81 FR 5739 - Advantage Investment Group, LLC, Spencer Mountain Hydropower, LLC; Notice of Application for Transfer of License and Soliciting Comments, Motions To Intervene, and Protests
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 22 (February 3, 2016)
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 22 (February 3, 2016)
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| FR Document | 2016-01958 |
[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 22 (Wednesday, February 3, 2016)] [Notices] [Pages 5739-5740] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2016-01958] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY Federal Energy Regulatory Commission [Project No. 2607-013] Advantage Investment Group, LLC, Spencer Mountain Hydropower, LLC; Notice of Application for Transfer of License and Soliciting Comments, Motions To Intervene, and Protests On January 20, 2016, Advantage Investment Group, LLC (transferor) and Spencer Mountain Hydropower, LLC (transferee) filed an application for transfer of license of the Spencer Mountain Hydroelectric Project No. 2607. The project is located on the [[Page 5740]] Susquehanna River in York, Dauphin, and Lancaster counties, Pennsylvania. The project does not occupy federal lands. The applicants seek Commission approval to transfer the license for the Spencer Mountain Hydroelectric Project from the transferor to the transferee. Applicant Contact: For transferor: Mr. Boyce Falls, Manager, Advantage Investment Group, LLC, PO Box 458, Dallas, NC 28034, Phone: 704-363-5911, Email: [email protected] . For transferee: Mr. Kevin Edwards, Manager, Spencer Mountain Hydropower, LLC, 1000 C&N Smith Mill Road, Stoneville, NC 27048, Phone: 336-589-6138, Email: [email protected]. FERC Contact: Patricia W. Gillis, (202) 502-8735, [email protected]. Deadline for filing comments, motions to intervene, and protests: 30 days from the date that the Commission issues this notice. The Commission strongly encourages electronic filing. Please file comments, motions to intervene, and protests using the Commission's eFiling system at http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/efiling.asp. Commenters can submit brief comments up to 6,000 characters, without prior registration, using the eComment system at http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/ecomment.asp. You must include your name and contact information at the end of your comments. For assistance, please contact FERC Online Support at [email protected], (866) 208-3676 (toll free), or (202) 502-8659 (TTY). In lieu of electronic filing, please send a paper copy to: Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426. The first page of any filing should include docket number P-2607-013. Dated: January 28, 2016. Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr., Deputy Secretary. [FR Doc. 2016-01958 Filed 2-2-16; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6717-01-P
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Dated: January 28, 2016. In addition, the EA is available for rehearing of the Commission’s decision.
Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr., public viewing on the FERC’s Web site The Commission grants affected
Deputy Secretary. (www.ferc.gov) using the eLibrary link. landowners and others with
[FR Doc. 2016–01959 Filed 2–2–16; 8:45 am] A limited number of copies of the EA environmental concerns intervenor
BILLING CODE 6717–01–P are available for distribution and public status upon showing good cause by
inspection at: Federal Energy Regulatory stating that they have a clear and direct
Commission, Public Reference Room, interest in this proceeding which no
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 888 First Street NE., Room 2A, other party can adequately represent.
Washington, DC 20426, (202) 502–8371. Simply filing environmental comments
Federal Energy Regulatory Any person wishing to comment on will not give you intervenor status, but
Commission the EA may do so. Your comments you do not need intervenor status to
[Docket No. CP15–513–000]
should focus on the potential have your comments considered.
environmental effects, reasonable Additional information about the
Texas Gas Transmission, LLC; Notice alternatives, and measures to avoid or Project is available from the
of Availability of the Environmental lessen environmental impacts. The more Commission’s Office of External Affairs,
Assessment for the Proposed Northern specific your comments, the more useful at (866) 208–FERC, or on the FERC Web
Supply Access Project they will be. To ensure that the site (www.ferc.gov) using the eLibrary
Commission has the opportunity to link. Click on the eLibrary link, click on
The staff of the Federal Energy consider your comments prior to ‘‘General Search,’’ and enter the docket
Regulatory Commission (FERC or making its decision on this Project, it is numbers excluding the last three digits
Commission) has prepared this important that we receive your in the Docket Number field (i.e., CP15–
environmental assessment (EA) for the comments in Washington, DC on or 513). Be sure you have selected an
Northern Supply Access Project before February 25, 2016. appropriate date range. For assistance,
(Project) proposed by Texas Gas For your convenience, there are three please contact FERC Online Support at
Transmission, LLC (Texas Gas) in the methods you can use to file your FercOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or toll free
above-referenced docket. Texas Gas comments with the Commission. In all at (866) 208–3676, or for TTY, contact
requests authorization to construct and instances please reference the Project
operate natural gas facilities in Ohio, (202) 502–8659. The eLibrary link also
docket number (CP15–513–000) with provides access to the texts of formal
Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, your submission. The Commission
Mississippi, and Louisiana to provide documents issued by the Commission,
encourages electronic filing of such as orders, notices, and
an additional 384,000 million standard comments and has expert staff available
cubic feet per day of natural gas of north rulemakings.
to assist you at 202–502–8258 or In addition, the Commission offers a
to south transportation capacity on efiling@ferc.gov.
