Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 32 / Friday, February 19, 2021 / Notices 10261 

or control any transmission or 

distribution assets and does not have a 

franchised service area in the United 

States.’’ Id. OPG clarifies that ‘‘OPGET, 

a power marketing and trading entity 

owned by OPG makes power sales 

within the United States, and at the 

international border with Canada 

pursuant to its FERC market-based rate 

authorization[, but] does not export 

power from the United States to 

Canada.’’ Id. at 2. 

OPC further states that it ‘‘will 

purchase the power to be exported from 

a variety of sources such as power 

marketers, independent power 

producers or U.S. electric utilities and 

Federal power marketing agencies as 

those terms are defined in section 3(22) 

and 3(19) of the FPA.’’ App. at 4. OPG 

adds that ‘‘by definition, such power is 

surplus to the system of the generator’’. 

Id. OPG contends that ‘‘the electric 

power that [it] will export to Canada 

from these markets, on either a firm or 

interruptible basis, will not impair the 

sufficiency of the electric power supply 

within the United States.’’ Id. 

The existing international 

transmission facilities to be utilized by 

the Applicant have previously been 

authorized by Presidential permits 

issued pursuant to Executive Order 

10485, as amended, and are appropriate 

for open access transmission by third 

parties. 

Procedural Matters: Any person 

desiring to be heard in this proceeding 

should file a comment or protest to the 

Application at the address provided 

above. Protests should be filed in 

accordance with Rule 211 of the Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) 

Rules of Practice and Procedure (18 CFR 

385.211). Any person desiring to 

become a party to this proceeding 

should file a motion to intervene at the 

above address in accordance with FERC 

Rule 214 (18 CFR 385.214). 

Comments and other filings 

concerning OPG’s application to export 

electric energy to Canada should be 

clearly marked with OE Docket No. EA– 

290–D. Additional copies are to be 

provided directly to Jerry L Pfeffer, 1440 

New York Avenue NW, Washington, DC 

20005, jpfeffer@skadden.com; and 

Karen Cooke, 700 University Avenue, 

Toronto, Ontario MSG IX6, Canada, 

karen.cooke@opg.com. 

A final decision will be made on the 

Application after the environmental 

impacts have been evaluated pursuant 

to DOE’s National Environmental Policy 

Act Implementing Procedures (10 CFR 

part 1021) and after DOE determines 

that the proposed action will not have 

an adverse impact on the sufficiency of 

supply or reliability of the U.S. electric 

power supply system. 

Copies of the Application will be 

made available, upon request, by 

accessing the program website at http:// 

energy.gov/node/11845, or by emailing 

Matt Aronoff at matthew.aronoff@

hq.doe.gov. 

Signed in Washington, DC, on February 1, 

2021. 

Christopher Lawrence, 

Management and Program Analyst, Energy 

Resilience Division, Office of Electricity. 

[FR Doc. 2021–03400 Filed 2–18–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 2879–012] 

Green Mountain Power Corporation; 

Notice of Intent To Prepare an 

Environmental Assessment 

On January 30, 2020, Green Mountain 

Power Corporation filed an application 

for a new major license to continue 

operating the existing 7.5-megawatt 

Bolton Falls Hydroelectric Project No. 

2879 (Bolton Falls Project or project). 

The project is located on the Winooski 

River in Washington County, Vermont. 

The project does not occupy federal 

land. 

In accordance with the Commission’s 

regulations, on December 1, 2020, 

Commission staff issued a notice that 

the project was ready for environmental 

analysis (REA notice). Based on the 

information in the record, including 

comments filed on the REA notice, staff 

does not anticipate that licensing the 

project would constitute a major federal 

action significantly affecting the quality 

of the human environment. Therefore, 

staff intends to prepare a draft and final 

Environmental Assessment (EA) on the 

application to license the Bolton Falls 

Project. 

The EA will be issued and circulated 

for review by all interested parties. All 

comments filed on the EA will be 

analyzed by staff and considered in the 

Commission’s final licensing decision. 

The application will be processed 

according to the following schedule. 

Revisions to the schedule may be made 

as appropriate. 

Milestone Target date 

Commission issues Draft EA ....................................................................................................................................................... August 2021. 

Comments on Draft EA ................................................................................................................................................................ September 2021. 

Commission issues Final EA ....................................................................................................................................................... February 2022.1

1The Council on Environmental Quality’s (CEQ) regulations under 40 CFR 1501.10(b)(1) require that EAs be completed within 1 year of the 

federal action agency’s decision to prepare an EA. This notice establishes the Commission’s intent to prepare an EA for the Bolton Falls Project. 

Therefore, in accordance with CEQ’s regulations, the Final EA must be issued within 1 year of the issuance date of this notice.

Any questions regarding this notice 

may be directed to Michael Tust at (202) 

502–6522 or michael.tust@ferc.gov. 

Dated: February 12, 2021. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2021–03369 Filed 2–18–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. CP21–45–000] 

Florida Gas Transmission Company, 

LLC; Notice of Application and 

Establishing Intervention and Protest 

Deadline 

Take notice that on January 29, 2021, 

Florida Gas Transmission Company, 

LLC (Florida Gas), 1300 Main Street, 

Houston, Texas 77002, filed in the 

above referenced docket, an abbreviated 

application pursuant to section 7(c) of 

the Natural Gas Act (NGA) and Parts 

157 and 284 of the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission’s regulations, 

for authorization to (1) construct two 

segments of 36-inch-diameter mainline 

loop extensions totaling 3.2 miles and 

relocate two associated pig receiver 

stations in Calhoun and Jefferson 

Counties, Florida; and (3) uprate a total 

of 8,000 additional HP distributed 

among the existing compressor stations 


tkelley on DSKBCP9HB2PROD with NOTICES