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1Contract Reporting Requirements of Intrastate 

Natural Gas Companies, Order No. 735, 131 FERC 

¶ 61,150 (May 20, 2010). 

1On October 4, 1999, DOE’s Assistant Secretary 

for Environmental, Safety and Health delegated to 

Western’s Administrator the authority to approve 

EISs for integrating transmission facilities with 

Western’s transmission grid. 

year period. The Commission in Order 

No. 735 modified its policy concerning 

periodic reviews of rates charges by 

section 311 and Hinshaw pipelines to 

extend the cycle for such reviews from 

three to five years.1 Therefore, National 

Fuel requests that the date for its next 

rate filing be extended to February 12, 

2013, which is five years from the date 

of National Fuel’s most recent rate filing 

with this Commission. 

Any person desiring to participate in 

this rate proceeding must file a motion 

to intervene or to protest this filing 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). 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. 

Any person wishing to become a party 

must file a notice of intervention or 

motion to intervene, as appropriate. 

Such notices, motions, or protests must 

be filed on or before the date as 

indicated below. Anyone filing an 

intervention or protest must serve a 

copy of that document on the Applicant. 

Anyone filing an intervention or protest 

on or before the intervention or protest 

date need not serve motions to intervene 

or protests on persons other than the 

Applicant. 

The Commission encourages 

electronic submission of protests and 

interventions in lieu of paper using the 

‘‘eFiling’’ link at http://www.ferc.gov. 

Persons unable to file electronically 

should submit an original and 7 copies 

of the protest or intervention to the 

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 

888 First Street, NE., Washington, DC 

20426. 

This filing is accessible on-line at 

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

‘‘eLibrary’’ link and is 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 

docket(s). For assistance with any FERC 

Online service, please e-mail FERC

OnlineSupport@ferc.gov, or call (866) 

208–3676 (toll free). For TTY, call (202) 

502–8659. 

Comment Date: 5 p.m. Eastern Time 

on Wednesday, January 19, 2011. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Western Area Power Administration 

Interconnection of the Proposed Hyde 

County Wind Energy Center Project 

(DOE/EIS–0461), and Proposed 

Crowned Ridge Wind Energy Center 

Project (DOE/EIS–0462) 

AGENCY: Western Area Power 

Administration, DOE. 

ACTION: Notice of Extension of Scoping 

Comment Period. 

SUMMARY: Western Area Power 

Administration (Western) published 

separate Notices of Intent to prepare 

environmental impact statements (EISs) 

for the Hyde County Wind Energy 

Center Project and the Crowned Ridge 

Wind Energy Center Project in the 

Federal Register on November 30, 2010. 

Both Notices of Intent specified a 45-day 

public scoping period, which would 

end on January 14, 2011. Western 

received a request for an extension of 

the public scoping period deadline to 

January 30, 2010, due to the holidays. 

Western is granting that request, and by 

this notice and local advertising is 

extending the formal scoping period to 

midnight Monday, January 31, 2011. 

DATES: The public scoping period 

commenced with the publication of the 

Federal Register notices on November 

30, 2010, and will, with the extension 

of time, end on midnight, January 31, 

2011. Western will consider all 

comments on the scope of the EISs 

received or postmarked by that date. 

The public is invited to submit 

comments on either proposed project at 

any time during the EIS process. 

ADDRESSES: Oral or written comments 

on the scope of either proposed project 

may be mailed or e-mailed to Matt 

Marsh, Upper Great Plains Regional 

Office, Western Area Power 

Administration, P.O. Box 35800, 

Billings, MT 59107–5800, e-mail 

MMarsh@wapa.gov, telephone (800) 

358–3415. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

additional information on the proposed 

projects, the EIS process, or to receive 

a copy of either Draft EIS when they are 

published, contact Matt Marsh at the 

address above. For general information 

on the DOE’s NEPA review process, 

contact Carol M. Borgstrom, Director, 

Office of NEPA Policy and Compliance, 

GC–54, U.S. Department of Energy, 1000 

Independence Avenue, SW., 

Washington, DC 20585–0119, telephone 

(202) 586–4600 or (800) 472–2756, 

facsimile (202) 586–7031. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: NextEra 

Energy Resources (NextEra) applied to 

interconnect its proposed 150-megawatt 

(MW) Hyde County Wind Energy Center 

Project, located in Hyde County, South 

Dakota, with the Western’s existing Fort 

Thompson Substation in Buffalo 

County, South Dakota. NextEra has also 

applied to interconnect its proposed 

150–MW Crowned Ridge Wind Energy 

Center Project with Western’s existing 

Watertown Substation in Codington 

County, South Dakota. The proposed 

Project would be located in Codington 

and Grant counties, South Dakota. 

Western is preparing separate EISs on 

the proposals to interconnect the 

projects in accordance with NEPA (42 

U.S.C. 4321–4347); DOE NEPA 

Implementing Procedures (10 CFR part 

1021); and the CEQ regulations for 

implementing NEPA (40 CFR parts 

1500–1508).1

Separate Notices of Intent were 

published in the Federal Register for 

both proposed projects on November 30, 

2010 (75 FR 74040 for Hyde County and 

75 FR 74042 for Crowned Ridge). 

Scoping meetings were held on 

December 14, 2010, in Highmore, South 

Dakota, for the Hyde County Project, 

and on December 15, 2010, in 

Watertown, South Dakota, for the 

Crowned Ridge Project. The Notices of 

Intent specified a 45-day public scoping 

period, which would end on January 14, 

2011. One commenter, writing on his 

own behalf and that of other area 

landowners, has requested an extension 

of the public scoping period deadline to 

January 30, 2011, due to the holidays. 

Western is granting that request, and by 

this notice and local advertising is 

extending the formal scoping period to 

midnight Monday, January 31, 2011. 

Dated: January 10, 2011. 

Timothy J. Meeks, 

Administrator. 

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