82_FR_49571 82 FR 49366 - Notice of Application for Surrender of License, Soliciting Comments, Motions To Intervene, And Protests; Far West Power Corporation

82 FR 49366 - Notice of Application for Surrender of License, Soliciting Comments, Motions To Intervene, And Protests; Far West Power Corporation

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 205 (October 25, 2017)

Page Range49366-49367
FR Document2017-23113

Federal Register, Volume 82 Issue 205 (Wednesday, October 25, 2017) 
[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 205 (Wednesday, October 25, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 49366-49367]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2017-23113]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 8936-024]


Notice of Application for Surrender of License, Soliciting 
Comments, Motions To Intervene, And Protests; Far West Power 
Corporation

    Take notice that the following hydroelectric application has been 
filed with the Commission and is available for public inspection:
    a. Type of Proceeding: Application for surrender of license.
    b. Project No.: 8936-024.
    c. Date Filed: August 1, 2017.
    d. Licensee: Far West Power Corporation.
    e. Name of Project: Power Canal Hydroelectric Project.
    f. Location: The project is located on the tailrace canal of 
Pacific Gas and Electric Company's (PG&E) Potter Valley Hydroelectric 
Project No. 77, on the East Fork Russian River, in Mendocino County, 
California.
    g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act, 16 U.S.C. 791a-825r.
    h. Licensee Contact: Mr. Ross Goodwin, Far West Power Corporation,

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3330 Clayton Road, Suite B, Concord, CA 94518, Telephone: (925) 692-
2198.
    i. FERC Contact: Mr. Ashish Desai, (202) 502-8370, 
[email protected].
    j. Deadline for filing comments, interventions, and protests is 30 
days from the issuance date of this notice by the Commission. The 
Commission strongly encourages electronic filing. Please file motions 
to intervene, protests and comments 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-8936-024.
    k. Description of Project Facilities: The project consists of: (a) 
A 6-foot-high diversion dam; (b) an intake structure; (c) a 150-foot-
long, 49-foot-square flume; (d) a 36-inch-diameter, 28-foot-long 
penstock; (e) a powerhouse containing two generating units, each with 
an installed capacity of 200 kilowatts; (f) 0.48-kilovolt (kV) 
generator leads with a 12.7-kV step-up transformer; (g) 60-foot-long, 
12.7-kV transmission line connecting to an existing PG&E transmission 
line; and (h) appurtenant facilities.
    l. Description of Request: The licensee proposes to surrender the 
project as it no longer intends to operate the project. The existing 
water right for the project has been surrendered and the power sales 
agreement has been terminated. No ground disturbance is associated with 
the proposed surrender and project features will remain in place.
    m. This filing may be viewed on the Commission's Web site at http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/elibrary.asp. Enter the docket number 
excluding the last three digits in the docket number field to access 
the document. You may also register online at http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/esubscription.asp to be notified via email of new filings and 
issuances related to this or other pending projects. For assistance, 
call 1-866-208-3676 or email [email protected], for TTY, call 
(202) 502-8659. A copy is also available for inspection and 
reproduction in the Commission's Public Reference Room located at 888 
First Street NE., Room 2A, Washington, DC 20426, or by calling (202) 
502-8371.
    n. Individuals desiring to be included on the Commission's mailing 
list should so indicate by writing to the Secretary of the Commission.
    o. Comments, Protests, or Motions to Intervene: Anyone may submit 
comments, a protest, or a motion to intervene in accordance with the 
requirements of Rules of Practice and Procedure, 18 CFR 385.210, .211, 
.212 and .214. In determining the appropriate action to take, the 
Commission will consider all protests or other comments filed, but only 
those who file a motion to intervene in accordance with the 
Commission's Rules may become a party to the proceeding. Any comments, 
protests, or motions to intervene must be received on or before the 
specified comment date for the particular application.
    p. Filing and Service of Responsive Documents: Any filing must (1) 
bear in all capital letters the title COMMENTS, PROTEST, or MOTION TO 
INTERVENE as applicable; (2) set forth in the heading the name of the 
applicant and the project number of the application to which the filing 
responds; (3) furnish the name, address, and telephone number of the 
person protesting or intervening; and (4) otherwise comply with the 
requirements of 18 CFR 385.2001 through 385.2005. All comments, motions 
to intervene, or protests must set forth their evidentiary basis and 
otherwise comply with the requirements of 18 CFR 4.34(b). All comments, 
motions to intervene, or protests should relate to the surrender 
application that is the subject of this notice. Agencies may obtain 
copies of the application directly from the applicant. A copy of any 
protest or motion to intervene must be served upon each representative 
of the applicant specified in the particular application. If an 
intervener files comments or documents with the Commission relating to 
the merits of an issue that may affect the responsibilities of a 
particular resource agency, they must also serve a copy of the document 
on that resource agency. A copy of all other filings in reference to 
this application must be accompanied by proof of service on all persons 
listed in the service list prepared by the Commission in this 
proceeding, in accordance with 18 CFR 4.34(b) and 385.2010.
    q. Agency Comments--Federal, state, and local agencies are invited 
to file comments on the described proceeding. If any agency does not 
file comments within the time specified for filing comments, it will be 
presumed to have no comments.

