rate filing
Description: Compliance filing per
constructed and about 2.4 miles of per 154.204: Negotiated Rate Filing—
154.203: Compliance to Order 801—
existing access roads will be improved SND Non-Conforming 0414 (RS FT) to
Docket No. RM14–21–000 to be effective
or reconstructed. All mitigation be effective 2/1/2015.
6/1/2015.
measures identified in the EIS are Filed Date: 3/19/15. Filed Date: 3/23/15.
adopted. Accession Number: 20150319–5132. Accession Number: 20150323–5054.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 3/31/15. Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 4/6/15.
ADDRESSES: Copies of the ROD and EIS Docket Numbers: RP15–659–000.
may be obtained by calling BPA’s toll- Docket Numbers: RP15–666–000.
Applicants: Portland Natural Gas Applicants: Horizon Pipeline
free document request line, 1–800–622– Transmission System.
4520. The ROD and EIS are also Company, L.L.C.
Description: Compliance filing per Description: Penalty Revenue
available on our Web site, http:// 154.203: Compliance to Order 801— Crediting Report of Horizon Pipeline
efw.bpa.gov/environmental_services/ Docket No. RM14–21–000 to be effective Company, L.L.C.
Document_Library/HooperSprings/. 6/1/2015. Filed Date: 3/20/15.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tish Filed Date: 3/20/15. Accession Number: 20150320–5266.
Eaton, Bonneville Power Accession Number: 20150320–5022. Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 4/1/15.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 4/1/15. Docket Numbers: RP15–667–000.
Administration—KEC–4, P.O. Box 3621,
Portland, Oregon 97208–3621; toll-free Docket Numbers: RP15–660–000. Applicants: Midcontinent Express
telephone number 1–800–622–4519; fax Applicants: Gulf South Pipeline Pipeline LLC.
number 503–230–5699; or email Company, LP. Description: Penalty Revenue
tkeaton@bpa.gov. Description: Section 4(d) rate filing Crediting Report of Midcontinent
per 154.204: Amendments to Neg Rate Express Pipeline LLC.
Issued in Portland, Oregon on March 16, Agmts (QEP 37657–137, 36601–40) to be Filed Date: 3/20/15.
2015. effective 3/20/2015. Accession Number: 20150320–5267.
Elliot E. Mainzer, Filed Date: 3/20/15. Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 4/1/15.
Administrator and Chief Executive Officer. Accession Number: 20150320–5023. Any person desiring to intervene or
[FR Doc. 2015–07199 Filed 3–27–15; 8:45 am] Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 4/1/15. protest in any of the above proceedings
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BILLING CODE 6450–01–P Docket Numbers: RP15–661–000. must file in accordance with Rules 211
Applicants: Natural Gas Pipeline and 214 of the Commission’s
Company of America. Regulations (18 CFR 385.211 and
Description: Section 4(d) rate filing 385.214) on or before 5:00 p.m. Eastern
per 154.204: Negotiated Rate— time on the specified comment date.
Occidental Energy to be effective Protests may be considered, but
4/1/2015. intervention is necessary to become a
Filed Date: 3/20/15. party to the proceeding.
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