Notice of FERC Staff Attendance at the Entergy Regional State Committee Meeting, 28840-28841 [2013-11656]
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The above-referenced meeting is open
to stakeholders.
Further information may be found at
www.pjm.com/committees-and-groups/
stakeholder-meetings/stakeholdergroups/ipsac-ny-ne.aspx.
The discussions at the meeting
described above may address matters at
issue in the following proceedings:
Docket No. ER08–1281, New York
Independent System Operator, Inc.
Docket No. EL05–121, PJM
Interconnection, L.L.C.
Docket No. EL10–52, Central
Transmission, LLC v. PJM
Interconnection, L.L.C.
Docket No. ER10–253 and EL10–14,
Primary Power, L.L.C.
Docket No. EL12–69, Primary Power
LLC v. PJM Interconnection, L.L.C.
Docket No. ER11–1844, Midwest
Independent Transmission System
Operator, Inc.
Docket No. ER12–1178, PJM
Interconnection, L.L.C.
Docket No. ER13–90, Public Service
Electric and Gas Company and PJM
Interconnection, L.L.C.
Docket No. ER13–102, New York
Independent System Operator, Inc.
Docket No. ER13–193, ISO New England
Inc.
Docket No. ER13–195, Indicated PJM
Transmission Owners
Docket No. ER13–196, ISO New England
Inc.
Docket No. ER13–198, PJM
Interconnection, L.L.C
Docket No. ER13–397, PJM
Interconnection, L.L.C.
Docket No. ER13–673, PJM
Interconnection, L.L.C
Docket No. ER13–703, PJM
Interconnection, L.L.C.
Docket No. ER13–887, PJM
Interconnection, L.L.C.
Docket No. ER13–1052, PJM
Interconnection, L.L.C. and the
Midwest Independent Transmission
System Operator, Inc.
Docket No. ER13–1054, PJM
Interconnection, L.L.C. and the
Midwest Independent Transmission
System Operator, Inc.
For more information, contact
Jonathan Fernandez, Office of Energy
Market Regulation, Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission at (202) 502–
6604 or jonathan.fernandez@ferc.gov.
Dated: May 10, 2013.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
Notice of FERC Staff Attendance at the
Entergy Regional State Committee
Meeting
The Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission (Commission) hereby gives
notice that members of its staff may
attend the meeting noted below. Their
attendance is part of the Commission’s
ongoing outreach efforts.
Entergy Regional State Committee
May 29, 2013 (9:00 a.m.–3:00 p.m.).
This meeting will be held at the
Windsor Court Hotel, 300 Gravier Street,
New Orleans, LA 70130.
The discussions may address matters
at issue in the following proceedings:
Docket No. EL01–88, Louisiana Public
Service Commission v. Entergy
Services, Inc.
Docket No. EL09–50, Louisiana Public
Service Commission v. Entergy
Services, Inc.
Docket No. EL09–61, Louisiana Public
Service Commission v. Entergy
Services, Inc.
Docket No. EL10–55, Louisiana Public
Service Commission v. Entergy
Services, Inc.
Docket No. EL10–65, Louisiana Public
Service Commission v. Entergy
Services, Inc.
Docket No. EL11–63, Louisiana Public
Service Commission v. Entergy
Services, Inc.
Docket No. EL11–65, Louisiana Public
Service Commission v. Entergy
Services, Inc.
Docket No. EL13–41, Occidental
Chemical Company v. Midwest
Independent System Transmission
Operator, Inc.
Docket No. EL13–43, Council of the City
of New Orleans, Mississippi Public
Service Commission, Arkansas
Public Service Commission, Public
Utility Commission of Texas,
Louisiana Public Service
Commission
Docket No. ER05–1065, Entergy
Services, Inc.
Docket No. ER07–682, Entergy Services,
Inc.
Docket No. ER07–956, Entergy Services,
Inc.
Docket No. ER08–1056, Entergy
Services, Inc.
Docket No. ER09–1224, Entergy
Services, Inc.
Docket No. ER10–794, Entergy Services,
Inc.
Docket No. ER10–1350, Entergy
Services, Inc.
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Docket No. ER10–2001, Entergy
Arkansas, Inc.
