Department of Energy October 2010 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

Albany-Eugene Transmission Line Rebuild Project
Document Number: 2010-27411
Type: Notice
Date: 2010-10-29
Agency: Bonneville Power Administration, Department of Energy
In accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), BPA intends to prepare an EIS on its proposed rebuild of a 32- mile section of the Albany-Eugene 115-kilovolt (kV) No. 1 Transmission Line in Lane and Linn counties, Oregon. The deteriorated condition of this 70-year old line compromises BPA's ability to maintain reliable electric service and poses a safety risk to the public and maintenance crews. With this notice BPA is initiating the public scoping process for the Albany-Eugene Transmission Line Rebuild Project EIS and requesting comments about the potential environmental impacts it should consider as it prepares the EIS for the proposed project.
Western Electric Coordinating Council; Qualified Transfer Path Unscheduled Flow Relief Regional Reliability Standard
Document Number: 2010-27408
Type: Proposed Rule
Date: 2010-10-29
Agency: Department of Energy, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Under section 215 of the Federal Power Act, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Commission) proposes to approve regional Reliability Standard IRO-006-WECC-1 (Qualified Transfer Path Unscheduled Flow Relief) submitted to the Commission for approval by the North American Electric Reliability Corporation. While we propose to approve the regional Reliability Standard, as discussed in this Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, IRO-006-WECC-1 raises some concerns about which the Commission requests additional information. Depending upon the responses received, in the Final Rule the Commission may, as a separate action under section 215(d)(5) of the FPA, direct the Western Electricity Coordinating Council to develop modifications to the regional Reliability Standard to address the issues identified.
Smart Grid Interoperability Standards; Notice of Technical Conference
Document Number: 2010-27405
Type: Notice
Date: 2010-10-29
Agency: Department of Energy, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Notice of Baseline Filings
Document Number: 2010-27404
Type: Notice
Date: 2010-10-29
Agency: Department of Energy, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
City of Kaukauna, WI; Notice of Authorization for Continued Project Operation
Document Number: 2010-27401
Type: Notice
Date: 2010-10-29
Agency: Department of Energy, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Transmission Vegetation Management Practices; Supplemental Notice of Technical Conference
Document Number: 2010-27397
Type: Notice
Date: 2010-10-29
Agency: Department of Energy, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Company, LLC; Notice of Request Under Blanket Authorization
Document Number: 2010-27396
Type: Notice
Date: 2010-10-29
Agency: Department of Energy, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Combined Notice of Filings No. 1
Document Number: 2010-27347
Type: Notice
Date: 2010-10-29
Agency: Department of Energy, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Combined Notice of Filings
Document Number: 2010-27346
Type: Notice
Date: 2010-10-29
Agency: Department of Energy, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Combined Notice of Filings No. 2
Document Number: 2010-27345
Type: Notice
Date: 2010-10-29
Agency: Department of Energy, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Combined Notice of Filings #1
Document Number: 2010-27240
Type: Notice
Date: 2010-10-28
Agency: Department of Energy, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board, Paducah
Document Number: 2010-27157
Type: Notice
Date: 2010-10-27
Agency: Department of Energy
This notice announces a meeting of the Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board (EM SSAB), Paducah. The Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463, 86 Stat. 770) requires that public notice of this meeting be announced in the Federal Register.
Capacity Transfers on Intrastate Natural Gas Pipelines
Document Number: 2010-27156
Type: Proposed Rule
Date: 2010-10-27
Agency: Department of Energy, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission is seeking comments on whether and how holders of firm capacity on intrastate natural gas pipelines providing interstate transportation and storage services under section 311 of the Natural Gas Policy Act of 1978 and Hinshaw pipelines providing such services pursuant to blanket certificates issued under Sec. 284.224 of the Commission's regulations should be permitted to allow others to make use of their firm interstate capacity.
