83_FR_7064 83 FR 7031 - Notice of Commission Staff Attendance

83 FR 7031 - Notice of Commission Staff Attendance

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 33 (February 16, 2018)

Page Range7031-7032
FR Document2018-03205

Federal Register, Volume 83 Issue 33 (Friday, February 16, 2018) 
[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 33 (Friday, February 16, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 7031-7032]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2018-03205]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission


Notice of Commission Staff Attendance

    The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Commission) hereby gives 
notice that members of the Commission's staff may attend the following 
meetings related to the transmission planning activities of

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Tucson Electric Power Company, UNS Electric, Inc., Public Service 
Company of New Mexico, Arizona Public Service Company, El Paso Electric 
Company, Black Hills Power, Inc., Black Hills Colorado Electric Utility 
Company, LP, Cheyenne Light, Fuel, & Power Company, NV Energy, Inc.; 
and Xcel Energy Services, Inc. on behalf of Public Service Company of 
Colorado:

WestConnect Stakeholder Meeting
    February 14, 2018, 12:30 p.m.-4 p.m. (MST)
Planning Management Committee Meeting
    April 11, 2018, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. (MST)

    The February 14, 2018 WestConnect Stakeholder Meeting will be held 
at: Pera Club, 1 E Continental Dr., Tempe, AZ 85281.
    The April 11, 2018 Planning Management Committee Meeting will be 
held at: TSGT Offices, 1100 W 116th Ave., Westminster, CO 80234.
    The above-referenced meetings will be available via web conference 
and teleconference.
    The above-referenced meetings are open to stakeholders.
    Further information may be found at http://www.westconnect.com/.
    The discussions at the meetings described above may address matters 
at issue in the following proceeding: ER13-75, Public Service Comapny 
of New Mexico; El Paso Electric Company.
    For more information contact Nicole Cramer, Office of Energy Market 
Regulation, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission at (202) 502-6775 or 
[email protected].

    Dated: February 9, 2018.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2018-03205 Filed 2-15-18; 8:45 am]
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Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 33 / Friday, February 16, 2018 / Notices 7031 consideration to all comments received, method for submitting brief, text-only (3) You can file a paper copy of your whether filed in written form or comments on a project. comments by mailing them to the provided verbally. The Commission (2) You can file your comments following address. Be sure to reference encourages electronic filing of electronically by using the eFiling the project docket number (CP17–458– comments and has expert staff available feature on the Commission’s website 000) with your submission: Kimberly D. to assist you at (202) 502–8258 or (www.ferc.gov) under the link to Bose, Secretary, Federal Energy FercOnlineSupport@ferc.gov. Please Documents and Filings. With eFiling, Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street carefully follow these instructions so you can provide comments in a variety NE, Room 1A, Washington, DC 20426. that your comments are properly of formats by attaching them as a file recorded. with your submission. New eFiling 4) In lieu of sending written or (1) You can file your comments users must first create an account by electronic comments, the Commission electronically using the eComment clicking on ‘‘eRegister.’’ If you are filing invites you to attend one of the public feature on the Commission’s website a comment on a particular project, comment sessions its staff will conduct (www.ferc.gov) under the link to please select ‘‘Comment on a Filing’’ as in the project area to receive comments Documents and Filings. This is an easy the filing type. on the draft EIS, scheduled as follows: Date and time Location March 12, 2018, 4:00–8:00 pm ................................... Donald W. Reynolds Community Center, 1515 W. Main Street, Durant, OK 74701, (580) 924–3486. March 13, 2018, 4:00–8:00 pm ................................... Ardmore Convention Center, 2401 N. Rockford Road, Ardmore, OK 73401, (580) 226– 2862. March 14, 2018, 4:00–8:00 pm ................................... Elmore City Community Center, 104 S. Main Street, Elmore City, OK 73433, (580) 788– 2345. March 15, 2018, 4:00–8:00 pm ................................... Redlands Community College, 1300 S. Country Club Road, El Reno, OK 73036, (405) 262–2552. There will not be a formal answer questions about our an appropriate date range. For presentation by Commission staff at any environmental review process. It is assistance, please contact FERC Online of the public comment sessions, important to note that written comments Support at FercOnlineSupport@ferc.gov although a format outline handout will mailed to the Commission and those or toll free at (866) 208–3676; for TTY, be made available. Each comment submitted electronically are reviewed contact (202) 502–8659. The eLibrary sessions is scheduled from 4:00 p.m. to by staff with the same scrutiny and link also provides access to the texts of 8:00 p.m. (central time zone). If you consideration as the verbal comments formal documents issued by the wish to speak, the Commission staff will given at the public sessions. Commission, such as orders, notices, hand out numbers in the order of your Any person seeking to become a party and rulemakings. arrival; distribution of numbers will be to the proceeding must file a motion to In addition, the Commission offers a discontinued at 7:00 p.m. However, if intervene pursuant to Rule 214 of the free service called eSubscription that no additional numbers have been Commission’s Rules of Practice and allows you to keep track of all formal handed out and all individuals who Procedures (Title 18 of the Code of issuances and submittals in specific wish to provide comments have had an Federal Regulations, Part 385.214).1 dockets. This can reduce the amount of opportunity to do so, staff may conclude Only intervenors have the right to seek time you spend researching proceedings the session at 7:00 p.m. rehearing of the Commission’s decision. by automatically providing you with The primary goal of the public The Commission grants affected notification of these filings, document comment sessions is to have you landowners and others with summaries, and direct links to the identify the specific environmental environmental concerns intervenor documents. Go to www.ferc.gov/docs- issues and concerns with the draft EIS. status upon showing good cause by filing/esubscription.asp. Individual verbal comments will be stating that they have a clear and direct interest in this proceeding that no other Dated: February 9, 2018. recorded on a one-on-one basis with a party can adequately represent. Simply Kimberly D. Bose, Court Reporter (with FERC staff or representative present) and become part filing environmental comments will not Secretary. of the public record for this proceeding. give you intervenor status, but you do [FR Doc. 2018–03203 Filed 2–15–18; 8:45 am] If a significant number of people are not need intervenor status to have your BILLING CODE 6717–01–P interested in providing verbal comments comments considered. in the one-on-one settings, a time limit Questions of 5 minutes may be implemented for DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY Additional information about the each commentor. Transcripts of all project is available from the Federal Energy Regulatory comments from the sessions will be Commission’s Office of External Affairs, Commission placed into the docket for the project, at (866) 208–FERC, or on the FERC which are accessible for public viewing website (www.ferc.gov) using the Notice of Commission Staff on the FERC’s website (at www.ferc.gov) eLibrary link. Click on the eLibrary link, Attendance daltland on DSKBBV9HB2PROD with NOTICES through our eLibrary system. This click on ‘‘General Search,’’ and enter the format is designed to receive the docket number excluding the last three The Federal Energy Regulatory maximum amount of verbal comments, digits in the Docket Number field (i.e., Commission (Commission) hereby gives in a convenient way during the CP17–458). Be sure you have selected notice that members of the timeframe allotted. Commission’s staff may attend the Commission staff will be available at 1 See the previous discussion on the methods for following meetings related to the each venue of the public sessions to filing comments. transmission planning activities of VerDate Sep<11>2014 19:24 Feb 15, 2018 Jkt 244001 PO 00000 Frm 00024 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\16FEN1.SGM 16FEN1

