82_FR_16249 82 FR 16187 - Texas Eastern Transmission, L.P.; Brazoria Interconnector Gas Pipeline, LLC; Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental Assessment for the Proposed Stratton Ridge Expansion Project, and Request for Comments on Environmental Issues

82 FR 16187 - Texas Eastern Transmission, L.P.; Brazoria Interconnector Gas Pipeline, LLC; Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental Assessment for the Proposed Stratton Ridge Expansion Project, and Request for Comments on Environmental Issues

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 62 (April 3, 2017)

Page Range16187-16189
FR Document2017-06418

Federal Register, Volume 82 Issue 62 (Monday, April 3, 2017)
[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 62 (Monday, April 3, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 16187-16189]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2017-06418]



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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Docket Nos. CP17-56-000; CP17-57-000]


Texas Eastern Transmission, L.P.; Brazoria Interconnector Gas 
Pipeline, LLC; Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental Assessment 
for the Proposed Stratton Ridge Expansion Project, and Request for 
Comments on Environmental Issues

    The staff of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC or 
Commission) will prepare an environmental assessment (EA) that will 
discuss the environmental impacts of the Stratton Ridge Expansion 
Project (Project) involving construction and operation of facilities by 
Texas Eastern Transmission, L.P. (Texas Eastern), and Brazoria 
Interconnector Gas Pipeline, LLC (BIG) (referred to as Applicants) in 
Brazoria, Chambers, San Jacinto, Waller, Shelby, and Lavaca Counties, 
Texas. The Commission will use this EA in its decision-making process 
to determine whether the project is in the public convenience and 
necessity.
    This notice announces the opening of the scoping process the 
Commission will use to gather input from the public and interested 
agencies on the project. You can make a difference by providing us with 
your specific comments or concerns about the project. Your comments 
should focus on the potential environmental effects, reasonable 
alternatives, and measures to avoid or lessen environmental impacts. 
Your input will help the Commission staff determine what issues they 
need to evaluate in the EA. To ensure that your comments are timely and 
properly recorded, please send your comments so that the Commission 
receives them in Washington, DC on or before April 24, 2017.
    If you sent comments on this project to the Commission before the 
opening of this docket on February 2, 2017, you will need to file those 
comments in Docket Nos. CP17-56-000 and CP17-57-000 to ensure they are 
considered as part of this proceeding.
    This notice is being sent to the Commission's current environmental 
mailing list for this project. State and local government 
representatives should notify their constituents of this proposed 
project and encourage them to comment on their areas of concern.
    If you are a landowner receiving this notice, a pipeline company 
representative may contact you about the acquisition of an easement to 
construct, operate, and maintain the proposed facilities. The company 
would seek to negotiate a mutually acceptable agreement. However, if 
the Commission approves the project, that approval conveys with it the 
right of eminent domain. Therefore, if easement negotiations fail to 
produce an agreement, the pipeline company could initiate condemnation 
proceedings where compensation would be determined in accordance with 
state law.
    The Applicants provided landowners with a fact sheet prepared by 
the FERC entitled ``An Interstate Natural Gas Facility On My Land? What 
Do I Need To Know?'' This fact sheet addresses a number of typically 
asked questions, including the use of eminent domain and how to 
participate in the Commission's proceedings. It is also available for 
viewing on the FERC Web site (www.ferc.gov).

Public Participation

    For your convenience, there are three methods you can use to submit 
your comments to the Commission. The Commission encourages electronic 
filing of comments and has expert staff available to assist you at 
(202) 502-8258 or [email protected]. Please carefully follow these 
instructions so that your comments are properly recorded.
    (1) You can file your comments electronically using the eComment 
feature on the Commission's Web site (www.ferc.gov) under the link to 
Documents and Filings. This is an easy method for submitting brief, 
text-only comments on a project;
    (2) You can file your comments electronically by using the eFiling 
feature on the Commission's Web site (www.ferc.gov) under the link to 
Documents and Filings. With eFiling, you can provide comments in a 
variety of formats by attaching them as a file with your submission. 
New eFiling users must first create an account by clicking on 
``eRegister.'' If you are filing a comment on a particular project, 
please select ``Comment on a Filing'' as the filing type; or
    (3) You can file a paper copy of your comments by mailing them to 
the following address. Be sure to reference the project docket numbers 
(CP17-56-000, and CP17-57-000) with your submission: Kimberly D. Bose, 
Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street NE., 
Room 1A, Washington, DC 20426.

