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Applicants: Southwest Power Pool,
Inc.
Description: Section 205(d) Rate
Filing: 1894R4 Westar Energy, Inc.
NITSA and NOA to be effective 8/1/
2015.
Filed Date: 8/20/15.
Accession Number: 20150820–5159.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 9/10/15.
Docket Numbers: ER15–2497–000.
Applicants: Southwest Power Pool,
Inc.
Description: Section 205(d) Rate
Filing: 2066R4 Westar Energy, Inc.
NITSA and NOA to be effective 8/1/
2015.
Filed Date: 8/20/15.
Accession Number: 20150820–5162.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 9/10/15.
Docket Numbers: ER15–2498–000.
Applicants: Southwest Power Pool,
Inc.
Description: Section 205(d) Rate
Filing: 2491R3 Westar Energy, Inc.
NITSA and NOA to be effective 8/1/
2015.
Filed Date: 8/20/15.
Accession Number: 20150820–5177.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 9/10/15.
Take notice that the Commission
received the following public utility
holding company filings:
Docket Numbers: PH15–18–000.
Applicants: arGo Partners GP LLC.
Description: arGo Partners GP LLC
submits FERC 65–B Waiver Notification.
Filed Date: 8/20/15.
Accession Number: 20150820–5157.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 9/10/15.
The filings are accessible in the
Commission’s eLibrary system by
clicking on the links or querying the
docket number.
Any person desiring to intervene or
protest in any of the above proceedings
must file in accordance with Rules 211
and 214 of the Commission’s
Regulations (18 CFR 385.211 and
385.214) on or before 5:00 p.m. Eastern
time on the specified comment date.
Protests may be considered, but
intervention is necessary to become a
party to the proceeding.
eFiling is encouraged. More detailed
information relating to filing
requirements, interventions, protests,
service, and qualifying facilities filings
can be found at: https://www.ferc.gov/
docs-filing/efiling/filing-req.pdf. For
other information, call (866) 208–3676
(toll free). For TTY, call (202) 502–8659.
Dated: August 20, 2015.
Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr.,
Deputy Secretary.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
Combined Notice of Filings #2
Take notice that the Commission
received the following electric rate
filings:
Docket Numbers: ER14–108–000.
Applicants: Entergy Arkansas, Inc.,
Entergy Gulf States Louisiana, L.L.C.,
Entergy Mississippi, Inc., Entergy New
Orleans, Inc., Entergy Texas, Inc.,
Entergy Louisiana, LLC.
Description: Midcontinent
Independent System Operator, Inc.
submits tariff filing per 35.19a(b):
Refund Report [Corrected] to be
effective N/A.
Filed Date: 8/19/15.
Accession Number: 20150819–5064.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 9/9/15.
Docket Numbers: ER15–2484–000.
Applicants: PJM Interconnection,
L.L.C.
Description: Section 205(d) Rate
Filing: Service Agreement No. 4218;
Queue No. AA1–065 (ICSA) to be
effective 7/20/2015.
Filed Date: 8/19/15.
Accession Number: 20150819–5092.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 9/9/15.
Docket Numbers: ER15–2485–000.
Applicants: Florida Power & Light
Company.
Description: Section 205(d) Rate
Filing: FPL on Behalf of Cedar Bay
Generating Company, Limited
Partnership PPA (Tolling) to be effective
12/31/9998.
Filed Date: 8/19/15.
Accession Number: 20150819–5105.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 9/9/15.
Docket Numbers: ER15–2486–000.
Applicants: Midcontinent
Independent System Operator, Inc.
Description: Section 205(d) Rate
Filing: 2015–08–19_SA 743 ATC–WPSC
2nd Rev. G–TIA to be effective 8/20/
2015.
Filed Date: 8/19/15.
Accession Number: 20150819–5113.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 9/9/15.
Docket Numbers: ER15–2487–000.
Applicants: Alabama Power
Company.
Description: Section 205(d) Rate
Filing: Duke Energy Renewables Solar
SGIA Filing to be effective 8/5/2015.
Filed Date: 8/19/15.
Accession Number: 20150819–5115.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 9/9/15.
Docket Numbers: ER15–2488–000.
Applicants: MDU Resources Group,
Inc.
Description: Section 205(d) Rate
Filing: Certificate of Concurrence—
TCEA to be effective 10/17/2015.