Docket No. ER10–3357, Entergy
Arkansas, Inc.
Docket No. ER11–2161, Entergy Texas,
Inc.
Docket No. ER11–3657, Entergy
Arkansas, Inc.
Docket No. ER12–480, Midwest
Independent Transmission System
Operator, Inc.
Docket No. ER12–1428, Entergy
Arkansas, Inc.
Docket No. ER12–1881, Entergy
Arkansas, Inc.
Docket No. ER12–1882, Entergy Gulf
States, Louisiana L.L.C.
Docket No. ER12–1883, Entergy
Louisiana LLC
Docket No. ER12–1884, Entergy
Mississippi, Inc.
Docket No. ER12–1885, Entergy New
Orleans, Inc.
Docket No. ER12–1886, Entergy Texas,
Inc.
Docket Nos. ER12–2681, et al. Entergy
Corp., Midwest Independent
Transmission System Operator, Inc.
and ITC Holdings Corp.
Docket No. ER12–2682, Midwest
Independent Transmission System
Operator, Inc.
Docket No. ER12–2683, Entergy
Services, Inc.
Docket No. ER12–2693, Entergy
Services, Inc.
Docket No. ER13–288, Entergy Services,
Inc.
Docket No. ER13–432, Entergy Services,
Inc.
Docket No. ER13–665, Midwest
Independent Transmission System
Operator, Inc.
Docket No. ER13–708, Midwest
Independent Transmission System
Operator, Inc.
Docket No. ER13–769, Entergy
Arkansas, Inc. and Entergy
Mississippi, Inc.
Docket No. ER13–770, Entergy
Arkansas, Inc. and Entergy
Louisiana, LLC.
Docket No. ER13–782, ITC Arkansas
LLC, et al.
Docket No. ER13–868, Midwest
Independent Transmission System
Operator, Inc.
Docket No. ER13–945, Midwest
Independent Transmission System
Operator, Inc.
Docket No. ER13–948, Entergy Services,
Inc.
Docket No. ER13–1184, Entergy Power,
LLC.
Docket No. ER13–1194, Entergy
Services, Inc.
Docket No. ER13–1195, Entergy
Services, Inc.
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Docket No. ER13–1227, Midwest
Independent Transmission System
Operator, Inc.
Docket No. ER13–1317, Entergy
Services, Inc.
These meetings are open to the
public.
For more information, contact Patrick
Clarey, Office of Energy Market
Regulation, Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission at (317) 249–5937 or
patrick.clarey@ferc.gov.
Dated: May 10, 2013.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Western Area Power Administration
Quartzsite Solar Energy Project
Record of Decision (DOE/EIS–0440)
Western Area Power
Administration, DOE.
ACTION: Record of Decision.
AGENCY:
Western Area Power
Administration (Western), an agency
within the U.S. Department of Energy
(DOE), received a request from
Quartzsite Solar Energy, LLC (QSE) to
interconnect its proposed Quartzsite
Solar Energy Project (Project) to
Western’s Bouse-Kofa 161-kilovolt (kV)
transmission line. The proposed Project
site is in an undeveloped area in La Paz
County, Arizona, east of State Route
(SR) 95, approximately 10 miles north of
Quartzsite, Arizona, on lands
administered by the U.S. Department of
Interior, Bureau of Land Management
(BLM).
On December 21, 2012, the Notice of
Availability of the Final Environmental
Impact Statement (EIS) and Yuma Field
Office (Yuma) Proposed Resource
Management Plan Amendment
(PRMPA) for Quartzsite Solar Energy
Project was published in the Federal
Register (77 FR 75632). After
considering the environmental impacts,
Western has decided to allow QSE’s
request for interconnection to Western’s
transmission system on the Bouse-Kofa
161-kV transmission line and to
construct, own, and operate a new
switchyard and its associated
communication pathway.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
further information, please contact Ms.
Liana Reilly, Environmental Project
Manager, Corporate Services Office,
Western Area Power Administration,
A7400, P.O. Box 281213, Lakewood, CO
80228, telephone (720) 962–7253, fax
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(720) 962–7263, or email:
reilly@wapa.gov. For general
information on DOE’s National
Environmental Policy Act of 1969
(NEPA) review process, please contact
Carol M. Borgstrom, Director, Office of
NEPA Policy and Compliance, GC–54,
U.S. Department of Energy, Washington,
DC 20585, telephone (202) 586–4600 or
(800) 472–2756.
