10348 Federal Register / Vol. 76, No. 37 / Thursday, February 24, 2011 / Notices 

14 CAISO’s Service Agreement 1511 

with Solar Partners I LGIA to be 

effective 7/28/2010. 

Filed Date: 02/14/2011. 

Accession Number: 20110214–5188. 

Comment Date: 5 p.m. Eastern Time 

on Monday, March 07, 2011. 

Docket Numbers: ER11–2885–000. 

Applicants: California Independent 

System Operator Corporation. 

Description: California Independent 

System Operator Corporation submits 

tariff filing per 35.13(a)(2)(iii): 2011–02– 

15 CAISO’s Amendments to 

BrightSource LGIA’s to be effective 1/ 

26/2011. 

Filed Date: 02/15/2011. 

Accession Number: 20110215–5042. 

Comment Date: 5 p.m. Eastern Time 

on Tuesday, March 08, 2011. 

Docket Numbers: ER11–2886–000. 

Applicants: Sierra Pacific Power 

Company. 

Description: Sierra Pacific Power 

Company submits tariff filing per 35: 

Rate Schedule No. 61—Compliance to 

Fix Date of Concurrence to be effective 

1/1/2011. 

Filed Date: 02/15/2011. 

Accession Number: 20110215–5044. 

Comment Date: 5 p.m. Eastern Time 

on Tuesday, March 08, 2011. 

Any person desiring to intervene or to 

protest in any of the above proceedings 

must file in accordance with Rules 211 

and 214 of the Commission’s Rules of 

Practice and Procedure (18 CFR 385.211 

and 385.214) on or before 5 p.m. Eastern 

time on the specified comment date. It 

is not necessary to separately intervene 

again in a subdocket related to a 

compliance filing if you have previously 

intervened in the same docket. Protests 

will be considered by the Commission 

in determining the appropriate action to 

be taken, but will not serve to make 

protestants parties to the proceeding. 

Anyone filing a motion to intervene or 

protest must serve a copy of that 

document on the Applicant. In reference 

to filings initiating a new proceeding, 

interventions or protests submitted on 

or before the comment deadline need 

not be served on persons other than the 

Applicant. 

The Commission encourages 

electronic submission of protests and 

interventions in lieu of paper, using the 

FERC Online links at http:// 

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. 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 St., NE., Washington, DC 

20426. 

The filings in the above proceedings 

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 15, 2011. 

Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr., 

Deputy Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2011–4106 Filed 2–23–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. CP11–59–000] 

Northwest Pipeline, GP; Notice of 

Intent To Prepare an Environmental 

Assessment for the Proposed Molalla 

Capacity Replacement Project and 

Request for Comments on 

Environmental Issues, and Notice of 

Public Scoping Meeting 

The staff of the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission (FERC or 

Commission) will prepare an 

environmental assessment (EA) that will 

discuss the environmental impacts of 

the Molalla Capacity Replacement 

Project, which would involve pipeline 

and associated facility abandonment 

and the construction and operation of a 

new pipeline loop and associated 

facilities by Northwest Pipeline, GP 

(Northwest) in Marion and Clackamas 

Counties, Oregon. This EA will be used 

by the Commission in its decisionmaking process to determine whether 

the project is in the public convenience 

and necessity. 

This notice announces the opening of 

the scoping process the Commission 

will use to gather input from the public 

and interested agencies on the project. 

Your input will help the Commission 

staff determine what issues need to be 

evaluated in the EA. Please note that the 

scoping period will close on March 18, 

2011. 

Comments may be submitted in 

written form or verbally. Further details 

on how to submit written comments are 

provided in the Public Participation 

section of this notice. In lieu of or in 

addition to sending written comments, 

the Commission invites you to attend 

the public scoping meeting scheduled as 

follows: FERC Public Scoping Meeting, 

Molalla Capacity Replacement Project, 

March 1, 2011, 6:30 p.m. PST, St. 

Mary’s Public Elementary School, 590 

East College Street, Mount Angel, OR 

97362. 

This notice is being sent to the 

Commission’s current environmental 

mailing list for this project. State and 

local government representatives are 

asked to notify their constituents of this 

planned project and encourage them to 

comment on their areas of concern. 

If you are a landowner receiving this 

notice, you may be contacted by a 

pipeline company representative about 

retirement of pipeline facilities or the 

acquisition of an easement to construct, 

operate, and maintain the proposed 

pipeline facilities. The company would 

seek to negotiate a mutually acceptable 

agreement. However, if the project is 

approved by the Commission, that 

approval conveys with it the right of 

eminent domain. Therefore, if easement 

negotiations fail to produce an 

agreement, the pipeline company could 

initiate condemnation proceedings 

where compensation would be 

determined in accordance with state 

law. 

