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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[OE Docket No. PP- 481–2]
Application To Amend Presidential
Permit; CHPE LLC
Office of Electricity,
Department of Energy.
ACTION: Notice of application.
AGENCY:
CHPE LLC (the Applicant) has
filed an application to amend
Presidential Permit No. PP–481–1.
CHPE LLC is requesting the amendment
to clarify the maximum electric
transmission capacity of the previously
permitted facilities.
DATES: Comments, protests, or motions
to intervene must be submitted on or
before December 22, 2021.
ADDRESSES: Comments or motions to
intervene should be addressed to
Christopher Lawrence,
Christopher.Lawrence@hq.doe.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Christopher Lawrence (Program Office)
at (202) 586–5260 or by email to
Christopher.Lawrence@hq.doe.gov, or
Christopher Drake (Attorney-Adviser) at
(202) 586–2919 or by email to
Christopher.Drake@hq.doe.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
construction, operation, maintenance,
and connection of facilities at the
international border of the United States
for the transmission of electric energy
between the United States and a foreign
country is prohibited in the absence of
a Presidential permit issued pursuant to
Executive Order (E.O.) 10485, as
amended by E.O. 12038.
On November 24, 2021, CHPE LLC
filed an application with the Office of
Electricity of the Department of Energy
(DOE), as required by regulations at 10
CFR 205.320 et seq., requesting that
DOE amend Presidential Permit No. PP–
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481–1 to clarify the maximum electric
transmission capacity of the previously
permitted facilities.
On October 6, 2014, DOE issued
Presidential Permit No. PP–362,
authorizing Champlain Hudson Power
Express, Inc. (CHPEI) to construct,
operate, maintain, and connect the
Champlain Hudson Power Express
Project (Project). As described in PP–
362, the Project is a 1,000-megawatt
(MW), high-voltage direct current
(HVDC), underground and underwater
merchant transmission system that will
cross the United States-Canada
international border underwater near
the Town of Champlain, New York,
extend approximately 336 miles south
through New York State, and
interconnect to facilities located in
Queens County, New York, owned by
the Consolidated Edison Company of
New York. The aquatic segments of the
transmission line will primarily be
buried in sediments of Lake Champlain
and the Hudson, Harlem, and East
rivers. The terrestrial portions of the
transmission line will primarily be
buried within existing road and railroad
rights-of-way (ROW). On July 21, 2020,
DOE issued Presidential Permit PP–481
transferring the facilities authorized in
PP–362 to CHPE LLC at the request of
CHPEI and CHPE LLC.
On April 30, 2021, DOE issued
Presidential Permit No. PP–481–1,
amending CHPE LLC’s permit to
incorporate proposed revisions to the
Project route and authorizing the
increase in the Project’s capacity from
1,000 MW to 1,250 MW.
In its Supplemental Request for
authorization to increase the Project’s
capacity from 1,000 MW to 1,250 MW
in PP–481–1, CHPE LLC noted that it
had ‘‘submitted an application request
(NYISO Queue Position #887) for an
additional 250 MW injection at the
Point of Interconnection at the New
York Power Authority’s Astoria Annex
345 kV substation.’’ The New York
Independent System Operator (NYISO)
evaluated the request via an
‘‘Interconnection System Reliability
Impact Study for the NYISO Q887: CH
Uprate Project’’ (Interconnection Study)
and provided the Interconnection Study
to DOE. To gauge the reliability impact
of the additional 250 MW injection at
the Astoria Annex Substation, the
Interconnection Study modeled 1,298
MW of Project withdrawal at the Hertel
Substation in Canada to account for
expected transmission line losses. In
other words, an assumption in the
Interconnection Study was that the
transmission rate at the U.S.-Canada
border would have to be 1,298 MW for
1,250 MW to be injected at the Astoria
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Annex Substation more than 300 miles
away.
Article 3 of PP–481–1 states, in part,
that the ‘‘maximum non-simultaneous
rate of transmission over the permitted
facilities shall not exceed 1,250 MW.’’
