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877–445–5075 and the passcode is 

2402235515. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Gary 

Burch, STEAB Designated Federal 

Officer, Senior Management Technical 

Advisor, Intergovernmental Projects, 

Golden Field Office, U.S. Department of 

Energy, 1617 Cole Boulevard, Golden, 

CO 80401. Telephone: (303) 275–4801. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Purpose of the Board: To make 

recommendations to the Assistant 

Secretary for the Office of Energy 

Efficiency and Renewable Energy 

regarding goals and objectives, 

programmatic and administrative 

policies, and to otherwise carry out the 

Board’s responsibilities as designated in 

the State Energy Efficiency Programs 

Improvement Act of 1990 

(Pub. L. 101–440). 

Tentative Agenda: Review and update 

of task force accomplishments, review 

of March meeting of the Energy 

Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant 

(EECBG) sub-committee, begin planning 

for the June live Board meeting in 

Washington, DC, and provide an update 

to the Board on routine business matters 

and other topics of interest. 

Public Participation: The meeting is 

open to the public. Written statements 

may be filed with the Board either 

before or after the meeting. Members of 

the public who wish to make oral 

statements pertaining to agenda items 

should contact Gary Burch at the 

address or telephone number listed 

above. Requests to make oral comments 

must be received five days prior to the 

meeting; reasonable provision will be 

made to include requested topic(s) on 

the agenda. The Chair of the Board is 

empowered to conduct the meeting in a 

fashion that will facilitate the orderly 

conduct of business. 

Minutes: The minutes of the meeting 

will be available for public review and 

copying within 60 days on the STEAB 

Web site, http://www.steab.org. 

Issued at Washington, DC, on March 21, 

2011. 

LaTanya Butler, 

Acting Deputy Committee Management 

Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2011–7086 Filed 3–24–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 13583–001] 

Crane & Company; Notice of 

Application Tendered for Filing With 

the Commission and Soliciting 

Additional Study Requests 

Take notice that the following 

hydroelectric application has been filed 

with the Commission and is available 

for public inspection. 

a. Type of Application: Exemption 

From Licensing 

b. Project No.: 13583–001 

c. Date filed: March 9, 2011 

d. Applicant: Crane & Company 

e. Name of Project: Byron Weston 

Hydroelectric Project 

f. Location: On the East Branch of the 

Housatonic River, in the Town of 

Dalton, Berkshire County, 

Massachusetts. The project would not 

occupy lands of the United States. 

g. Filed Pursuant to: Public Utility 

Regulatory Policies Act of 1978, 16 

U.S.C. 2705, 2708. 

h. Applicant Contact: Chad Cox, GZA 

GeoEnvironmental, Inc., One Edgewater 

Drive, Norwood, MA 02062, (781) 278– 

5787. 

i. FERC Contact: Brandon Cherry, 

(202) 502–8328 or 

brandon.cherry@ferc.gov. 

j. Cooperating agencies: Federal, state, 

local, and tribal agencies with 

jurisdiction and/or special expertise 

with respect to environmental issues 

that wish to cooperate in the 

preparation of the environmental 

document should follow the 

instructions for filing such requests 

described in item l below. Cooperating 

agencies should note the Commission’s 

policy that agencies that cooperate in 

the preparation of the environmental 

document cannot also intervene. See, 94 

FERC ¶ 61,076 (2001). 

k. Pursuant to section 4.32(b)(7) of 18 

CFR of the Commission’s regulations, if 

any resource agency, Indian Tribe, or 

person believes that an additional 

scientific study should be conducted in 

order to form an adequate factual basis 

for a complete analysis of the 

application on its merit, the resource 

agency, Indian Tribe, or person must file 

a request for a study with the 

Commission not later than 60 days from 

the date of filing of the application, and 

serve a copy of the request on the 

applicant. 

l. Deadline for filing additional study 

requests and requests for cooperating 

agency status: May 9, 2011. 

All documents may be filed 

electronically via the Internet. See 18 

CFR 385.2001(a)(1)(iii) and the 

instructions on the Commission’s Web 

site (http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/ 

ferconline.asp). Commenters can submit 

brief comments up to 6,000 characters, 

without prior registration, using the 

eComment system at http:// 

www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/ 

ecomment.asp. You must include your 

name and contact information at the end 

of your comments. 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 the 

Commission strongly encourages 

electronic filing, documents may also be 

paper-filed. To paper-file, mail an 

original and seven copies to: Kimberly 

D. Bose, Secretary, Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission, 888 First 

Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426. 

m. The application is not ready for 

environmental analysis at this time. 

n. The Byron Weston Hydroelectric 

Project would consist of: (1) The 

existing 90-foot-long, 30-foot-high Byron 

Weston Dam No. 2; (2) an existing 0.94- 

acre impoundment with a normal water 

surface elevation of 1,116.7 feet NAVD 

(1988); (3) an existing intake structure, 

trashrack, and headgate; (4) an existing 

6.5-foot-long, 6-foot-diameter penstock 

that conveys flow to an existing 50-footlong, 9.5-foot-wide headrace canal 

connected to a new 5-foot-long, 4.4-footdiameter penstock; (5) an existing 

powerhouse containing one new 250- 

kilowatt turbine generating unit; (6) a 

new steel draft tube placed within the 

existing tailrace; and (7) a new 100-footlong, 600-volt transmission line 

connected to the Crane & Company mill 

complex. The proposed project is 

estimated to generate an average of 

938,000 kilowatt-hours annually. 

o. A copy of the application is 

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, contact FERC Online 

Support. A copy is also available for 

inspection and reproduction at the 

address in item h above. 