Summary of the Proposed Project

    The Project is designed to provide the capacity necessary for Texas 
Eastern to transport up to 322,000 dekatherms per day of natural gas on 
a firm basis from certain of Texas Eastern's existing interconnections 
to a delivery point on the BIG pipeline near Stratton Ridge, Texas.
    The Applicant's Project would consist of the following facilities:
     The new Angleton Compressor Station, consisting of a 
12,500 horsepower electric motor-driven compressor, as well as metering 
and regulation facilities, at an existing site owned by Texas Eastern;
     a new 0.5 mile, 30-inch-diameter pipeline lateral in 
Brazoria County, Texas to interconnect with the BIG intrastate pipeline 
system;
     a new aboveground wire-line launcher/receiver assembly 
site and interconnect valve site near milepost 0.5 of the BIG 
Interconnect;
     Clean Burn equipment for one unit at Texas Eastern's 
existing Mont Belvieu Compressor Station in Chambers County, Texas;
     modified station piping for pressure regulation at Texas 
Eastern's Joaquin Compressor Station in Shelby County, Texas;
     modified existing launcher and receiver facilities at 
Texas Eastern's existing Huntsville Compressor Station, in San Jacinto 
County, Texas;
     modified existing launcher and receiver facilities at 
Texas Eastern's Hempstead and Provident City station sites; in Waller 
and Lavaca County, Texas; and
     replacement of existing 16-inch crossover piping and valve 
with new 24-inch crossover piping and valve at an existing facility 
approximately 0.2 mile southwest of the Provident City station site in 
Lavaca County, Texas.
    The general location of the project facilities is shown in appendix 
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    \1\ The appendices referenced in this notice will not appear in 
the Federal Register. Copies of appendices were sent to all those 
receiving this notice in the mail and are available at www.ferc.gov 
using the link called ``eLibrary'' or from the Commission's Public 
Reference Room, 888 First Street NE., Washington, DC 20426, or call 
(202) 502-8371. For instructions on connecting to eLibrary, refer to 
the last page of this notice.
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Land Requirements for Construction

    Construction of the proposed facilities would disturb about 143 
acres of land for the aboveground facilities and the pipeline. 
Following construction, the Applicants would maintain about 48 acres 
for permanent operation of the project's facilities; the remaining 
acreage would be restored and revert to former uses.

The EA Process

    The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) requires the 
Commission to take into account the environmental

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impacts that could result from an action whenever it considers the 
issuance of a Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity. NEPA 
also requires us \2\ to discover and address concerns the public may 
have about proposals. This process is referred to as ``scoping.'' The 
main goal of the scoping process is to focus the analysis in the EA on 
the important environmental issues. By this notice, the Commission 
requests public comments on the scope of the issues to address in the 
EA. We will consider all filed comments during the preparation of the 
EA.
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    \2\ ``We,'' ``us,'' and ``our'' refer to the environmental staff 
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    In the EA we will discuss impacts that could occur as a result of 
the construction and operation of the proposed project under these 
general headings:

 Geology and soils;
 land use;
 water resources, fisheries, and wetlands;
 cultural resources;
 vegetation and wildlife;
 socioeconomics;
 air quality and noise;
 endangered and threatened species;
 public safety; and
 cumulative impacts

    We will also evaluate reasonable alternatives to the proposed 
project or portions of the project, and make recommendations on how to 
lessen or avoid impacts on the various resource areas.
    The EA will present our independent analysis of the issues. 
Depending on the comments received during the scoping process, we may 
also publish and distribute the EA to the public for an allotted 
comment period. We will consider all comments on the EA before making 
our recommendations to the Commission. To ensure we have the 
opportunity to consider and address your comments, please carefully 
follow the instructions in the Public Participation section, beginning 
on page 2.
    With this notice, we are asking agencies with jurisdiction by law 
and/or special expertise with respect to the environmental issues of 
this project to formally cooperate with us in the preparation of the 
EA.\3\ Agencies that would like to request cooperating agency status 
should follow the instructions for filing comments provided under the 
Public Participation section of this notice.
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    \3\ The Council on Environmental Quality regulations addressing 
cooperating agency responsibilities are at Title 40, Code of Federal 
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Consultations Under Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation 
Act