On its face, this language limits the
Project’s authorized capacity such that
the Project cannot transmit at a rate
greater than 1,250 MW anywhere
between the border crossing and the
Astoria Annex Substation, and therefore
is prohibited from withdrawing
approximately 1,298 MW at the Hertel
Substation in order to inject 1,250 MW
at the Astoria Annex Substation. CHPE
LLC requests that DOE amend the
Presidential Permit to explicitly state
that the Project is authorized to inject
1,250 MW at the point of
interconnection at the Astoria Annex
Substation. This amendment would
account for anticipated line losses and
is consistent with the reliability analysis
conducted by NYISO. The requested
capacity increase to allow 1,250 MW
injection at the Astoria Annex
Substation is the only requested
amendment; no other changes to the
permitted facilities as described or
analyzed in PP–481–1 are contemplated.
Comments and other filings
concerning this application should be
clearly marked with OE Docket No. PP–
481–2. Consideration of comments is
limited to those addressing the subject
of the proposed amendment; comments
on any part of PP–481–1 will not be
considered. Additional copies are to be
provided directly to Mr. Donald
Jessome, Chief Executive Officer,
Transmission Developers Inc., Pieter
Schuyler Building, 600 Broadway,
Albany, New York 12207–2283,
donald.jessome@
transmissiondevelopers.com, and Jay
Ryan, Baker Botts LLP, 700 K Street
NW, Washington, DC 20001, jay.ryan@
bakerbotts.com.
Before a Presidential permit may be
issued or amended, DOE must
determine that the proposed action is in
the public interest. In making that
determination, DOE will consider the
environmental impacts of the proposed
action (i.e., granting the Presidential
permit or amendment, with any
conditions and limitations, or denying
the permit), determine the proposed
project’s impact on electric reliability by
ascertaining whether the proposed
project would adversely affect the
operation of the U.S. electric power
supply system under normal and
contingency conditions, and weigh any
other factors that DOE may also
consider relevant to the public interest.
DOE also must obtain the favorable
recommendation of the Secretary of
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State and the Secretary of Defense
before taking final action on a
Presidential permit application.
This application may be reviewed or
downloaded electronically at https://
www.energy.gov/oe/pendingapplications.
Signed in Washington, DC, on December 2,
2021.
Christopher Lawrence,
Management and Program Analyst, Electricity
Delivery Division, Office of Electricity.
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Agency Information Collection
Proposed Extension
U.S. Energy Information
Administration (EIA), Department of
Energy (DOE).
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:
EIA invites public comment
on the proposed three-year extension,
without change, to the Generic
Clearance for the Collection of
Qualitative Feedback on Agency Service
Delivery, pursuant to the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995. This generic
clearance enables EIA to collect
customer and stakeholder feedback from
the public on service delivery in an
efficient and timely manner to ensure
that EIA’s programs effectively meet our
customers’ needs and to collect
feedback on improving service delivery
to the public.
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on this proposed information collection
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possible.
SUMMARY:
Submit comments
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email at Gerson.Morales@eia.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Gerson Morales, U.S. Energy
Information Administration, telephone
(202) 586–7077, or by email at
Gerson.Morales@eia.gov.
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information collection request contains:
(1) OMB No.: 1905–0210;
(2) Information Collection Request
Title: Generic Clearance for the
Collection of Qualitative Feedback on
Agency Service Delivery;
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(3) Type of Request: Three-year
extension without change;
(4) Purpose: This information
collection activity provides a means to
collect qualitative customer and
stakeholder feedback in an efficient
timely manner, in accordance with the
Administration’s commitment to
improving service delivery. Qualitative
feedback means data that provide useful
insights on perceptions and opinions
but are not statistical surveys that yield
quantitative results that can be
generalized to the population of the
study. This feedback provides insights
into customer or stakeholder
perceptions, experiences, and
expectations. It also provides an early
warning of issues with service, or
focuses attention on areas where
communication, training or changes in
operations might improve the accuracy
of data report on survey instruments or
the delivery of products or services.
