Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC; Notice of Availability of Environmental Assessment, 41972 [2020-15022]

Download as PDF 41972 Federal Register / Vol. 85, No. 134 / Monday, July 13, 2020 / Notices DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY Federal Energy Regulatory Commission [Project No. 2206–089] jbell on DSKJLSW7X2PROD with NOTICES Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC; Notice of Availability of Environmental Assessment In accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Commission) regulations, 18 CFR part 380 (Order No. 486, 52 FR 47897), the Office of Energy Projects has reviewed an application submitted by Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC (licensee) to grant easements to the Town of Norwood, North Carolina and Union County, North Carolina (co-applicants) to allow the use of Yadkin-Pee Dee Hydroelectric Project No. 2206, project lands and waters on Lake Tillery for municipal water supply. The Yadkin Pee-Dee Project is located on the Yadkin and Pee Dee Rivers in Anson, Montgomery, Richmond, and Stanly counties, North Carolina. The project does not occupy federal land. An Environmental Assessment (EA) has been prepared as part of Commission staff’s review of the proposal. In the application, the licensee proposes to grant easements to the co-applicants to construct and operate a raw water intake facility (facility) on Lake Tillery, one of the project’s two storage reservoir. The easement area would total 0.34 acres of land within the project boundary. The intake structure and intake piping would require a 0.25 acre easement and an adjacent boathouse and pier for use in servicing the withdrawal facility would require an additional 0.09 acre easement. The facility would withdrawal a maximum annual average of 19.6 million gallons per day (MGD) and an instantaneous maximum of 49.0 MGD. A maximum monthly average of up to 23.3 MGD of the water withdrawn would be transferred out of the Yadkin River Basin into the Rocky River Basin, for consumptive use. A portion of the transferred water would be returned via treated wastewater effluent back through the Rocky River into the Pee Dee River approximately five miles downstream from the Lake Tillery Dam. The EA contains Commission staff’s analysis of the potential environmental impacts of the construction and operation of the facility and the proposed water withdrawal volume and concludes that approval of the proposal would not constitute a major federal action significantly affecting the quality of the human environment. VerDate Sep<11>2014 20:25 Jul 10, 2020 Jkt 250001 The EA may be viewed on the Commission’s website at https:// www.ferc.gov using the ‘‘eLibrary’’ link. Enter the docket number (P–2206) in the docket number field to access the document. For assistance, contact FERC Online Support at FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or tollfree at (866) 208–3372 or for TTY, (202) 502–8659. For further information, contact Robert Ballantine at (202) 502–6289 or by email at robert.ballantine@ferc.gov. Dated: July 7, 2020. Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary. [FR Doc. 2020–15022 Filed 7–10–20; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6717–01–P ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY [EPA–HQ–OAR–2020–0351; FRL–10011–83– OAR] Ozone Transport Commission; Recommendation That EPA Require Daily Limits for Emissions of Nitrogen Oxides from Certain Sources in Pennsylvania Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Notice of availability and public hearing. AGENCY: The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing that on June 8, 2020, the Ozone Transport Commission (OTC) submitted a recommendation to EPA for additional control measures at certain coal-fired electricity generating units (EGUs) in Pennsylvania. Specifically, the OTC has recommended that EPA require Pennsylvania to revise the Pennsylvania State Implementation Plan (SIP) to include additional control measures which would establish daily nitrogen oxides (NOX) emission limits for all coal-fired EGUs with already-installed selective catalytic reduction (SCR) or selective non-catalytic reduction (SNCR) control technology to ensure that these technologies are optimized to minimize NOX emissions each day of the ozone season. EPA is also announcing a public hearing on the recommendation as discussed under DATES below. EPA is commencing a review of the recommendation to determine whether to approve, disapprove, or partially approve and partially disapprove it. Prior to the public hearing, EPA plans to publish another document in the Federal Register providing further discussion of the recommendation and SUMMARY: PO 00000 Frm 00035 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 the framework the Agency intends to apply in reaching a decision. DATES: EPA will hold a virtual public hearing within 90 days of the OTC recommendation or by September 4, 2020. Further information on the date and time of the virtual public hearing will be available at https:// www.epa.gov/interstate-air-pollutiontransport/ozone-transport-commissionotc-section-184c-petition. ADDRESSES: Materials related to this action, including the recommendation and supporting materials submitted to EPA by the OTC, can be viewed online at regulations.gov under Docket No. EPA–HQ–OAR–2020–0351. To reduce the risk of COVID–19 transmission, the EPA Docket Center and Reading Room is closed to the public with limited exceptions. Visitors must complete docket material requests in advance and then make an appointment to retrieve the material. Visitors will be allowed entrance to the Reading Room by appointment only, and no walk-ins will be allowed. Additional information on the exception procedures, location and hours of the Reading Room is available at https://www.epa.gov/dockets. Please call or email the contact listed in FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT if you need alternative access to material indexed but not electronically available in the docket at regulations.gov. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Beth Murray, Clean Air Markets Division, Office of Atmospheric Programs, Office of Air and Radiation, Environmental Protection Agency, 202–343–9115, murray.beth@epa.gov. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Groundlevel ozone is a secondary air pollutant created by chemical reactions between the ozone precursor pollutants NOX and volatile organic compounds in the presence of sunlight. Precursor pollutant emissions can be transported downwind directly or, after transformation in the atmosphere, as ozone. Studies have established that ozone formation, atmospheric residence, and transport can occur on a regional scale (i.e., across hundreds of miles) over much of the eastern U.S. 1 Starting more than two decades ago, EPA has issued multiple rules requiring reductions in NOX emissions to address the interstate transport of NOX and ozone, including the NOX SIP Call, 63 FR 57356 (October 27, 1998), the Clean Air Interstate Rule (CAIR), 70 FR 25162 (May 12, 2005), the Cross-State Air 1 For example, Bergin, M.S. et al. (2007). Regional air quality: Local and interstate impacts of NOX and SO2 emissions on ozone and fine particulate matter in the eastern United States. Environmental Sci. & Tech. 41: 4677–4689. E:\FR\FM\13JYN1.SGM 13JYN1

