Department of Energy September 2011 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

Notice of Commission Staff Attendance
Document Number: 2011-25215
Type: Notice
Date: 2011-09-30
Agency: Department of Energy, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
North American Electric Reliability Corporation; Notice of Technical Conference
Document Number: 2011-25212
Type: Notice
Date: 2011-09-30
Agency: Department of Energy, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Record of Decision, Texas Clean Energy Project
Document Number: 2011-25070
Type: Notice
Date: 2011-09-29
Agency: Department of Energy
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announces its decision to continue to provide financial support to the Texas Clean Energy Project (TCEP). DOE prepared an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) (DOE/EIS- 0444) to assess the environmental impacts associated with the TCEP, a project that Summit Texas Clean Energy, LLC (Summit) would design, construct, and operate. The project will demonstrate advanced power systems using integrated gasification combined-cycle (IGCC) technology to generate 400 megawatts (gross) of electric power from coal and will put 130 to 213 megawatts on the power grid while capturing approximately 90 percent of its carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. The project will sequester approximately 2.5 to 3.0 million tons (2.3 to 2.7 million metric tonnes) of CO2 per year. The CO2 will be delivered through a regional pipeline network to existing oil fields in the Permian Basin of West Texas for use in enhanced oil recovery (EOR) by third-parties. The plant will also produce urea, argon, and sulfuric acid for sale in commercial markets. Because of its multiple products, the facility is referred to as a polygeneration (polygen) plant. The plant will be built on a 600-acre (243-hectare) oil field site in Ector County, Texas, north of the community of Penwell, and will continue in commercial operation for 30 to 50 years. DOE's proposed action, as described in the EIS, is to provide cost- shared financial assistance under DOE's Clean Coal Power Initiative (CCPI) using a combination of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) (Pub. L. 111-5) funds and other CCPI program funds. After careful consideration of the potential environmental impacts and other factors such as program goals and objectives, DOE has decided to provide, through a cooperative agreement with Summit, $450 million in cost-shared funding, which is approximately 26 percent of the project's total capital cost of $1.73 billion (2009 dollars). The balance of project funding is expected to come from private sector investors and lenders.
Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technical Advisory Committee (HTAC)
Document Number: 2011-25058
Type: Notice
Date: 2011-09-29
Agency: Department of Energy
The Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technical Advisory Committee (HTAC) was established under section 807 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPAct) (Pub. L. 109-58; 119 Stat. 849). The Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463, 86 Stat. 770) requires that publish notice of these meetings be announced in the Federal Register.
Records Governing Off-the-Record Communications; Public Notice
Document Number: 2011-25053
Type: Notice
Date: 2011-09-29
Agency: Department of Energy, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Issuance of a Loan Guarantee to Tonopah Solar Energy, LLC, for the Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project
Document Number: 2011-25049
Type: Notice
Date: 2011-09-29
Agency: Department of Energy
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announces its decision to issue a Federal loan guarantee under Title XVII of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (EPAct 05), as amended by Section 406 of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act), to Tonopah Solar Energy, LLC (TSE), for construction and start-up of the Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project (the Project). The Project is a proposed 110- megawatt solar power generating facility based on concentrating solar power technology, using mirrors and a central receiver, on approximately 2,250 acres of U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM)- administered lands in Nye County, Nevada. The environmental impacts of construction and start-up of the Project were analyzed in the Final Environmental Impact Statement for the Tonopah Solar Energy, LLC, Crescent Dunes Solar Energy Project, Nye County, Nevada (75 FR 70917, November 19, 2010) (FEIS), prepared by BLM with DOE as a cooperating agency. BLM consulted DOE during the preparation of this EIS, DOE provided comments, and BLM addressed those comments in the FEIS. DOE subsequently determined that the Project analyzed in the FEIS was substantially the same as the Project that would be covered by the DOE loan guarantee, and DOE adopted the FEIS (76 FR 7844; February 11, 2011).
Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company; Notice of Request Under Blanket Authorization
Document Number: 2011-24961
Type: Notice
Date: 2011-09-28
Agency: Department of Energy, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Technical Conference on Penalty Guidelines; Notice of Technical Conference on Penalty Guidelines
Document Number: 2011-24960
Type: Notice
Date: 2011-09-28
Agency: Department of Energy, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
FirstEnergy Generation Corporation; Seneca Nation of Indians; Notice of Tribal Consultation Meeting
Document Number: 2011-24958
Type: Notice
Date: 2011-09-28
Agency: Department of Energy, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Southeastern Power Administration; Notice of Filing
Document Number: 2011-24957
Type: Notice
Date: 2011-09-28
Agency: Department of Energy, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Southeastern Power Administration; Notice of Filing
Document Number: 2011-24956
Type: Notice
Date: 2011-09-28
Agency: Department of Energy, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Notice of Intent To Prepare a Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) for the Production of Tritium in a Commercial Light Water Reactor
Document Number: 2011-24947
Type: Notice
Date: 2011-09-28
Agency: Department of Energy, National Nuclear Security Administration
The Council on Environmental Quality's implementing regulations for the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and DOE's NEPA implementing regulations require the preparation of a supplement to an environmental impact statement (EIS) when there are substantial changes to a proposal or when there are significant new circumstances or information relevant to environmental concerns. DOE may also prepare a SEIS at any time to further the purposes of NEPA. Pursuant to these provisions, the NNSA, a semi-autonomous agency within DOE, intends to prepare a SEIS to update the environmental analyses in DOE's 1999 EIS for the Production of Tritium in a Commercial Light Water Reactor (CLWR EIS; DOE/EIS-0288). The CLWR EIS addressed the production of tritium in Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) reactors using tritium-producing burnable absorber rods (TPBARs). In the Record of Decision (ROD) for the CLWR EIS, NNSA selected TVA's Watts Bar Unit 1 and Sequoyah Units 1 and 2, located in Spring City and Soddy-Daisy, Tennessee, respectively, for tritium production. TVA has been producing tritium for NNSA at Watts Bar Unit 1 since 2004. After several years of tritium production experience at TVA's Watts Bar Unit 1, NNSA has determined that tritium permeation through TPBAR cladding into the reactor cooling water occurs at a higher rate than previously projected. The proposed SEIS will analyze the potential environmental impacts associated with increased tritium permeation levels observed since 2004; DOE's revised estimate of the maximum number of TPBARs required to support the current Nuclear Posture Review tritium supply requirements; and proposed changes to TVA facilities that may be used for future tritium production. TVA will be participating as a cooperating agency in the preparation of the SEIS. Any other agency that would like to be a cooperating agency in the preparation of the SEIS is requested to contact the SEIS Document Manager as noted in this Notice under ADDRESSES.
State Energy Advisory Board (STEAB)
Document Number: 2011-24928
Type: Notice
Date: 2011-09-28
Agency: Department of Energy, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Office
This notice announces a teleconference call of the State Energy Advisory Board (STEAB). The Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463; 86 Stat. 770) requires that public notice of these meetings be announced in the Federal Register.
Secretary of Energy Advisory Board
Document Number: 2011-24926
Type: Notice
Date: 2011-09-28
Agency: Department of Energy
This notice announces an open meeting of the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board (SEAB). SEAB was reestablished pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463, 86 Stat. 770) (the Act). This notice is provided in accordance with the Act.
