Oregon State University; Notice of Scoping Meeting and Soliciting Scoping Comments for an Applicant Prepared Environmental Assessment Using the Alternative Licensing Process, 33745-33746 [2014-13700]

Download as PDF Federal Register / Vol. 79, No. 113 / Thursday, June 12, 2014 / Notices rmajette on DSK7SPTVN1PROD with NOTICES Filed Date: 6/3/14. Accession Number: 20140603–5129. Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 6/24/14. Docket Numbers: ER14–2118–000. Applicants: Pheasant Run Wind II, LLC. Description: Notice of Cancellation of MBR Tariff to be effective 6/5/2014. Filed Date: 6/4/14. Accession Number: 20140604–5087. Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 6/25/14. Docket Numbers: ER14–2119–000. Applicants: Calpine Energy Services, L.P. Description: Revised Market-Based Rate Tariff to be effective 6/5/2014. Filed Date: 6/4/14. Accession Number: 20140604–5123. Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 6/25/14. Take notice that the Commission received the following foreign utility company status filings: Docket Numbers: FC14–14–000. Applicants: Enbridge Inc. Description: Self-Certification of Enbridge Inc. Filed Date: 6/3/14. Accession Number: 20140603–5069. Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 6/24/14. 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Lone Valley Solar Park II LLC ................................... EG14–32–000 EG14–33–000 EG14–34–000 EG14–35–000 Take notice that during the month of May 2014, the status of the abovecaptioned entities as Exempt Wholesale Generators Companies became effective by operation of the Commission’s regulations. 18 CFR 366.7(a). Dated: June 6, 2014. Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary. [FR Doc. 2014–13730 Filed 6–11–14; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6717–01–P DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY Federal Energy Regulatory Commission [Project No. 14616–000] Oregon State University; Notice of Scoping Meeting and Soliciting Scoping Comments for an Applicant Prepared Environmental Assessment Using the Alternative Licensing Process a. Type of Filing: Notice of Intent to File License Application and PreApplication Document for an Original License. b. Project No.: 14616–000. c. Applicant: Oregon State University. d. Name of Project: Pacific Marine Energy Test Center South Energy Test Site. e. Location: Pacific Ocean approximately six nautical miles off the coast of Newport, Oregon on the Outer Continental Shelf. f. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act, 16 U.S.C. 791(a)–825(r). g. Applicant Contact: Belinda Batten, Oregon State University, 350 Batcheller Hall, Corvallis, OR 97331; (541) 737– 9492; email at Belinda.Batten@ Dated: June 4, 2014. oregonstate.edu. Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr., h. FERC Contact: Jim Hastreiter at Deputy Secretary. (503) 552–2760; or email at [FR Doc. 2014–13668 Filed 6–11–14; 8:45 am] james.hastreiter@ferc.gov. BILLING CODE 6717–01–P i. Deadline for filing scoping comments: August 4, 2014. The Commission strongly encourages DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY electronic filing. Please file comments using the Commission’s eFiling system Federal Energy Regulatory at https://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/ Commission efiling.asp. Commenters can submit brief comments up to 6,000 characters, Notice of Effectiveness of Exempt without prior registration, using the Wholesale Generator Status RE Camelot LLC ................... EG14–29–000 eComment system at https:// Windthorst-2, LLC ............... EG14–30–000 www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/ ecomment.asp. You must include your Spinning Spur Wind Two, LLC ................................... EG14–31–000 name and contact information at the end VerDate Mar<15>2010 21:18 Jun 11, 2014 Jkt 232001 PO 00000 Frm 00033 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 33745 of your comments. For assistance, please contact FERC Online Support at FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov, (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–14616–000. j. The proposed project would consist of: (1) Four offshore test berths; (2) a maximum of 20 wave energy conversion (WEC) devices with a maximum total installed capacity of 20 megawatts; (2) various WEC devices including point absorbers, oscillating water column, overtopping, attenuator, and ‘‘other’’ types that utilize a combination of technology designs; (3) various anchoring systems including gravity based anchors, drag anchors, and embedment anchors, consisting of steel, concrete, or a mixture of steel and concrete; (4) single- or 3-point mooring systems consisting of chain, steel cables, or synthetic materials; (5) mooring infrastructure including surface buoys, subsurface floats, and chain, wire or rope, as catenary, tendon or bridle lines; (6) subsea connectors; (7) buried subsea transmission cables converging in a nearshore conduit; (8) an onshore cable landing connecting to a power monitoring and conditioning facility; (9) grid-interconnection at Central Lincoln Public Utility District substation; and (10) appurtenant facilities. k. Scoping Process: Oregon State University (OSU) intends to utilize the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (Commission) alternative licensing process (ALP). Under the ALP, OSU will prepare an Applicant Prepared Environmental Assessment (APEA) and license application for the Pacific Marine Energy Test Center South Energy Test Site. OSU expects to file with the Commission, the APEA and the license application for the Pacific Marine Energy Test Center South Energy Test Site Project