Western is
a Federal agency under the DOE that
markets and transmits wholesale
electrical power through an integrated
17,000-circuit mile, high-voltage
transmission system across 15 western
states. Western’s Open Access
Transmission Service Tariff (Tariff)
provides open access to its electric
transmission system. In reviewing
interconnection requests, Western must
ensure that existing reliability and
service is not degraded. Western’s Large
Generator Interconnection Procedures
provide for transmission and system
studies to ensure that system reliability
and service to existing customers are not
adversely affected by new
interconnections.
In compliance with the NEPA, as
amended, and the Federal Land Policy
and Management Act of 1976, as
amended, Western as lead agency, with
the BLM as a cooperating agency,
prepared and released the Draft EIS/
PRMPA on November 10, 2011, and
subsequently held public hearings on
the document in Yuma, Arizona, on
December 13, 2011, and in Quartzsite,
Arizona, on December 14, 2011.
Following the release of the Draft EIS/
PRMPA, Western and the BLM prepared
a Final EIS/PRMPA which was released
on December 21, 2012 (77 FR 76477).1
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the
U.S. Army Garrison-Yuma Proving
Ground, the Arizona Department of
Environmental Quality and the Arizona
Game and Fish Department (AZGFD)
were also cooperating agencies.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Proposed Federal Action
Western’s proposed Federal action is
to interconnect the proposed Project to
Western’s transmission system at the
existing Bouse-Kofa 161-kV
transmission line and construct, own,
and operate a new switchyard on BLMadministered land adjacent to the
transmission line as well as an
associated communications pathway.
Western has submitted a right-of-way
(ROW) application to the BLM for its
1 The Final EIS can be found on Western’s Web
site at: https://ww2.wapa.gov/sites/Western/
transmission/interconn/Pages/
QuartzsiteSolar.aspx.
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switchyard and communication
pathway.
QSE Proposed Project
The proposed Project is a 100megawatt solar electric power plant that
would use concentrating solar power
technology to capture the sun’s heat to
make steam, which would power a
traditional steam turbine generator. The
proposed Project would contain the
central receiver or tower, a solar field
consisting of mirrors or heliostats to
reflect the sun’s energy to the central
tower, a conventional steam turbine
generator, insulated storage tanks for hot
and cold liquid salt, ancillary tanks,
evaporation ponds, a temporary
construction laydown area, technical
and non-technical buildings,
transformers and a 161/230-kV electrical
switchyard, roads, and water wells. All
components of the proposed Project
would be located on BLM-administered
land. A new 1.5-mile long 161/230-kV
generation tie line would extend from
the southern boundary of the solar
facility boundary to a new switchyard to
be constructed adjacent to Western’s
existing Bouse-Kofa 161-kV
transmission line.
QSE has submitted a ROW
application to the BLM for the proposed
Project. The ROW application is for a
total of 26,273 acres, of which 1,675
acres would be utilized for the final
Project ROW if approved. The proposed
Project site is in an undeveloped area in
La Paz County, Arizona, east of SR 95,
approximately 10 miles north of
Quartzsite, Arizona.
Description of Alternatives
Three alternatives were analyzed in
the EIS/PRMPA including the QSE’s
proposed Project with dry-cooling
technology, Alternative 1 with hybrid
cooling technology, and the No Action
alternative. Also analyzed were three
alternatives related to the Yuma PRMPA
including approving the PRMPA to
change approximately 6,800 acres of
Visual Resource Management (VRM)
Class III to VRM Class IV along with
Project approval, approving the PRMPA
to change approximately 6,800 acres of
VRM Class III to VRM Class IV without
Project approval, and the No Action
alternative of not approving the PRMPA
and leaving the current VRM Class III
designation in place.
Western’s preferred alternative is to
grant the interconnection request for the
proposed Project to Western’s existing
Bouse-Kofa 161-kV transmission line
and to construct, operate, and maintain
a new switchyard and communication
pathway.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Notice of FERC Staff Attendance at the Entergy Regional State
Committee Meeting
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Commission) hereby gives
notice that members of its staff may attend the meeting noted below.
