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1 In order to coordinate the State and Federal 

reviews of the project, this meeting is being held in 

lieu of the May 1, 2011, technical meeting listed in 

the Commission’s notice issued on February 8, 

2011. 

eRegistration account using the 

eRegistration link. Select the eFiling 

link to log on and submit the 

intervention or protests. 

Persons unable to file electronically 

should submit an original and 14 copies 

of the intervention or protest to the 

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 

888 First Street, NE., Washington, DC 

20426. 

The filings in the above-referenced 

proceeding are accessible in the 

Commission’s eLibrary system by 

clicking on the appropriate link in the 

above list. They are also available for 

review in the Commission’s Public 

Reference Room in Washington, DC. 

There is an eSubscription link on the 

Web site that enables subscribers to 

receive e-mail notification when a 

document is added to a subscribed 

dockets(s). For assistance with any 

FERC Online service, please e-mail 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov, or call 

(866) 208–3676 (toll free). For TTY, call 

(202) 502–8659. 

Dated: February 17, 2011. 

Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr., 

Deputy Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2011–4233 Filed 2–24–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 13015–001] 

Town of Edgartown; Notice of Public/ 

Technical Meeting To Discuss 

Information and Monitoring Needs for 

a License Application for a Pilot 

Project 

a. Type of Application: Draft Pilot 

License Application. 

b. Project No.: 13015–001. 

c. Applicant: Town of Edgartown 

(Edgartown). 

d. Name of Project: Muskeget Channel 

Tidal Energy Project. 

e. Location: In Muskeget Channel, 

between the islands of Martha’s 

Vineyard and Nantucket, Dukes County, 

Massachusetts. 

f. Filed Pursuant to: 18 CFR 5.3 of the 

Commission’s regulations. 

g. Applicant Contact: Ms. Pamela 

Dolby, Town Administrator, Town of 

Edgartown, 70 Main Street, Edgartown, 

MA 02539; (508) 627–6180. 

h. FERC Contact: Michael Watts, 

phone: (202) 502–6123, e-mail: 

Michael.watts@ferc.gov. 

i. Project Description: The proposed 

Muskeget Channel Tidal Energy Project 

would consist of: (1) 13 commercially 

operated OCGenTM horizontal 

hydrokinetic cross-flow turbine 

generation units with a total installed 

capacity of 5 megawatts, and one 

experimental turbine unit that would be 

used to test various tidal energy 

technologies; (2) a mooring and 

anchoring system attached to each unit 

consisting of four mooring lines, an 

anchor, and a clump weight; (3) two 

alternative submarine cable routes 

consisting of a either a 3.5-mile-long, or 

a 5-mile-long submarine cable with two 

13.8-kilovolt (kv) transmission lines and 

a 4.0-kv transmission line connecting 

the turbine generation units to an 

onshore substation located either in the 

Chappaquiddick or Katama sections of 

Edgartown; (4) two alternative onshore 

transmission line routes consisting of a 

34.5 kv transmission line connecting 

either the Chappaquiddick or Katama 

onshore substation to an existing 

distribution line in Edgartown; and (5) 

appurtenant facilities. The project 

would have an average annual 

generation of 10.95 gigawatt-hours. 

j. Licensing Process: On February 1, 

2011, Edgartown filed a Notice of Intent 

and request for waivers of certain 

regulations of the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission’s (Commission) 

Integrated Licensing Process to expedite 

processing of a license application for 

the Muskeget Channel Tidal Energy 

Pilot Project. Edgartown expects to file 

a final license application for a pilot 

project with the Commission by 

February 15, 2012. 

k. Notice Purpose: The purpose of this 

notice is to inform you of the 

opportunity to participate in the 

upcoming joint public/technical 

meeting with Massachusetts 

Environmental Policy Act (MEPA) 

Office, Commission staff, and 

Edgartown.1 The purpose of the meeting 

is to discuss information and 

monitoring needs for the final license 

application and to provide a public 

consultation session for the purposes of 

MEPA review and scoping of the 

Environmental Impact Report (EIR). All 

interested individuals, organizations, 

and agencies are invited to attend the 

meeting. The time and location of the 

meeting is as follows: 

Meeting Schedule and Location 

Meeting 

Monday, March 7, 2011, 11 a.m. (local 

time). Edgartown Town Hall, 70 Main 

Street, Edgartown, MA 02539. 

