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50The proposed burden reductions are provided 

for information and comment. To be conservative, 

the Commission may not remove the hours from its 

information collection estimates in the OMBapproved inventory. 51Staff assumes respondents with 2019 estimated 

volumes of next-month and physical basis 

transactions reported to index developers that 

exceeded two thirds of their total estimated 

volumes reported to index developers will no 

longer report their next-day transactions to index 

developers. 52We are proposing to allow companies to report 

just monthly, instead of monthly and daily. The 

figure (249 annual responses per respondent) relates 

to reporting on all non-holiday trading days. 

MODIFICATIONS DUE TO THE PROPOSED REVISED POLICY STATEMENT IN DOCKET NO. PUBLIC LAW 20–3—Continued 

Number of 

respondents 

Annual 

number of 

responses per 

respondent 

Total number 

of responses 

Average burden 

(hrs.) and cost ($) 

per response 

Total annual burden hrs. and 

total annual cost 

($) 

(1) (2) (1) * (2) = (3) (4) (3) * (4) = (5) 

Price Index Developers—code of conduct & confident.; & inform customers.6 1 6 80 hrs.; $6,640 ...... 480 hrs.; $39,840. 

Price Index Developers—identify assessed index price vs. calculated.6 1 6 80 hrs.; $6,640 ...... 480 hrs.; $39,840. 

Proposed Increases to FERC–549 ........................ ........................ ........................ ................................ 1,228.8 hrs.; $101,990.40. 

Net Total Proposed Reduction ........................ ........................ ........................ ................................ 12,735.2 hrs.; $1,4057,021.6. 

The Commission seeks comments on 

the burden and cost related to 

complying with the proposed revised 

policy statement. 

Title: FERC–549, NGPA Title III 

Transactions and NGA Blanket 

Certificate Transactions. 

OMB Control No.: 1902–0086. 

Respondents: Natural Gas Data 

Providers (Market Participants That 

Report Transaction Data to Price Index 

Developers) and Price Index Developers. 

Frequency of Responses: As 

discussed. 

Necessity of the Information: 

The collection of this information 

helps to provide accuracy and 

transparency to the formation of natural 

gas price indices. 

Internal Review: These requirements 

conform to the Commission’s goal for 

efficient information collection, 

communication, and management. The 

Commission has assured itself, by 

means of its internal review, that there 

is specific, objective support for the 

burden estimates associated with the 

information requirements. 

Interested persons may obtain 

information on the reporting 

requirements by contacting the 

following: Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission, 888 First Street NE, 

Washington, DC 20426, Attn: Ellen 

Brown, Office of the Executive Director, 

email: DataClearance@ferc.gov, or 

phone: (202) 502–8663. 

IV. Comment Procedures 

44. We invite comments on this 

proposed Revised Policy Statement 

within March 23, 2021. 

V. Document Availability 

45. The Commission provides all 

interested persons an opportunity to 

view and/or print the contents of this 

document via the internet through the 

Commission’s Home Page (http://

www.ferc.gov). At this time, the 

Commission has suspended access to 

the Commission’s Public Reference 

Room, due to the proclamation 

declaring a National Emergency 

concerning the Novel Coronavirus 

Disease (COVID–19), issued by the 

President on March 13, 2020. 

46. From the Commission’s Home 

Page on the internet, this information is 

available on eLibrary. The full text of 

this document is available on eLibrary 

in PDF and Microsoft Word format for 

viewing, printing, and/or downloading. 

To access this document in eLibrary, 

type the docket number excluding the 

last three digits of this document in the 

docket number field. 

47. User assistance is available for 

eLibrary and the Commission’s website 

during normal business hours from the 

Commission’s Online Support at (202) 

502–6652 (toll free at 1–866–208–3676) 

or email at ferconlinesupport@ferc.gov, 

or the Public Reference Room at (202) 

502–8371, TTY (202) 502–8659. Email 

the Public Reference Room at 

public.referenceroom@ferc.gov. 

By the Commission. Commissioner 

Clements is not participating. 