    Dated: October 19, 2017.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2017-23113 Filed 10-24-17; 8:45 am]
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49366 Federal Register / Vol. 82, No. 205 / Wednesday, October 25, 2017 / Notices • Vegetation and wildlife; pipe storage yards, compressor stations, number, excluding the last three digits • Air quality and noise; and access roads). Our EA for this in the Docket Number field (i.e., CP17– • Endangered and threatened species; project will document our findings on 490). Be sure you have selected an • Public safety; and the impacts on historic properties and appropriate date range. For assistance, • Cumulative impacts. summarize the status of consultations please contact FERC Online Support at We will also evaluate reasonable under section 106. FercOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or toll free alternatives to the proposed project or at (866) 208–3676, or for TTY, contact portions of the project, and make Environmental Mailing List (202) 502–8659. The eLibrary link also recommendations on how to lessen or The environmental mailing list provides access to the texts of formal avoid impacts on the various resource includes federal, state, and local documents issued by the Commission, areas. government representatives and such as orders, notices, and The EA will present our independent agencies; elected officials; rulemakings. analysis of the issues. The EA will be environmental and public interest In addition, the Commission offers a available in the public record through groups; Native American Tribes; other eLibrary. Depending on the comments free service called eSubscription which interested parties; and local libraries allows you to keep track of all formal received during the scoping process, we and newspapers. This list also includes may also publish and distribute the EA issuances and submittals in specific all affected landowners (as defined in dockets. This can reduce the amount of to the public for an allotted comment the Commission’s regulations) who are period. We will consider all comments time you spend researching proceedings potential right-of-way grantors, whose by automatically providing you with on the EA before making our property may be used temporarily for recommendations to the Commission. notification of these filings, document project purposes, or who own homes summaries, and direct links to the To ensure we have the opportunity to within certain distances of aboveground consider and address your comments, documents. Go to www.ferc.gov/docs- facilities, and anyone who submits filing/esubscription.asp. please carefully follow the instructions comments on the project. We will in the Public Participation section on Finally, public sessions or site visits update the environmental mailing list as will be posted on the Commission’s page 2. the analysis proceeds to ensure that we With this notice, we are asking calendar located at www.ferc.gov/Event send the information related to this Calendar/EventsList.aspx along with agencies with jurisdiction by law and/ environmental review to all individuals, or special expertise with respect to the other related information. organizations, and government entities environmental issues of this project to interested in and/or potentially affected Dated: October 19, 2017. formally cooperate with us in the by the proposed project. Kimberly D. Bose, preparation of the EA.4 Agencies that If we publish and distribute the EA, Secretary. would like to request cooperating copies will be sent to the environmental [FR Doc. 2017–23107 Filed 10–24–17; 8:45 am] agency status should follow the mailing list for public review and BILLING CODE 6717–01–P instructions for filing comments comment. If you would prefer to receive provided under the Public Participation a paper copy of the document instead of section of this notice. the CD version or would like to remove DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY Consultations Under Section 106 of the your name from the mailing list, please return the attached Information Request Federal Energy Regulatory National Historic Preservation Act (appendix 2). Commission In accordance with the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation’s Becoming an Intervenor [Project No. 8936–024] implementing regulations for section In addition to involvement in the EA Notice of Application for Surrender of 106 of the National Historic scoping process, you may want to License, Soliciting Comments, Motions Preservation Act, we are using this become an intervenor which is an To Intervene, And Protests; Far West notice to initiate consultation with the official party to the Commission’s Power Corporation applicable State Historic Preservation proceeding. Intervenors play a more Office (SHPO), and to solicit their views formal role in the process and are able Take notice that the following and those of other government agencies, to file briefs, appear at hearings, and be hydroelectric application has been filed interested Indian tribes, and the public heard by the courts if they choose to with the Commission and is available on the project’s potential effects on appeal the Commission’s final ruling. for public inspection: historic properties.5 We will define the An intervenor formally participates in a. Type of Proceeding: Application for project-specific Area of Potential Effects the proceeding by filing a request to surrender of license. (APE) in consultation with the SHPO as intervene. Instructions for becoming an b. Project No.: 8936–024. the project develops. On natural gas intervenor are in the Document-less c. Date Filed: August 1, 2017. facility projects, the APE at a minimum Intervention Guide under the e-filing d. Licensee: Far West Power encompasses all areas subject to ground link on the Commission’s Web site. Corporation. disturbance (examples include Motions to intervene are more fully e. Name of Project: Power Canal construction right-of-way, contractor/ described at http://www.ferc.gov/ Hydroelectric Project. resources/guides/how-to/intervene.asp. f. Location: The project is located on 4 The Council on Environmental Quality the tailrace canal of Pacific Gas and regulations addressing cooperating agency Additional Information Electric Company’s (PG&E) Potter Valley sradovich on DSK3GMQ082PROD with NOTICES responsibilities are at Title 40, Code of Federal Regulations, Part 1501.6. Additional information about the Hydroelectric Project No. 77, on the East 5 The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation’s project is available from the Fork Russian River, in Mendocino regulations are at Title 36, Code of Federal Commission’s Office of External Affairs, County, California. Regulations, Part 800. Those regulations define at (866) 208–FERC, or on the FERC Web g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power historic properties as any prehistoric or historic district, site, building, structure, or object included site at www.ferc.gov using the eLibrary Act, 16 U.S.C. 791a–825r. in or eligible for inclusion in the National Register link. Click on the eLibrary link, click on h. Licensee Contact: Mr. Ross of Historic Places. General Search and enter the docket Goodwin, Far West Power Corporation, VerDate Sep<11>2014 22:06 Oct 24, 2017 Jkt 244001 PO 00000 Frm 00056 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\25OCN1.SGM 25OCN1