These collections allow for ongoing,
collaborative, and actionable
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and its customers and stakeholders. It
also allows feedback to contribute
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management. EIA will only submit a
collection for approval under this
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only internally for general service
improvement and program management
purposes and is not intended for release
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• Information gathered will not be
used for the purpose of substantially
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• Information gathered will yield
qualitative information; the collections
will not be designed or expected to
yield statistically reliable results or used
as though the results are generalizable to
the population of study;
• The collections are voluntary;
• The collections are low-burden for
respondents (based on considerations of
total burden hours, total number of
respondents, or burden-hours per
respondent) and are low-cost for both
the respondents and the Federal
Government;
• The collections are noncontroversial and do not raise issues of
concern to other Federal agencies;
• Any collection is targeted to the
solicitation of opinions from
respondents who have experience with
the program or may have experience
with the program in the near future; and
• With the exception of information
needed to provide remuneration for
participants of focus groups and
cognitive laboratory studies, personally
identifiable information (PII) is
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collected only to the extent necessary
and is not retained.
If these conditions are not met, EIA
will submit an information collection
request to OMB for approval through the
normal PRA process. The solicitation of
feedback on Agency Service Delivery
includes topics such as: Timeliness of
publishing, understanding of questions
and terminology used in EIA products,
perceptions on data confidentiality and
security, appropriateness and relevancy
of information published, accuracy of
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service delivery, and resolution of
issues with service delivery. Responses
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promise. The Federal Government has a
responsibility to streamline and make
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Respondents: 80,600;
(6) Annual Estimated Number of
Total Responses: 80,600;
(7) Annual Estimated Number of
Burden Hours: 8,600;
(8) Annual Estimated Reporting and
Recordkeeping Cost Burden: $702,190
(8,600 annual burden hours multiplied
by $81.65 per hour). EIA estimates that
respondents will have no additional
costs associated with the surveys other
than the burden hours and the
maintenance of the information during
the normal course of business.
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information is necessary for the proper
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including whether the information will
have a practical utility; (b) EIA’s
estimate of the burden of the proposed
collection of information, including the
validity of the methodology and
assumptions used, is accurate; (c) EIA
can improve the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information it will collect;
and (d) EIA can minimize the burden of
the collection of information on
respondents, such as automated
collection techniques or other forms of
information technology.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
[OE Docket No. PP- 481-2]
Application To Amend Presidential Permit; CHPE LLC
AGENCY: Office of Electricity, Department of Energy.
ACTION: Notice of application.
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SUMMARY: CHPE LLC (the Applicant) has filed an application to amend
Presidential Permit No. PP-481-1. CHPE LLC is requesting the amendment
to clarify the maximum electric transmission capacity of the previously
permitted facilities.
DATES: Comments, protests, or motions to intervene must be submitted on
or before December 22, 2021.
ADDRESSES: Comments or motions to intervene should be addressed to
Christopher Lawrence, [email protected].
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Christopher Lawrence (Program Office)
at (202) 586-5260 or by email to [email protected]ov, or
Christopher Drake (Attorney-Adviser) at (202) 586-2919 or by email to
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The construction, operation, maintenance,
and connection of facilities at the international border of the United
States for the transmission of electric energy between the United
States and a foreign country is prohibited in the absence of a
Presidential permit issued pursuant to Executive Order (E.O.) 10485, as
amended by E.O. 12038.
On November 24, 2021, CHPE LLC filed an application with the Office
of Electricity of the Department of Energy (DOE), as required by
regulations at 10 CFR 205.320 et seq., requesting that DOE amend
Presidential Permit No. PP-481-1 to clarify the maximum electric
transmission capacity of the previously permitted facilities.
On October 6, 2014, DOE issued Presidential Permit No. PP-362,
authorizing Champlain Hudson Power Express, Inc. (CHPEI) to construct,
operate, maintain, and connect the Champlain Hudson Power Express
Project (Project). As described in PP-362, the Project is a 1,000-
megawatt (MW), high-voltage direct current (HVDC), underground and
underwater merchant transmission system that will cross the United
States-Canada international border underwater near the Town of
Champlain, New York, extend approximately 336 miles south through New
York State, and interconnect to facilities located in Queens County,
New York, owned by the Consolidated Edison Company of New York. The
aquatic segments of the transmission line will primarily be buried in
sediments of Lake Champlain and the Hudson, Harlem, and East rivers.