by December 2015. Although the Commission’s intent is to prepare an EA, there is the possibility that an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) will be required. Nevertheless, this meeting will satisfy the NEPA scoping requirements, irrespective of whether an EA or EIS is issued by the Commission. The purpose of this notice is to inform you of the opportunity to participate in the upcoming scoping meetings and environmental site review identified below, and to solicit your scoping comments. E:\FR\FM\12JNN1.SGM 12JNN1 33746 Federal Register / Vol. 79, No. 113 / Thursday, June 12, 2014 / Notices Scoping Meetings and Environmental Site Review OSU and the Commission staff will hold two scoping meetings, one in the daytime and one in the evening, to help us identify the scope of issues to be addressed in the APEA. The daytime scoping meeting will focus on resource agency concerns, while the evening scoping meeting is primarily for public input. All interested individuals, organizations, and agencies are invited to attend one or both of the meetings, and to assist the staff in identifying the environmental issues that should be analyzed in the APEA. The times and locations of these meetings and environmental site review are as follows: Daytime Meeting Wednesday, July 9, 2014 1:00 p.m. Hatfield Marine Science Center Guin Library (Seminar Room) 2121 SE Marine Science Drive Newport, Oregon 97365 Evening Meeting Wednesday, July 9, 2014 7:00 p.m. Hatfield Marine Science Center Visitor Center Auditorium 2030 SE Marine Science Drive Newport, Oregon 97365 rmajette on DSK7SPTVN1PROD with NOTICES Environmental Site Review Thursday, July 10, 2014 Ona Beach State Park Day Use Beach Parking Lot (west of Hwy. 101) Oregon Coast Highway Waldport, Oregon 97376 Please notify Brenda Langley at brenda.langley@oregonstate.edu or (541) 737–6138 by June 25, 2014, if you plan to attend the site visit. To help focus discussions, Scoping Document 1 (SD1) was mailed by OSU on June 5, 2014, outlining the subject areas to be addressed in the APEA, to the parties on the mailing list. Copies of the SD1 also will be available at the scoping meetings. OSU will file SD1 with the Commission and the document will be available for review at the Commission in the Public Reference Room or may be viewed on the Commission’s Web site at https:// 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. You may also register online at https://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/ esubscription.asp to be notified via email of new filings and issuances related to this or other pending projects. VerDate Mar<15>2010 21:18 Jun 11, 2014 Jkt 232001 For assistance, contact FERCONlineSupport@ferc.gov. Based on all written comments received, a Scoping Document 2 (SD2) may be issued. SD2 will include a revised list of issues, based on the scoping sessions. Objectives At the scoping meetings, OSU and Commission staff will: (1) Summarize the environmental issues tentatively identified for analysis in the APEA; (2) solicit from the meeting participants all available information, especially quantifiable data, on the resources at issue; (3) encourage statements from experts and the public on issues that should be analyzed in the APEA, including viewpoints in opposition to, or in support of, the OSU and Commission staff’s preliminary views; (4) determine the resource issues to be addressed in the APEA; and (5) identify those issues that require a detailed analysis, as well as those issues that do not require a detailed analysis. Procedures The meetings will be recorded by a stenographer and will become part of the formal record of the Commission proceeding on the project. Individuals, organizations, and agencies with environmental expertise and concerns are encouraged to attend the meetings and to assist OSU in defining and clarifying the issues to be addressed in the APEA. Dated: May 5, 2014. Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary. [FR Doc. 2014–13700 Filed 6–11–14; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6717–01–P DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY Federal Energy Regulatory Commission [Docket No. CP14–123–000] Questar Overthrust Pipeline Company; Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental Assessment for the Proposed Jurisdictional Tap Line 139 Delivery 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 Jurisdictional Tap Line (JTL) 139 Delivery Project (Project) involving construction and operation of facilities by Questar Overthrust Pipeline Company (Questar) in Sweetwater PO 00000 Frm 00034 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 County, Wyoming. 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. Your input will help the Commission staff determine what issues they need to evaluate in the EA. Please note that the scoping period will close on July 7, 2014. You may submit comments in written form. Further details on how to submit written comments are in the Public Participation section of this notice. 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. Questar 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). Summary of the Proposed Project Questar proposes to construct and operate a new pipeline between Questar’s existing Mainline 116 Pipeline and a new ammonia plant to be built, owned, and operated by Simplot Phosphates, LLC (Simplot). The JTL 139 Delivery Project would provide about 19.4 million standard cubic feet (20,000 dekatherms) and potentially up to 58.2 million standard cubic feet (60,000 dekatherms) of natural gas per day to Simplot’s ammonia plant. The JTL139 Delivery Project would consist of the following facilities: E:\FR\FM\12JNN1.SGM 12JNN1