Combined Notice of Filings #1
Document Number: 2011-24890
Type: Notice
Date: 2011-09-28
Agency: Department of Energy, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Combined Notice of Filings #1
Document Number: 2011-24885
Type: Notice
Date: 2011-09-28
Agency: Department of Energy, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Combined Notice of Filings #2
Document Number: 2011-24884
Type: Notice
Date: 2011-09-28
Agency: Department of Energy, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Combined Notice of Filings
Document Number: 2011-24883
Type: Notice
Date: 2011-09-28
Agency: Department of Energy, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Desert Southwest Customer Service Region-Western Area Lower Colorado Balancing Authority-Rate Order No. WAPA-151
Document Number: 2011-24787
Type: Notice
Date: 2011-09-27
Agency: Department of Energy, Western Area Power Administration
The Deputy Secretary of Energy has confirmed and approved Rate Order No. WAPA-151 and Rate Schedules PD-NTS3, INT-NTS3, DSW-SD3, DSW- RS3, DSW-FR3, DSW-EI3, DSW-SPR3, DSW-SUR3, and DSW-GI1, placing the Western Area Power Administration's (Western) Desert Southwest Customer Service Region (DSWR) Parker-Davis Project (P-DP) Network Integration Transmission Service (NITS), the AC Intertie Project (Intertie) NITS, and the Western Area Lower Colorado (WALC) Balancing Authority Ancillary Services formula rates into effect on an interim basis. The Provisional Formula Rates will be in effect until the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) confirms, approves, and places them into effect on a final basis or until they are replaced by other formula rates. The Provisional Formula Rates will provide sufficient revenue to pay all annual costs, including interest expense, and to repay power investment within the allowable periods.
Notice of Extension of Comment Period; International Transmission Company, d/b/a ITC Transmission
Document Number: 2011-24782
Type: Notice
Date: 2011-09-27
Agency: Department of Energy
International Transmission Company, d/b/a ITCTransmission (ITC), filed a request to extend the comment period on its supplemental filing of operational documents in an ongoing Presidential permit proceeding regarding the ITC application to amend Presidential Permit No. PP-230-3.
Methane Hydrate Advisory Committee
Document Number: 2011-24781
Type: Notice
Date: 2011-09-27
Agency: Department of Energy
This notice announces a meeting of the Methane Hydrate Advisory Committee. Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463, 86 Stat. 770) requires that notice of these meetings be announced in the Federal Register.
Electricity Advisory Committee
Document Number: 2011-24777
Type: Notice
Date: 2011-09-27
Agency: Department of Energy
This notice announces a meeting of the Electricity Advisory Committee (EAC). 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.
Erie Boulevard Hydropower L.P.; Notice of Dispute Resolution Panel Meeting and Technical Conference
Document Number: 2011-24767
Type: Notice
Date: 2011-09-27
Agency: Department of Energy, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Kern River Gas Transmission Company; Notice of Technical Conference
Document Number: 2011-24766
Type: Notice
Date: 2011-09-27
Agency: Department of Energy, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Notice of Change In IC Docket Numbering Policy
Document Number: 2011-24763
Type: Notice
Date: 2011-09-27
Agency: Department of Energy, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Notice of Effectiveness of Exempt Wholesale Generator Status
Document Number: 2011-24758
Type: Notice
Date: 2011-09-27
Agency: Department of Energy, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Combined Notice of Filings (September 19, 2011)
Document Number: 2011-24745
Type: Notice
Date: 2011-09-27
Agency: Department of Energy, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Combined Notice of Filings #1
Document Number: 2011-24744
Type: Notice
Date: 2011-09-27
Agency: Department of Energy, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Combined Notice of Filings #1
Document Number: 2011-24743
Type: Notice
Date: 2011-09-27
Agency: Department of Energy, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Combined Notice of Filings #2
Document Number: 2011-24742
Type: Notice
Date: 2011-09-27
Agency: Department of Energy, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Combined Notice of Filings
Document Number: 2011-24741
Type: Notice
Date: 2011-09-27
Agency: Department of Energy, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Combined Notice of Filings #1
Document Number: 2011-24740
Type: Notice
Date: 2011-09-27
Agency: Department of Energy, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board, Northern New Mexico
Document Number: 2011-24629
Type: Notice
Date: 2011-09-26
Agency: Department of Energy
This notice announces a combined meeting of the Environmental Monitoring, Surveillance and Remediation Committee and Waste Management Committee of the Environmental Management Site-Specific Advisory Board (EM SSAB), Northern New Mexico (known locally as the Northern New Mexico Citizens' Advisory Board [NNMCAB]). 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.
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