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column, correct the SUMMARY caption to 

read: 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to sections 

254(a)(11)(A) and 255(b) of the Help 

America Vote Act (HAVA), Public Law 

107–252, the U.S. Election Assistance 

Commission (EAC) hereby causes to be 

published in the Federal Register 

changes to the HAVA State plans 

previously submitted by Puerto Rico. 

Dated: March 2, 2010. 

Thomas R. Wilkey, 

Executive Director. 

[FR Doc. 2010–4707 Filed 3–4–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

[OE Docket No. PP–362] 

Application for Presidential Permit; 

Champlain Hudson Power Express, 

Inc. 

AGENCY: Office of Electricity Delivery 

and Energy Reliability, DOE. 

ACTION: Notice of application. 

SUMMARY: Champlain Hudson Power 

Express, Inc. (CHPEI) has applied for a 

Presidential permit to construct, 

operate, maintain, and connect an 

electric transmission line across the 

United States border with Canada. 

DATES: Comments, protests, or requests 

to intervene must be submitted on or 

before April 5, 2010. 

ADDRESSES: Comments, protests, or 

requests to intervene should be 

addressed as follows: Dr. Jerry Pell, 

Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy 

Reliability (OE–20), U.S. Department of 

Energy, 1000 Independence Avenue, 

SW., Washington, DC 20585. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. 

Jerry Pell (Program Office) at 202–586– 

3362 or via electronic mail at 

Jerry.Pell@hq.doe.gov, or Lot H. Cooke 

(Attorney-Adviser) at 202–586–0503 or 

via electronic mail at 

Lot.Cooke@hq.doe.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

construction, operation, maintenance, 

and connection of facilities at the 

international border of the United States 

for the transmission of electric energy 

between the United States and a foreign 

country is prohibited in the absence of 

a Presidential permit issued pursuant to 

Executive Order (EO) 10485, as 

amended by EO 12038. 

On January 27, 2010, CHPEI filed an 

application with the Office of Electricity 

Delivery and Energy Reliability of the 

Department of Energy (DOE) for a 

Presidential permit. CHPEI is a joint 

venture of TDI–USA Holdings 

Corporation (TUHC), a Delaware 

corporation, and National Resources 

Energy, LLC (NRE). TUHC, the majority 

shareholder in CHPEI, is a wholly 

owned subsidiary of Transmission 

Developers Inc. (TDI), a Canadian 

Corporation. NRE is a wholly owned 

subsidiary of National RE/sources 

Group, a limited liability corporation 

duly organized under the laws of the 

State of Connecticut. 

CHPEI proposes to construct and 

operate a primarily underground and 

submarine high-voltage direct current 

(HVDC) electric transmission line that 

will originate at an HVDC converter 

station in Quebec, Canada, and 

ultimately terminate in Yonkers, New 

York, and Bridgeport, Connecticut. 

The proposed CHPEI project (the 

‘‘Project’’) would be a 2,000-megawatt 

(MW) HVDC Voltage Source Converter 

(VSC) controllable transmission system, 

comprising two 1,000–MW HVDC 

bipoles, each of which would include 

two submarine or underground cables 

connected as a bipole pair. Each bipole 

will at all times utilize its partner in the 

bipole pair as a metallic return. The 

ground will never be used as a return. 

In total, four cables would be laid 

between Quebec and the converter 

stations in New York City, where two 

will be terminated. The remaining two 

would continue to Bridgeport, 

Connecticut. 

From the U.S.-Canada border, the 

submarine transmission cables would be 

routed through Lake Champlain and 

travel south to the northern entrance of 

the Champlain Canal, near Whitehall, 

New York. To the extent practicable, the 

submerged cables would continue 

through the Champlain Canal to Fort 

Edward, where the canal joins the 

Hudson River. CHPEI expects that the 

transmission cables would exit the 

Champlain Canal near Lock C8, and the 

cables would be buried within a railroad 

ROW for a distance of approximately 

69.9 miles (107.7 km). The cables would 

re-enter the Hudson River near the 

Town of Coeymans, downstream from 

the City of Albany, N.Y. South of 

Coeymans, the proposed alignment 

follows the Hudson River to the New 

York City metropolitan area. 