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Filed Date: 8/19/15.
Accession Number: 20150819–5168.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 9/9/15.
Docket Numbers: ER15–2489–000.
Applicants: MDU Resources Group,
Inc.
Description: Section 205(d) Rate
Filing: Certificate of Concurrence—CMA
to be effective 8/12/2015.
Filed Date: 8/19/15.
Accession Number: 20150819–5169.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 9/9/15.
Docket Numbers: ER15–2490–000.
Applicants: Puget Sound Energy, Inc.
Description: Initial rate filing: Port of
Seattle NITSA Amendment No 2 SA No
484 to be effective 2/1/2015.
Filed Date: 8/19/15.
Accession Number: 20150819–5165.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 9/9/15.
Docket Numbers: ER15–2491–000.
Applicants: MDU Resources Group,
Inc.
Description: Section 205(d) Rate
Filing: Certificate of Concurrence—EF
TCEA to be effective 10/17/2015.
Filed Date: 8/19/15.
Accession Number: 20150819–5167.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 9/9/15.
Docket Numbers: ER15–2492–000.
Applicants: Otter Tail Power
Company.
Description: Section 205(d) Rate
Filing: Certificate of Concurrence to be
effective 10/17/2015.
Filed Date: 8/19/15.
Accession Number: 20150819–5172.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 9/9/15.
Docket Numbers: ER15–2493–000.
Applicants: PJM Interconnection,
L.L.C.
Description: Section 205(d) Rate
Filing: Original Service Agreement No.
4244; Queue Position #Z1–081 to be
effective 7/20/2015.
Filed Date: 8/19/15.
Accession Number: 20150819–5174.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 9/9/15.
The filings are accessible in the
Commission’s eLibrary system by
clicking on the links or querying the
docket number.
Any person desiring to intervene or
protest in any of the above proceedings
must file in accordance with Rules 211
and 214 of the Commission’s
Regulations (18 CFR 385.211 and
385.214) on or before 5:00 p.m. Eastern
time on the specified comment date.
Protests may be considered, but
intervention is necessary to become a
party to the proceeding.
eFiling is encouraged. More detailed
information relating to filing
requirements, interventions, protests,
service, and qualifying facilities filings
can be found at: https://www.ferc.gov/
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docs-filing/efiling/filing-req.pdf. For
other information, call (866) 208–3676
(toll free). For TTY, call (202) 502–8659.
Dated: August 19, 2015.
Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr.,
Deputy Secretary.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Western Area Power Administration
Record of Decision for Upper Great
Plains Wind Energy Final
Programmatic Environmental Impact
Statement (DOE/EIS–0408)
Western Area Power
Administration, DOE.
ACTION: Record of Decision.
AGENCY:
The Western Area Power
Administration (Western) and the U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), as
joint lead agencies, issued the Upper
Great Plains Wind Energy Final
Programmatic Environmental Impact
Statement (Final PEIS) (DOE/EIS–0408)
on May 1, 2015. Western has decided to
implement Alternative 1 as described in
the Final PEIS and summarized in this
Record of Decision (ROD). Alternative 1
was identified as both the agency
preferred alternative and the
environmentally preferred alternative.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
information on Western’s proposed
programmatic environmental evaluation
procedures for wind energy project
interconnections and general
information about interconnections with
Western’s transmission system, contact
Matt Marsh, Regional Environmental
Manager, Upper Great Plains Customer
Service Region, Western Area Power
Administration, P.O. Box 35800,
Billings, MT 59107–5800, telephone
(406) 255–2810, email mmarsh@
wapa.gov. The Final PEIS, this ROD,
and other project documents are
available for review on Western’s Web
site at https://www.wapa.gov/regions/
UGP/Environment/Pages/ugp-nepa.aspx
and the project Web site at https://
plainswindeis.anl.gov.
For general information on the U.S.
Department of Energy (DOE) National
Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
process, please contact Carol M.
Borgstrom, Director, Office of NEPA
Policy and Compliance (GC–54), U.S.
Department of Energy, 1000
Independence Avenue SW.,
Washington, DC 20585, telephone (202)
586–4600 or (800) 472–2756, email
askNEPA@hq.doe.gov.
