Littoral Power Systems, Inc.; Notice of Preliminary Permit Application Accepted for Filing and Soliciting Comments, Motions To Intervene, and Competing Applications, 62563-62564 [2023-19568]

Download as PDF lotter on DSK11XQN23PROD with NOTICES1 Federal Register / Vol. 88, No. 175 / Tuesday, September 12, 2023 / Notices in accordance with Rules 211 and 214 of the Commission’s Rules of Practice and Procedure (18 CFR 385.211 and 385.214). Anyone filing a motion to intervene or protest must serve a copy of that document on the Applicant. Notice is hereby given that the deadline for filing protests with regard to the applicant’s request for blanket authorization, under 18 CFR part 34, of future issuances of securities and assumptions of liability, is September 25, 2023. The Commission encourages electronic submission of protests and interventions in lieu of paper, using the FERC Online links at https:// www.ferc.gov. To facilitate electronic service, persons with internet access who will eFile a document and/or be listed as a contact for an intervenor must create and validate an eRegistration account using the eRegistration link. 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Debbie-Anne A. Reese, Deputy Secretary. [FR Doc. 2023–19587 Filed 9–11–23; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6717–01–P DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY Federal Energy Regulatory Commission [Project No. 15317–000] Littoral Power Systems, Inc.; Notice of Preliminary Permit Application Accepted for Filing and Soliciting Comments, Motions To Intervene, and Competing Applications On June 28, 2023, Littoral Power Systems, Inc. filed an application for a preliminary permit, pursuant to section 4(f) of the Federal Power Act (FPA), proposing to study the feasibility of the Upper Cook Inlet Tidal Energy Project to be located in Cook Inlet, Alaska approximately 17 miles north-northwest of Kenai, Alaska and 9.5 miles northwest of Nikiski, Alaska. The sole purpose of a preliminary permit is to grant the permit holder priority to file a license application during the permit term. A preliminary permit does not authorize the permit holder to perform any land-disturbing activities or otherwise enter upon lands or waters owned by others without the owners’ express permission. The project would consist of axial hydrokinetic turbines installed underwater at or proximate to one or more of four existing decommissioned natural gas drilling platforms (Baker, Shell-A, Shell-C, and Dillon) located within the Upper Cook Inlet. The drilling platforms, which are owned and operated by Hilcorp Alaska, LLC, would be the prime anchoring structures for the hydrokinetic equipment that would convert the energy of Cook Inlet’s tidal currents into electrical power. The electrical energy would be transmitted via a new 25kV submarine cable to an existing onshore substation (the Bernice Lake substation owned by the Homer Electric Association, Inc.) located about 1.5 miles east-northeast of the East Foreland Lighthouse on the Kenai Peninsula. The length of the subsea cable from the drilling platforms to land would be between 3.5 and 5 miles, depending on the selected route, and the length of the land transmission line to the substation would be between 2 PO 00000 Frm 00040 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 62563 and 3 miles. Each hydrokinetic turbine would have a generating capacity of 1 megawatt (MW). The project would produce from 5,000 to 6,000 megawatthours (MWh) per year initially. Applicant Contact: Mr. David Duquette, CEO, Littoral Power Systems, Inc., 5 Dover Street, Suite 102, New Bedford, MA 02740; Phone: (508) 436– 4100. FERC Contact: David Froehlich; email; david.froehlich@ferc.gov; phone (202) 502–6769. The Commission’s Office of Public Participation (OPP) supports meaningful public engagement and participation in Commission proceedings. OPP can help members of the public, including landowners, environmental justice communities, Tribal members, and others, access publicly available information and navigate Commission processes. For public inquiries and assistance with filings such as interventions, comments, or requests for rehearing, the public is encouraged to contact OPP at (202) 502–6595 or OPP@ ferc.gov. Comments, motions to intervene, competing applications (without notices of intent), or notices of intent to file competing applications should be submitted within 60 days from the issuance of this notice. Competing applications and notices of intent must meet the requirements of 18 CFR 4.36. The Commission strongly encourages electronic filing. Please file comments, motions to intervene, notices of intent, and competing applications using the Commission’s eFiling system at https:// www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/efiling.asp. Commenters can submit brief comments up to 6,000 characters without prior registration using the eComment system at https://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/ ecomment.asp. You must include your name and contact information at the end of your comments. For assistance, please get in touch with FERC Online Support at FERCOnlineSupport@ ferc.gov, (866) 208–3676 (toll-free), or (202) 502–8659 (TTY). Instead of electronic filing, you may submit a paper copy. Submissions sent via the U.S. Postal Service must be addressed to: Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street NE, Room 1A, Washington, DC 20426. Submissions sent via any other carrier must be addressed to: Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 12225 Wilkins Avenue, Rockville, Maryland 20852. The first page of any filing should include docket number P– 15310–000. More information about this project, including a copy of the application, can E:\FR\FM\12SEN1.SGM 12SEN1 62564 Federal Register / Vol. 88, No. 175 / Tuesday, September 12, 2023 / Notices be viewed or printed on the ‘‘eLibrary’’ link of the Commission’s website at https://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/ elibrary.asp. Enter the docket number (P–15317) in the docket number field to access a document. For assistance, do not hesitate to get in touch with FERC Online Support. Dated: September 5, 2023. Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary. [FR Doc. 2023–19568 Filed 9–11–23; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6717–01–P DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY Federal Energy Regulatory Commission [Docket No. CP22–480–001] lotter on DSK11XQN23PROD with NOTICES1 MIGC LLC; Notice of Request for Extension of Time Take notice that on August 28, 2023, MIGC LLC (MIGC) requested that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Commission) grant an extension of time (2023 Extension of Time Request), until September 10, 2024, to abandon certain compressor facilities and associated mainline capacity at its Python Compressor Station located in Converse County, Wyoming, in the Prior Notice Request for Authorization Under Blanket Certificate (Prior Notice) under Docket No. CP22–480–000. The Prior Notice requested authorization to abandon certain compressor facilities and associated mainline capacity at its Python Compressor Station located in Converse County, Wyoming. On July 11, 2022, the Commission issued a Notice of Request Under Blanket Authorization, which established a 60-day comment period, ending on September 9, 2022, to file protests. No protests were filed during the comment period, and accordingly the project was authorized on September 10, 2022 and by Rule should have been completed within one year. In its 2023 Extension of Time Request, MIGC states that it is determining whether retention of all or a portion of the facilities and associated capacity authorized for abandonment may be necessary to meet changing market demands. MIGC explains that a recent shift in market conditions was unanticipated and presents an extenuating circumstance that may require the continued use of MIGC’s compressor facilities at its Python Compressor Station. Although, MIGC stated in the Prior Notice request that local production of natural gas in the area that MIGC operates in Wyoming VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:32 Sep 11, 2023 Jkt 259001 has been steadily declining over the past ten years, recent market conditions suggest that retaining the capacity associated with the Python Compressor Station may be the most efficient way to serve changing market needs while providing the least amount of environmental impact. This notice establishes a 15-calendar day intervention and comment period deadline. Any person wishing to comment on MIGC’s request for an extension of time may do so. No reply comments or answers will be considered. If you wish to obtain legal status by becoming a party to the proceedings for this request, you should, on or before the comment date stated below, file 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 Natural Gas Act (18 CFR 157.10). As a matter of practice, the Commission itself generally acts on requests for extensions of time to complete construction for Natural Gas Act facilities when such requests are contested before order issuance. For those extension requests that are contested,1 the Commission will aim to issue an order acting on the request within 45 days.2 The Commission will address all arguments relating to whether the applicant has demonstrated there is good cause to grant the extension.3 The Commission will not consider arguments that re-litigate the issuance of the certificate order, including whether the Commission properly found the project to be in the public convenience and necessity and whether the Commission’s environmental analysis for the certificate complied with the National Environmental Policy Act.4 At the time a pipeline requests an extension of time, orders on certificates of public convenience and necessity are final and the Commission will not re-litigate their issuance.5 The OEP Director, or his or her designee, will act on all of those extension requests that are uncontested. In addition to publishing the full text of this document in the Federal 1 Contested proceedings are those where an intervenor disputes any material issue of the filing. 18 CFR 385.2201(c)(1) (2019). 2 Algonquin Gas Transmission, LLC, 170 FERC ¶ 61,144, at P 40 (2020). 3 Id. at P 40. 4 Similarly, the Commission will not re-litigate the issuance of an NGA section 3 authorization, including whether a proposed project is not inconsistent with the public interest and whether the Commission’s environmental analysis for the permit order complied with NEPA. 5 Algonquin Gas Transmission, LLC, 170 FERC ¶ 61,144, at P 40 (2020). PO 00000 Frm 00041 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 Register, The Commission provides all interested persons an opportunity to view and/or print the contents of this document via the internet through the Commission’s Home Page (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 document. At this time, the Commission has suspended access to Commission’s Public Reference Room. For assistance, contact FERC at FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or call toll-free, (886) 208–3676 or TYY, (202) 502–8659. 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 an original and three 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, September 21, 2023. Dated: September 6, 2023. Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary. [FR Doc. 2023–19651 Filed 9–11–23; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6717–01–P DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY Federal Energy Regulatory Commission [Docket No. ER23–2400–000] Redonda PV LLC; Supplemental Notice That Filing Includes Request for Blanket Section 204 Authorization This supplemental notice in the above-referenced proceeding of Redonda PV LLC’s filing includes a request for blanket authorization, under 18 CFR part 34, of future issuances of securities and assumptions of liability. Any person desiring to intervene or to protest should file with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street NE, Washington, DC 20426, in accordance with Rules 211 and 214 of the Commission’s Rules of Practice and Procedure (18 CFR 385.211 and 385.214). Anyone filing a motion to intervene or protest must serve a copy of that document on the Applicant. Notice is hereby given that the deadline for filing protests with regard to the applicant’s request for blanket authorization, under 18 CFR part 34, of future issuances of securities and assumptions of liability, is September 12, 2023. The Commission encourages electronic submission of protests and E:\FR\FM\12SEN1.SGM 12SEN1

