Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 19 / Monday, February 1, 2021 / Notices 7721 

5Contested proceedings are those where an 

intervenor disputes any material issue of the filing. 

18 CFR 385.2201(c)(1) (2020). 

6Algonquin Gas Transmission, LLC, 170 FERC 

61,144, at P 40 (2020). 

7 Id. P 40. 

8Similarly, the Commission will not re-litigate 

the issuance of an NGA section 3 authorization, 

including whether a proposed project is not 

inconsistent with the public interest and whether 

the Commission’s environmental analysis for the 

permit order complied with NEPA. 

9Algonquin Gas Transmission, LLC, 170 FERC 

61,144, at P 40 (2020). 

requests for extensions of time to 

complete construction for Natural Gas 

Act facilities when such requests are 

contested before order issuance. For 

those extension requests that are 

contested,5 the Commission will aim to 

issue an order acting on the request 

within 45 days.6 The Commission will 

address all arguments relating to 

whether the applicant has demonstrated 

there is good cause to grant the 

extension.7 The Commission will not 

consider arguments that re-litigate the 

issuance of the Certificate Order, 

including whether the Commission 

properly found the project to be in the 

public convenience and necessity and 

whether the Commission’s 

environmental analysis for the 

certificate complied with the National 

Environmental Policy Act.8 At the time 

a pipeline requests an extension of time, 

orders on certificates of public 

convenience and necessity are final and 

the Commission will not re-litigate their 

issuance.9 The OEP Director, or his or 

her designee, will act on those extension 

requests that are uncontested. 

In addition to publishing the full text 

of this document in the Federal 

Register, 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://

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 COVID–19, 

issued by the President on March 13, 

2020. For assistance, contact FERC at 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or call 

toll-free, (886) 208–3676 or TYY, (202) 

502–8659. 

The Commission strongly encourages 

electronic filings of comments, protests 

and interventions in lieu of paper using 

the ‘‘eFile’’ link at http://www.ferc.gov. 

Persons unable to file electronically may 

mail similar pleadings to the Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission. To mail 

via USPS, use the following address: 

Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary, Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 

First Street NE, Washington, DC 20426. 

To mail via any other courier, use the 

following address: Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission, 12225 Wilkins Avenue, 

Rockville, Maryland 20852. 

Comment Date: 5:00 p.m. Eastern 

Time on February 11, 2021. 

Dated: January 26, 2021. 

Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr., 

Deputy Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2021–02097 Filed 1–29–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 539–015] 

Lock 7 Hydro Partners, LLC; Notice 

Soliciting Scoping Comments 

Take notice that the following 

hydroelectric application has been filed 

with the Commission and is available 

for public inspection. 

a. Type of Application: New Major 

License. 

b. Project No.: 539–015. 

c. Date Filed: April 30, 2020. 

d. Applicant: Lock 7 Hydro Partners, 

LLC (Lock 7 Hydro). 

e. Name of Project: Mother Ann Lee 

Hydroelectric Station Water Power 

Project (Mother Ann Lee Project). 

f. Location: The project is located on 

the Kentucky River in Mercer, 

Jessamine, and Garrard Counties, 

Kentucky. The project does not occupy 

federal land. 

g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power 

Act 16 U.S.C. 791 (a)–825(r). 

h. Applicant Contact: David Brown 

Kinloch, Lock 7 Hydro, 414 S Wenzel 

St., Louisville, Kentucky 40204; (502) 

589–0975 or kyhydropower@gmail.com. 

i. FERC Contact: Joshua Dub at (202) 

502–8138 or joshua.dub@ferc.gov. 

j. Deadline for filing scoping 

comments: February 25, 2021. 

The Commission strongly encourages 

electronic filing. Please file scoping 

comments using the Commission’s 

eFiling system at https://

ferconline.ferc.gov/FERCOnline.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 at FERCOnlineSupport@

ferc.gov, (866) 208–3676 (toll free), or 

(202) 502–8659 (TTY). 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. All filings must clearly identify 

the project name and docket number on 

the first page: Mother Ann Lee Project 

(P–539–015). 

The Commission’s Rules of Practice 

and Procedure require all interveners 

filing documents with the Commission 

to serve a copy of that document on 

each person on the official service list 

for the project. Further, if an intervener 

files comments or documents with the 

Commission relating to the merits of an 

issue that may affect the responsibilities 

of a particular resource agency, they 

must also serve a copy of the document 

on that resource agency. 

k. The application is not ready for 

environmental analysis at this time. 

l. The Mother Ann Lee Project 

consists of the following existing 

facilities: (1) A reservoir with a surface 

area of 777 acres and a storage capacity 

of 5,828 acre-feet at elevation 513.12 

NGVD 29 (National Geodetic Vertical 

Datum of 1929); (2) a 250-foot-long, 

15.3-foot-high, timber crib dam with a 

concrete cap and an abandoned 62-footlong lock structure on the east side; (3) 

a 120-foot-long, 100-foot-wide forebay; 

(4) a 24-foot-tall, 84-foot-wide trashrack; 

(5) a 93-foot-long, 25-foot-wide, 16-foothigh powerhouse integral with the dam 

containing three generating units with a 

total installed capacity of 2,210 

kilowatts; (6) a 30-foot-long, 15.3-foothigh concrete spillway section from the 

powerhouse to the west shore; (7) an 85- 

foot-long substation; and (8) a 34.5 

kilovolt, 4,540-foot-long transmission 

line. The project is estimated to generate 

an average of 9,200 megawatt-hours 

annually. 

m. In addition to publishing the full 

text of this document in the Federal 

Register, the Commission provides all 

interested persons an opportunity to 

view and/or print the contents 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, 

7722 Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 19 / Monday, February 1, 2021 / Notices 

1As of November 1, 2020, Berkshire Hathaway 

Energy Company acquired certain companies of 

Dominion Energy, including Dominion Energy 

Transmission, Inc. and has changed its name to 

Eastern Gas Transmission and Storage, Inc. 