Federal Register / Vol. 82, No. 205 / Wednesday, October 25, 2017 / Notices 49367 3330 Clayton Road, Suite B, Concord, First Street NE., Room 2A, Washington, comments, it will be presumed to have CA 94518, Telephone: (925) 692–2198. DC 20426, or by calling (202) 502–8371. no comments. i. FERC Contact: Mr. Ashish Desai, n. Individuals desiring to be included Dated: October 19, 2017. (202) 502–8370, Ashish.Desai@ferc.gov. on the Commission’s mailing list should Kimberly D. Bose, j. Deadline for filing comments, so indicate by writing to the Secretary interventions, and protests is 30 days Secretary. of the Commission. from the issuance date of this notice by [FR Doc. 2017–23113 Filed 10–24–17; 8:45 am] o. Comments, Protests, or Motions to the Commission. The Commission Intervene: Anyone may submit BILLING CODE 6717–01–P strongly encourages electronic filing. comments, a protest, or a motion to Please file motions to intervene, protests intervene in accordance with the and comments using the Commission’s requirements of Rules of Practice and FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS eFiling system at http://www.ferc.gov/ Procedure, 18 CFR 385.210, .211, .212 COMMISSION docs-filing/efiling.asp. Commenters can and .214. In determining the appropriate [OMB 3060–0208] submit brief comments up to 6,000 action to take, the Commission will characters, without prior registration, consider all protests or other comments Information Collection Being using the eComment system at http:// filed, but only those who file a motion Submitted for Review and Approval to www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/ to intervene in accordance with the the Office of Management and Budget ecomment.asp. You must include your Commission’s Rules may become a name and contact information at the end AGENCY: Federal Communications party to the proceeding. Any comments, Commission. of your comments. For assistance, protests, or motions to intervene must please contact FERC Online Support at ACTION: Notice and request for be received on or before the specified comments. FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov, (866) comment date for the particular 208–3676 (toll free), or (202) 502–8659 application. SUMMARY: As part of its continuing effort (TTY). In lieu of electronic filing, please p. Filing and Service of Responsive to reduce paperwork burdens, and as send a paper copy to: Secretary, Federal Documents: Any filing must (1) bear in required by the Paperwork Reduction Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 all capital letters the title COMMENTS, Act (PRA) of 1995, the Federal First Street NE., Washington, DC 20426. PROTEST, or MOTION TO INTERVENE Communications Commission (FCC or The first page of any filing should as applicable; (2) set forth in the the Commission) invites the general include docket number P–8936–024. k. Description of Project Facilities: heading the name of the applicant and public and other Federal agencies to The project consists of: (a) A 6-foot-high the project number of the application to take this opportunity to comment on the diversion dam; (b) an intake structure; which the filing responds; (3) furnish following information collection. (c) a 150-foot-long, 49-foot-square flume; the name, address, and telephone Comments are requested concerning: (d) a 36-inch-diameter, 28-foot-long number of the person protesting or Whether the proposed collection of penstock; (e) a powerhouse containing intervening; and (4) otherwise comply information is necessary for the proper two generating units, each with an with the requirements of 18 CFR performance of the functions of the installed capacity of 200 kilowatts; (f) 385.2001 through 385.2005. All Commission, including whether