A land-based site visit to the proposed 

cable landfall location(s) will take place 

after the meeting. 

Anyone in need of directions may 

contact Mr. Stephen Barrett at: (781) 852 

3125, or via e-mail at: 

sbarrett@hmmh.com. 

To help focus discussions, 

Commission staff encourages 

participants to review Edgartown’s draft 

pilot license application and monitoring 

plans filed with the Commission on 

February 1, 2011. These materials are 

available for review at the Commission 

in the Public Reference Room or may be 

viewed on the Commission’s Web site at 

http://www.ferc.gov using the ‘‘eLibrary’’ 

link. Enter the docket number P–13015– 

001 to access the document. For 

assistance, contact FERC Online 

Support at 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or tollfree at 1–866–208–3676, or for TTY, 

(202) 502–8659. 

You may also register online at http:// 

www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/ 

esubscription.asp to be notified via email of new filings and issuances 

related to this or other pending projects. 

For assistance, please contact FERC 

Online Support. 

l. Meeting Objectives: At the technical 

meeting, Commission staff will focus 

the discussion on the information gaps 

that need to be addressed to ensure that 

sufficient information exists for the 

Commission to make a determination on 

whether the proposed project meets the 

criteria for a pilot project and for 

processing a license application for a 

pilot project upon its filing with the 

Commission. 

m. MEPA Review: Edgartown filed an 

expanded Environmental Notification 

Form (ENF) for the Muskeget Channel 

Tidal Energy Project with the MEPA 

Office. Edgartown is requesting a single 

Environmental Impact Report (EIR) 

rather than the typical two-stage draft 

and final EIR. The expanded ENF was 

noticed in the February 9, 2011, issue of 

the Environmental Monitor. http:// 

www.env.state.ma.us/mepa/ 

emonitor.aspx. 

Any agency or person may comment 

on the expanded ENF and the proposed 

project, including: feasible alternatives, 

potential environmental impacts, 

potential mitigation measures, and what 

additional information and analysis to 

require in the scope for the EIR. A 

MEPA public consultation session will 

be held on March 7, 2011, in 

conjunction with the Commission’s 

technical meeting. Written comments on 

the ENF must be sent to the MEPA 

office by March 17, 2011. Please mail 

your comments to: 


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Federal Register / Vol. 76, No. 38 / Friday, February 25, 2011 / Notices 10583 

1Notice of Technical Conference re Priorities for 

Addressing Risks to the Reliability of the BulkPower System, 76 FR 2369 (January 13, 2011), as 

supplemented by the Reliability Technical 

Conference Agenda issued January 7, 2011. 

Secretary Richard K. Sullivan, Executive 

Office of Energy and Environmental 

Affairs, Attn: MEPA Office [Aisling O’ 

Shea], EEA No. 14696, 100 Cambridge 

Street, Suite 900, Boston, MA 02114. 

To send comments by e-mail or fax, 

or for questions regarding the MEPA 

process, contact Aisling O’Shea, MEPA 

Analyst at: e-mail: 

aisling.o’shea@state.ma.us; Fax: (617) 

626–1181 or Phone: (617) 626–1024. 

In addition, please file a copy of your 

comments with the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission. Your 

comments may be filed electronically 

via the Internet (instructions are on the 

Commission’s Web site at: http:// 

www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/efiling.asp). 

For assistance, please contact FERC 

Online Support at 

FERCOnlinesupport@ferc.gov; call tollfree at (866) 208–3676; or, for TTY, 

contact (202) 502–8659. Although FERC 

strongly encourages electronic filing, 

your comments may also be paper-filed. 

To paper-file, mail an original and eight 

copies to: Kimberly Bose, Secretary, 

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 

888 First Street, NE., Washington, DC 

20426. Please put the docket number, P– 

13015–001 on the first page of your 

response. 

n. Procedures: The meetings will be 

recorded by a stenographer and will 

become part of the formal record of the 

Commission proceeding on the project. 