Draft Environmental Impact Statement/Staff Assessment for the Solar Reserve LLC Rice Solar Energy Project, Riverside County, CA (DOE/EIS-0439) and Possible California Desert Conservation Area Plan Amendment
Document Number: 2010-27154
Type: Notice
Date: 2010-10-27
Agency: Department of Energy, Western Area Power Administration
In accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969, as amended, and the Federal Land Policy and Management Act (FLPMA) of 1976, as amended, the Department of Energy (DOE), which includes the Western Area Power Administration (Western) and the Loan Guarantee Program (LGP), the California Energy Commission (CEC), and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), have prepared a Draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) and Staff Assessment (SA), which may require a California Desert Conservation Area (CDCA) Plan Amendment, as a joint environmental analysis document for the proposed Rice Solar Energy Project (Project), in Riverside County, California, and by this notice are announcing the opening of the comment period. Western, on behalf of DOE, and CEC are joint lead agencies for purposes of satisfying the requirements of NEPA and the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), with the BLM acting as a cooperating agency. The Draft EIS/SA is available on the Internet at: https://www.energy.ca.gov/ sitingcases/ricesolar/.
Fossil Fuel-Generated Energy Consumption Reduction for New Federal Buildings and Major Renovations of Federal Buildings; Correction
Document Number: 2010-27152
Type: Proposed Rule
Date: 2010-10-27
Agency: Department of Energy
This document corrects the number assigned to the Environmental Assessment (EA) referenced in the October 15, 2010, notice of proposed rulemaking (NOPR) regarding the fossil fuel- generated energy consumption requirements for new Federal buildings and Federal buildings undergoing major renovations. The correction is necessary because the proposed rulemaking referenced the EA number as (DOE-EA-1463). The correct EA number in the NOPR should be (DOE/EA-1778).
Version One Regional Reliability Standard for Resource and Demand Balancing
Document Number: 2010-27134
Type: Rule
Date: 2010-10-27
Agency: Department of Energy, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Under section 215 of the Federal Power Act, the Commission hereby remands a revised regional Reliability Standard developed by the Western Electricity Coordinating Council and approved by the North American Electric Reliability Corporation, which the Commission has certified as the Electric Reliability Organization responsible for developing and enforcing mandatory Reliability Standards. The revised regional Reliability Standard, designated by WECC as BAL-002-WECC-1, would set revised Contingency Reserve requirements meant to maintain scheduled frequency and avoid loss of firm load following transmission or generation contingencies.
Combined Notice of Filings #1
Document Number: 2010-27133
Type: Notice
Date: 2010-10-27
Agency: Department of Energy, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Planning Resource Adequacy Assessment Reliability Standard
Document Number: 2010-27132
Type: Proposed Rule
Date: 2010-10-27
Agency: Department of Energy, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Under section 215(d)(2) of the Federal Power Act (FPA), the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission proposes to approve a regional Reliability Standard, BAL-502-RFC-02, Planning Resource Adequacy Analysis, Assessment and Documentation, developed by ReliabilityFirst Corporation (RFC) and submitted to the Commission by the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC). The proposed regional Reliability Standard requires planning coordinators within the RFC geographical footprint to analyze, assess and document resource adequacy for load in the RFC footprint annually, to utilize a ``one day in ten year'' loss of load criterion, and to document and post load and resource capability in each area or transmission-constrained sub-area identified.
Combined Notice of Filings #2
Document Number: 2010-27131
Type: Notice
Date: 2010-10-27
Agency: Department of Energy, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Combined Notice of Filings #1
Document Number: 2010-27130
Type: Notice
Date: 2010-10-27
Agency: Department of Energy, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Credit Reforms in Organized Wholesale Electric Markets
Document Number: 2010-27129
Type: Rule
Date: 2010-10-27
Agency: Department of Energy, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Pursuant to section 206 of the Federal Power Act, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission amends its regulations to improve the management of risk and the subsequent use of credit in the organized wholesale electric markets. Each Regional Transmission Organization (RTO) and Independent System Operator (ISO) will be required to submit a compliance filing including tariff revisions to comply with the amended regulations or to demonstrate that its existing tariff already satisfies the regulations.
