Grand River Dam Authority; Notice of Modification of Procedural Schedule, 40763-40764 [2018-17655]
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On October 16, 2017, the Commission
staff granted Northern Natural’s request
to utilize the Pre-Filing Process and
assigned Docket No. PF18–1–000 to staff
activities involved for the above
referenced projects. Now, as of the filing
of the July 30, 2018 application, the PreFiling Process for this project has ended.
From this time forward, this proceeding
will be conducted in Docket No. CP18–
534–000, as noted in the caption of this
Notice.
Pursuant to section 157.9 of the
Commission’s rules, 18 CFR 157.9,
within 90 days of this Notice the
Commission staff will either: Complete
its environmental assessment (EA) and
place it into the Commission’s public
record (eLibrary) for this proceeding; or
issue a Notice of Schedule for
Environmental Review. If a Notice of
Schedule for Environmental Review is
issued, it will indicate, among other
milestones, the anticipated date for the
Commission staff’s issuance of the EA
for this proposal. The filing of the EA
in the Commission’s public record for
this proceeding or the issuance of a
Notice of Schedule for Environmental
Review will serve to notify federal and
state agencies of the timing for the
completion of all necessary reviews, and
the subsequent need to complete all
federal authorizations within 90 days of
the date of issuance of the Commission
staff’s EA.
There are two ways to become
involved in the Commission’s review of
this project. First, any person wishing to
obtain legal status by becoming a party
to the proceedings for this project
should, on or before the comment date
stated below, file with the Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission, 888
First Street NE, Washington, DC 20426,
a motion to intervene in accordance
with the requirements of the
Commission’s Rules of Practice and
Procedure (18 CFR 385.214 or 385.211)
and the Regulations under the NGA (18
CFR 157.10). A person obtaining party
status will be placed on the service list
maintained by the Secretary of the
Commission and will receive copies of
all documents filed by the applicant and
by all other parties. A party must submit
five copies of filings made with the
Commission and must mail a copy to
the applicant and to every other party in
the proceeding. Only parties to the
proceeding can ask for court review of
Commission orders in the proceeding.
However, a person does not have to
intervene in order to have comments
considered. The second way to
participate is by filing with the
Secretary of the Commission, as soon as
possible, an original and two copies of
comments in support of or in opposition
to this project. The Commission will
consider these comments in
determining the appropriate action to be
taken, but the filing of a comment alone
will not serve to make the filer a party
to the proceeding. The Commission’s
rules require that persons filing
comments in opposition to the project
provide copies of their protests only to
the party or parties directly involved in
the protest.
Persons who wish to comment only
on the environmental review of this
project should submit an original and
two copies of their comments to the
Secretary of the Commission.
Environmental commentors will be
placed on the Commission’s
environmental mailing list, will receive
copies of the environmental documents,
and will be notified of meetings
associated with the Commission’s
environmental review process.
Environmental commentors will not be
required to serve copies of filed
documents on all other parties.
However, the non-party commentors
will not receive copies of all documents
filed by other parties or issued by the
Commission (except for the mailing of
environmental documents issued by the
Commission) and will not have the right
to seek court review of the
Commission’s final order.
The Commission strongly encourages
electronic filings of comments, protests
and interventions in lieu of paper using
the ‘‘eFiling’’ link at https://
www.ferc.gov. Persons unable to file
electronically should submit original
and five copies of the protest or
intervention to the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street
NE, Washington, DC 20426.
Comment Date: 5:00 p.m. Eastern
Time on August 31, 2018.
Dated: August 10, 2018.
Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr.,
Deputy Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2018–17652 Filed 8–15–18; 8:45 am]
DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Project No. 1494–438]
Grand River Dam Authority; Notice of
Modification of Procedural Schedule
Take notice that the schedule for
processing the following hydroelectric
application has been modified.
a. Type of Application: Notice of
Intent to File License Application for a
New License and Commencing Prefiling Process.
b. Project No.: 1494–438.
c. Date Filed: February 1, 2017.
d. Applicant: Grand River Dam
Authority (GRDA).
e. Name of Project: Pensacola
Hydroelectric Project.
f. Location: The project is located on
the Grand (Neosho) River in Craig,
Delaware, Mayes, and Ottawa Counties,
Oklahoma. The project occupies federal
land.1
g. Filed Pursuant to: 18 CFR part 5 of
the Commission’s Regulations.
h. Applicant Contact: Dr. Darrell
Townsend, Assistant General Manager,
GRDA, 420 Highway 28, Langley, OK
74359–0070; (918) 256–0616 or
dtownsend@grda.com.
i. FERC Contact: Rachel McNamara at
(202) 502–8340 or rachel.mcnamara@
ferc.gov.
j. Procedural Schedule: The
Commission’s August 10, 2018, letter
established August 21, 2018, as the new
date for the additional Tribal
Consultation meeting. The revised
deadline for filing the Revised Proposed
Study Plan is now September 24, 2018,
and the revised deadline for filing
comments on the Revised Proposed
Study Plan is now October 24, 2018. As
such, the application will be processed
according to the following revised
schedule. Revisions to the schedule may
be made as appropriate. If a date falls on
a weekend or holiday, the due date will
be the following business day.