    In accordance with the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation's 
implementing regulations for section 106 of the National Historic 
Preservation Act, we are using this notice to initiate consultation 
with the applicable State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO), and to 
solicit their views and those of other government agencies, interested 
Indian tribes, and the public on the project's potential effects on 
historic properties.\4\ We will define the project-specific Area of 
Potential Effects (APE) in consultation with the SHPO as the project 
develops. On natural gas facility projects, the APE at a minimum 
encompasses all areas subject to ground disturbance (examples include 
construction right-of-way, contractor/pipe storage yards, compressor 
stations, and access roads). Our EA for this project will document our 
findings on the impacts on historic properties and summarize the status 
of consultations under section 106.
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    \4\ The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation's regulations 
are at Title 36, Code of Federal Regulations, part 800. Those 
regulations define historic properties as any prehistoric or 
historic district, site, building, structure, or object included in 
or eligible for inclusion in the National Register of Historic 
Places.
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Currently Identified Environmental Issues

    We have already identified several issues that we think deserve 
attention based on a preliminary review of the proposed facilities and 
the environmental information provided by the Applicants.
    This preliminary list of issues may be changed based on your 
comments and our analysis.

 Operational noise impacts
 Socioeconomic impacts
 Cumulative impacts

Environmental Mailing List

    The environmental mailing list includes federal, state, and local 
government representatives and agencies; elected officials; 
environmental and public interest groups; Native American Tribes; other 
interested parties; and local libraries and newspapers. This list also 
includes all affected landowners (as defined in the Commission's 
regulations) who are potential right-of-way grantors, whose property 
may be used temporarily for project purposes, or who own homes within 
certain distances of aboveground facilities, and anyone who submits 
comments on the project. We will update the environmental mailing list 
as the analysis proceeds to ensure that we send the information related 
to this environmental review to all individuals, organizations, and 
government entities interested in and/or potentially affected by the 
proposed project.
    If we publish and distribute the EA, copies of the EA will be sent 
to the environmental mailing list for public review and comment. If you 
would prefer to receive a paper copy of the document instead of the CD 
version or would like to remove your name from the mailing list, please 
return the attached Information Request (appendix 2).

Becoming an Intervenor

    In addition to involvement in the EA scoping process, you may want 
to become an ``intervenor'' which is an official party to the 
Commission's proceeding. Intervenors play a more formal role in the 
process and are able to file briefs, appear at hearings, and be heard 
by the courts if they choose to appeal the Commission's final ruling. 
An intervenor formally participates in the proceeding by filing a 
request to intervene. Instructions for becoming an intervenor are in 
the ``Document-less Intervention Guide'' under the ``e-filing'' link on 
the Commission's Web site. Motions to intervene are more fully 
described at http://www.ferc.gov/resources/guides/how-to/intervene.asp.

Additional Information

    Additional information about the project is available from the 
Commission's Office of External Affairs, at (866) 208-FERC, or on the 
FERC Web site at www.ferc.gov using the ``eLibrary'' link. Click on the 
eLibrary link, click on ``General Search'' and enter the docket number, 
excluding the last three digits in the Docket Number field (i.e., CP17-
56, CP17-57). Be sure you have selected an appropriate date range.
    For assistance, please contact FERC Online Support at 
[email protected] or toll free at (866) 208-3676, or for TTY, 
contact (202) 502-8659. The eLibrary link also provides access to the 
texts of formal documents issued by the Commission, such as orders, 
notices, and rulemakings.
    In addition, the Commission offers a free service called 
eSubscription which allows you to keep track of all formal issuances 
and submittals in specific dockets. This can reduce the amount of time 
you spend researching proceedings by automatically providing you with 
notification of these filings, document summaries, and direct links to 
the

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documents. Go to www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/esubscription.asp.
    Finally, public sessions or site visits will be posted on the 
Commission's calendar located at www.ferc.gov/EventCalendar/EventsList.aspx along with other related information.