A fact sheet prepared by the FERC 

entitled ‘‘An Interstate Natural Gas 

Facility On My Land? What Do I Need 

To Know?’’ was attached to the project 

notice Northwest provided to 

landowners. This fact sheet addresses a 

number of typically-asked questions, 

including the use of eminent domain 

and how to participate in the 

Commission’s proceedings. It is also 

available for viewing on the FERC Web 

site (http://www.ferc.gov). 

Summary of the Proposed Project 

Northwest proposes to construct, 

modify, and operate below and 

aboveground facilities along its existing 

2436 Camas/Eugene pipeline. According 

to Northwest, the Molalla Capacity 

Replacement Project would replace the 

capacity of an approximately 15-milelong pipeline segment that is proposed 

for retirement with approximately 7.8 

miles of new pipeline. 

The Molalla Capacity Replacement 

Project would consist of the following 

activities: 


emcdonald on DSK2BSOYB1PROD with NOTICES
Federal Register / Vol. 76, No. 37 / Thursday, February 24, 2011 / Notices 10349 

1A ‘‘pig’’ is a tool that is inserted into and moves 

through the pipeline, and is used for cleaning the 

pipeline, internal inspections, or other purposes. A 

pipeline loop is constructed parallel to an existing 

pipeline to increase capacity. 

2The appendices referenced in this notice are not 

being printed in the Federal Register. Copies of 

appendices were sent to all those receiving this 

notice in the mail and are available at http:// 

www.ferc.gov using the link called ‘‘eLibrary’’ or 

from the Commission’s Public Reference Room, 888 

First Street NE., Washington, DC 20426, or call 

(202) 502–8371. For instructions on connecting to 

eLibrary, refer to the last page of this notice. 

3 ‘‘We,’’ ‘‘us,’’ and ‘‘our’’ refer to the environmental 

staff of the Commission’s Office of Energy Projects. 

4The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation’s 

regulations are at Title 36, Code of Federal 

Regulations, Part 800. Historic properties are 

defined in those regulations as any prehistoric or 

historic district, site, building, structure, or object 

included in or eligible for inclusion in the National 

Register for Historic Places. 

• Abandon in-place approximately 15 

miles of 16-inch-diameter pipeline; 

• Relocate an existing pig 1 receiver 

from MP 41.02 to MP 48.04 and remove 

aboveground facilities, including a pig 

launcher, piping, and valves, to 

accommodate pipeline retirement; 

• Install approximately 7.8 miles of 

new 20-inch diameter pipeline loop;1

and 

• Install new taps, block valves, and 

crossovers along new pipeline loop. 

The general location of the project 

facilities is shown in Appendix 1.2

Land Requirements for Construction 

The project would require 

approximately 117 acres of land for the 

modification, removal, retirement, and/ 

or installation of aboveground facilities 

and the pipeline. Following 

construction, about 20.6 acres would be 

maintained for permanent operation of 

the project’s below and aboveground 

facilities; the remaining acreage would 

be restored and allowed to revert to 

former uses. About 78 percent of the 

proposed loop pipeline route parallels 

existing pipeline, utility, or road rightsof-way. 

The EA Process 

The National Environmental Policy 

Act (NEPA) requires the Commission to 

take into account the environmental 

impacts that could result from an action 

whenever it considers the issuance of a 

Certificate of Public Convenience and 

Necessity. NEPA also requires us 3 to 

discover and address concerns the 

public may have about proposals. This 

process is referred to as ‘‘scoping’’. The 

main goal of the scoping process is to 

focus the analysis in the EA on the 

important environmental issues. By this 

notice, the Commission requests public 

comments on the scope of the issues to 

address in the EA. All comments 

received will be considered during the 

preparation of the EA. 

In the EA we will discuss impacts that 

could occur as a result of the 

construction and operation of the 

proposed project under these general 

headings: 

• Geology and soils; 

• Land use and visual resources; 

• Water resources, fisheries, and 

wetlands; 

• Cultural resources; 

• Vegetation and wildlife; 

• Air quality and noise; 

• Endangered and threatened species; 

• Public safety; and 

• Cumulative impacts 

We will also evaluate reasonable 

alternatives to the proposed project or 

portions of the project, and make 

recommendations on how to lessen or 

avoid impacts on the various resource 

areas. 

Our independent analysis of the 

issues will be presented in the EA. The 

EA will be placed in the public record 

and, depending on the comments 

received during the scoping process, 

may be published and distributed to the 

public. A comment period will be 

allotted if the EA is published for 

review. We will consider all comments 

on the EA before we make our 

recommendations to the Commission. 

