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Compliance Department, Castleton
Commodities International LLC, 811
Main Street, Suite 3500, Houston, TX
77002.
A final decision will be made on this
application after the environmental
impacts have been evaluated pursuant
to DOE’s National Environmental Policy
Act Implementing Procedures (10 CFR
part 1021) and after DOE determines
that the proposed action will not have
an adverse impact on the sufficiency of
supply or reliability of the U.S. electric
power supply system.
Copies of this application will be
made available, upon request, for public
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provided above, by accessing the
program website at https://energy.gov/
node/11845, or by emailing Angela Troy
at Angela.Troy@hq.doe.gov.
Signed in Washington, DC, on October 1,
2019.
Christopher Lawrence,
Management and Program Analyst,
Transmission Permitting and Technical
Assistance Office of Electricity.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Project No. 2333–091–Maine]
Rumford Falls Hydro, LLC; Notice of
Environmental Site Review
On September 27, 2019, Rumford
Falls Hydro, LLC filed a Notice of Intent
(NOI) and Pre-Application Document to
re-license its 44.5-megawatt Rumford
Falls Hydroelectric Project No. 2333.
The Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission (Commission) will conduct
an environmental site review for the
project on October 24, 2019. The project
is located on the Androscoggin River, in
Oxford County, Maine.
The environmental site review is
being held to provide all stakeholders,
interested in the project’s future
relicensing proceedings, an opportunity
to view the project’s facilities and
surrounding areas.
Under the Commission’s Integrated
Licensing Process, the Commission
conducts its National Environmental
Policy Act (NEPA) scoping meeting
within 90 days of the filing of the
licensee’s NOI. An environmental site
review is typically held in conjunction
with that scoping meeting. However,
access to some project facilities may be
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limited by winter weather during
December of 2019 when scoping for this
project is currently anticipated. For this
reason, the Commission will conduct
the environmental site review in
October before the onset of winter;
additional site reviews will not be
conducted in conjunction with NEPA
scoping meetings for the project in
December of 2019. Therefore, we are
waiving 5.8(b)(viii) of the Commission’s
regulations requiring an environmental
site review within 30 days of issuance
of a notice of commencement of
proceeding to facilitate the early
environmental site review. The
Commission encourages all interested
parties to participate in the October
environmental site review to facilitate
productive scoping meetings later this
year. Details of the project specific
environmental site review follow.
Date and Time: October 24, 2019 at
9:00 a.m.
Location: Rumford Falls Hydroelectric
Project, 299 Prospect Avenue (Route 2),
Rumford, Maine 04276.
Directions and Logistics
Please notify Mr. Randy Dorman of
Great Lakes Hydro America at (207) 7555605 or at randy.dorman@
brookfieldrenewable.com on or before
October 21, 2019, if you plan to attend
the environmental site review.
If you need further logistical
information or directions, please contact
the Mr. Randy Dorman with the
information above. All other questions
regarding the environmental site review
or the Commission’s Integrated
Licensing Process may be directed to
Ryan Hansen of the Commission’s staff
at (202) 502–8074 or via email at:
ryan.hansen@ferc.gov.
Dated: October 1, 2019.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Docket No. CP19–509–000]
Notice of Intent To Prepare an
Environmental Assessment for the
Texas Eastern Transmission, LP
Proposed Marshall County Mine Panel
19E Project and Request for
Comments on Environmental Issues
The staff of the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission (FERC or
Commission) will prepare an
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environmental assessment (EA) that will
discuss the environmental impacts of
the Marshall County Mine Panel 19E
Project involving construction and
operation of facilities by Texas Eastern
Transmission, LP (Texas Eastern) in
Marshall County, West Virginia. 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 about issues
regarding the project. The National
Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
requires the Commission to take into
account the environmental impacts that
could result from its action whenever it
considers the issuance of a Certificate of
Public Convenience and Necessity/
authorization. NEPA also requires the
Commission to discover concerns the
public may have about proposals. This
process is referred to as ‘‘scoping.’’ The
main goal of the scoping process is to
focus the analysis in the EA on the
important environmental issues. By this
notice, the Commission requests public
comments on the scope of issues to
address in the EA. To ensure that your
comments are timely and properly
recorded, please submit your comments
so that the Commission receives them in
Washington, DC on or before 5:00 p.m.
Eastern Time on October 31, 2019.
You can make a difference by
submitting your specific comments or
concerns about the project. Your
comments should focus on the potential
environmental effects, reasonable
alternatives, and measures to avoid or
lessen environmental impacts. Your
input will help the Commission staff
determine what issues they need to
evaluate in the EA. Commission staff
will consider all filed comments during
the preparation of the EA.
If you sent comments on this project
to the Commission before the opening of
this docket on September 4, 2019, you
will need to file those comments in
Docket No. CP19–509–000 to ensure
they are considered as part of this
proceeding.
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
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Project No. 2333-091-Maine]
Rumford Falls Hydro, LLC; Notice of Environmental Site Review
On September 27, 2019, Rumford Falls Hydro, LLC filed a Notice of
Intent (NOI) and Pre-Application Document to re-license its 44.5-
megawatt Rumford Falls Hydroelectric Project No. 2333. The Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission (Commission) will conduct an environmental
site review for the project on October 24, 2019. The project is located
on the Androscoggin River, in Oxford County, Maine.
The environmental site review is being held to provide all
stakeholders, interested in the project's future relicensing
proceedings, an opportunity to view the project's facilities and
surrounding areas.
Under the Commission's Integrated Licensing Process, the Commission
conducts its National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) scoping meeting
within 90 days of the filing of the licensee's NOI. An environmental
site review is typically held in conjunction with that scoping meeting.
However, access to some project facilities may be limited by winter
weather during December of 2019 when scoping for this project is
currently anticipated. For this reason, the Commission will conduct the
environmental site review in October before the onset of winter;
additional site reviews will not be conducted in conjunction with NEPA
scoping meetings for the project in December of 2019. Therefore, we are
waiving 5.8(b)(viii) of the Commission's regulations requiring an
environmental site review within 30 days of issuance of a notice of
commencement of proceeding to facilitate the early environmental site
review. The Commission encourages all interested parties to participate
in the October environmental site review to facilitate productive
scoping meetings later this year. Details of the project specific
environmental site review follow.
Date and Time: October 24, 2019 at 9:00 a.m.
Location: Rumford Falls Hydroelectric Project, 299 Prospect Avenue
(Route 2), Rumford, Maine 04276.
Directions and Logistics
Please notify Mr. Randy Dorman of Great Lakes Hydro America at
(207) 755- 5605 or at [email protected] on or before
October 21, 2019, if you plan to attend the environmental site review.
If you need further logistical information or directions, please
contact the Mr. Randy Dorman with the information above. All other
questions regarding the environmental site review or the Commission's
Integrated Licensing Process may be directed to Ryan Hansen of the
Commission's staff at (202) 502-8074 or via email at:
[email protected].
Dated: October 1, 2019.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
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