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[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 113 (Thursday, June 12, 2014)]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 14616-000]


Oregon State University; Notice of Scoping Meeting and Soliciting 
Scoping Comments for an Applicant Prepared Environmental Assessment 
Using the Alternative Licensing Process

    a. Type of Filing: Notice of Intent to File License Application and 
Pre-Application Document for an Original License.
    b. Project No.: 14616-000.
    c. Applicant: Oregon State University.
    d. Name of Project: Pacific Marine Energy Test Center South Energy 
Test Site.
    e. Location: Pacific Ocean approximately six nautical miles off the 
coast of Newport, Oregon on the Outer Continental Shelf.
    f. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power Act, 16 U.S.C. 791(a)-825(r).
    g. Applicant Contact: Belinda Batten, Oregon State University, 350 
Batcheller Hall, Corvallis, OR 97331; (541) 737-9492; email at 
Belinda.Batten@oregonstate.edu.
    h. FERC Contact: Jim Hastreiter at (503) 552-2760; or email at 
james.hastreiter@ferc.gov.
    i. Deadline for filing scoping comments: August 4, 2014.
    The Commission strongly encourages electronic filing. Please file 
comments using the Commission's eFiling system at https://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 https://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 
FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov, (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-14616-000.
    j. The proposed project would consist of: (1) Four offshore test 
berths; (2) a maximum of 20 wave energy conversion (WEC) devices with a 
maximum total installed capacity of 20 megawatts; (2) various WEC 
devices including point absorbers, oscillating water column, 
overtopping, attenuator, and ``other'' types that utilize a combination 
of technology designs; (3) various anchoring systems including gravity 
based anchors, drag anchors, and embedment anchors, consisting of 
steel, concrete, or a mixture of steel and concrete; (4) single- or 3-
point mooring systems consisting of chain, steel cables, or synthetic 
materials; (5) mooring infrastructure including surface buoys, 
subsurface floats, and chain, wire or rope, as catenary, tendon or 
bridle lines; (6) subsea connectors; (7) buried subsea transmission 
cables converging in a nearshore conduit; (8) an onshore cable landing 
connecting to a power monitoring and conditioning facility; (9) grid-
interconnection at Central Lincoln Public Utility District substation; 
and (10) appurtenant facilities.
    k. Scoping Process:
    Oregon State University (OSU) intends to utilize the Federal Energy 
Regulatory Commission's (Commission) alternative licensing process 
(ALP). Under the ALP, OSU will prepare an Applicant Prepared 
Environmental Assessment (APEA) and license application for the Pacific 
Marine Energy Test Center South Energy Test Site.
    OSU expects to file with the Commission, the APEA and the license 
application for the Pacific Marine Energy Test Center South Energy Test 
Site Project by December 2015. Although the Commission's intent is to 
prepare an EA, there is the possibility that an Environmental Impact 
Statement (EIS) will be required. Nevertheless, this meeting will 
satisfy the NEPA scoping requirements, irrespective of whether an EA or 
EIS is issued by the Commission.
    The purpose of this notice is to inform you of the opportunity to 
participate in the upcoming scoping meetings and environmental site 
review identified below, and to solicit your scoping comments.