Texas Gas’s existing system. free service called eSubscription which
(1) You can file your comments allows you to keep track of all formal
The EA assesses the potential electronically using the eComment
environmental effects of the issuances and submittals in specific
feature located on the Commission’s dockets. This can reduce the amount of
construction and operation of the Web site (www.ferc.gov) under the link
Project in accordance with the time you spend researching proceedings
to Documents and Filings. This is an by automatically providing you with
requirements of the National easy method for submitting brief, text-
Environmental Policy Act. The FERC notification of these filings, document
only comments on a project; summaries, and direct links to the
staff concludes that approval of the (2) You can also file your comments
proposed Project, with appropriate documents. Go to www.ferc.gov/docs-
electronically using the eFiling feature filing/esubscription.asp.
mitigating measures, would not on the Commission’s Web site
constitute a major federal action (www.ferc.gov) under the link to Dated: January 27, 2016.
significantly affecting the quality of the Documents and Filings. With eFiling, Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr.,
human environment. you can provide comments in a variety Deputy Secretary.
The Project involves modifications at of formats by attaching them as a file [FR Doc. 2016–01915 Filed 2–2–16; 8:45 am]
eight existing compressor stations in with your submission. New eFiling BILLING CODE 6717–01–P
Morehouse Parish, Louisiana; Coahoma users must first create an account by
County, Mississippi; Tipton County, clicking on ‘‘eRegister.’’ You must select
Tennessee; Webster, Breckinridge, and the type of filing you are making. If you DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Jefferson Counties, Kentucky; and are filing a comment on a particular
Lawrence and Dearborn Counties, project, please select ‘‘Comment on a Federal Energy Regulatory
Indiana. Texas Gas would also construct Filing’’; or Commission
one new 23,877 horsepower compressor (3) You can file a paper copy of your [Project No. 2607–013]
station in Hamilton County, Ohio. comments by mailing them to the
The FERC staff mailed copies of the following address: Kimberly D. Bose, Advantage Investment Group, LLC,
EA to federal, state, and local Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory Spencer Mountain Hydropower, LLC;
government representatives and Commission, 888 First Street NE., Room Notice of Application for Transfer of
agencies; elected officials; 1A, Washington, DC 20426. License and Soliciting Comments,
environmental and public interest Any person seeking to become a party Motions To Intervene, and Protests
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groups; Native American tribes; to the proceeding must file a motion to
potentially affected landowners within intervene pursuant to Rule 214 of the On January 20, 2016, Advantage
0.5 mile of the above ground facilities; Commission’s Rules of Practice and Investment Group, LLC (transferor) and
interested individuals and groups; Procedures (18 CFR 385.214).1 Only Spencer Mountain Hydropower, LLC
newspapers and libraries in the project intervenors have the right to seek (transferee) filed an application for
area; and parties to this proceeding. transfer of license of the Spencer
Everyone on our environmental mailing 1 See the previous discussion on the methods for Mountain Hydroelectric Project No.
list will receive a CD version of the EA. filing comments. 2607. The project is located on the
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Susquehanna River in York, Dauphin, Statement (EIS) for the proposed Windy design footprint of the proposed new
and Lancaster counties, Pennsylvania. Gap Firming Project (Project) in North Chimney Hollow Reservoir. In order to
The project does not occupy federal Central Colorado. The Municipal support Reclamation’s decision,
lands. Subdistrict (Subdistrict), Northern Western would need to relocate its
The applicants seek Commission Colorado Water Conservancy District, transmission line away from the
approval to transfer the license for the acting by and through the Windy Gap proposed reservoir to an area that
Spencer Mountain Hydroelectric Project Firming Project Water Activity preserves system reliability,
from the transferor to the transferee. Enterprise, on behalf of the Project maintenance accessibility, and safety.
Applicant Contact: For transferor: Mr. Participants, obtained approval from Western’s relocation of the transmission
Boyce Falls, Manager, Advantage Reclamation for additional physical line at the Chimney Hollow Reservoir
Investment Group, LLC, PO Box 458, connections to Colorado-Big Thompson site was evaluated in the EIS, including
Dallas, NC 28034, Phone: 704–363– Project (C–BT) facilities in order to acquiring a 100 foot right-of-way,
5911, Email: bobbiefalls@aol.com . For implement the proposed Project. constructing access roads, and
transferee: Mr. Kevin Edwards, Western Area Power Administration rebuilding approximately 3.8 miles of
Manager, Spencer Mountain (Western), an agency within the U.S. transmission line to the west of the
Hydropower, LLC, 1000 C&N Smith Mill Department of Energy (DOE), proposed Chimney Hollow Reservoir.