    Dated: March 24, 2017.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2017-06418 Filed 3-31-17; 8:45 am]
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                                                  DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY                                    proposed facilities. The company would                certain of Texas Eastern’s existing
                                                                                                          seek to negotiate a mutually acceptable               interconnections to a delivery point on
                                                  Federal Energy Regulatory                               agreement. However, if the Commission                 the BIG pipeline near Stratton Ridge,
                                                  Commission                                              approves the project, that approval                   Texas.
                                                  [Docket Nos. CP17–56–000; CP17–57–000]                  conveys with it the right of eminent                     The Applicant’s Project would consist
                                                                                                          domain. Therefore, if easement                        of the following facilities:
                                                  Texas Eastern Transmission, L.P.;                       negotiations fail to produce an                          • The new Angleton Compressor
                                                  Brazoria Interconnector Gas Pipeline,                   agreement, the pipeline company could                 Station, consisting of a 12,500
                                                  LLC; Notice of Intent To Prepare an                     initiate condemnation proceedings                     horsepower electric motor-driven
                                                  Environmental Assessment for the                        where compensation would be                           compressor, as well as metering and
                                                  Proposed Stratton Ridge Expansion                       determined in accordance with state                   regulation facilities, at an existing site
                                                  Project, and Request for Comments on                    law.                                                  owned by Texas Eastern;
                                                  Environmental Issues                                       The Applicants provided landowners                    • a new 0.5 mile, 30-inch-diameter
                                                                                                          with a fact sheet prepared by the FERC                pipeline lateral in Brazoria County,
                                                     The staff of the Federal Energy                      entitled ‘‘An Interstate Natural Gas                  Texas to interconnect with the BIG
                                                  Regulatory Commission (FERC or                          Facility On My Land? What Do I Need                   intrastate pipeline system;
                                                  Commission) will prepare an                             To Know?’’ This fact sheet addresses a                   • a new aboveground wire-line
                                                  environmental assessment (EA) that will                 number of typically asked questions,                  launcher/receiver assembly site and
                                                  discuss the environmental impacts of                    including the use of eminent domain                   interconnect valve site near milepost 0.5
                                                  the Stratton Ridge Expansion Project                    and how to participate in the                         of the BIG Interconnect;
                                                  (Project) involving construction and                    Commission’s proceedings. It is also                     • Clean Burn equipment for one unit
                                                  operation of facilities by Texas Eastern                available for viewing on the FERC Web                 at Texas Eastern’s existing Mont Belvieu
                                                  Transmission, L.P. (Texas Eastern), and                 site (www.ferc.gov).                                  Compressor Station in Chambers
                                                  Brazoria Interconnector Gas Pipeline,                                                                         County, Texas;
                                                  LLC (BIG) (referred to as Applicants) in                Public Participation                                     • modified station piping for pressure
                                                  Brazoria, Chambers, San Jacinto, Waller,                  For your convenience, there are three               regulation at Texas Eastern’s Joaquin
                                                  Shelby, and Lavaca Counties, Texas.                     methods you can use to submit your                    Compressor Station in Shelby County,
                                                  The Commission will use this EA in its                  comments to the Commission. The                       Texas;
                                                  decision-making process to determine                    Commission encourages electronic filing                  • modified existing launcher and
                                                  whether the project is in the public                    of comments and has expert staff                      receiver facilities at Texas Eastern’s
                                                  convenience and necessity.                              available to assist you at (202) 502–8258             existing Huntsville Compressor Station,
                                                     This notice announces the opening of                 or efiling@ferc.gov. Please carefully                 in San Jacinto County, Texas;
                                                  the scoping process the Commission                      follow these instructions so that your                   • modified existing launcher and
                                                  will use to gather input from the public                comments are properly recorded.                       receiver facilities at Texas Eastern’s
                                                  and interested agencies on the project.                    (1) You can file your comments                     Hempstead and Provident City station
                                                  You can make a difference by providing                  electronically using the eComment                     sites; in Waller and Lavaca County,