Issued: December 17, 2020. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2020–28387 Filed 12–22–20; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket Nos. CP20–52–000; CP20–52–001] 

WBI Energy Transmission, Inc.; Notice 

of Availability of the Environmental 

Assessment for the Proposed North 

Bakken Expansion Project 

The staff of the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission (FERC or 

Commission) has prepared an 

environmental assessment (EA) for the 

North Bakken Expansion Project 

proposed by WBI Energy Transmission, 

Inc. (WBI Energy) in the abovereferenced docket. WBI Energy requests 

authorization to construct, modify, 

operate, and maintain a new natural gas 

pipeline and associated facilities in 

McKenzie, Williams, Mountrail, and 

Burke Counties, North Dakota to 

transport up to 250,000 million cubic 

feet per day of natural gas from the 

Williston Basin in northwest North 

Dakota to a new interconnect with 

Northern Border Pipeline Company’s 

existing mainline. The proposed 

facilities are collectively known as the 

North Bakken Expansion Project 

(Project). 

The EA assesses the potential 

environmental effects of the 

construction and operation of the 

Project in accordance with the 

requirements of the National 

Environmental Policy Act (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 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 

(USACE), the U.S. Bureau of Land 

Management (BLM), and the U.S. Forest 

Service (USFS) participated as 

cooperating agencies in the preparation 


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1A pipeline loop is a segment of pipe constructed 

parallel to an existing pipeline to increase capacity. 

2A pipeline pig is a device used to clean or 

inspect the pipeline. A pig launcher/receiver is an 

aboveground facility where pigs are inserted or 

retrieved from the pipeline. 

of this EA. Cooperating agencies have 

jurisdiction by law or special expertise 

with respect to resources potentially 

affected by WBI Energy’s proposal and 

participate in the NEPA analysis. The 

USACE will use the EA and supporting 

documentation to consider the issuance 

of Clean Water Act Section 404, Section 

408, and Rivers and Harbors Act Section 

10 permits. The Project would also cross 

lands administered by the USACE and 

USFS. While the BLM does not have 

any BLM-administered lands identified 

as part of the proposed route alignment 

for this Project, the BLM will use the 

EA, along with other supporting 

documentation, in coordination with 

the USACE and USFS, in the issuance 

of a Mineral Leasing Act (MLA) right-ofway grant over federally administered 

lands (USACE and USFS). Although the 

cooperating agencies provided input to 

the conclusions and recommendations 

presented in the EA, the agencies will 

present their own conclusions and 

recommendations in their respective 

decision process for the Project. 

The proposed North Bakken 

Expansion Project includes the 

following facilities in North Dakota: 

• 62.8 miles of new 24-inch-diameter 

pipeline from WBI Energy’s Tioga 

Compressor Station in Williams County 

to the proposed Elkhorn Creek 

Compressor Station in McKenzie 

County; 

• 0.3 mile of new 24-inch-diameter 

pipeline between the proposed Elkhorn 

Creek Compressor Station and Northern 

Border Pipeline Company in McKenzie 

County; 

• 20.3 miles of new 12-inch-diameter 

pipeline looping along WBI Energy’s 

existing Line Section 25 between the 

Tioga Compressor Station and the 

proposed Norse Transfer Station in 

Burke County; 1

• replacement of the existing 0.1 mile 

6-inch-diameter Stoneview-Conoco 

Lateral with 0.1 mile of 8-inch-diameter 

natural gas pipeline from Line Section 

25 to the proposed Norse Transfer 

Station in Burke County. 

• 9.6 miles of new 12-inch-diameter 

natural gas pipeline looping along WBI 

Energy’s Line Section 30 between the 

Nesson Valve Setting and the Tioga 

Compressor Station in Williams County; 

• 0.5 mile of new 20-inch-diameter 

natural gas pipeline between the new 

Tioga Plant Receipt Station and new 

facilities at the Tioga Compressor 

Station in Williams County; 

• uprates to WBI Energy’s Line 

Section 25 in Burke County; 

• one new 3,750 horsepower 

compressor station (Elkhorn Creek 

Compressor Station) in McKenzie 

County and the addition of 11,250 

horsepower at the existing Tioga 

Compressor Station in Williams County; 

• new, and modifications to, existing 

delivery, receipt, and transfer stations 

along WBI Energy’s pipeline routes in 

Burke, McKenzie, Mountrail, and 

Williams Counties; and 

• replacement of small segments of 

pipeline facilities and installation of 

block valves, pig 2 launcher/receiver 

stations, and associated appurtenances. 