Dated: February 18, 2011. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2011–4263 Filed 2–24–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. AD11–6–000] 

Priorities for Addressing Risks to the 

Reliability of the Bulk-Power System; 

Notice Establishing Date for 

Comments 

On February 8, 2011, the Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission 

convened a Commissioner-led technical 

conference regarding priorities for 

addressing risks to the reliability of the 

Bulk-Power System, as previously 

announced.1 Any entity or person 

wishing to submit written comments 

regarding the matters discussed at that 

technical conference should submit 

such comments in this docket, AD11–6– 

000, on or before March 21, 2011. 

Dated: February 17, 2011. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2011–4262 Filed 2–24–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. RM98–1–000] 

Records Governing Off-the-Record 

Communications; Public Notice 

This constitutes notice, in accordance 

with 18 CFR 385.2201(b), of the receipt 

of prohibited and exempt off-the-record 

communications. 

Order No. 607 (64 FR 51222, 

September 22, 1999) requires 

Commission decisional employees, who 

make or receive a prohibited or exempt 

off-the-record communication relevant 

to the merits of a contested proceeding, 

to deliver to the Secretary of the 

Commission, a copy of the 

communication, if written, or a 

summary of the substance of any oral 

communication. 

Prohibited communications are 

included in a public, non-decisional file 

associated with, but not a part of, the 

decisional record of the proceeding. 

Unless the Commission determines that 

the prohibited communication and any 

responses thereto should become a part 

of the decisional record, the prohibited 

off-the-record communication will not 

be considered by the Commission in 

reaching its decision. Parties to a 

proceeding may seek the opportunity to 

respond to any facts or contentions 

made in a prohibited off-the-record 

communication, and may request that 

the Commission place the prohibited 

communication and responses thereto 

in the decisional record. The 

Commission will grant such a request 

only when it determines that fairness so 

requires. Any person identified below as 

having made a prohibited off-the-record 

communication shall serve the 

document on all parties listed on the 

official service list for the applicable 

proceeding in accordance with Rule 

2010, 18 CFR 385.2010. 

Exempt off-the-record 

communications are included in the 

decisional record of the proceeding, 

unless the communication was with a 

cooperating agency as described by 40 

CFR 1501.6, made under 18 CFR 

385.2201(e)(1)(v). 

The following is a list of off-therecord communications recently 

received by the Secretary of the 

Commission. The communications 

listed are grouped by docket numbers in 

ascending order. These filings are 

available for review at the Commission 

in the Public Reference Room or may be 

viewed on the Commission’s Web site at 

http://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. For assistance, please contact 

FERC, Online Support at 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or toll 

free at (866) 208–3676, or for TTY, 

contact (202) 502–8659. 

Docket No. File date Presenter or 

requester 

Exempt: 

1. CP11–31– 

000.

2–14–11 Gertrude 

Johnson.1

2. Project No. 

2232–000.

2–8–11 Hon. Mick 

Mulvaney. 

3. Project No. 

2615–000.

2–10–11 Samantha Davidson.2

4. Project No. 

2851–000.

2–15–11 Mary 

Lewallen.3

5. Project No. 

12965.

2–8–11 Penni Borghi.4

1 Record of conference call. 

2Telephone record. 

3E-mail exchange. 

4E-mail exchange record. 

Dated: February 17, 2011. 

Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr., 

Deputy Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2011–4234 Filed 2–24–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[ER–FRL–8995–6] 

Environmental Impacts Statements; 

Notice of Availability 

Responsible Agency: Office of Federal 

Activities, General Information (202) 

564–1399 or http://www.epa.gov/ 

compliance/nepa/. 

Weekly receipt of Environmental Impact 

Statements 

Filed 02/14/2011 through 02/18/2011 

Pursuant to 40 CFR 1506.9 

Notice 

In accordance with Section 309(a) of 

the Clean Air Act, EPA is required to 

make its comments on EISs issued by 

other Federal agencies public. 

Historically, EPA met this mandate by 

publishing weekly notices of availability 

of EPA comments, which includes a 

brief summary of EPA’s comment 


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