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existing facilities: (1) The Narrows 2
powerhouse penstock, a tunnel that is
20 feet in diameter and concrete lined
in the upper 376 feet, and 14 feet in
diameter and steel lined for the final
371.5 feet, with a maximum flow
capacity of 3,400 cfs; (2) the Narrows 2
flow bypass, a valve and penstock
branch off the main Narrows 2 penstock
that provides the capability to bypass
flows of up to 3,000 cfs around the
Narrows 2 powerhouse during times of
full or partial powerhouse shutdowns;
(3) the Narrows 2 powerhouse, an
indoor powerhouse located at the base
of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’
Englebright dam, consisting of one
vertical axis Francis turbine with a
generating capacity of 46.7 MW; (4) the
Narrows 2 powerhouse switchyard,
located adjacent to the powerhouse; and
(5) appurtenant facilities and features,
including access roads.
m. A copy of the application is
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
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n. Anyone may submit comments, a
protest, or a motion to intervene in
accordance with the requirements of
Rules of Practice and Procedure, 18 CFR
385.210, .211, and .214. In determining
the appropriate action to take, the
Commission will consider all protests or
other comments filed, but only those
who file a motion to intervene in
accordance with the Commission’s
Rules may become a party to the
proceeding. Any comments, protests, or
motions to intervene must be received
on or before the specified comment date
for the particular application.
All filings must (1) bear in all capital
letters the title PROTEST, MOTION TO
INTERVENE, COMMENTS, REPLY
COMMENTS, RECOMMENDATIONS,
PRELIMINARY TERMS AND
CONDITIONS, or PRELIMINARY
FISHWAY PRESCRIPTIONS; (2) set
forth in the heading the name of the
applicant and the project number of the
application to which the filing
responds; (3) furnish the name, address,
and telephone number of the person
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protesting or intervening; and (4)
otherwise comply with the requirements
of 18 CFR 385.2001 through 385.2005.
All comments, recommendations, terms
and conditions or prescriptions must set
forth their evidentiary basis and
otherwise comply with the requirements
of 18 CFR 4.34(b). Agencies may obtain
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the applicant. A copy of any protest or
motion to intervene must be served
upon each representative of the
applicant specified in the particular
application. A copy of all other filings
in reference to this application must be
accompanied by proof of service on all
persons listed in the service list
prepared by the Commission in this
proceeding, in accordance with 18 CFR
4.34(b) and 385.2010.
o. Procedural Schedule: The
application will be processed according
to the following revised Hydro
Licensing Schedule. Revisions to the
schedule may be made as appropriate.
Milestone
Target date
Filing of recommendations, preliminary terms
and conditions, and preliminary fishway prescriptions.
Commission issues Draft
Environmental Statement (EIS).
Comments on Draft EIS ...
Modified Terms and Conditions.
Commission Issues Final
EIS.
August 2017.
March 2018.
May 2018.
July 2018.
October 2018.
p. Final amendments to the
application must be filed with the
Commission no later than 30 days from
the issuance date of this notice.
q. A license applicant must file no
later than 60 days following the date of
issuance of the notice of acceptance and
ready for environmental analysis
provided for in 5.22: (1) A copy of the
water quality certification; (2) a copy of
the request for certification, including
proof of the date on which the certifying
agency received the request; or (3)
evidence of waiver of water quality
certification.
Dated: June 26, 2017.
Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr.,
Deputy Secretary.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Docket No. RC11–6–005]
North American Electric Reliability
Corporation; Notice Of Staff Review Of
Compliance Programs
Commission staff coordinated with
the staff of the North American Electric
Reliability Corporation (NERC) to
conduct the annual oversight of the
Find, Fix, Track and Report (FFT)
program, as outlined in the March 15,
2012 Order,1 and the Compliance
Exception (CE) Program, as proposed by
NERC’s September 18, 2015 annual
Compliance Filing.2 The Commission
supported NERC’s plan to coordinate
with Commission staff to review the
same sample of possible violations,
thereby reducing the burden on the
Regional Entities of providing evidence
for two different samples. Commission
staff reviewed a sample of 23 FFT
possible violations out of 46 FFT
possible violations posted by NERC
between October 2015 and September
2016 and a sample of 100 CE instances
of noncompliance out of 470 CE
instances of noncompliance posted by
NERC between October 2015 and
September 2016.
Commission staff believes that the
FFT and CE programs are meeting
expectations with limited exceptions.