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, contact FERC Online 

Support. 

p. With this notice, we are initiating 

consultation with the Massachusetts 

State Historic Preservation Officer 

(SHPO), as required by 106, National 


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1 Interventions may also be filed electronically via 

the Internet in lieu of paper. See the previous 

discussion on filing comments electronically. 

Historic Preservation Act, and the 

regulations of the Advisory Council on 

Historic Preservation, 36, CFR, at 800.4. 

q. Procedural schedule: The 

application will be processed according 

to the following Hydro Licensing 

Schedule. Revisions to the schedule will 

be made as appropriate (e.g., if scoping 

is waived, the schedule would be 

shortened). 

Issue Deficiency Letter—May 2011 

Issue Notice of Acceptance—July 2011 

Issue Scoping Document—August 2011 

Issue Notice ready for environmental 

analysis—October 2011 

Issue Notice of the availability of the 

EA—March 2012 

Dated: March 18, 2011. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2011–7042 Filed 3–24–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. CP11–33–000] 

Leader One Energy, LLC; Notice of 

Availability of the Environmental 

Assessment for the Proposed Leader 

One Gas Storage Project 

The staff of the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission (FERC or 

Commission) has prepared an 

environmental assessment (EA) for the 

Leader One Gas Storage Project 

proposed by Leader One Energy, LLC 

(Leader One) in the above-referenced 

docket. Leader One requests 

authorization to construct and operate 

the Leader One Gas Storage Field 

including injection/withdrawal and 

observation wells, gathering lines, 

condensate handling facilities, and 

water disposal facilities; a new 18,000 

horsepower compressor station; and 

about 22.4 miles of 24-inch-diameter 

pipeline and related facilities all in 

Adams County, Colorado. 

The EA assesses the potential 

environmental effects of the 

construction and operation of the 

Leader One Gas Storage Project in 

accordance with the requirements of the 

National Environmental Policy Act of 

1969 (NEPA). The FERC staff concludes 

that approval of the proposed project, 

with appropriate mitigating measures, 

would not constitute a major federal 

action significantly affecting the quality 

of the human environment. 

The proposed Leader One Gas Storage 

Project includes the following facilities: 

Leader One Gas Storage Field 

• Up to fourteen new vertical and/or 

horizontal gas storage injection/ 

withdrawal wells; 

• Evaluation of twelve existing wells 

for replugging and abandonment as 

needed in accordance with current state 

standards, or converting to observation 

wells; 

• Up to six new observation wells, 

depending on the condition of the 

existing wells; 

• About 5 miles of various diameter 

storage field gathering pipelines; 

• One water disposal well; 

• About 1.25 miles of water disposal 

pipeline; 

• A new 18,000 horsepower 

compressor station; 

• An electrical substation within the 

compressor station fenceline; 

• Hydrocarbon dew point control and 

condensate handling equipment; and 

• Condensate handling equipment at 

the wellheads. 

Pipeline Facilities 

• An approximately 17.6-mile-long, 

24-inch-diameter natural gas header 

pipeline, the Leader One Header 

Pipeline; 

• An approximately 4.8-mile-long, 

24-inch-diameter natural gas header 

pipeline, the Leader One Header 

Pipeline Extension; 

• Four launcher/receiver facilities; 

and 

• Yards for construction laydown and 

support facilities. 

Ancillary Facilities 

• Valves, meters, filtration, safety, 

and cleaning and inspection equipment; 

and 

• Buildings, communications and 

control equipment, emergency 

generation, and electrical supply. 

The EA has been placed in the public 

files of the FERC and is available for 

public viewing on the FERC’s Web site 

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

eLibrary link. A limited number of 

copies of the EA are available for 

distribution and public inspection at: 

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 

Public Reference Room, 888 First Street, 

NE., Room 2A, Washington, DC 20426, 

(202) 502–8371. 

Copies of the EA have been mailed to 

federal, state, and local government 

representatives and agencies; elected 

officials; Native American tribes; 

potentially affected landowners and 

other interested individuals and groups; 

and newspapers in the project area; and 

parties to this proceeding. 

Any person wishing to comment on 

the EA may do so. 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 properly recorded and 

considered prior to a Commission 

decision on the proposal, it is important 

that the FERC receives your comments 

in Washington, DC on or before April 

18, 2011. 

For your convenience, there are three 

methods you can use to submit your 

comments to the Commission. In all 

instances, please reference the project 

docket number (CP11–33–000) with 

your submission. The Commission 

encourages electronic filing of 

comments and has dedicated eFiling 

expert 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 Web site at http:// 

www.ferc.gov under the link to 

Documents and Filings. An eComment 

is an easy method for interested persons 

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 Web site 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. 

Although your comments will be 

considered by the Commission, simply 

filing comments will not serve to make 

the commenter a party to the 

proceeding. Any person seeking to 

become a party to the proceeding must 

file a motion to intervene pursuant to 

Rule 214 of the Commission’s Rules of 

Practice and Procedures (18 CFR 

385.214).1 Only intervenors have the 

right to seek rehearing of the 

Commission’s decision. 


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