Their attendance is part of the Commission's ongoing outreach efforts.
Entergy Regional State Committee
May 29, 2013 (9:00 a.m.-3:00 p.m.).
This meeting will be held at the Windsor Court Hotel, 300 Gravier
Street, New Orleans, LA 70130.
The discussions may address matters at issue in the following
proceedings:
Docket No. EL01-88, Louisiana Public Service Commission v. Entergy
Services, Inc.
Docket No. EL09-50, Louisiana Public Service Commission v. Entergy
Services, Inc.
Docket No. EL09-61, Louisiana Public Service Commission v. Entergy
Services, Inc.
Docket No. EL10-55, Louisiana Public Service Commission v. Entergy
Services, Inc.
Docket No. EL10-65, Louisiana Public Service Commission v. Entergy
Services, Inc.
Docket No. EL11-63, Louisiana Public Service Commission v. Entergy
Services, Inc.
Docket No. EL11-65, Louisiana Public Service Commission v. Entergy
Services, Inc.
Docket No. EL13-41, Occidental Chemical Company v. Midwest Independent
System Transmission Operator, Inc.
Docket No. EL13-43, Council of the City of New Orleans, Mississippi
Public Service Commission, Arkansas Public Service Commission, Public
Utility Commission of Texas, Louisiana Public Service Commission
Docket No. ER05-1065, Entergy Services, Inc.
Docket No. ER07-682, Entergy Services, Inc.
Docket No. ER07-956, Entergy Services, Inc.
Docket No. ER08-1056, Entergy Services, Inc.
Docket No. ER09-1224, Entergy Services, Inc.
Docket No. ER10-794, Entergy Services, Inc.
Docket No. ER10-1350, Entergy Services, Inc.
Docket No. ER10-2001, Entergy Arkansas, Inc.
Docket No. ER10-3357, Entergy Arkansas, Inc.
Docket No. ER11-2161, Entergy Texas, Inc.
Docket No. ER11-3657, Entergy Arkansas, Inc.
Docket No. ER12-480, Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator,
Inc.
Docket No. ER12-1428, Entergy Arkansas, Inc.
Docket No. ER12-1881, Entergy Arkansas, Inc.
Docket No. ER12-1882, Entergy Gulf States, Louisiana L.L.C.
Docket No. ER12-1883, Entergy Louisiana LLC
Docket No. ER12-1884, Entergy Mississippi, Inc.
Docket No. ER12-1885, Entergy New Orleans, Inc.
Docket No. ER12-1886, Entergy Texas, Inc.
Docket Nos. ER12-2681, et al. Entergy Corp., Midwest Independent
Transmission System Operator, Inc. and ITC Holdings Corp.
Docket No. ER12-2682, Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator,
Inc.
Docket No. ER12-2683, Entergy Services, Inc.
Docket No. ER12-2693, Entergy Services, Inc.
Docket No. ER13-288, Entergy Services, Inc.
Docket No. ER13-432, Entergy Services, Inc.
Docket No. ER13-665, Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator,
Inc.
Docket No. ER13-708, Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator,
Inc.
Docket No. ER13-769, Entergy Arkansas, Inc. and Entergy Mississippi,
Inc.
Docket No. ER13-770, Entergy Arkansas, Inc. and Entergy Louisiana, LLC.
Docket No. ER13-782, ITC Arkansas LLC, et al.
Docket No. ER13-868, Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator,
Inc.
Docket No. ER13-945, Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator,
Inc.
Docket No. ER13-948, Entergy Services, Inc.
Docket No. ER13-1184, Entergy Power, LLC.
Docket No. ER13-1194, Entergy Services, Inc.
Docket No. ER13-1195, Entergy Services, Inc.
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Docket No. ER13-1227, Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator,
Inc.
Docket No. ER13-1317, Entergy Services, Inc.
These meetings are open to the public.
For more information, contact Patrick Clarey, Office of Energy
Market Regulation, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission at (317) 249-
5937 or patrick.clarey@ferc.gov.
Dated: May 10, 2013.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
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