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Western
and the Service, as joint lead agencies,
prepared the Upper Great Plains Wind
Energy Draft and Final PEIS (DOE/EIS–
0408), the Final PEIS being issued May
1, 2015 (80 FR 24915), in response to an
increase in wind energy development
and interconnection requests. Western
and the Service have interests in
streamlining their procedures for
conducting environmental reviews of
wind energy applications by
implementing standardized evaluation
procedures and identifying measures to
address potential environmental
impacts associated with wind energy
projects in the Upper Great Plains
Region (UGP Region), which
encompasses all or parts of the states of
Iowa, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska,
North Dakota, and South Dakota. Since
formalizing the process and procedures
for environmental reviews would be
Federal actions, Western and the
Service prepared the PEIS in accordance
with the National Environmental Policy
Act of 1969 (NEPA) (42 U.S.C. 4321–
4347), as amended, and the Council on
Environmental Quality (CEQ) NEPA
regulations (40 CFR parts 1500–1508).
The Bureau of Reclamation, Bureau of
Indian Affairs, and the Rural Utilities
Service have participated in the
development of the PEIS as cooperating
agencies.
Western and the Service have
cooperatively prepared the PEIS to: (1)
Assess the potential environmental
impacts associated with wind energy
projects within the UGP Region that
may interconnect to Western’s
transmission system, or that may
propose placement of project elements
on grassland or wetland easements
managed by the Service; and (2)
evaluate how environmental impacts
would differ under alternative sets of
environmental evaluation procedures,
best management practices, avoidance
strategies, and mitigation measures that
the agencies would request project
developers to implement, as
appropriate, for specific wind energy
projects.
The objective of the PEIS is to
proactively strengthen and streamline
the environmental review process by
having already analyzed and addressed
general environmental concerns while
specifically providing for Endangered
Species Act (ESA) (16 U.S.C. 1531 et
seq.) compliance for wind development
projects that incorporate design
elements to reduce impacts. The PEIS
analyzes, to the extent practicable, the
impacts resulting from development of
wind energy projects and the
effectiveness of best management
practices, avoidance of sensitive areas,
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and mitigation measures in reducing
potential impacts. Impacts and
mitigation have been analyzed for each
environmental resource, and all
components of wind energy projects
have been addressed, including
turbines, transformers, collector lines,
overhead lines, access roads, substation
installations, and operational and
maintenance activities. Many of the
potential impacts resulting from
constructing and operating these types
of wind energy infrastructure are well
known from existing wind energy
generation projects. The environmental
procedures and mitigation strategies
developed have been structured to be
consistent with Western’s Open Access
Transmission Service Tariff and
Southwest Power Pool, Inc.’s (SPP)
Open Access Transmission Tariff, both
of which include environmental review
provisions.1
In addition to the PEIS, Western and
the Service engaged in informal
consultation under Section 7 of the
ESA, 16 U.S.C. 1536, in support of the
PEIS process. A programmatic biological
assessment (Programmatic BA) was
prepared for listed and candidate
species occurring in the UGP Region.
Development of the Programmatic BA
was closely coordinated with the
Service’s North Dakota Ecological
Services Field Office. That office issued
a letter of concurrence with the
Programmatic BA on July 7, 2015, as a
result of this consultation.
The agencies also investigated a
programmatic approach to Section 106
consultation under the National Historic
Preservation Act (NHPA), 54 U.S.C.
306108. Since Section 106 consultation
is highly site-specific, it was determined
that effective consultation could only be
accomplished once an individual
project location was defined. However,
general avoidance and protection
measures for cultural resources and
historic properties that would be
implemented were identified and
included in the analysis.
Purpose and Need
Western’s purpose and need for
Federal action was presented in the
Draft and Final PEIS: Western needs to
streamline the environmental review
process for wind energy project
interconnection requests to help
1 Western’s UGP Region has signed a membership
agreement with SPP with a target date of
transferring the functional control of its facilities in
the eastern interconnection to SPP on October 1,
2015. Thereafter interconnection requests would be
pursuant to the SPP tariff. Revisions to the SPP
tariff incorporate Western’s requirement that it will
still perform NEPA reviews on interconnections
associated with its facilities.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Combined Notice of Filings #2
Take notice that the Commission received the following electric
rate filings:
Docket Numbers: ER14-108-000.
Applicants: Entergy Arkansas, Inc., Entergy Gulf States Louisiana,
L.L.C., Entergy Mississippi, Inc., Entergy New Orleans, Inc., Entergy
Texas, Inc., Entergy Louisiana, LLC.