The Commission mailed a copy of the 

Notice of Availability to federal, state, 

and local government representatives 

and agencies; elected officials; 

environmental and public interest 

groups; Native American tribes; 

potentially affected landowners, and 

local libraries and newspapers. The EA 

is only available in electronic format. It 

may be viewed and downloaded from 

FERC’s website (www.ferc.gov) on the 

natural gas environmental documents 

page (https://www.ferc.gov/industriesdata/natural-gas/environmentaldocument). In addition, the EA may be 

accessed by using the eLibrary link on 

FERC’s website. Click on the eLibrary 

link (https://www.ferc.gov/ferc-online/ 

elibrary), select General Search and 

enter the docket number in the Docket 

Number field (i.e., CP20–52). 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 EA is not a decision document. 

It presents Commission staff’s 

independent analysis of the 

environmental issues for the 

Commission to consider when 

addressing the merits of all issues in 

this proceeding. Any person wishing to 

comment on the EA may do so. Your 

comments should focus on the EA’s 

disclosure and discussion of 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 the 

Commission has the opportunity to 

consider your comments prior to 

making its decision on this Project, it is 

important that we receive your 

comments in Washington, DC on or 

before 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on 

January 19, 2021. 

For your convenience, there are three 

methods you can use to file your 

comments to the Commission. The 

Commission encourages electronic filing 

of comments and has staff available to 

assist you at (866) 208–3676 or 

FercOnlineSupport@ferc.gov. Please 

carefully follow these instructions so 

that your comments are properly 

recorded. 

(1) You can file your comments 

electronically using the eComment 

feature on the Commission’s website 

(www.ferc.gov) under the link FERC 

Online. This is an easy method for 

submitting brief, text-only comments on 

a project; 

(2) You can also file your comments 

electronically using the eFiling feature 

on the Commission’s website 

(www.ferc.gov) under the link to FERC 

Online. 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 must select the type of 

filing you are making. If you are filing 

a comment on a particular project, 

please select Comment on a Filing; or 

(3) You can file a paper copy of your 

comments by mailing them to the 

Commission. Be sure to reference the 

project docket number (CP20–52–000) 

on your letter. Submissions sent via the 

U.S. Postal Service must be addressed 

to: Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary, Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 

First Street NE, Room 1A, Washington, 

DC 20426. Submissions sent via any 

other carrier must be addressed to: 

Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary, Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission, 12225 

Wilkins Avenue, Rockville, Maryland 

20852. 

Filing environmental comments will not 

give you intervenor status, but you do 

not need intervenor status to have your 

comments considered. Only intervenors 

have the right to seek rehearing or 

judicial review of the Commission’s 

decision. At this point in this 

proceeding, the timeframe for filing 

timely intervention requests has 

expired. Any person seeking to become 

a party to the proceeding must file a 

motion to intervene out-of-time 

pursuant to Rule 214(b)(3) and (d) of the 

Commission’s Rules of Practice and 

Procedures (18 CFR 385.214(b)(3) and 

(d)) and show good cause why the time 

limitation should be waived. Motions to 

intervene are more fully described at 

https://www.ferc.gov/ferc-online/ferconline/how-guides. 

Additional information about the 

Project is available from the 

Commission’s Office of External Affairs, 


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at (866) 208–FERC, or on the FERC 

website (www.ferc.gov) using the 

eLibrary link. The eLibrary link also 

provides access to the texts of all formal 

documents issued by the Commission, 

such as orders, notices, and 

rulemakings. 

In addition, the Commission 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 https://www.ferc.gov/ 

ferc-online/overview to register for 

eSubscription. 

Dated: December 17, 2020. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2020–28390 Filed 12–22–20; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 2883–009] 

Aquenergy Systems, LLC; Notice of 

Availability of Environmental 

Assessment 

In accordance with the National 

Environmental Policy Act of 1969 and 

the Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission’s (Commission) 

regulations, 18 CFR part 380, the Office 

of Energy Projects has reviewed the 

application for a new license for the 

Fries Hydroelectric Project, located on 

the New River, in Grayson County, 

Virginia and has prepared an 

Environmental Assessment (EA) for the 

project. The project does not occupy 

federal land. 

The EA contains staff’s analysis of the 

potential environmental impacts of the 

project and concludes that licensing the 

project, with appropriate environmental 

protective measures, would not 

constitute a major federal action that 

would significantly affect the quality of 

the human environment. 

The Commission provides all 

interested persons with an opportunity 

to view and/or print the EA via the 

internet through the Commission’s 

Home Page (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. At this time, the Commission 

has suspended access to the 

Commission’s Public Reference Room, 

due to the proclamation declaring a 

National Emergency concerning the 

Novel Coronavirus Disease (COVID–19), 

issued by the President on March 13, 

2020. For assistance, contact FERC 

Online Support at 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or tollfree at (866) 208–3676, or for TTY, (202) 

502–8659. 