                                                  us with your specific comments or                       feature on the Commission’s Web site                  Texas; and
                                                  concerns about the project. Your                        (www.ferc.gov) under the link to                         • replacement of existing 16-inch
                                                  comments should focus on the potential                  Documents and Filings. This is an easy                crossover piping and valve with new 24-
                                                  environmental effects, reasonable                       method for submitting brief, text-only                inch crossover piping and valve at an
                                                  alternatives, and measures to avoid or                  comments on a project;                                existing facility approximately 0.2 mile
                                                  lessen environmental impacts. Your                         (2) You can file your comments                     southwest of the Provident City station
                                                  input will help the Commission staff                    electronically by using the eFiling                   site in Lavaca County, Texas.
                                                  determine what issues they need to                      feature on the Commission’s Web site                     The general location of the project
                                                  evaluate in the EA. To ensure that your                 (www.ferc.gov) under the link to                      facilities is shown in appendix 1.1
                                                  comments are timely and properly                        Documents and Filings. With eFiling,                  Land Requirements for Construction
                                                  recorded, please send your comments so                  you can provide comments in a variety
                                                  that the Commission receives them in                    of formats by attaching them as a file                  Construction of the proposed facilities
                                                  Washington, DC on or before April 24,                   with your submission. New eFiling                     would disturb about 143 acres of land
                                                  2017.                                                   users must first create an account by                 for the aboveground facilities and the
                                                     If you sent comments on this project                 clicking on ‘‘eRegister.’’ If you are filing          pipeline. Following construction, the
                                                  to the Commission before the opening of                 a comment on a particular project,                    Applicants would maintain about 48
                                                  this docket on February 2, 2017, you                    please select ‘‘Comment on a Filing’’ as              acres for permanent operation of the
                                                  will need to file those comments in                     the filing type; or                                   project’s facilities; the remaining
                                                  Docket Nos. CP17–56–000 and CP17–                          (3) You can file a paper copy of your              acreage would be restored and revert to
                                                  57–000 to ensure they are considered as                 comments by mailing them to the                       former uses.
                                                  part of this proceeding.                                following address. Be sure to reference               The EA Process
                                                     This notice is being sent to the                     the project docket numbers (CP17–56–
                                                  Commission’s current environmental                                                                              The National Environmental Policy
                                                                                                          000, and CP17–57–000) with your
                                                  mailing list for this project. State and                                                                      Act (NEPA) requires the Commission to
                                                                                                          submission: Kimberly D. Bose,
                                                  local government representatives should                                                                       take into account the environmental
                                                                                                          Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory
                                                  notify their constituents of this
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                                                                                                          Commission, 888 First Street NE., Room                  1 The appendices referenced in this notice will
                                                  proposed project and encourage them to                  1A, Washington, DC 20426.                             not appear in the Federal Register. Copies of
                                                  comment on their areas of concern.                                                                            appendices were sent to all those receiving this
                                                     If you are a landowner receiving this                Summary of the Proposed Project                       notice in the mail and are available at www.ferc.gov
                                                  notice, a pipeline company                                 The Project is designed to provide the             using the link called ‘‘eLibrary’’ or from the
                                                                                                                                                                Commission’s Public Reference Room, 888 First
                                                  representative may contact you about                    capacity necessary for Texas Eastern to               Street NE., Washington, DC 20426, or call (202)
                                                  the acquisition of an easement to                       transport up to 322,000 dekatherms per                502–8371. For instructions on connecting to
                                                  construct, operate, and maintain the                    day of natural gas on a firm basis from               eLibrary, refer to the last page of this notice.