National Grid USA; Notice of Filing
Document Number: 2010-27128
Type: Notice
Date: 2010-10-27
Agency: Department of Energy, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Mahoning Creek Hydroelectric Company, LLC; Notice of Availability of Supplemental Environmental Assessment
Document Number: 2010-27120
Type: Notice
Date: 2010-10-27
Agency: Department of Energy, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Michigan Electric Transmission Company, LLC; Notice of Petition for Declaratory Order
Document Number: 2010-27119
Type: Notice
Date: 2010-10-27
Agency: Department of Energy, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Bay Gas Storage Company Ltd.; Notice of Compliance Filing
Document Number: 2010-27118
Type: Notice
Date: 2010-10-27
Agency: Department of Energy, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Conditional Commitment for a Federal Loan Guarantee for Project Financing for Southwest Intertie Project-South
Document Number: 2010-27046
Type: Notice
Date: 2010-10-26
Agency: Department of Energy
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has decided to offer Great Basin Transmission, LLC (Great Basin), a conditional commitment for a Federal loan guarantee for partial financing of the 235-mile southern portion of the Southwest Intertie Project (SWIP), a proposed 500- kilovolt (kV) transmission line that would extend from southern Nevada to southern Idaho. This Record of Decision (ROD) is based on the analysis in the Final Environmental Impact Statement for Project Financing for Southwest Intertie ProjectSouth (SWIP South) (DOE/EIS- 0443, January 2010) (DOE FEIS). The DOE FEIS consists of a cover sheet for the January 2010 adoption of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) 1993 Southwest Intertie Project Environmental Impact Statement and Proposed Plan Amendment (SWIP EIS) and the BLM 2008 Environmental Assessment for the Southwest Intertie Project Southern Portion NV-040- 07-048 (SWIP South EA). This ROD also reflects minor modifications to the Great Basin proposal and new information developed since DOE issued its FEIS. DOE's offer of a conditional commitment for a loan guarantee for SWIP South is authorized under Title XVII of the Energy Policy Act of 2005, as amended by Section 406 of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act). This conditional commitment to provide a Federal loan guarantee is contingent upon Great Basin satisfying all precedent funding obligations, and all other contractual, statutory, regulatory, environmental compliance, and other requirements specified by DOE. DOE has prepared this ROD in accordance with the Council on Environmental Quality regulations (40 CFR Parts 1500-1508) for implementing the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), and DOE's NEPA Implementing Procedures (10 CFR Part 1021).
Combined Notice of Filings #1
Document Number: 2010-26995
Type: Notice
Date: 2010-10-26
Agency: Department of Energy, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Combined Notice of Filings #1
Document Number: 2010-26994
Type: Notice
Date: 2010-10-26
Agency: Department of Energy, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Notice of Attendance at North American Electric Reliability Corporation Meetings
Document Number: 2010-26989
Type: Notice
Date: 2010-10-26
Agency: Department of Energy, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Commission Information Collection Activities (FERC-725B); Comment Request; Extension
Document Number: 2010-26988
Type: Notice
Date: 2010-10-26
Agency: Department of Energy, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
In compliance with the requirements of section 3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A) (2006), (Pub. L. 104-13), the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (Commission or FERC) is soliciting public comment on the proposed information collection described below.
Southeastern Power Administration; Notice of Filing
Document Number: 2010-26987
Type: Notice
Date: 2010-10-26
Agency: Department of Energy, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Western Area Power Administration; Notice of Filing
Document Number: 2010-26986
Type: Notice
Date: 2010-10-26
Agency: Department of Energy, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board, Portsmouth
Document Number: 2010-26444
Type: Notice
Date: 2010-10-26
Agency: Department of Energy
This notice announces a meeting of the Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board (EM SSAB), Portsmouth. The Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463, 86 Stat. 770) requires that public notice of this meeting be announced in the Federal Register.
Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board, Savannah River Site
Document Number: 2010-26861
Type: Notice
Date: 2010-10-25
Agency: Department of Energy
This notice announces a meeting of the Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board (EM SSAB), Savannah River Site. The Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463, 86 Stat. 770) requires that public notice of this meeting be announced in the Federal Register.
Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future, Disposal Subcommittee
Document Number: 2010-26860
Type: Notice
Date: 2010-10-25
Agency: Department of Energy
This notice announces an open meeting of the Disposal Subcommittee. The Disposal Subcommittee is a subcommittee of the Blue Ribbon Commission on America's Nuclear Future (the Commission). The establishment of subcommittees is authorized in the Commission's charter. The Commission was organized pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. No. 92-463, 86 Stat. 770) (the Act). This notice is provided in accordance with the Act.
Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board, Oak Ridge Reservation
Document Number: 2010-26859
Type: Notice
Date: 2010-10-25
Agency: Department of Energy
This notice announces a meeting of the Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board (EM SSAB), Oak Ridge Reservation. The Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. No. 92-463, 86 Stat. 770) requires that public notice of this meeting be announced in the Federal Register.
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