82_FR_60628 82 FR 60385 - Mad River Power Associates LP; Notice of Intent To File License Application, Filing of Pre-Application Document, Approving Use of the Traditional Licensing Process

82 FR 60385 - Mad River Power Associates LP; Notice of Intent To File License Application, Filing of Pre-Application Document, Approving Use of the Traditional Licensing Process

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 243 (December 20, 2017)

Page Range60385-60386
FR Document2017-27333

Federal Register, Volume 82 Issue 243 (Wednesday, December 20, 2017) 
[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 243 (Wednesday, December 20, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 60385-60386]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2017-27333]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 3253-014]


Mad River Power Associates LP; Notice of Intent To File License 
Application, Filing of Pre-Application Document, Approving Use of the 
Traditional Licensing Process

    a. Type of Filing: Notice of Intent to File License Application and 
Request to Use the Traditional Licensing Process.
    b. Project No.: 3253-014.
    c. Date Filed: October 17, 2017.
    d. Submitted By: Mad River Power Associates LP.
    e. Name of Project: Campton Hydroelectric Project.

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    f. Location: On the Mad River, in the Town of Campton, Grafton 
County, New Hampshire. The project occupies approximately 0.1 acre of 
United States lands administered by the United States Forest Service.
    g. Filed Pursuant to: 18 CFR 5.3 and 5.5 of the Commission's 
regulations.
    h. Potential Applicant Contact: Ian Clark, Managing Partner, Mad 
River Power Associates LP, 826 Scarsdale Avenue, Scarsdale, NY 10583; 
(914) 297-7645.
    i. FERC Contact: Dr. Nicholas Palso at (202) 502-8854; or email at 
[email protected].
    j. Mad River Power Associates LP filed its request to use the 
Traditional Licensing Process on October 17, 2017. Mad River Power 
Associates LP provided public notice of its request on October 22, 
2017. In a letter dated December 13, 2017, the Director of the Division 
of Hydropower Licensing approved Mad River Power Associates LP's 
request to use the Traditional Licensing Process.
    k. With this notice, we are initiating informal consultation with 
the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and NOAA Fisheries under section 7 
of the Endangered Species Act and the joint agency regulations 
thereunder at 50 CFR, Part 402; and NOAA Fisheries under section 305(b) 
of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act and 
implementing regulations at 50 CFR 600.920. We are also initiating 
consultation with the New Hampshire State Historic Preservation 
Officer, as required by section 106 of the National Historic 
Preservation Act, and the implementing regulations of the Advisory 
Council on Historic Preservation at 36 CFR 800.2.
    l. With this notice, we are designating Mad River Power Associates 
LP as the Commission's non-federal representative for carrying out 
informal consultation pursuant to section 7 of the Endangered Species 
Act and section 305(b) of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and 
Management Act; and consultation pursuant to section 106 of the 
National Historic Preservation Act.
    m. Mad River Power Associates LP filed a Pre-Application Document 
(PAD; including a proposed process plan and schedule) with the 
Commission, pursuant to 18 CFR 5.6 of the Commission's regulations.
    n. A copy of the PAD is available for review at the Commission in 
the Public Reference Room or may be viewed on the Commission's website 
(http://www.ferc.gov), using the ``eLibrary'' link. Enter the docket 
number, excluding the last three digits in the docket number field to 
access the document. For assistance, contact FERC Online Support at 
[email protected], (866) 208-3676 (toll free), or (202) 502-
8659 (TTY). A copy is also available for inspection and reproduction at 
the address in paragraph h.
    o. The licensee states its unequivocal intent to submit an 
application for a subsequent license for Project No. 3253. Pursuant to 
18 CFR 16.20 each application for a subsequent license and any 
competing license applications must be filed with the Commission at 
least 24 months prior to the expiration of the existing license. All 
applications for license for this project must be filed by October 31, 
2020.
    p. Register online at http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/esubscription.asp to be notified via email of new filing and issuances 
related to this or other pending projects. For assistance, contact FERC 
Online Support.