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                                                  impacts that could result from an action                provided under the Public Participation                   comments on the project. We will
                                                  whenever it considers the issuance of a                 section of this notice.                                   update the environmental mailing list as
                                                  Certificate of Public Convenience and                                                                             the analysis proceeds to ensure that we
                                                                                                          Consultations Under Section 106 of the
                                                  Necessity. NEPA also requires us 2 to                                                                             send the information related to this
                                                                                                          National Historic Preservation Act
                                                  discover and address concerns the                                                                                 environmental review to all individuals,
                                                  public may have about proposals. This                     In accordance with the Advisory                         organizations, and government entities
                                                  process is referred to as ‘‘scoping.’’ The              Council on Historic Preservation’s                        interested in and/or potentially affected
                                                  main goal of the scoping process is to                  implementing regulations for section                      by the proposed project.
                                                  focus the analysis in the EA on the                     106 of the National Historic                                 If we publish and distribute the EA,
                                                  important environmental issues. By this                 Preservation Act, we are using this                       copies of the EA will be sent to the
                                                  notice, the Commission requests public                  notice to initiate consultation with the                  environmental mailing list for public
                                                  comments on the scope of the issues to                  applicable State Historic Preservation                    review and comment. If you would
                                                  address in the EA. We will consider all                 Office (SHPO), and to solicit their views                 prefer to receive a paper copy of the
                                                  filed comments during the preparation                   and those of other government agencies,                   document instead of the CD version or
                                                  of the EA.                                              interested Indian tribes, and the public                  would like to remove your name from
                                                     In the EA we will discuss impacts that               on the project’s potential effects on                     the mailing list, please return the
                                                  could occur as a result of the                          historic properties.4 We will define the                  attached Information Request (appendix
                                                  construction and operation of the                       project-specific Area of Potential Effects                2).
                                                  proposed project under these general                    (APE) in consultation with the SHPO as                    Becoming an Intervenor
                                                  headings:                                               the project develops. On natural gas
                                                                                                          facility projects, the APE at a minimum                      In addition to involvement in the EA
                                                  • Geology and soils;                                                                                              scoping process, you may want to
                                                                                                          encompasses all areas subject to ground
                                                  • land use;                                                                                                       become an ‘‘intervenor’’ which is an
                                                                                                          disturbance (examples include
                                                  • water resources, fisheries, and                       construction right-of-way, contractor/                    official party to the Commission’s
                                                     wetlands;                                            pipe storage yards, compressor stations,                  proceeding. Intervenors play a more
                                                  • cultural resources;                                   and access roads). Our EA for this                        formal role in the process and are able
                                                  • vegetation and wildlife;                              project will document our findings on                     to file briefs, appear at hearings, and be
                                                  • socioeconomics;                                       the impacts on historic properties and                    heard by the courts if they choose to
                                                  • air quality and noise;                                summarize the status of consultations                     appeal the Commission’s final ruling.
                                                  • endangered and threatened species;                    under section 106.                                        An intervenor formally participates in
                                                  • public safety; and                                                                                              the proceeding by filing a request to
                                                                                                          Currently Identified Environmental                        intervene. Instructions for becoming an
                                                  • cumulative impacts
                                                                                                          Issues                                                    intervenor are in the ‘‘Document-less
                                                     We will also evaluate reasonable
                                                                                                             We have already identified several                     Intervention Guide’’ under the ‘‘e-filing’’
                                                  alternatives to the proposed project or
                                                                                                          issues that we think deserve attention                    link on the Commission’s Web site.
                                                  portions of the project, and make
                                                                                                          based on a preliminary review of the                      Motions to intervene are more fully
                                                  recommendations on how to lessen or
                                                                                                          proposed facilities and the                               described at http://www.ferc.gov/
                                                  avoid impacts on the various resource
                                                                                                          environmental information provided by                     resources/guides/how-to/intervene.asp.
                                                  areas.
                                                                                                          the Applicants.                                           Additional Information
                                                     The EA will present our independent                     This preliminary list of issues may be
                                                  analysis of the issues. Depending on the                changed based on your comments and                           Additional information about the
                                                  comments received during the scoping                    our analysis.                                             project is available from the
                                                  process, we may also publish and                                                                                  Commission’s Office of External Affairs,
                                                  distribute the EA to the public for an                  • Operational noise impacts
                                                                                                          • Socioeconomic impacts                                   at (866) 208–FERC, or on the FERC Web
                                                  allotted comment period. We will                                                                                  site at www.ferc.gov using the
                                                                                                          • Cumulative impacts
                                                  consider all comments on the EA before                                                                            ‘‘eLibrary’’ link. Click on the eLibrary
                                                  making our recommendations to the                       Environmental Mailing List                                link, click on ‘‘General Search’’ and
                                                  Commission. To ensure we have the                          The environmental mailing list                         enter the docket number, excluding the
                                                  opportunity to consider and address                     includes federal, state, and local                        last three digits in the Docket Number
                                                  your comments, please carefully follow                  government representatives and                            field (i.e., CP17–56, CP17–57). Be sure
                                                  the instructions in the Public                          agencies; elected officials;                              you have selected an appropriate date
                                                  Participation section, beginning on page                environmental and public interest                         range.
                                                  2.                                                      groups; Native American Tribes; other                        For assistance, please contact FERC
                                                     With this notice, we are asking                      interested parties; and local libraries                   Online Support at FercOnlineSupport@
                                                  agencies with jurisdiction by law and/                  and newspapers. This list also includes                   ferc.gov or toll free at (866) 208–3676, or
                                                  or special expertise with respect to the                all affected landowners (as defined in                    for TTY, contact (202) 502–8659. The
                                                  environmental issues of this project to                 the Commission’s regulations) who are                     eLibrary link also provides access to the
                                                  formally cooperate with us in the                       potential right-of-way grantors, whose                    texts of formal documents issued by the
                                                  preparation of the EA.3 Agencies that                   property may be used temporarily for                      Commission, such as orders, notices,
                                                  would like to request cooperating                       project purposes, or who own homes                        and rulemakings.
                                                  agency status should follow the                         within certain distances of aboveground                      In addition, the Commission offers a
                                                  instructions for filing comments                                                                                  free service called eSubscription which
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                                                                                                          facilities, and anyone who submits
                                                                                                                                                                    allows you to keep track of all formal
                                                    2 ‘‘We,’’ ‘‘us,’’ and ‘‘our’’ refer to the              4 The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation’s       issuances and submittals in specific
                                                  environmental staff of the Commission’s Office of       regulations are at Title 36, Code of Federal              dockets. This can reduce the amount of
                                                  Energy Projects.                                        Regulations, part 800. Those regulations define           time you spend researching proceedings
                                                    3 The Council on Environmental Quality                historic properties as any prehistoric or historic
                                                  regulations addressing cooperating agency               district, site, building, structure, or object included
                                                                                                                                                                    by automatically providing you with
                                                  responsibilities are at Title 40, Code of Federal       in or eligible for inclusion in the National Register     notification of these filings, document
                                                  Regulations, part 1501.6.                               of Historic Places.                                       summaries, and direct links to the