2Prior Notice of Blanket Certificate Activity, 

Docket No. CP20–26–000 (filed December 16, 2019). 

3Pursuant to Section 157.205 of the 

Commission’s regulations, 18 CFR 157.205, a prior 

notice application is deemed to be authorized the 

day after the intervention period lapses if no 

protests are filed. 

4Only motions to intervene from entities that 

were party to the underlying proceeding will be 

accepted. Algonquin Gas Transmission, LLC, 170 

FERC ¶ 61,144, at P 39 (2020). 

5Contested proceedings are those where an 

intervenor disputes any material issue of the filing. 

18 CFR 385.2201(c)(1) (2020). 

6Algonquin Gas Transmission, LLC, 170 FERC 

61,144, at P 40 (2020). 

7 Id. P 40. 

8Similarly, the Commission will not re-litigate 

the issuance of an NGA section 3 authorization, 

including whether a proposed project is not 

inconsistent with the public interest and whether 

the Commission’s environmental analysis for the 

permit order complied with NEPA. 

9Algonquin Gas Transmission, LLC, 170 FERC 

61,144, at P 40 (2020). 

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 at 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or call 

toll-free, (866) 208–3676 or TYY, (202) 

502–8659. 

n. 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. 

o. Scoping Process: Commission staff 

will prepare either an environmental 

assessment (EA) or an Environmental 

Impact Statement (EIS) that describes 

and evaluates the probable effects, if 

any, of the licensee’s proposed action 

and alternatives. The EA or EIS will 

consider environmental impacts and 

reasonable alternatives to the proposed 

action. The Commission’s scoping 

process will help determine the 

required level of analysis and satisfy the 

NEPA scoping requirements, 

irrespective of whether the Commission 

prepares an EA or an EIS. Due to 

restrictions on mass gatherings related 

to COVID–19, we do not intend to 

conduct a public scoping meeting and 

site visit in this case. Instead, we are 

soliciting written comments and 

suggestions on the preliminary list of 

issues and alternatives to be addressed 

in the NEPA document, as described in 

scoping document 1 (SD1), issued 

January 26, 2021. 

Copies of the SD1 outlining the 

subject areas to be addressed in the 

NEPA document were distributed to the 

parties on the Commission’s mailing list 

and the applicant’s distribution list. 

Copies of SD1 may be viewed on the 

web 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, call 1–866– 

208–3676 or for TTY, (202) 502–8659. 

Dated: January 26, 2021. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2021–02062 Filed 1–29–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. CP20–26–000] 

Eastern Gas Transmission and 

Storage, Inc.; Notice of Request for 

Extension of Time 

Take notice that on January 21, 2021, 

Eastern Gas Transmission and Storage, 

Inc.1 (Eastern GTS) requested that the 

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission 

(Commission) grant an extension of 

time, until August 22, 2021, to abandon, 

reconfigure, and relocate storage wells 

and related pipelines within its 

jurisdictional Bridgeport Storage Field 

in Harrison County, West Virginia 

(Project),2 as deemed authorized, 

effective February 22, 2020. Under the 

applicable regulations, the Project was 

to be completed and made available for 

service by February 22, 2021, i.e., 

within one year of authorization.3

Eastern GTS states that, primarily due 

to delays related to the COVID–19 

pandemic, as well as weather related 

delays, Eastern GTS will be unable to 

complete all construction activities 

necessary to complete the Project within 

the authorized one-year timeframe. 

Accordingly, Eastern GTS requests a sixmonth extension of time, until August 

22, 2021, to complete construction of 

the Project. 

This notice establishes a 15-calendar 

day intervention and comment period 

deadline. Any person wishing to 

comment on Columbia’s request for an 

extension of time may do so. No reply 

comments or answers will be 

considered. If you wish to obtain legal 

status by becoming a party to the 

proceedings for this request, you 

should, on or before the comment date 

stated below, file 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 Natural 

Gas Act (18 CFR 157.10).4

As a matter of practice, the 

Commission itself generally acts on 

requests for extensions of time to 

complete construction for Natural Gas 

Act facilities when such requests are 

contested before order issuance. For 

those extension requests that are 

contested,5 the Commission will aim to 

issue an order acting on the request 

within 45 days.6 The Commission will 

address all arguments relating to 

whether the applicant has demonstrated 

there is good cause to grant the 

extension.7 The Commission will not 

consider arguments that re-litigate the 

issuance of the Certificate Order, 

including whether the Commission 

properly found the project to be in the 

public convenience and necessity and 

whether the Commission’s 

environmental analysis for the 

certificate complied with the National 

Environmental Policy Act.8 At the time 

a pipeline requests an extension of time, 

orders on certificates of public 

convenience and necessity are final and 

the Commission will not re-litigate their 

issuance.9 The OEP Director, or his or 

her designee, will act on those extension 

requests that are uncontested. 

In addition to publishing the full text 

of this document in the Federal 

Register, 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://

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 COVID–19, 

issued by the President on March 13, 

2020. For assistance, contact FERC at 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or call 

toll-free, (886) 208–3676 or TYY, (202) 

502–8659. 

The Commission strongly encourages 

electronic filings of comments, protests 

and interventions in lieu of paper using 

the ‘‘eFile’’ link at http://www.ferc.gov. 

Persons unable to file electronically may 

mail similar pleadings to the Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission. To mail