Description: Midcontinent Independent System Operator, Inc. submits
tariff filing per 35.19a(b): Refund Report [Corrected] to be effective
N/A.
Filed Date: 8/19/15.
Accession Number: 20150819-5064.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 9/9/15.
Docket Numbers: ER15-2484-000.
Applicants: PJM Interconnection, L.L.C.
Description: Section 205(d) Rate Filing: Service Agreement No.
4218; Queue No. AA1-065 (ICSA) to be effective 7/20/2015.
Filed Date: 8/19/15.
Accession Number: 20150819-5092.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 9/9/15.
Docket Numbers: ER15-2485-000.
Applicants: Florida Power & Light Company.
Description: Section 205(d) Rate Filing: FPL on Behalf of Cedar Bay
Generating Company, Limited Partnership PPA (Tolling) to be effective
12/31/9998.
Filed Date: 8/19/15.
Accession Number: 20150819-5105.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 9/9/15.
Docket Numbers: ER15-2486-000.
Applicants: Midcontinent Independent System Operator, Inc.
Description: Section 205(d) Rate Filing: 2015-08-19_SA 743 ATC-WPSC
2nd Rev. G-TIA to be effective 8/20/2015.
Filed Date: 8/19/15.
Accession Number: 20150819-5113.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 9/9/15.
Docket Numbers: ER15-2487-000.
Applicants: Alabama Power Company.
Description: Section 205(d) Rate Filing: Duke Energy Renewables
Solar SGIA Filing to be effective 8/5/2015.
Filed Date: 8/19/15.
Accession Number: 20150819-5115.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 9/9/15.
Docket Numbers: ER15-2488-000.
Applicants: MDU Resources Group, Inc.
Description: Section 205(d) Rate Filing: Certificate of
Concurrence--TCEA to be effective 10/17/2015.
Filed Date: 8/19/15.
Accession Number: 20150819-5168.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 9/9/15.
Docket Numbers: ER15-2489-000.
Applicants: MDU Resources Group, Inc.
Description: Section 205(d) Rate Filing: Certificate of
Concurrence--CMA to be effective 8/12/2015.
Filed Date: 8/19/15.
Accession Number: 20150819-5169.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 9/9/15.
Docket Numbers: ER15-2490-000.
Applicants: Puget Sound Energy, Inc.
Description: Initial rate filing: Port of Seattle NITSA Amendment
No 2 SA No 484 to be effective 2/1/2015.
Filed Date: 8/19/15.
Accession Number: 20150819-5165.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 9/9/15.
Docket Numbers: ER15-2491-000.
Applicants: MDU Resources Group, Inc.
Description: Section 205(d) Rate Filing: Certificate of
Concurrence--EF TCEA to be effective 10/17/2015.
Filed Date: 8/19/15.
Accession Number: 20150819-5167.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 9/9/15.
Docket Numbers: ER15-2492-000.
Applicants: Otter Tail Power Company.
Description: Section 205(d) Rate Filing: Certificate of Concurrence
to be effective 10/17/2015.
Filed Date: 8/19/15.
Accession Number: 20150819-5172.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 9/9/15.
Docket Numbers: ER15-2493-000.
Applicants: PJM Interconnection, L.L.C.
Description: Section 205(d) Rate Filing: Original Service Agreement
No. 4244; Queue Position #Z1-081 to be effective 7/20/2015.
Filed Date: 8/19/15.
Accession Number: 20150819-5174.
Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 9/9/15.
The filings are accessible in the Commission's eLibrary system by
clicking on the links or querying the docket number.
Any person desiring to intervene or protest in any of the above
proceedings must file in accordance with Rules 211 and 214 of the
Commission's Regulations (18 CFR 385.211 and 385.214) on or before 5:00
p.m. Eastern time on the specified comment date. Protests may be
considered, but intervention is necessary to become a party to the
proceeding.
eFiling is encouraged. More detailed information relating to filing
requirements, interventions, protests, service, and qualifying
facilities filings can be found at: https://www.ferc.gov/
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docs-filing/efiling/filing-req.pdf. For other information, call (866)
208-3676 (toll free). For TTY, call (202) 502-8659.
Dated: August 19, 2015.
Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr.,
Deputy Secretary.
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