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Milestone
Target date
File Revised Proposed Study Plan .................................................................................................................................
File Comments on Revised Proposed Study Plan .........................................................................................................
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Target date
Commission Issues Study Plan Determination ..............................................................................................................
Notice of Formal Study Dispute (if necessary) ..............................................................................................................
Commission Issues Study Dispute Determination (if necessary) ..................................................................................
Dated: August 10, 2018.
Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr.,
Deputy Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2018–17655 Filed 8–15–18; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
Notice of Effectiveness of Exempt
Wholesale Generator and Foreign
Utility Company Status
Docket Nos.
East Hampton Energy Storage
Center, LLC .................................
Montauk Energy Storage Center,
LLC ..............................................
Armadillo Flats Wind Project, LLC ..
Heartland Divide Wind Project, LLC
Antelope Expansion 2, LLC ............
Pegasus Wind, LLC ........................
Thunder Spirit Wind, LLC ...............
Pratt Wind, LLC ...............................
Stoneray Power Partners, LLC .......
Copenhagen Wind Farm, LLC ........
Rio Bravo Windpower, LLC .............
Minco Wind IV, LLC ........................
Minco Wind V, LLC .........................
Lorenzo Wind, LLC .........................
Wildcat Ranch Wind Project, LLC ...
Enbridge Rampion UK Ltd ..............
EG18–80–000
EG18–81–000
EG18–82–000
EG18–83–000
EG18–84–000
EG18–85–000
EG18–86–000
EG18–87–000
EG18–88–000
EG18–89–000
EG18–90–000
EG18–91–000
EG18–92–000
EG18–93–000
EG18–94–000
FC18–5–000
Take notice that during the month of
July 2018, the status of the abovecaptioned entities as Exempt Wholesale
Generators or Foreign Utility Companies
became effective by operation of the
Commission’s regulations. 18 CFR
366.7(a) (2017).
Dated: August 10, 2018.
Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr.,
Deputy Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2018–17653 Filed 8–15–18; 8:45 am]
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS
COMMISSION
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[MB Docket No. 17–179; FCC 18–100]
Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. and
Tribune Media Company, Applications
for Transfer of Control of Tribune
Media Company and Certain
Subsidiaries, WDCW(TV)
Federal Communications
Commission.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
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This document commences a
hearing to determine whether granting
the applications filed by Tribune Media
Company (Tribune) and Sinclair
Broadcast Group, Inc. (Sinclair) seeking
to transfer control of Tribune
subsidiaries to Sinclair would be in the
public interest. The Commission has
designated the applications for hearing
after finding that there were substantial
and material questions of fact as to
whether; Sinclair was a ‘‘real party in
interest’’ to the sale of certain broadcast
stations; Sinclair engaged in
misrepresentation and/or lack of candor
in its applications with the Commission;
and consummation of the overall
transaction would be in the public
interest, including whether it would
comply with § 73.3555 of the
Commission’s rules.
DATES: Persons desiring to participate as
parties in the hearing shall file a
petition for leave to intervene not later
than September 17, 2018.
ADDRESSES: File documents with the
Office of the Secretary, Federal
Communications Commission, 445 12th
Street SW, Washington, DC 20554, with
a copy mailed to each party to the
proceeding. Each document that is filed
in this proceeding must display on the
front page the docket number of this
hearing, ‘‘MB Docket No. 17–179.’’
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
David Brown, David.Brown@fcc.gov,
Media Bureau, (202) 418–1645.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a
summary of the Hearing Designation
Order (Order), MB Docket No. 17–139,
FCC 18–100, adopted July 18, 2018, and
released July 19, 2018. The full text of
the Order is available for inspection and
copying during normal business hours
in the FCC’s Reference Information
Center at Portals II, CY–A257, 445 12th
Street SW, Washington, DC 20554. The
full text is also available online at
https://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/.