Sampling for the 2016 program year
indicated that the Regional Entities
appropriately included 97.5 percent of
the sampled possible violations in the
FFT and CE programs and that all 123
possible violations have been
adequately remediated. Commission
staff’s sample analysis indicated a
decreasing number of documentation
concerns, particularly with regard to the
quality of the information contained in
the FFT and/or CE postings. For
example, Commission staff found that a
few FFT or CE issues still lacked some
of the information requested in NERC’s
Guidance for Self Reports document and
necessary for the posted FFT or CE.3
This includes information such as start
1 North American Electric Reliability Corp., 138
FERC 61,193, at P 73 (2012) (discussing
Commission plans to survey a random sample of
FFTs submitted each year to gather information on
how the FFT program is working).
2 North American Electric Reliability Corp.,
Docket No. RC11–6–004, at 1 (Nov. 13, 2015)
(delegated letter order) (stating NERC’s intention to
combine the evaluation of Compliance Exceptions
with the annual sampling of FFTs to further
streamline oversight of the FFT and compliance
exception programs).
3 North American Electric Reliability Corp., 138
FERC 61,193, at P 60 (2012).
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or end dates, or root cause. Specifically,
the identification of root cause has
improved significantly over the past
three years, moving from 38 percent
missing an identification of root cause
to less than 2 percent. Commission staff
subsequently reviewed the supporting
information for these FFTs or CEs,
which provided a majority of the
missing information. Commission staff
ultimately agreed with the final risk
determinations for 120 of the 123
samples. Commission staff also noted a
significant improvement in the clear
identification of factors affecting the risk
prior to mitigation (such as potential
and actual risk), and actual harm, which
was identified in all samples. In
addition, Commission staff noted that
the FFTs and CEs sampled did not
contain any material misrepresentations
by the registered entities.
Dated: June 27, 2017.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Description: Rockies Express Pipeline
LLC submits tariff filing per 154.204:
Neg Rate 2017–06–23 ConocoPhillips to
be effective 6/24/2017.
Filed Date: 06/23/2017.
Accession Number: 20170623–5152.
Comment Date: 5:00 p.m. Eastern
Time on Wednesday, July 5, 2017.
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: June 26, 2017.
Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr.,
Deputy Secretary.
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
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Take notice that the Commission has
received the following Natural Gas
Pipeline Rate and Refund Report filings:
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Filings Instituting Proceedings
Docket Numbers: RP17–838–000.
Applicants: Kern River Gas
Transmission Company.
Description: Kern River Gas
Transmission Company submits tariff
filing per 154.204: 2017 June Citadel
Negotiated Rate to be effective 6/23/
2017.
Filed Date: 06/22/2017.
Accession Number: 20170622–5158.
Comment Date: 5:00 p.m. Eastern
Time on Wednesday, July 5, 2017.
Docket Numbers: RP17–839–000.
Applicants: Kern River Gas
Transmission Company.
Description: Kern River Gas
Transmission Company submits tariff
filing per 154.204: 2017 June Exelon
Negotiated Rate to be effective 6/24/
2017.
Filed Date: 06/23/2017.
Accession Number: 20170623–5046.
Comment Date: 5:00 p.m. Eastern
Time on Wednesday, July 5, 2017.
Docket Numbers: RP17–840–000.
Applicants: Rockies Express Pipeline
LLC.
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Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Docket No. CP17–15–000]
Dominion Cove Point LNG, LP; Notice
of Availability of the Environmental
Assessment for the Proposed Eastern
Market Access Project
The staff of the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission (FERC or
Commission) has prepared an
environmental assessment (EA) for the
Eastern Market Access Project, proposed
by Dominion Cove Point LNG, LP (DCP)
in the above-referenced docket. DCP
requests authorization to construct,
install, modify, own, operate, and
maintain natural gas facilities in
Virginia and Maryland to provide
294,000 dekatherms per day of firm
natural gas transportation service to
Washington Gas Light Company and
Mattawoman Energy, LLC’s
Mattawoman Energy Center, a power
generation facility.
The EA assesses the potential
environmental effects of the
construction and operation of the
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Eastern Market Access Project in
accordance with the requirements of the
National Environmental Policy Act
(NEPA). The FERC staff concludes that
approval of the proposed project, with
appropriate mitigating measures, would
not constitute a major federal action
significantly affecting the quality of the
human environment.