To ensure your comments are 

considered, please carefully follow the 

instructions in the Public Participation 

section beginning on page 5. 

With this notice, we are asking 

agencies with jurisdiction and/or 

special expertise with respect to 

environmental issues to formally 

cooperate with us in the preparation of 

the EA. These agencies may choose to 

participate once they have evaluated the 

proposal relative to their 

responsibilities. Agencies that would 

like to request cooperating agency status 

should follow the instructions for filing 

comments provided under the Public 

Participation section of this notice. 

Currently, no agencies have expressed 

their intention to participate as a 

cooperating agency in the preparation of 

the EA to satisfy their NEPA 

responsibilities related to this project. 

Consultations Under Section 106 of the 

National Historic Preservation Act 

In accordance with the Advisory 

Council on Historic Preservation’s 

implementing regulations for section 

106 of the National Historic 

Preservation Act, we are using this 

notice to initiate consultation with 

applicable State Historic Preservation 

Office, and to solicit their views and 

those of other government agencies, 

interested Indian tribes, and the public 

on the project’s potential effects on 

historic properties.4 We will define the 

project-specific Area of Potential Effects 

(APE) in consultation with the SHPO as 

the project is further developed. On 

natural gas facility projects, the APE at 

a minimum encompasses all areas 

subject to ground disturbance (examples 

include construction right-of-way, 

contractor/pipe storage yards, 

compressor stations, and access roads). 

Our EA for this project will document 

our findings on the impacts on historic 

properties and summarize the status of 

consultations under section 106. 

Currently Identified Environmental 

Issues 

We have already identified several 

issues that we think deserve attention 

based on a preliminary review of the 

proposed facilities and the 

environmental information provided by 

Northwest. This preliminary list of 

issues may be changed based on your 

comments and our analysis. 

• Agricultural land uses including 

hops, filberts, and other specialty crops; 

• Residential structures; 

• Construction noise; 

• Waterbody and wetland crossings; 

and 

• Federally-listed threatened and 

endangered species and their habitats. 

Public Participation 

You can make a difference by 

providing us with your specific 

comments or concerns about the project. 

Your comments should focus on the 

potential environmental effects, 

reasonable alternatives, and measures to 

avoid or lessen environmental impacts. 

The more specific your comments, the 

more useful they will be. To ensure that 

your comments are timely and properly 

recorded, please send your comments so 

that they will be received in 

Washington, DC on or before March 18, 

2011. 

For your convenience, there are three 

methods which you can use to submit 

your comments to the Commission. In 

all instances please reference the project 

docket number (CP11–59–000) with 

your submission. The Commission 

encourages electronic filing of 

comments and has expert eFiling staff 

available to assist you at (202) 502–8258 

or efiling@ferc.gov. 

(1) You may file your comments 

electronically by using the eComment 

feature, which is located on the 

Commission’s We bsite at http:// 

www.ferc.gov under the link to 

Documents and Filings. An eComment 

is an easy method for interested persons 


emcdonald on DSK2BSOYB1PROD with NOTICES
10350 Federal Register / Vol. 76, No. 37 / Thursday, February 24, 2011 / Notices 

to submit brief, text-only comments on 

a project; 

(2) You may file your comments 

electronically by using the eFiling 

feature, which is located on the 

Commission’s website at http:// 

www.ferc.gov under the link to 

Documents and Filings. With eFiling, 

you can provide comments in a variety 

of formats by attaching them as a file 

with your submission. New eFiling 

users must first create an account by 

clicking on ‘‘eRegister.’’ You will be 

asked to select the type of filing you are 

making. A comment on a particular 

project is considered a ‘‘Comment on a 

Filing’’; or 

(3) You may file a paper copy of your 

comments at the following address: 

Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary, Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 

First Street NE, Room 1A, Washington, 

DC 20426. 

Environmental Mailing List 

The environmental mailing list 

includes federal, state, and local 

government representatives and 

agencies; elected officials; 

environmental and public interest 

groups; Native American Tribes; other 

interested parties; and local libraries 

and newspapers. This list also includes 

all affected landowners (as defined in 

the Commission’s regulations) who are 

potential right-of-way grantors, whose 

property may be used temporarily for 

project purposes, or who own homes 

within certain distances of aboveground 

facilities, and anyone who submits 

comments on the project. We will 

update the environmental mailing list as 

the analysis proceeds to ensure that we 

send the information related to this 

environmental review to all individuals, 

organizations, and government entities 

interested in and/or potentially affected 

by the proposed project. 