The terrestrial portions of the transmission line will primarily be
buried within existing road and railroad rights-of-way (ROW). On July
21, 2020, DOE issued Presidential Permit PP-481 transferring the
facilities authorized in PP-362 to CHPE LLC at the request of CHPEI and
CHPE LLC.
On April 30, 2021, DOE issued Presidential Permit No. PP-481-1,
amending CHPE LLC's permit to incorporate proposed revisions to the
Project route and authorizing the increase in the Project's capacity
from 1,000 MW to 1,250 MW.
In its Supplemental Request for authorization to increase the
Project's capacity from 1,000 MW to 1,250 MW in PP-481-1, CHPE LLC
noted that it had ``submitted an application request (NYISO Queue
Position #887) for an additional 250 MW injection at the Point of
Interconnection at the New York Power Authority's Astoria Annex 345 kV
substation.'' The New York Independent System Operator (NYISO)
evaluated the request via an ``Interconnection System Reliability
Impact Study for the NYISO Q887: CH Uprate Project'' (Interconnection
Study) and provided the Interconnection Study to DOE. To gauge the
reliability impact of the additional 250 MW injection at the Astoria
Annex Substation, the Interconnection Study modeled 1,298 MW of Project
withdrawal at the Hertel Substation in Canada to account for expected
transmission line losses. In other words, an assumption in the
Interconnection Study was that the transmission rate at the U.S.-Canada
border would have to be 1,298 MW for 1,250 MW to be injected at the
Astoria Annex Substation more than 300 miles away.
Article 3 of PP-481-1 states, in part, that the ``maximum non-
simultaneous rate of transmission over the permitted facilities shall
not exceed 1,250 MW.'' On its face, this language limits the Project's
authorized capacity such that the Project cannot transmit at a rate
greater than 1,250 MW anywhere between the border crossing and the
Astoria Annex Substation, and therefore is prohibited from withdrawing
approximately 1,298 MW at the Hertel Substation in order to inject
1,250 MW at the Astoria Annex Substation. CHPE LLC requests that DOE
amend the Presidential Permit to explicitly state that the Project is
authorized to inject 1,250 MW at the point of interconnection at the
Astoria Annex Substation. This amendment would account for anticipated
line losses and is consistent with the reliability analysis conducted
by NYISO. The requested capacity increase to allow 1,250 MW injection
at the Astoria Annex Substation is the only requested amendment; no
other changes to the permitted facilities as described or analyzed in
PP-481-1 are contemplated.
Comments and other filings concerning this application should be
clearly marked with OE Docket No. PP-481-2. Consideration of comments
is limited to those addressing the subject of the proposed amendment;
comments on any part of PP-481-1 will not be considered. Additional
copies are to be provided directly to Mr. Donald Jessome, Chief
Executive Officer, Transmission Developers Inc., Pieter Schuyler
Building, 600 Broadway, Albany, New York 12207-2283,
[email protected], and Jay Ryan, Baker Botts
LLP, 700 K Street NW, Washington, DC 20001, [email protected].
Before a Presidential permit may be issued or amended, DOE must
determine that the proposed action is in the public interest. In making
that determination, DOE will consider the environmental impacts of the
proposed action (i.e., granting the Presidential permit or amendment,
with any conditions and limitations, or denying the permit), determine
the proposed project's impact on electric reliability by ascertaining
whether the proposed project would adversely affect the operation of
the U.S. electric power supply system under normal and contingency
conditions, and weigh any other factors that DOE may also consider
relevant to the public interest. DOE also must obtain the favorable
recommendation of the Secretary of
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State and the Secretary of Defense before taking final action on a
Presidential permit application.
This application may be reviewed or downloaded electronically at
https://www.energy.gov/oe/pending-applications.
Signed in Washington, DC, on December 2, 2021.
Christopher Lawrence,
Management and Program Analyst, Electricity Delivery Division, Office
of Electricity.
[FR Doc. 2021-26475 Filed 12-6-21; 8:45 am]
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