You may also register online at 

https://ferconline.ferc.gov/ 

eSubscription.aspx to be notified via 

email of new filings and issuances 

related to this or other pending projects. 

For assistance, contact FERC Online 

Support. 

Any comments should be filed within 

45 days from the date of this notice. 

The Commission strongly encourages 

electronic filings. Please file comments 

using the Commission’s eFiling system 

at https://ferconline.ferc.gov/ 

eFiling.aspx. Commenters can submit 

brief comments up to 6,000 characters, 

without prior registration, using the 

eComment system at https://

ferconline.ferc.gov/ 

QuickComment.aspx. You must include 

your name and contact information at 

the end of your comments. For 

assistance, please contact FERC Online 

Support. In lieu of electronic filing, you 

may submit a paper copy. Submissions 

sent via the U.S. Postal Service must be 

addressed to: Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission, 888 First Street NE, Room 

1A, Washington, DC 20426. 

Submissions sent via any other carrier 

must be addressed to: Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission, 12225 Wilkins Avenue, 

Rockville, Maryland 20852. The first 

page of any filing should include docket 

number P–2883–009. 

For further information, contact Jody 

Callihan at (202) 502–8278 or by email 

at jody.callihan@ferc.gov. 

Dated: December 17, 2020. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2020–28392 Filed 12–22–20; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

Combined Notice of Filings 

Take notice that the Commission has 

received the following Natural Gas 

Pipeline Rate and Refund Report filings: 

Docket Numbers: RP21–310–000. 

Applicants: NGO Transmission, Inc. 

Description: § 4(d) Rate Filing: 

Negotiated Rate Filing to be effective 1/ 

1/2021. 

Filed Date: 12/16/20. 

Accession Number: 20201216–5006. 

Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 12/28/20. 

Docket Numbers: RP21–311–000. 

Applicants: Northwest Pipeline LLC. 

Description: § 4(d) Rate Filing: Revise 

Customer-Specific Entitlement 

Provisions—GT&C 14.6 & 15.3 to be 

effective 1/16/2021. 

Filed Date: 12/16/20. 

Accession Number: 20201216–5069. 

Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 12/28/20. 

Docket Numbers: RP21–312–000. 

Applicants: Sea Robin Pipeline 

Company, LLC. 

Description: Compliance filing 

Annual Flowthrough Crediting 

Mechanism Filing on 12/16/20 to be 

effective N/A. 

Filed Date: 12/16/20. 

Accession Number: 20201216–5070. 

Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 12/28/20. 

Docket Numbers: RP21–313–000. 

Applicants: Iroquois Gas 

Transmission System, L.P. 

Description: § 4(d) Rate Filing: 121620 

Negotiated Rates—Freepoint 

Commodities LLC R–7250–30 to be 

effective 1/1/2021. 

Filed Date: 12/16/20. 

Accession Number: 20201216–5096. 

Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 12/28/20. 

Docket Numbers: RP21–314–000. 

Applicants: Iroquois Gas 

Transmission System, L.P. 

Description: § 4(d) Rate Filing: 121620 

Negotiated Rates—Freepoint 

Commodities LLC R–7250–31 to be 

effective 1/1/2021. 

Filed Date: 12/16/20. 

Accession Number: 20201216–5097. 

Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 12/28/20. 

Docket Numbers: RP21–315–000. 

Applicants: Guardian Pipeline, L.L.C. 

Description: § 4(d) Rate Filing: Update 

Non-Conform Agmt RW0068-Wisconsin 

Elec Power Co to be effective 1/16/2021. 

Filed Date: 12/16/20. 

Accession Number: 20201216–5147. 

Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 12/28/20. 

Docket Numbers: RP21–316–000. 

Applicants: Guardian Pipeline, L.L.C. 

Description: § 4(d) Rate Filing: Update 

Part 6.0 Reserving for Future Use to be 

effective 1/16/2021. 

Filed Date: 12/16/20. 

Accession Number: 20201216–5151. 

Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 12/28/20. 

The filings are accessible in the 

Commission’s eLibrary system (https://

elibrary.ferc.gov/idmws/search/ 

fercgensearch.asp) by querying the 

docket number. 

Any person desiring to intervene or 

protest in any of the above proceedings 


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