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Dated: November 10, 2010. 

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Department of Education. 

[FR Doc. 2010–28856 Filed 11–15–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

[OE Docket No. PP–371] 

Application for Presidential Permit; 

Northern Pass Transmission LLC 

AGENCY: Office of Electricity Delivery 

and Energy Reliability, DOE. 

ACTION: Notice of application. 

SUMMARY: Northern Pass Transmission 

LLC (Northern Pass) 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 December 16, 2010. 

ADDRESSES: Comments, protests, or 

requests to intervene should be 

addressed as follows: Brian Mills, 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: 

Brian Mills (Program Office) at 202– 

586–8267 or via electronic mail at 

Brian.Mills@hq.doe.gov, or Michael T. 

Skinker (Program Attorney) at 202–586– 

2793. 

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 October 14, 2010, Northern Pass 

filed an application with the Office of 

Electricity Delivery and Energy 

Reliability of the Department of Energy 

(DOE) for a Presidential permit. 

Northern Pass is jointly owned by NU 

Transmission Ventures, Inc. (75% 

owner), a wholly-owned subsidiary of 

Northeast Utilities, a publicly held 

public utility holding company, and 

NSTAR Transmission Ventures, Inc. 

(25% owner), a wholly-owned 

subsidiary of NSTAR, a publicly held 

public utility holding company. 

The proposed international 

transmission line would originate at a 

high-voltage direct current (HVDC) 

converter terminal to be constructed at 

the Des Canton Substation in Quebec, 

Canada, from which a single circuit ± 

300 kilovolt (kV) HVDC overhead 

electric transmission line would extend 

southward in Province of Quebec for 

approximately 45 miles where it would 

cross the Canada-U.S. border into Coos 

County, New Hampshire. In New 

Hampshire the proposed HVDC 

transmission line would continue 

southward for approximately 140 miles 

to a proposed converter terminal to be 

constructed in Franklin, New 

Hampshire. At the Franklin converter 

terminal the electric energy would be 

converted from direct current to 345–kV 

alternating current (AC). The single 

circuit overhead 345–kV AC line would 

continue another 40 miles to Public 

Service Company of New Hampshire’s 

existing Deerfield Substation, located in 

Deerfield, New Hampshire. Facilities to 

be constructed in Canada would be 

owned and operated by Hydro-Quebec 

TransEnergie, a division of HydroQuebec. The 180 miles of transmission 

inside the United States and the 

Franklin converter terminal would be 

owned and operated by Northern Pass. 

The proposed international 

transmission facilities would enable the 

bidirectional transmission of 1,200 

megawatts (MW) of power between 

Quebec, Canada, and New England. 

Since the restructuring of the electric 

power 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 

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: Anne 

Bartosewicz, Northeast Utilities, 107 

Selden Street, Berlin, CT 06037 AND 

Mary Anne Sullivan, Hogan Lovells, 

LLP, 555 13th St., NW., Washington, DC 

20004. 

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 e-mailing 

Odessa Hopkins at 

Odessa.hopkins@hq.doe.gov. 

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Federal Register / Vol. 75, No. 220 / Tuesday, November 16, 2010 / Notices 69991 

Issued in Washington, DC, on November 9, 

2010. 

Anthony J. Como, 

Director, Permitting and Siting, Office of 

Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability. 

[FR Doc. 2010–28811 Filed 11–15–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

Sunshine Act Meeting 

November 10, 2010. 

The following notice of meeting is 

published pursuant to section 3(a) of the 

Government in the Sunshine Act (Pub. 

L. 94–409), 5 U.S.C. 552b: 

AGENCY HOLDING MEETING: Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission. 

DATE AND TIME: November 18, 2010, 10 

a.m. 

PLACE: Room 2C, 888 First Street, NE., 

Washington, DC 20426. 

STATUS: Open. 

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: Agenda. 

* Note—Items listed on the agenda 

may be deleted without further notice. 

CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION: 

Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary, Telephone 

(202) 502–8400. 

For a recorded message listing items 

struck from or added to the meeting, call 

(202) 502–8627. 

This is a list of matters to be 

considered by the Commission. It does 

not include a listing of all documents 

relevant to the items on the agenda. All 

public documents, however, may be 

viewed on line at the Commission’s 

Web site at http://www.ferc.gov using 

the eLibrary link, or may be examined 

in the Commission’s Public Reference 

Room. 

964TH—MEETING; REGULAR MEETING

[November 18, 2010, 10 a.m.] 

Item No. Docket No. Company 

ADMINISTRATIVE 

A–1 ............... AD02–1–000 ............................ Agency Administrative Matters. 

A–2 ............... AD02–7–000 ............................ Customer Matters, Reliability, Security and Market Operations. 

A–3 ............... AD07–13–003 .......................... 2010 Report on Enforcement. 

ELECTRIC 

E–1 ............... RM10–11–000 .......................... Integration of Variable Energy Resources. 

E–2 ............... RM09–18–000 .......................... Revision to Electric Reliability Organization Definition of Bulk Electric System. 

E–3 ............... RM10–15–000 .......................... Mandatory Reliability Standards for Interconnection Reliability Operating Limits. 

E–4 ............... ER08–386–000 ........................

ER08–386–001 ........................

Potomac-Appalachian Transmission. 

Highline, L.L.C. 

E–5 ............... ER08–374–001, EL08–38–001 Atlantic Path 15, LLC. 

E–6 ............... ER08–413–002 ........................ Startrans IO, L.L.C. 

E–7 ............... ER06–278–007 ........................ The Nevada Hydro Company, Inc. 

E–8 ............... RM09–25–000 .......................... System Personnel Training Reliability Standards. 

E–9 ............... RM10–16–000 .......................... System Restoration Reliability Standards. 

E–10 ............. EL10–87–000 ........................... Great River Energy. 

E–11 ............. ER09–1254–002 ...................... Southwest Power Pool, Inc. 

E–12 ............. EL10–82–000 ........................... Southern Montana Electric Generation & Transmission Cooperative, Inc. v. NorthWestern Corporation. 

E–13 ............. OMITTED .................................

E–14 ............. EL10–72–000 ........................... Puget Sound Energy, Inc. 

GAS 

G–1 ............... RP04–274–020, RP04–274– 

017, RP04–274–018, RP04– 

274–019, RP04–274–016, 

RP04–274–009, RP04–274– 

021.

Kern River Gas Transmission Company. 

G–2 ............... RP10–1045–000 ...................... Arena Energy, LP, Complainant v. Sea Robin Pipeline Company, LLC, Respondent. 

G–3 ............... RP11–1494–000 ...................... Kinder Morgan Interstate Gas Transmission LLC. 

G–4 ............... RP11–1495–000 ...................... Ozark Gas Transmission, L.L.C. 

HYDRO 

H–1 ............... P–13323–001 ........................... Bishop Tungsten Development LLC. 

H–2 ............... P–13452–000 ........................... McGinnis, Inc. 

H–3 ............... P–13445–000 ........................... McGinnis, Inc. 

H–4 ............... P–13450–000 ........................... McGinnis, Inc. 

H–5 ............... P–10482–104 ........................... AER NY–Gen, LLC. 

Eagle Creek Hydro Power, LLC. 

Eagle Creek Water Resources, LLC. 

Eagle Creek Land Resources, LLC. 

CERTIFICATES 

C–1 ............... CP10–509–000 ........................ Sawgrass Storage LLC. 

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