If the EA is published for distribution, 

copies will be sent to the environmental 

mailing list for public review and 

comment. If you would prefer to receive 

a paper copy of the document instead of 

the CD version or would like to remove 

your name from the mailing list, please 

return the attached Information Request 

(Appendix 2). 

Becoming an Intervenor 

In addition to involvement in the EA 

scoping process, you may want to 

become an ‘‘intervenor’’ which is an 

official party to the Commission’s 

proceeding. Intervenors play a more 

formal role in the process and are able 

to file briefs, appear at hearings, and be 

heard by the courts if they choose to 

appeal the Commission’s final ruling. 

An intervenor formally participates in 

the proceeding by filing a request to 

intervene. Instructions for becoming an 

intervenor are included in the User’s 

Guide under the ‘‘e-filing’’ link on the 

Commission’s Web site. 

Additional Information 

Additional information about the 

project is available from the 

Commission’s Office of External Affairs, 

at (866) 208–FERC, or on the FERC Web 

site at http://www.ferc.gov using the 

‘‘eLibrary’’ link. Click on the eLibrary 

link, click on ‘‘General Search’’ and enter 

the docket number, excluding the last 

three digits in the Docket Number field 

(i.e., CP11–59). Be sure you have 

selected an appropriate date range. 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. The 

eLibrary link also provides access to the 

texts of formal documents issued by the 

Commission, such as orders, notices, 

and rulemakings. 

In addition, the Commission now 

offers a free service called eSubscription 

which allows you to keep track of all 

formal issuances and submittals in 

specific dockets. This can reduce the 

amount of time you spend researching 

proceedings by automatically providing 

you with notification of these filings, 

document summaries, and direct links 

to the documents. Go to http:// 

www.ferc.gov/esubscribenow.htm. 

Finally, public meetings or site visits 

will be posted on the Commission’s 

calendar located at http://www.ferc.gov/ 

EventCalendar/EventsList.aspx along 

with other related information. 

Dated: February 16, 2011. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2011–4082 Filed 2–23–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. CP11–46–000] 

Kern River Gas Transmission 

Company; Notice of Intent To Prepare 

an Environmental Assessment for the 

Proposed Mountain Pass Lateral 

Project, Request for Comments on 

Environmental Issues and Notice of 

Onsite Environmental Review 

The staff of the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission (FERC or 

Commission) will prepare an 

environmental assessment (EA) that will 

discuss the environmental impacts of 

the Mountain Pass Lateral Project 

involving construction and operation of 

facilities by Kern River Gas 

Transmission Company (Kern River) in 

San Bernardino County, California. This 

EA will be used by the Commission in 

its decisionmaking process to determine 

whether the project is in the public 

convenience and necessity. 

This notice announces the opening of 

the scoping process the Commission 

will use to gather input from the public 

and interested agencies on the project. 

Your input will help the Commission 

staff determine what issues need to be 

evaluated in the EA. Please note that the 

scoping period will close on March 18, 

2011. 

Site Visit 

On March 8, 2011, the Office of 

Energy Projects (OEP) staff will conduct 

a site visit of the planned Mountain Pass 

Lateral Project. We will inspect 

accessible locations along the proposed 

pipeline route, as feasible. Examination 

of the proposed pipeline route will be 

by automobile, remote observation from 

vantage point(s) at higher elevations 

relative to the proposed route, and on 

foot. Representatives from BLM, Kern 

River and Molycorp will accompany the 

OEP staff. 

All interested parties may attend. 

Those planning to attend must provide 

their own transportation (vehicles with 

high clearance are required) and should 

meet at the following time and location: 

Tuesday, March 8, 2011, 10 a.m. (PST), 

Location: Primm Valley Golf Club, 

Directions: (Interstate 15 Exit #291, 

Yates Well Road, right at stop sign; 

follow signs; meet in parking lot past 

entrance gate). 

This notice is being sent to the 

Commission’s current environmental 

mailing list for this project. State and 

local government representatives are 

asked to notify their constituents of this 

planned project and encourage them to 

comment on their areas of concern. 

Summary of the Proposed Project 

Kern River proposes to construct 

approximately 8.6 miles of 8-inch lateral 

pipeline in San Bernardino County, 

California extending from the existing 

Kern River mainline along the western 

edge of Ivanpah Valley and terminating 

at the active mining operation on 

property owned by Molycorp Minerals, 

LLC (Molycorp). The lateral pipeline 

would have a design capacity of 24.27 

million standard cubic feet per day. 

According to Kern River, its project and 

the natural gas it delivers to the 

Molycorp facility would provide 

reliable power generation and steam 

production in order to facilitate 


emcdonald on DSK2BSOYB1PROD with NOTICES