    Dated: December 13, 2017.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2017-27333 Filed 12-19-17; 8:45 am]
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Federal Register / Vol. 82, No. 243 / Wednesday, December 20, 2017 / Notices 60385 FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: a measure of the extent to which the (5) Annual Estimated Number of Requests for additional information or objectives of the Energy Policy Act of Respondents: 2,050; copies of the information collection 1992 are being achieved. These data (6) Annual Estimated Number of instrument and instructions should be serve as a tool for analysis on market Total Responses: 2,050; directed to Cynthia Sirk by phone at penetration of AFVs in the motor (7) Annual Estimated Number of (202) 586–1658, or by email at vehicle population as well as trend Burden Hours: 8,575; cynthia.sirk@eia.gov. Access to the analysis tools on the use and type of Average Burden per Response: 4.2 proposed form, instructions, and AFVs for Congress, federal/state hours; internet data collection screens can be agencies, AFV suppliers, vehicle fleet AFV Suppliers (30 Original found at: https://www.eia.gov/survey/ managers, and other interested Equipment Manufacturers): 3.5 hours form/eia_886/proposed/2018/form.pdf. organizations and persons. per response; SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Comments (4a) Proposed Changes to Information AFV Suppliers (20 Aftermarket are invited on: (a) Whether the Collection: EIA is proposing two Vehicle Converters): 3 hours per expanded collection of information is changes to Form EIA–886: (1) Collect response; more detailed vehicle type information AFV Users (100 complex fleets): 4.3 necessary for the proper performance of and weight classifications from hours per response; the functions of the agency, including suppliers and users of AFVs; and (2) AFV Users (1,900 simple fleets): 4.2 whether the information shall have incorporate questions for electric hours per response; practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the vehicle users to gain a better (8) Annual Estimated Reporting and agency’s estimate of the burden of the understanding of refueling Recordkeeping Cost Burden: EIA proposed collection of information, infrastructure and electricity estimates that there are no capital and including the validity of the consumption in electric and plug-in start-up costs associated with this data methodology and assumptions used; (c) hybrid electric vehicles. collection. The information is ways to enhance the quality, utility, and maintained in the normal course of clarity of the information to be (1) Changes to Vehicle Type and business. The cost of burden hours to collected; (d) ways to minimize the Weight Classifications: EIA proposes to the respondents is estimated to be burden of the collection of information standardize and break out weight $631,635 (8,575 burden hours times on respondents, including through the classes to reflect industry standards by $73.66 per hour). Therefore, other than use of automated collection techniques simplifying the list of vehicle type codes the cost of burden hours, EIA estimates or other forms of information and adding a new column for detailed that there are no additional costs for technology; and (e) ways to identify weight classifications in Parts 2 and 3 of generating, maintaining, and providing alternate sources of AFV information Form EIA–886. These changes support the information. EIA proposes to collect. EIA will EPA’s emission inventory Motor Vehicle evaluate comments on duplication of Emission Simulator model (MOVES) by Statutory Authority: Section 13(b) of the data sources based on terms of data making the weight classifications in Federal Energy Administration Act of 1974, EIA’s data collection consistent with the Pub. L. 93–275, (FEA Act), and codified at 15 coverage, level of aggregation, frequency U.S.C. 772 (b), and Section 503(b)(2) of the of collection, data reliability, and weight classifications used by EPA. The Energy Policy Act of 1992, Pub. L. 102–486 statutory requirements to determine MOVES model is the official emissions (EPACT92) codified at 42 U.S.C. 13253. whether alternate data sources represent inventory model for highway and non- road mobile sources used by EPA’s Issued in Washington, DC on November 9, a suitable substitute for EIA data. 2017. This information collection request Office of Transportation and Air Quality. This model is also used by Nanda Srinivasan, contains: (1) OMB No. 1905–0191; state, local, and regional governments Director, Office of Survey Development and for environmental analysis of official Statistical Integration, U.S. Energy (2) Information Collection Request Information Administration. Title: Annual Survey of Alternative submissions to EPA required by the [FR Doc. 2017–27396 Filed 12–19–17; 8:45 am] Fueled Vehicles; Clean Air Act, such as State Implementation Plans (SIPs) and BILLING CODE 6450–01–P (3) Type of Request: Renewal, with Changes; transportation conformity analysis for (4) Purpose: Form EIA–886 is an roadway construction. In addition, the MOVES model is instrumental in the DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY annual survey that collects information on the number and type of alternative development of national inventories Federal Energy Regulatory fueled vehicles (AFVs) and other used for evaluating the costs and Commission advanced technology vehicles that benefits of EPA regulations, such as the vehicle suppliers made available in the second phase of the Greenhouse Gas [Project No. 3253–014] previous calendar year and plan to make Rule for Heavy-Duty Vehicles currently available in the following calendar year; underway, including the predictions of Mad River Power Associates LP; the number, type, and geographic the effects of EPA regulations on air Notice of Intent To File License distribution of AFVs in use in the quality. Application, Filing of Pre-Application previous calendar year; and the amount (2) Questions for Electric Vehicle Document, Approving Use of the and distribution of each type of Users: EIA seeks to gather tertiary Traditional Licensing Process alternative transportation fuel (ATF) information about electric vehicle a. Type of Filing: Notice of Intent to consumed in the previous calendar year. power consumption to establish sradovich on DSK3GMQ082PROD with NOTICES File License Application and Request to Form EIA–886 data are collected from parameters for estimating consumption Use the Traditional Licensing Process. suppliers and users of AFVs. These data of electricity in its published report. EIA b. Project No.: 3253–014. are needed by federal and state agencies, proposes to add questions to Part 2 of c. Date Filed: October 17, 2017. fuel suppliers, transit agencies and other the form to collect information on d. Submitted By: Mad River Power fleets to determine if sufficient charging patterns, mileage, and electric Associates LP. quantities of AFVs are available for utility billing as it relates to electric e. Name of Project: Campton purchase and to provide Congress with vehicles. Hydroelectric Project. VerDate Sep<11>2014 21:36 Dec 19, 2017 Jkt 244001 PO 00000 Frm 00017 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\20DEN1.SGM 20DEN1