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Scoping Meetings and Environmental Site Review

    OSU and the Commission staff will hold two scoping meetings, one in 
the daytime and one in the evening, to help us identify the scope of 
issues to be addressed in the APEA.
    The daytime scoping meeting will focus on resource agency concerns, 
while the evening scoping meeting is primarily for public input. All 
interested individuals, organizations, and agencies are invited to 
attend one or both of the meetings, and to assist the staff in 
identifying the environmental issues that should be analyzed in the 
APEA. The times and locations of these meetings and environmental site 
review are as follows:

Daytime Meeting

Wednesday, July 9, 2014
1:00 p.m.
Hatfield Marine Science Center
Guin Library (Seminar Room)
2121 SE Marine Science Drive
Newport, Oregon 97365

Evening Meeting

Wednesday, July 9, 2014
7:00 p.m.
Hatfield Marine Science Center
Visitor Center Auditorium
2030 SE Marine Science Drive
Newport, Oregon 97365

Environmental Site Review

Thursday, July 10, 2014
Ona Beach State Park
Day Use Beach Parking Lot (west of Hwy. 101)
Oregon Coast Highway
Waldport, Oregon 97376

    Please notify Brenda Langley at brenda.langley@oregonstate.edu or 
(541) 737-6138 by June 25, 2014, if you plan to attend the site visit.
    To help focus discussions, Scoping Document 1 (SD1) was mailed by 
OSU on June 5, 2014, outlining the subject areas to be addressed in the 
APEA, to the parties on the mailing list. Copies of the SD1 also will 
be available at the scoping meetings. OSU will file SD1 with the 
Commission and the document will be available for review at the 
Commission in the Public Reference Room or may be viewed on the 
Commission's Web site at https://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.
    You may also register online at https://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, contact 
FERCONlineSupport@ferc.gov.
    Based on all written comments received, a Scoping Document 2 (SD2) 
may be issued. SD2 will include a revised list of issues, based on the 
scoping sessions.

Objectives

    At the scoping meetings, OSU and Commission staff will: (1) 
Summarize the environmental issues tentatively identified for analysis 
in the APEA; (2) solicit from the meeting participants all available 
information, especially quantifiable data, on the resources at issue; 
(3) encourage statements from experts and the public on issues that 
should be analyzed in the APEA, including viewpoints in opposition to, 
or in support of, the OSU and Commission staff's preliminary views; (4) 
determine the resource issues to be addressed in the APEA; and (5) 
identify those issues that require a detailed analysis, as well as 
those issues that do not require a detailed analysis.

Procedures

    The meetings will be recorded by a stenographer and will become 
part of the formal record of the Commission proceeding on the project.
    Individuals, organizations, and agencies with environmental 
expertise and concerns are encouraged to attend the meetings and to 
assist OSU in defining and clarifying the issues to be addressed in the 
APEA.

    Dated: May 5, 2014.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2014-13700 Filed 6-11-14; 8:45 am]
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