7032 Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 33 / Friday, February 16, 2018 / Notices Tucson Electric Power Company, UNS b. Project No.: 2727–092. Lake and Ellsworth) with a total Electric, Inc., Public Service Company c. Date filed: December 30, 2015. installed capacity of 8.9 megawatts of New Mexico, Arizona Public Service d. Applicant: Black Bear Hydro (MW). The project’s average annual Company, El Paso Electric Company, Partners, LLC (Black Bear Hydro). generation is 30,511 megawatt-hours. Black Hills Power, Inc., Black Hills e. Name of Project: Ellsworth The power generated by the project is Colorado Electric Utility Company, LP, Hydroelectric Project (Ellsworth sold to the regional power pool Cheyenne Light, Fuel, & Power Project). administered by ISO New England, Inc. Company, NV Energy, Inc.; and Xcel f. Location: On the Union River in Hancock County, Maine. There are no Graham Lake Development Energy Services, Inc. on behalf of Public Service Company of Colorado: federal or tribal lands within the project The existing Graham Lake boundary. Development consists of: (1) A 630-foot- WestConnect Stakeholder Meeting g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power long, 58-foot-high dam that includes: (i) February 14, 2018, 12:30 p.m.–4 p.m. Act 16 U.S.C. 791(a)–825(r). An 80-foot-long, 58-foot-high concrete (MST) h. Applicant Contact: Ms. Kelly Planning Management Committee spillway section with three 20-foot- Maloney, Manager of Licensing and wide, 22.5-foot-high spillway gates and Meeting Compliance, Brookfield Renewable one 8-foot-wide sluice gate used for April 11, 2018, 9 a.m.–3 p.m. (MST) Energy Group, 150 Main Street, downstream fish passage; and (ii) a 550- The February 14, 2018 WestConnect Lewiston, ME 04240; Telephone: (207) foot-long, 45-foot-high earthen Stakeholder Meeting will be held at: 755–5606. embankment section with a concrete Pera Club, 1 E Continental Dr., Tempe, i. FERC Contact: Dr. Nicholas Palso, and sheet pile core wall; (2) an AZ 85281. (202) 502–8854 or nicholas.palso@ approximately 10,000-acre The April 11, 2018 Planning ferc.gov. impoundment (Graham Lake) with a Management Committee Meeting will be j. Deadline for filing motions to useable storage volume of 133,150 acre- held at: TSGT Offices, 1100 W 116th intervene and protests, comments, feet at a normal maximum elevation of Ave., Westminster, CO 80234. recommendations, terms and 104.2 National Geodetic Vertical Datum The above-referenced meetings will conditions, and prescriptions: 60 days 1929 (NGVD); (3) a 720-foot-long, 58- be available via web conference and from the issuance date of this notice; foot-high concrete gravity flood control teleconference. reply comments are due 105 days from structure and a 65-foot-diameter, 55- The above-referenced meetings are the issuance date of this notice. foot-high stone-filled sheet pile open to stakeholders. The Commission strongly encourages retaining structure; (4) a 71-foot-long, Further information may be found at electronic filing. Please file motions to 36.5-foot-high concrete wing wall; and http://www.westconnect.com/. intervene and protests, comments, (5) appurtenant facilities. The discussions at the meetings recommendations, terms and described above may address matters at conditions, and prescriptions using the Ellsworth Development issue in the following proceeding: Commission’s eFiling system at http:// The existing Ellsworth Development ER13–75, Public Service Comapny of www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/efiling.asp. consists of: (1) A 377-foot-long, 60-foot- New Mexico; El Paso Electric Company. Commenters can submit brief comments high dam that includes: (i) A 102-foot- For more information contact Nicole up to 6,000 characters, without prior long, 60-foot-high concrete bulkhead Cramer, Office of Energy Market registration, using the eComment system section; and (ii) a 275-foot-long, 57-foot- Regulation, Federal Energy Regulatory at http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/ high concrete overflow spillway with Commission at (202) 502–6775 or ecomment.asp. You must include your 1.7-foot-high flashboards; (2) an 85-foot- nicole.cramer@ferc.gov. name and contact information at the end long, 71-foot-high concrete non-over Dated: February 9, 2018. of your comments. For assistance, flow wall at the west end of the Kimberly D. Bose, please contact FERC Online Support at bulkhead section; (3) a 26-foot-high Secretary. FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov, (866) abutment at the east end of the spillway; 208–3676 (toll free), or (202) 502–8659 (4) a 90-acre impoundment (Lake [FR Doc. 2018–03205 Filed 2–15–18; 8:45 am] (TTY). In lieu of electronic filing, please Leonard) with a gross storage volume of BILLING CODE 6717–01–P send a paper copy to: Secretary, Federal 2,456 acre-feet at a normal maximum Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 elevation of 66.7 feet NGVD; (5) DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY First Street NE, Washington, DC 20426. generating facility No. 1 that includes: The first page of any filing should (i) a 15-foot-wide, 10-foot-high headgate Federal Energy Regulatory include docket number P–2727–092. with a 15-foot-wide, 12.5-foot-high Commission The Commission’s Rules of Practice trashrack; (ii) a 10-foot-diameter, 74- require all intervenors filing documents foot-long penstock; and (iii) a 26-foot- [Project No. 2727–092] long, 28-foot-wide concrete and with the Commission to serve a copy of that document on each person on the masonry powerhouse that is integral to Black Bear Hydro Partners, LLC; official service list for the project. the concrete non-overflow dam section Notice of Application Accepted for Further, if an intervenor files comments and contains a single 2.5–MW turbine- Filing, Soliciting Motions To Intervene or documents with the Commission generator unit; (6) generating facility No. and Protests, Ready for Environmental relating to the merits of an issue that 2 that includes: (i) an 88.4-foot-wide, Analysis, and Soliciting Comments, may affect the responsibilities of a 32-foot-high intake structure with two, Recommendations, Terms and particular resource agency, they must 8-foot-wide, 15-foot-high headgates with Conditions, and Prescriptions daltland on DSKBBV9HB2PROD with NOTICES also serve a copy of the document on 8-foot-wide, 14-foot-high trashracks, and Take notice that the following that resource agency. one 12-foot-wide, 15-foot-high headgate hydroelectric license application has k. This application has been accepted with a 12-foot-wide, 14-foot-high been filed with the Commission and is for filing and is now ready for trashrack; (ii) an 8-foot-diameter, 164- available for public inspection. environmental analysis. foot-long penstock, an 8-foot-diameter, a. Type of Application: New Major l. The existing Ellsworth Project 195-foot-long penstock, and a 12-foot- License. consists of two developments (Graham diameter, 225-foot-long penstock; and VerDate Sep<11>2014 19:24 Feb 15, 2018 Jkt 244001 PO 00000 Frm 00025 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\16FEN1.SGM 16FEN1


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PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
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FR Citation83 FR 7031 
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