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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 175 (Tuesday, September 12, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 62563-62564]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-19568]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission

[Project No. 15317-000]


Littoral Power Systems, Inc.; Notice of Preliminary Permit 
Application Accepted for Filing and Soliciting Comments, Motions To 
Intervene, and Competing Applications

    On June 28, 2023, Littoral Power Systems, Inc. filed an application 
for a preliminary permit, pursuant to section 4(f) of the Federal Power 
Act (FPA), proposing to study the feasibility of the Upper Cook Inlet 
Tidal Energy Project to be located in Cook Inlet, Alaska approximately 
17 miles north-northwest of Kenai, Alaska and 9.5 miles northwest of 
Nikiski, Alaska. The sole purpose of a preliminary permit is to grant 
the permit holder priority to file a license application during the 
permit term. A preliminary permit does not authorize the permit holder 
to perform any land-disturbing activities or otherwise enter upon lands 
or waters owned by others without the owners' express permission.
    The project would consist of axial hydrokinetic turbines installed 
underwater at or proximate to one or more of four existing 
decommissioned natural gas drilling platforms (Baker, Shell-A, Shell-C, 
and Dillon) located within the Upper Cook Inlet. The drilling 
platforms, which are owned and operated by Hilcorp Alaska, LLC, would 
be the prime anchoring structures for the hydrokinetic equipment that 
would convert the energy of Cook Inlet's tidal currents into electrical 
power. The electrical energy would be transmitted via a new 25kV 
submarine cable to an existing onshore substation (the Bernice Lake 
substation owned by the Homer Electric Association, Inc.) located about 
1.5 miles east-northeast of the East Foreland Lighthouse on the Kenai 
Peninsula. The length of the subsea cable from the drilling platforms 
to land would be between 3.5 and 5 miles, depending on the selected 
route, and the length of the land transmission line to the substation 
would be between 2 and 3 miles. Each hydrokinetic turbine would have a 
generating capacity of 1 megawatt (MW). The project would produce from 
5,000 to 6,000 megawatt-hours (MWh) per year initially.
    Applicant Contact: Mr. David Duquette, CEO, Littoral Power Systems, 
Inc., 5 Dover Street, Suite 102, New Bedford, MA 02740; Phone: (508) 
436-4100.
    FERC Contact: David Froehlich; email; [email protected]; 
phone (202) 502-6769.
    The Commission's Office of Public Participation (OPP) supports 
meaningful public engagement and participation in Commission 
proceedings. OPP can help members of the public, including landowners, 
environmental justice communities, Tribal members, and others, access 
publicly available information and navigate Commission processes. For 
public inquiries and assistance with filings such as interventions, 
comments, or requests for rehearing, the public is encouraged to 
contact OPP at (202) 502-6595 or [email protected]. Comments, motions to 
intervene, competing applications (without notices of intent), or 
notices of intent to file competing applications should be submitted 
within 60 days from the issuance of this notice. Competing applications 
and notices of intent must meet the requirements of 18 CFR 4.36.
    The Commission strongly encourages electronic filing. Please file 
comments, motions to intervene, notices of intent, and competing 
applications using the Commission's eFiling system at https://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/efiling.asp. Commenters can submit brief 
comments up to 6,000 characters without prior registration using the 
eComment system at https://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/ecomment.asp. You 
must include your name and contact information at the end of your 
comments. For assistance, please get in touch with FERC Online Support 
at [email protected], (866) 208-3676 (toll-free), or (202) 
502-8659 (TTY). Instead of electronic filing, you may submit a paper 
copy. Submissions sent via the U.S. Postal Service must be addressed 
to: Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 
888 First Street NE, Room 1A, Washington, DC 20426. Submissions sent 
via any other carrier must be addressed to: Kimberly D. Bose, 
Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 12225 Wilkins Avenue, 
Rockville, Maryland 20852. The first page of any filing should include 
docket number P-15310-000.
    More information about this project, including a copy of the 
application, can

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be viewed or printed on the ``eLibrary'' link of the Commission's 
website at https://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/elibrary.asp. Enter the 
docket number (P-15317) in the docket number field to access a 
document. For assistance, do not hesitate to get in touch with FERC 
Online Support.

    Dated: September 5, 2023.
Kimberly D. Bose,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2023-19568 Filed 9-11-23; 8:45 am]
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