Road, Stoneville, NC 27048, Phone: participated in the development of the After an independent review of the EIS,
336–589–6138, Email: kevin@pht1.com. EIS as a cooperating agency. Western has concluded that its
FERC Contact: Patricia W. Gillis, (202) The EIS evaluated a no action comments have been satisfied and with
502–8735, patricia.gillis@ferc.gov. alternative, along with four action this notice is adopting the EIS for its
Deadline for filing comments, motions alternatives each entailing the participation in the Project.
to intervene, and protests: 30 days from construction of new reservoirs along Western’s Action
the date that the Commission issues this with pipelines and operational facilities
notice. The Commission strongly at different locations. The action Western’s action is to support
encourages electronic filing. Please file alternatives were designed to provide Reclamation’s decision in selecting
comments, motions to intervene, and more reliable water deliveries to Front Alternative 2—Chimney Hollow
protests using the Commission’s eFiling Range and West Slope communities and Reservoir and to relocate a 3.8 mile
system at http://www.ferc.gov/docs- industry. Reclamation selected portion of Western’s existing Estes-
filing/efiling.asp. Commenters can Alternative 2—Chimney Hollow Lyons 115-kV transmission line away
submit brief comments up to 6,000 Reservoir in its Record of Decision from the proposed Chimney Hollow
characters, without prior registration, (ROD) dated December 19, 2014. In Reservoir site to avoid its inundation.
using the eComment system at http:// order to support Reclamation’s decision, Final transmission line location, pole
www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/ Western would need to relocate 3.8 placement, and spacing will be
ecomment.asp. You must include your miles of its existing Estes-Lyons 115- determined by Western during final
name and contact information at the end kilovolt (kV) wood H-frame design.
of your comments. For assistance, transmission line away from the Cultural Resources
please contact FERC Online Support at proposed Chimney Hollow Reservoir
Reclamation executed a Memorandum
FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov, (866) site to avoid its inundation.
of Agreement (MOA) with the Colorado
208–3676 (toll free), or (202) 502–8659 FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For State Historic Preservation Office
(TTY). In lieu of electronic filing, please further information, please contact Mr. regarding the Project on April 19, 2012.
send a paper copy to: Secretary, Federal Matt Blevins, Western Area Power Reclamation and Western must adhere
Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 Administration, P.O. Box 281213, to the stipulations of that MOA. The
First Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426. Lakewood, CO 80228–8213, telephone MOA stipulates that prior to any
The first page of any filing should (720) 962–7261, or email: blevins@ construction of the Project,
include docket number P–2607–013. wapa.gov. For general information on Reclamation’s Eastern Colorado Area
Dated: January 28, 2016. DOE’s National Environmental Policy Office will inventory the remaining 17.2
Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr., Act (NEPA) review process, please acres in the Area of Potential Effect and
Deputy Secretary.
contact Carol M. Borgstrom, Director, consult with the State Historic
Office of NEPA Policy and Compliance, Preservation Office on eligibility and
[FR Doc. 2016–01958 Filed 2–2–16; 8:45 am]
GC–54, U.S. Department of Energy, effects of the Project pursuant to 36 CFR
BILLING CODE 6717–01–P
Washington, DC 20585, telephone (202) part 800, including mitigation that will
586–4600 or (800) 472–2756, or email: be set forth in an amendment to the
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY askNEPA@hq.doe.gov. MOA.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Reclamation was the lead federal agency Endangered Species Act
Western Area Power Administration
for the EIS (FES 11–19) and Western Western’s action would have no effect
[DOE/EIS–0370] was a cooperating agency. The Notice of on federally listed terrestrial wildlife
Availability for the Final EIS was species or plants. However, the Project’s
Record of Decision for the Windy Gap
published in the Federal Register on Colorado River depletions could
Firming Project
November 30, 2011 (76 FR 74074). adversely impact four endangered
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AGENCY: Western Area Power Reclamation signed its ROD on Colorado River fish species. Impacts to
Administration, Department of Energy. December 19, 2014, and selected the endangered species in the Colorado
ACTION: Record of decision. Alternative 2—Chimney Hollow River were originally addressed in the
Reservoir as its preferred alternative. 1981 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Reclamation’s selected alternative (Service) Biological Opinion for the
Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, Eastern directly affects a portion of Western’s original Windy Gap Reservoir based on
Colorado Area Office (Reclamation) existing Estes-Lyons 115-kV an estimated average annual diversion
prepared an Environmental Impact transmission line, which lies within the of 57,300 acre feet (AF) of water. A
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