Two cables (one bipole) would 

terminate approximately 318.7 miles 

(512.9 km) south of the U.S.-Canada 

border at an HVDC converter station 

near Wells Avenue in Yonkers, New 

York. The remaining two cables would 

continue along the Hudson River to the 

entrance of Spuyten Duyvil Creek, and 

then follow a 65.8-mile-long (105.9 km) 

route through Spuyten Duyvil Creek, the 

Harlem River, and the East River into 

Long Island Sound before terminating at 

a converter station near 1 W Avenue in 

Bridgeport, Connecticut. 

Submarine or underground 

alternating current (AC) cables would 

transmit electricity from the converter 

stations to existing substations 

connected to the electrical grid. From 

the Yonkers converter station, 345-kV 

AC cables would re-enter the Hudson 

River and travel south along the East 

River, Spuyten Duyvil Creek, and the 

Harlem River for a distance of 

approximately 6.7 miles (10.8 km). The 

AC cables would terminate at the 

existing Consolidated Edison (ConEd) 

Sherman Creek/Academy substation, 

near the intersection of West 201st 

Street and 9th Street, in Manhattan. 

From the Bridgeport converter station, 

345–kV AC cables would extend for a 

distance of approximately 150 feet (45.7 

m) to the existing Singer substation, 

owned and operated by the United 

Illuminating Company. 

The applicant represents that the 

Project’s precise final route would be 

subject to a number of factors, including 

resource issues, permitting, land 

acquisition, and stakeholder agreement. 

The 384.5-mile-long (618.8 km) portion 

of the Project located within the United 

States would be owned and operated by 

the applicant. 

Since the restructuring of the electric 

industry began, resulting in the 

introduction of different types of 

competitive entities into the 

marketplace, DOE has consistently 

expressed its policy that cross-border 

trade in electric energy should be 

subject to the same principles of 

comparable open access and nondiscrimination that apply to 

transmission in interstate commerce. 

DOE has stated that policy in export 

authorizations granted to entities 

requesting authority to export over 

international transmission facilities. 

Specifically, DOE expects transmitting 

utilities owning border facilities to 

provide access across the border in 

accordance with the principles of 

comparable open access and nondiscrimination contained in the Federal 

Power Act and articulated in Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) 

Order No. 888 (Promoting Wholesale 

Competition Through Open Access 

Non-Discriminatory Transmission 

Services by Public Utilities; FERC Stats. 

& Regs. ¶ 31,036 (1996)), as amended. In 

furtherance of this policy, DOE invites 

comments on whether it would be 

appropriate to condition any 

Presidential permit issued in this 

proceeding on compliance with these 

open access principles. 

Procedural Matters: Any person 

desiring to become a party to this 


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proceeding or to be heard by filing 

comments on, or protests to, this 

application should file a petition to 

intervene, comment, or protest at the 

address provided above in accordance 

with §§ 385.211 or 385.214 of FERC’s 

Rules of Practice and Procedures (18 

CFR 385.211, 385.214). Fifteen copies of 

each petition and protest should be filed 

with DOE on or before the date listed 

above. 

Additional copies of such petitions to 

intervene, comments, or protests should 

also be filed directly with Mr. Donald 

Jessome, President, Transmission 

Developers Inc., Pieter Schuyler 

Building, 600 Broadway, Albany, New 

York 12207–2283. 

Before a Presidential permit may be 

issued or amended, DOE must 

determine that the proposed action is in 

the public interest. In making that 

determination, DOE considers the 

environmental impacts of the proposed 

project pursuant to the National 

Environmental Policy Act of 1969, 

determines the project’s impact on 

electric reliability by ascertaining 

whether the proposed project would 

adversely affect the operation of the U.S. 

electric power supply system under 

normal and contingency conditions, and 

any other factors that DOE may also 

consider relevant to the public interest. 

Also, DOE must obtain the concurrences 

of the Secretary of State and the 

Secretary of Defense before taking final 

action on a Presidential permit 

application. 