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                                                  documents. Go to www.ferc.gov/docs-                     Commission’s eFiling system at http://                appurtenant facilities. The project
                                                  filing/esubscription.asp.                               www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/efiling.asp.                 generates about 123,332 megawatt-hours
                                                     Finally, public sessions or site visits              Commenters can submit brief comments                  (MWh) annually.
                                                  will be posted on the Commission’s                      up to 6,000 characters, without prior                    The Mattaceunk Project is operated
                                                  calendar located at www.ferc.gov/                       registration, using the eComment system               with minimal fluctuations of the
                                                  EventCalendar/EventsList.aspx along                     at http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/                   reservoir surface elevation. Flexibility
                                                  with other related information.                         ecomment.asp. You must include your                   on reservoir elevations is required to
                                                    Dated: March 24, 2017.                                name and contact information at the end               provide for safe installation of the
                                                                                                          of your comments. For assistance,                     project’s flashboards and to allow an
                                                  Kimberly D. Bose,
                                                                                                          please contact FERC Online Support at                 adequate margin for wave action, debris
                                                  Secretary.                                              FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov, (866)                     loads, or sudden pool increases that
                                                  [FR Doc. 2017–06418 Filed 3–31–17; 8:45 am]             208–3676 (toll free), or (202) 502–8659               might cause flashboard failure. The
                                                  BILLING CODE 6717–01–P                                  (TTY). In lieu of electronic filing, please           existing license requires a reservoir
                                                                                                          send a paper copy to: Secretary, Federal              surface elevation no lower than 1.0 foot
                                                                                                          Energy Regulatory Commission, 888                     below the dam crest elevation of 236.0
                                                  DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY                                    First Street NE., Washington, DC 20426.               feet when the 4-foot-high flashboards
                                                                                                          The first page of any filing should                   are not in use, and no lower than 2.0
                                                  Federal Energy Regulatory                                                                                     feet below the top of flashboard
                                                                                                          include docket number P–2520–076.
                                                  Commission                                                 The Commission’s Rules of Practice                 elevation of 240.0 feet when the 4-foot-
                                                  [Project No. 2520–076]                                  require all intervenors filing documents              high flashboards are in use. The existing
                                                                                                          with the Commission to serve a copy of                license also requires a year-round
                                                  Great Lakes Hydro America, LLC;                         that document on each person on the                   continuous minimum flow of 1,674
                                                  Notice of Application Accepted for                      official service list for the project.                cubic feet per second (cfs) or inflow,
                                                  Filing, Soliciting Motions To Intervene                 Further, if an intervenor files comments              whichever is less, and a daily average
                                                  and Protests, Ready for Environmental                   or documents with the Commission                      minimum flow of 2,392 cfs from July 1
                                                  Analysis, and Soliciting Comments,                      relating to the merits of an issue that               through September 30 and 2,000 cfs
                                                  Recommendations, Preliminary Terms                      may affect the responsibilities of a                  from October 1 through June 30, unless
                                                  and Conditions, and Preliminary                         particular resource agency, they must                 inflow is less than the stated daily
                                                  Fishway Prescriptions                                   also serve a copy of the document on                  average minimum flows (in which case
                                                                                                          that resource agency.                                 outflow from the project must equal the
                                                     Take notice that the following                          k. This application has been accepted              inflow to the project). Great Lakes
                                                  hydroelectric application has been filed                for filing and is now ready for                       Hydro proposes to: (1) Install a seasonal
                                                  with the Commission and is available                    environmental analysis.                               upstream eel ramp; (2) install an
                                                  for public inspection.                                     l. The existing Mattaceunk                         upstream passage structure for
