Brainerd Public Utilities; Notice of Waiver of Water Quality Certification, 20200 [2024-06044]
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The Commission encourages
electronic filing of submissions (option
1 above) and has eFiling staff available
to assist you at (202) 502–8258 or
FercOnlineSupport@ferc.gov.
Protests and motions to intervene
must be served on the applicant either
by mail or email (with a link to the
document) at: Blair Lichtenwalter,
Senior Director of Certificates, 1300
Main Street, Houston, Texas 7702 or by
email at blair.lictenwalter@
energytransfer.com. Any subsequent
submissions by an intervenor must be
served on the applicant and all other
parties to the proceeding. Contact
information for parties can be
downloaded from the service list at the
eService link on FERC Online.
Tracking the Proceeding
Throughout the proceeding,
additional information about the project
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Office of External Affairs, at (866) 208–
FERC, or on the FERC website at
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Dated: March 15, 2024.
Debbie-Anne A. Reese,
Acting Secretary.
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Reissuance of National Pollutant
Discharge Elimination System
(NPDES) General Permit for Low
Threat Discharges in Navajo Nation
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice of availability of final
NPDES general permit.
AGENCY:
The Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA), Region 9 is publishing
this notice of availability of its final
general NPDES permit (Permit No.
NNG990001) for water discharges from
facilities classified as low threat located
in the Navajo Nation. Use of a general
NPDES permit in the location described
above allows EPA and dischargers to
allocate resources in a more efficient
manner, obtain timely permit coverage,
and avoid issuing resource intensive
individual permits to each facility,
while simultaneously providing greater
certainty and efficiency to the regulated
community while ensuring consistent
permit conditions for comparable
facilities.
SUMMARY:
For purposes of judicial review
the permit is considered issued on April
3, 2024. The final permit is effective on
May 1, 2024.
ADDRESSES: The final general permit
and other related documents in the
administrative record are on file and
may be inspected any time between 8:30
a.m. and 4:00 p.m., Monday through
Friday, excluding legal holidays, at: U.S.
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Gary
Sheth, EPA Region 9, Water Division,
NPDES Permits Office; telephone (415)
972–3516; email address: sheth.gary@
epa.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
A. Administrative Process
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EPA, Region 9, NPDES Permits Office
(WTR–2–3), 75 Hawthorne Street, San
Francisco, CA 94105–3901.
Copies of the final General Permit,
Fact Sheet and Response to Public
Comments are available at EPA, Region
9’s website at https://www.epa.gov/
npdes-permits/npdes-permits-epaspacific-southwest-region-9. If there are
issues accessing the website, please
contact EPA via contact information
below.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Dated: March 15, 2024.
Debbie-Anne A. Reese,
Acting Secretary.
DATES:
On January 23, 2023, Brainerd Public
Utilities filed an application for a
license for the Brainerd Hydroelectric
Project in the above captioned docket.
On February 1, 2023, the Minnesota
Pollution Control Agency (Minnesota
PCA) received a complete request for a
Clean Water Act section 401(a)(1) water
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quality certification from Brainerd
Public Utilities in conjunction with the
above captioned project.
On February 2, 2023, staff provided
Minnesota PCA with written notice that
the applicable reasonable period of time
for it to act on the certification request
was one (1) year from the date of receipt
of the request, and that the certification
requirement for the license would be
waived if the certifying authority failed
to act by February 1, 2024. Because
Minnesota PCA did not act by February
1, 2024, we are notifying you pursuant
to section 401(a)(1) of the Clean Water
Act, 33 U.S.C. 1341(a)(1), that waiver of
the certification requirement has
occurred.
Public notice of EPA Region 9’s
tentative decision to issue the permit
was published in the Federal Register
on May 25, 2023 (88 FR 33876) and on
EPA Region 9’s website. The public
comment period closed on June 26,
2023. Region 9 received written
comments from one party concerning
the proposed permit. Region 9 prepared
a separate document (Response to
Comments) which discusses these
comments in more detail and Region 9’s
responses to the comments.
B. Changes From the Proposed Permit
The final permit contains two minor
changes from the proposed permit; these
are discussed here and in the final fact
sheet. EPA added a specific email
address for the New Mexico
Environment Department for permittees
to report discharges likely to leave
Navajo Nation land and reach New
Mexico waters. EPA also added a
requirement for submitting all required
Discharge Monitoring Reports (DMRs)
before the finalization of a Notice of
Termination.
C. Endangered Species Act
Considerations
The ESA and its implementing
regulations (50 CFR part 402) require
EPA to ensure that any action authorize,
funded or carried out by EPA is not
likely to jeopardize the continued
existence of any threatened or
endangered species or adversely affect
its critical habitat. EPA Region 9
concluded that the authorized
discharges may affect, but are not likely
to adversely affect listed species, and
will not adversely affect critical habitat.
EPA received a letter of concurrence on
this finding from the United States Fish
and Wildlife Service on January 10,
2024.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
[Project No. 2533-062]
Brainerd Public Utilities; Notice of Waiver of Water Quality
Certification
On January 23, 2023, Brainerd Public Utilities filed an application
for a license for the Brainerd Hydroelectric Project in the above
captioned docket. On February 1, 2023, the Minnesota Pollution Control
Agency (Minnesota PCA) received a complete request for a Clean Water
Act section 401(a)(1) water quality certification from Brainerd Public
Utilities in conjunction with the above captioned project.
On February 2, 2023, staff provided Minnesota PCA with written
notice that the applicable reasonable period of time for it to act on
the certification request was one (1) year from the date of receipt of
the request, and that the certification requirement for the license
would be waived if the certifying authority failed to act by February
1, 2024. Because Minnesota PCA did not act by February 1, 2024, we are
notifying you pursuant to section 401(a)(1) of the Clean Water Act, 33
U.S.C. 1341(a)(1), that waiver of the certification requirement has
occurred.
Dated: March 15, 2024.
Debbie-Anne A. Reese,
Acting Secretary.
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