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[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 134 (Monday, July 13, 2020)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 2206-089]


Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC; Notice of Availability of 
Environmental Assessment

    In accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 
and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Commission) regulations, 
18 CFR part 380 (Order No. 486, 52 FR 47897), the Office of Energy 
Projects has reviewed an application submitted by Duke Energy 
Carolinas, LLC (licensee) to grant easements to the Town of Norwood, 
North Carolina and Union County, North Carolina (co-applicants) to 
allow the use of Yadkin-Pee Dee Hydroelectric Project No. 2206, project 
lands and waters on Lake Tillery for municipal water supply. The Yadkin 
Pee-Dee Project is located on the Yadkin and Pee Dee Rivers in Anson, 
Montgomery, Richmond, and Stanly counties, North Carolina. The project 
does not occupy federal land.
    An Environmental Assessment (EA) has been prepared as part of 
Commission staff's review of the proposal. In the application, the 
licensee proposes to grant easements to the co-applicants to construct 
and operate a raw water intake facility (facility) on Lake Tillery, one 
of the project's two storage reservoir. The easement area would total 
0.34 acres of land within the project boundary. The intake structure 
and intake piping would require a 0.25 acre easement and an adjacent 
boathouse and pier for use in servicing the withdrawal facility would 
require an additional 0.09 acre easement. The facility would withdrawal 
a maximum annual average of 19.6 million gallons per day (MGD) and an 
instantaneous maximum of 49.0 MGD. A maximum monthly average of up to 
23.3 MGD of the water withdrawn would be transferred out of the Yadkin 
River Basin into the Rocky River Basin, for consumptive use. A portion 
of the transferred water would be returned via treated wastewater 
effluent back through the Rocky River into the Pee Dee River 
approximately five miles downstream from the Lake Tillery Dam.
    The EA contains Commission staff's analysis of the potential 
environmental impacts of the construction and operation of the facility 
and the proposed water withdrawal volume and concludes that approval of 
the proposal would not constitute a major federal action significantly 
affecting the quality of the human environment.
    The EA may be viewed on the Commission's website at https://www.ferc.gov using the ``eLibrary'' link. Enter the docket number (P-
2206) in the docket number field to access the document. For 
assistance, contact FERC Online Support at [email protected] 
or toll-free at (866) 208-3372 or for TTY, (202) 502-8659.
    For further information, contact Robert Ballantine at (202) 502-
6289 or by email at [email protected].

    Dated: July 7, 2020.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2020-15022 Filed 7-10-20; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6717-01-P


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