the 0.48-kilovolt (kV) generator leads with a comments, motions to intervene, or information shall have practical utility; 12.7–kV step-up transformer; (g) 60-foot- protests must set forth their evidentiary the accuracy of the Commission’s long, 12.7–kV transmission line basis and otherwise comply with the burden estimate; ways to enhance the connecting to an existing PG&E requirements of 18 CFR 4.34(b). All quality, utility, and clarity of the transmission line; and (h) appurtenant comments, motions to intervene, or information collected; ways to minimize facilities. protests should relate to the surrender the burden of the collection of l. Description of Request: The licensee application that is the subject of this information on the respondents, proposes to surrender the project as it notice. Agencies may obtain copies of including the use of automated no longer intends to operate the project. the application directly from the collection techniques or other forms of The existing water right for the project applicant. A copy of any protest or information technology; and ways to has been surrendered and the power motion to intervene must be served further reduce the information sales agreement has been terminated. No upon each representative of the collection burden on small business ground disturbance is associated with applicant specified in the particular concerns with fewer than 25 employees. the proposed surrender and project application. If an intervener files The Commission may not conduct or features will remain in place. comments or documents with the sponsor a collection of information m. This filing may be viewed on the Commission relating to the merits of an unless it displays a currently valid Commission’s Web site at http:// issue that may affect the responsibilities Office of Management and Budget www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/elibrary.asp. of a particular resource agency, they (OMB) control number. No person shall Enter the docket number excluding the must also serve a copy of the document be subject to any penalty for failing to last three digits in the docket number on that resource agency. A copy of all comply with a collection of information field to access the document. You may other filings in reference to this subject to the PRA that does not display also register online at http:// application must be accompanied by a valid OMB control number. www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/ proof of service on all persons listed in DATES: Written comments should be esubscription.asp to be notified via the service list prepared by the submitted on or before November 24, email of new filings and issuances Commission in this proceeding, in 2017. If you anticipate that you will be sradovich on DSK3GMQ082PROD with NOTICES related to this or other pending projects. accordance with 18 CFR 4.34(b) and submitting comments, but find it For assistance, call 1–866–208–3676 or 385.2010. difficult to do so within the period of email FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov, for q. Agency Comments—Federal, state, time allowed by this notice, you should TTY, call (202) 502–8659. A copy is also and local agencies are invited to file advise the contacts listed below as soon available for inspection and comments on the described proceeding. as possible. reproduction in the Commission’s If any agency does not file comments ADDRESSES: Direct all PRA comments to Public Reference Room located at 888 within the time specified for filing Nicholas A. Fraser, OMB, via email VerDate Sep<11>2014 22:06 Oct 24, 2017 Jkt 244001 PO 00000 Frm 00057 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\25OCN1.SGM 25OCN1


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