SUMMARY:
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Summary of the Hearing Designation
Order
1. On June 28, 2017, Sinclair
Broadcast Group, Inc. (Sinclair) and
Tribune Media Company (Tribune) filed
applications seeking to transfer control
of Tribune subsidiaries to Sinclair.
Sinclair and Tribune have amended
their applications several times
thereafter, in an attempt to bring the
transaction into compliance with the
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Commission’s national television
multiple ownership rule, as well as the
public interest requirements of the
Communications Act of 1934, as
amended (the Act).
2. Among these applications were
three that, rather than transfer broadcast
television licenses in Chicago, Dallas,
and Houston directly to Sinclair,
proposed to transfer these licenses to
other entities. According to the
proposals, Sinclair would divest WGN–
TV, Chicago, Illinois, to WGN TV, LLC,
a newly-created entity by Steve Fader,
an individual with no broadcast
experience, for a purchase price of
approximately $60 million. Sinclair
would also divest KDAF(TV), Dallas
Texas, and KIAH(TV), Houston, Texas,
to Cunningham Broadcast Corporation
(Cunningham) for a combined purchase
price of approximately $60 million. The
Commission notes that the proposed
transfer applications to Fader and
Cunningham were withdrawn on July
18, 2018.
3. Multiple formal pleadings have
been filed opposing this latest
divestiture plan. Most opponents
challenge the divestitures as ‘‘shams’’
intended to circumvent the local and
national television multiple ownership
rules and find most egregious the
proposed divestitures to Fader and
Cunningham. Some parties question
whether Sinclair will hold de facto
control over WGN TV, LLC.
Specifically, they question the
reasonableness of the terms of the
transaction, including a purchase price
of only $60 million, and Sinclair’s plans
to enter into a Joint Sales Agreement
(JSA), Shared Services Agreement
(SSA), and Option with WGN TV, LLC
at closing. The parties also question
Fader’s independence from Sinclair
given that Fader and David Smith,
currently a director and controlling
shareholder of Sinclair and formerly its
CEO, are business partners outside of
the broadcast industry. Specifically,
Fader is the CEO of Atlantic Automotive
Group (Atlantic), in which David Smith
has a controlling interest and serves as
a member of its board of directors, and
Atlantic is a Sinclair advertiser and
tenant. Similarly, some parties argue
that the sale of stations in Dallas and
Houston to Cunningham are in name
only and warrant a hearing. According
to the objectors, problematic aspects of
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Project No. 1494-438]
Grand River Dam Authority; Notice of Modification of Procedural
Schedule
Take notice that the schedule for processing the following
hydroelectric application has been modified.
a. Type of Application: Notice of Intent to File License
Application for a New License and Commencing Pre-filing Process.
b. Project No.: 1494-438.
c. Date Filed: February 1, 2017.
d. Applicant: Grand River Dam Authority (GRDA).
e. Name of Project: Pensacola Hydroelectric Project.
f. Location: The project is located on the Grand (Neosho) River in
Craig, Delaware, Mayes, and Ottawa Counties, Oklahoma. The project
occupies federal land.\1\
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\1\ In a filing of April 11, 2018, the Bureau of Indian Affairs
provided documentation that lands held in trust by the BIA for the
benefit of one or more federally-recognized Indian tribes occur
within the existing Pensacola Project boundary. The total acreage of
federal lands within the project boundary is unknown at this time.
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g. Filed Pursuant to: 18 CFR part 5 of the Commission's
Regulations.
h. Applicant Contact: Dr. Darrell Townsend, Assistant General
Manager, GRDA, 420 Highway 28, Langley, OK 74359-0070; (918) 256-0616
or [email protected].
i. FERC Contact: Rachel McNamara at (202) 502-8340 or
[email protected].
j. Procedural Schedule: The Commission's August 10, 2018, letter
established August 21, 2018, as the new date for the additional Tribal
Consultation meeting. The revised deadline for filing the Revised
Proposed Study Plan is now September 24, 2018, and the revised deadline
for filing comments on the Revised Proposed Study Plan is now October
24, 2018. As such, the application will be processed according to the
following revised schedule. Revisions to the schedule may be made as
appropriate. If a date falls on a weekend or holiday, the due date will
be the following business day.
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Milestone Target date
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File Revised Proposed Study Plan. September 24, 2018.
File Comments on Revised Proposed October 24, 2018.
Study Plan.
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Commission Issues Study Plan November 8, 2018.
Determination.
Notice of Formal Study Dispute November 28, 2018.
(if necessary).
Commission Issues Study Dispute February 6, 2019.
Determination (if necessary).
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Dated: August 10, 2018.
Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr.,
Deputy Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2018-17655 Filed 8-15-18; 8:45 am]
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