The proposed Eastern Market Access
Project includes the following facilities:
• A new 24,370-horsepower (hp)
natural gas compressor station and
ancillary facilities, and two new taps for
customer delivery at the existing
Washington Gas Light Company
Interconnect in Charles County,
Maryland;
• one new 7,000-hp electric
reciprocating compressor unit and
discharge gas cooler, replacement of
three gas coolers and compression
cylinders for three existing compressors,
and an increase to 30-inch-diameter
discharge piping at the Loudoun
Compressor Station in Loudoun County,
Virginia;
• one new meter building to enclose
existing equipment at the Loudoun
Metering and Regulating Station in
Loudoun County, Virginia; and
• re-wheeling of the compressor on
an existing 17,400-hp electric unit and
upgrading of two gas coolers at the
Pleasant Valley Compressor Station in
Fairfax County, Virginia.
The FERC staff mailed copies of the
EA to federal, state, and local
government representatives and
agencies; elected officials;
environmental and public interest
groups; Native American tribes;
potentially affected landowners and
other interested individuals and groups;
and newspapers and libraries in the
project area. In addition, the EA is
available for public viewing on the
FERC’s Web site (www.ferc.gov) using
the eLibrary link. A limited number of
copies of the EA are available for
distribution and public inspection at:
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission,
Public Reference Room, 888 First Street
NE., Room 2A, Washington, DC 20426,
(202) 502–8371.
Any person wishing to comment on
the EA may do so. Your comments
should focus on the potential
environmental effects, reasonable
alternatives, and measures to avoid or
lessen environmental impacts. The more
specific your comments, the more useful
they will be. To ensure that the
Commission has the opportunity to
consider your comments prior to
making its decision on this project, it is
important that we receive your
comments in Washington, DC on or
before July 27, 2017.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Docket No. RC11-6-005]
North American Electric Reliability Corporation; Notice Of Staff
Review Of Compliance Programs
Commission staff coordinated with the staff of the North American
Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) to conduct the annual oversight
of the Find, Fix, Track and Report (FFT) program, as outlined in the
March 15, 2012 Order,\1\ and the Compliance Exception (CE) Program, as
proposed by NERC's September 18, 2015 annual Compliance Filing.\2\ The
Commission supported NERC's plan to coordinate with Commission staff to
review the same sample of possible violations, thereby reducing the
burden on the Regional Entities of providing evidence for two different
samples. Commission staff reviewed a sample of 23 FFT possible
violations out of 46 FFT possible violations posted by NERC between
October 2015 and September 2016 and a sample of 100 CE instances of
noncompliance out of 470 CE instances of noncompliance posted by NERC
between October 2015 and September 2016.
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\1\ North American Electric Reliability Corp., 138 FERC 61,193,
at P 73 (2012) (discussing Commission plans to survey a random
sample of FFTs submitted each year to gather information on how the
FFT program is working).
\2\ North American Electric Reliability Corp., Docket No. RC11-
6-004, at 1 (Nov. 13, 2015) (delegated letter order) (stating NERC's
intention to combine the evaluation of Compliance Exceptions with
the annual sampling of FFTs to further streamline oversight of the
FFT and compliance exception programs).
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Commission staff believes that the FFT and CE programs are meeting
expectations with limited exceptions. Sampling for the 2016 program
year indicated that the Regional Entities appropriately included 97.5
percent of the sampled possible violations in the FFT and CE programs
and that all 123 possible violations have been adequately remediated.
Commission staff's sample analysis indicated a decreasing number of
documentation concerns, particularly with regard to the quality of the
information contained in the FFT and/or CE postings. For example,
Commission staff found that a few FFT or CE issues still lacked some of
the information requested in NERC's Guidance for Self Reports document
and necessary for the posted FFT or CE.\3\ This includes information
such as start
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or end dates, or root cause. Specifically, the identification of root
cause has improved significantly over the past three years, moving from
38 percent missing an identification of root cause to less than 2
percent. Commission staff subsequently reviewed the supporting
information for these FFTs or CEs, which provided a majority of the
missing information. Commission staff ultimately agreed with the final
risk determinations for 120 of the 123 samples. Commission staff also
noted a significant improvement in the clear identification of factors
affecting the risk prior to mitigation (such as potential and actual
risk), and actual harm, which was identified in all samples. In
addition, Commission staff noted that the FFTs and CEs sampled did not
contain any material misrepresentations by the registered entities.
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\3\ North American Electric Reliability Corp., 138 FERC 61,193,
at P 60 (2012).
Dated: June 27, 2017.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
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