                                                     a. Type of Application: Major License.               Hydroelectric Project consists of: (1) A              American shad, alewife, and blueback
                                                     b. Project No.: 2520–076.                            1,060-foot-long, 45-foot-high dam                     herring; (3) install trashracks having 1-
                                                     c. Date filed: August 31, 2016.                      (Weldon Dam) with a crest elevation of                inch clear spacing to the full depth of
                                                     d. Applicant: Great Lakes Hydro                      236.0 feet (USGS datum), and includes:                the turbine intakes during the fish
                                                  America, LLC (Great Lakes Hydro).                       (i) A 110-foot-long earthen embankment                passage season; and (4) improve the
                                                     e. Name of Project: Mattaceunk                       extending to the left abutment; (ii) a                recreation facility at the downstream
                                                  Hydroelectric Project.                                  combined intake and powerhouse                        angler access area.
                                                     f. Location: The existing project is                 structure; (iii) an upstream fish ladder;                m. A copy of the application is
                                                  located on the Penobscot River in                       (iv) a 10-foot-wide log sluice structure,             available for review at the Commission
                                                  Aroostook and Penobscot Counties,                       controlled by an 8-foot-high vertical                 in the Public Reference Room or may be
                                                  Maine. The project does not affect                      slide gate; (v) a 90-foot-long, 19-foot-              viewed on the Commission’s Web site at
                                                  federal lands.                                          high gated spillway with a single roller              http://www.ferc.gov using the
                                                     g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power                  gate; (vi) a 657.5-foot-long, 70-foot high            ‘‘eLibrary’’ link. Enter the docket
                                                  Act 16 U.S.C. 791 (a)–825(r).                           concrete gravity overflow spillway with               number excluding the last three digits in
                                                     h. Applicant Contact: Kevin Bernier,                 4-foot-high flashboards to create a                   the docket number field to access the
                                                  Senior Compliance Specialist, Great                     maximum flashboard crest elevation of                 document. For assistance, contact FERC
                                                  Lakes Hydro America, LLC, 1024                          240.0 feet; and (vii) a retaining wall at             Online Support. A copy is also available
                                                  Central Street, Millinocket, Maine                      the right abutment; (2) a 1,664-acre                  for inspection and reproduction at the
                                                  04462; Telephone (207) 723–4341, x118.                  reservoir with a total storage capacity of            address in item h above.
                                                     i. FERC Contact: Adam Peer, (202)                    20,981 acre-feet at a normal pool                        Register online at http://
                                                  502–8449 or adam.peer@ferc.gov.                         elevation of 240.00 feet (USGS datum);                www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/
                                                     j. Deadline for filing motions to                    (3) a 142-foot-long, 99-foot-wide                     esubscription.asp to be notified via
                                                  intervene and protests, comments,                       powerhouse (Weldon Station) integral to               email of new filings and issuances
                                                  recommendations, preliminary terms                      the dam containing two Kaplan turbines                related to this or other pending projects.
                                                  and conditions, and preliminary                         rated at 5,479 kilowatt (kW) and two                  For assistance, contact FERC Online
                                                  prescriptions: 60 days from the issuance                fixed-blade propeller turbines rated at               Support.
                                                  date of this notice; reply comments are                 5,489 kW, each driving a 6,000 kilovolt-                 n. Anyone may submit comments, a
                                                  due 105 days from the issuance date of                  ampere (kVA), 4,800 kW vertical                       protest, or a motion to intervene in
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                                                  this notice.                                            synchronous generator for an authorized               accordance with the requirements of
                                                     The Commission strongly encourages                   installed capacity of 19.2 megawatts                  Rules of Practice and Procedure, 18 CFR
                                                  electronic filing. Please file motions to               (MW); (4) a downstream fishway; (5) an                385.210, .211, and .214. In determining
                                                  intervene, protests, comments,                          outdoor substation adjacent to the                    the appropriate action to take, the
                                                  recommendations, preliminary terms                      powerhouse; (6) a 9-mile-long, 34.5-                  Commission will consider all protests or
                                                  and conditions, and preliminary                         kilovolt (kV) transmission line within a              other comments filed, but only those
                                                  fishway prescriptions using the                         120-foot-wide right of way; and (7)                   who file a motion to intervene in


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PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
SectionNotices
FR Citation82 FR 16187 

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