Copies of this application will be 

made available, upon request, for public 

inspection and copying at the address 

provided above, by accessing the 

program Web site at http:// 

www.oe.energy.gov/ 

permits_pending.htm, or by emailing 

Odessa Hopkins at 

Odessa.hopkins@hq.doe.gov. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on February 23, 

2010. 

Anthony J. Como, 

Director, Permitting and Siting, Office of 

Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability. 

[FR Doc. 2010–4677 Filed 3–4–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. CP10–65–000] 

Mississippi Hub, LLC; Notice of 

Amendment Application 

February 25, 2010. 

On February 8, 2010, Mississippi 

Hub, LLC (MS Hub), pursuant to section 

7(c) of the Natural Gas Act, as amended, 

and parts 157 and 284 of the Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission’s 

(Commission) regulations, filed to 

amend its certificate. The amendment 

would expand the gas storage project 

certificated in CP09–19–000 on 

September 17, 2009, by adding 37,305 

horsepower of additional compression 

and adding working gas capacity 

totaling 15 billion cubic feet (Bcf) in two 

new salt dome storage caverns. The 

amendment would expand total storage 

project working gas capacity to 30 Bcf 

and project delivery and injection 

capabilities, respectively to 2.8 and 1.5 

Bcf per day. MS Hub also requests that 

the Commission reaffirm its marketbased rates authority and issue all 

required authorizations by June 1, 2010. 

Questions regarding this application 

should be directed to William Rapp, 

Mississippi Hub, LLC, 101 Ash Street, 

San Diego, CA 92101, (619) 699–5050. 

There are two ways to become 

involved in the Commission’s review of 

this project. First, any person wishing to 

obtain legal status by becoming a party 

to the proceedings for this project 

should, on or before the comment date 

stated below, file with the Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 

First Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426, 

a motion to intervene in accordance 

with the requirements of the 

Commission’s Rules of Practice and 

Procedure (18 CFR 385.214 or 385.211) 

and the Regulations under the NGA (18 

CFR 157.10). A person obtaining party 

status will be placed on the service list 

maintained by the Secretary of the 

Commission and will receive copies of 

all documents filed by the applicant and 

by all other parties. A party must submit 

14 copies of filings made with the 

Commission and must mail a copy to 

the applicant and to every other party in 

the proceeding. Only parties to the 

proceeding can ask for court review of 

Commission orders in the proceeding. 

However, a person does not have to 

intervene in order to have comments 

considered. The second way to 

participate is by filing with the 

Secretary of the Commission, as soon as 

possible, an original and two copies of 

comments in support of or in opposition 

to this project. The Commission will 

consider these comments in 

determining the appropriate action to be 

taken, but the filing of a comment alone 

will not serve to make the filer a party 

to the proceeding. The Commission’s 

rules require that persons filing 

comments in opposition to the project 

provide copies of their protests only to 

the party or parties directly involved in 

the protest. 

The Commission strongly encourages 

electronic filings of comments, 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 14 copies 

of the intervention or protest 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 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov, or call 

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

(202) 502–8659. 

Comment Date: 5 p.m. Eastern Time 

on March 18, 2010. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2010–4606 Filed 3–4–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 12783–003] 

Inglis Hydropower, LLC; Notice of 

Application Accepted for Filing and 

Soliciting Motions To Intervene and 

Protests 

February 26, 2010. 

Take notice that the following 

hydroelectric application has been filed 

with the Commission and is available 

for public inspection. 

a. Type of Application: Original Major 

License. 

b. Project No.: P–12783–003. 

c. Date filed: July 22, 2009. 

d. Applicant: Inglis Hydropower, LLC. 

e. Name of Project: Inglis Hydropower 

Project. 

f. Location: The proposed project 

would be located at the existing Inglis 

Bypass Channel and Spillway on the 

Withlacoochee River, west of Lake 

Rousseau and Inglis dam, within the 

town of Inglis, in Levy, Citrus, and 

Marion counties, Florida. No federal 

lands would be occupied by the 

proposed project. 

g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power 

Act 16 U.S.C. 791 (a)–825(r). 

h. Applicant Contacts: Mr. Dean 

Edwards, P.O. Box 1565, Dover, FL 


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