60386 Federal Register / Vol. 82, No. 243 / Wednesday, December 20, 2017 / Notices f. Location: On the Mad River, in the document. For assistance, contact FERC eFiling link at http://www.ferc.gov. Town of Campton, Grafton County, New Online Support at FERCOnline Persons unable to file electronically Hampshire. The project occupies Support@ferc.gov, (866) 208–3676 (toll should submit an original and 5 copies approximately 0.1 acre of United States free), or (202) 502–8659 (TTY). A copy of the protest or intervention to the lands administered by the United States is also available for inspection and Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Forest Service. reproduction at the address in 888 First Street NE, Washington, DC g. Filed Pursuant to: 18 CFR 5.3 and paragraph h. 20426. 5.5 of the Commission’s regulations. o. The licensee states its unequivocal This filing is accessible on-line at h. Potential Applicant Contact: Ian intent to submit an application for a http://www.ferc.gov, using the eLibrary Clark, Managing Partner, Mad River subsequent license for Project No. 3253. link and is available for review in the Power Associates LP, 826 Scarsdale Pursuant to 18 CFR 16.20 each Commission’s Public Reference Room in Avenue, Scarsdale, NY 10583; (914) application for a subsequent license and Washington, DC. There is an 297–7645. any competing license applications eSubscription link on the website that i. FERC Contact: Dr. Nicholas Palso at must be filed with the Commission at enables subscribers to receive email (202) 502–8854; or email at least 24 months prior to the expiration notification when a document is added nicholas.palso@ferc.gov. of the existing license. All applications to a subscribed docket(s). For assistance j. Mad River Power Associates LP for license for this project must be filed with any FERC Online service, please filed its request to use the Traditional by October 31, 2020. email FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov, or Licensing Process on October 17, 2017. p. Register online at http:// call (866) 208–3676 (toll free). For TTY, Mad River Power Associates LP www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/ call (202) 502–8659. provided public notice of its request on esubscription.asp to be notified via Comments: 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on October 22, 2017. In a letter dated email of new filing and issuances January 8, 2018. December 13, 2017, the Director of the related to this or other pending projects. Dated: December 12, 2017. Division of Hydropower Licensing For assistance, contact FERC Online Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr., approved Mad River Power Associates Support. LP’s request to use the Traditional Deputy Secretary. Licensing Process. Dated: December 13, 2017. [FR Doc. 2017–27366 Filed 12–19–17; 8:45 am] k. With this notice, we are initiating Kimberly D. Bose, BILLING CODE 6717–01–P informal consultation with the U.S. Fish Secretary. and Wildlife Service and NOAA [FR Doc. 2017–27333 Filed 12–19–17; 8:45 am] Fisheries under section 7 of the BILLING CODE 6717–01–P DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY Endangered Species Act and the joint agency regulations thereunder at 50 Federal Energy Regulatory CFR, Part 402; and NOAA Fisheries DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY Commission under section 305(b) of the Magnuson- [Project No. 1235–017] Stevens Fishery Conservation and Federal Energy Regulatory Management Act and implementing Commission City of Radford; Notice Soliciting regulations at 50 CFR 600.920. We are [Docket No. AC18–15–000] Scoping Comments also initiating consultation with the New Hampshire State Historic Notice of Request for Waiver: Empire Take notice that the following Preservation Officer, as required by Pipeline, Inc. hydroelectric application has been filed section 106 of the National Historic with the Commission and is available Preservation Act, and the implementing Take notice that on November 9, for public inspection. regulations of the Advisory Council on 2017, Empire Pipeline, Inc., filed a a. Type of Application: Subsequent Historic Preservation at 36 CFR 800.2. request for waiver of the requirement to Minor License. l. With this notice, we are designating provide its certified public accountant b. Project No.: 1235–017. Mad River Power Associates LP as the certification statement for the 2017 c. Date filed: May 30, 2017. Commission’s non-federal FERC Form No. 2 on the basis of the d. Applicant: City of Radford. representative for carrying out informal calendar year ending December 31. e. Name of Project: Municipal consultation pursuant to section 7 of the Any person desiring to intervene or to Hydroelectric Project. Endangered Species Act and section protest this filing must file in f. Location: On the Little River near 305(b) of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery accordance with Rules 211 and 214 of the City of Radford in Montgomery and Conservation and Management Act; and the Commission’s Rules of Practice and Pulaski Counties, Virginia. The project consultation pursuant to section 106 of Procedure (18 CFR 385.211, 385.214). does not affect federal lands. the National Historic Preservation Act. Protests will be considered by the g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power m. Mad River Power Associates LP Commission in determining the Act, 16 U.S.C. 791(a)–825(r). filed a Pre-Application Document (PAD; appropriate action to be taken, but will h. Applicant Contact: Tim Logwood, including a proposed process plan and not serve to make protestants parties to Director of Electric Utilities for the City schedule) with the Commission, the proceeding. Any person wishing to of Radford, 701 17th Street Radford, VA pursuant to 18 CFR 5.6 of the become a party must file a notice of 24141; Telephone (540) 731–3641. Commission’s regulations. intervention or motion to intervene, as i. FERC Contact: Allyson Conner, n. A copy of the PAD is available for appropriate. Such notices, motions, or (202) 502–6082 or allyson.conner@ sradovich on DSK3GMQ082PROD with NOTICES review at the Commission in the Public protests must be filed on or before the ferc.gov. Reference Room or may be viewed on comment date. Anyone filing a motion j. Deadline for filing scoping the Commission’s website (http:// to intervene or protest must serve a copy comments: 30 days from the issuance www.ferc.gov), using the ‘‘eLibrary’’ of that document on the Applicant. date of this notice. link. Enter the docket number, The Commission encourages The Commission strongly encourages excluding the last three digits in the electronic submission of protests and electronic filing. Please file scoping docket number field to access the interventions in lieu of paper using the comments using the Commission’s VerDate Sep<11>2014 21:36 Dec 19, 2017 Jkt 244001 PO 00000 Frm 00018 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\20DEN1.SGM 20DEN1


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