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10, 2008, DOE issued Order No. EA– 

191–C, amending EA–191–B to 

authorize SETC to export under its new 

name, Sempra Energy Trading LLC 

(SET), under the same terms contained 

in Order No. EA–191–B. On October 12, 

2010, SET filed an application with 

DOE for renewal of the export authority 

contained in Order No. EA–191–C for an 

additional five-year term. 

On November 23, 2010, SET 

supplemented its application by 

requesting expedited treatment of their 

application. In its letter, SET indicated 

that due to an administrative oversight 

it had not applied to renew its 

authorization in sufficient time to allow 

for normal DOE processing. SET 

recognized that its authority to export 

electric energy to Canada had expired 

and asserted that it has not traded 

electric energy since expiration of Order 

No. EA–191–B and that it would not do 

so until and unless it received renewed 

authority to export at the conclusion of 

this proceeding. In response to SET’s 

request for expedited treatment, DOE 

has shortened the public comment 

period to 15 days. 

The electric energy that SET proposes 

to export to Canada would be surplus 

energy purchased from electric utilities, 

Federal power marketing agencies, and 

other entities within the United States. 

The existing international transmission 

facilities to be utilized by SET 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 become a party to these 

proceedings or to be heard by filing 

comments 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 the Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission’s Rules 

of Practice and Procedures (18 CFR 

385.211, 385.214). Fifteen copies of each 

petition and protest should be filed with 

and received by DOE on or before the 

date listed above. 

Comments on the SET application to 

export electric energy to Canada should 

be clearly marked with Docket No. EA– 

191–D. An additional copy is to be filed 

directly with Ted Chila, Senior Vice 

President, Sempra Energy Trading LLC, 

58 Commerce Road, Stamford, CT 

06902. A final decision will be made on 

this application after the environmental 

impacts have been evaluated pursuant 

to DOE’s National Environmental Policy 

Act Implementing Procedures (10 CFR 

part 1021) and after a determination is 

made by DOE that the proposed action 

will not adversely impact on the 

reliability of the U.S. electric power 

supply system. 

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. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on December 2, 

2010. 

Anthony J. Como, 

Director, Permitting and Siting, Office of 

Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability. 

[FR Doc. 2010–30625 Filed 12–6–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Request for Comments on Helium-3 

Use in the Oil and Natural Gas Well 

Logging Industry 

AGENCY: Office of Fossil Energy, 

Department of Energy. 

ACTION: Request for Comments. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Energy 

(DOE) Office of Oil and Natural Gas is 

seeking public comments on the 

volumes and uses of Helium-3 by the oil 

and gas well logging industry. 

DATES: Written comments and 

information are requested on or before 

5 p.m. Eastern time on February 1, 2011. 

ADDRESSES: Interested persons may 

submit information by any of the 

following methods: 

Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments. 

E-mail: Edith.Allison@hq.doe.gov. 

Include ‘‘Helium-3 Request for 

Comments’’ in the subject line of the 

message. 

Postal Mail: Edith Allison, U.S. 

Department of Energy, Office of Fossil 

Energy, Office of Oil and Natural Gas, 

Room 3E–028, 1000 Independence 

Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20585– 

0121. Please submit one signed paper 

original. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Edith Allison, U.S. Department of 

Energy, Office of Oil and Natural Gas, 

Edith.Allison@hq.doe.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: DOE 

Office of Oil and Natural Gas is 

responsible for allotting 1,000 liters of 

Helium-3 for use by the well logging 

industry in Fiscal Year (FY) 2011 and 

for projecting the FY 2012 Helium-3 

needs so that an industry allotment can 

be set aside for FY 2012. The Office of 

Oil and Natural Gas seeks information 

to improve its understanding of the 

need for Helium-3 and the diversity of 

the user community so that it can tailor 

its allocation process to best support the 

efficient domestic production of oil and 

natural gas. 

Background: 

Helium-3 is a non-radioactive isotope 

of Helium that is a byproduct of the 

decay of Tritium. Its main use is for 

neutron detection devices used in 

scientific research, national security and 

oil and gas well logging. The US 

helium-3 stockpile, which is held by the 

DOE, is not adequate to meet the current 

demand. Therefore, DOE is considering 

an allotment process. 

Allotment Process Considerations: 

In developing its allotment process, 

DOE seeks information on the uses of 

Helium-3 by members of the oil and gas 

well logging industry. DOE seeks 

information, for example, on whether 

companies manufacture neutron 

detectors used by the well logging 

industry or wireline or Logging-WhileDrilling tools incorporating neutron 

detectors, and whether companies 

purchase or lease logging tools that 

contain neutron detectors. 

DOE also seeks information on the 

volumes of Helium-3 anticipated by the 

oil and gas well logging industry during 

the 2-year allotment under 

consideration by DOE. DOE seeks 

information on estimates of oil and gas 

required by companies for fiscal years 

2011 (October 1, 2010 through 

September 30, 2011) and 2012 (October 

1, 2011 through September 30, 2012). 

DOE also seeks information on the 

recycling and reclamation of Helium-3 

gas. DOE understands that Helium-3 gas 

can be recycled or reclaimed from many 

inoperable neutron detectors. DOE seeks 

information on whether companies plan 

to reclaim Helium-3 from 

malfunctioning devices and if so, how 

much Helim-3 companies anticipate 

reclaiming. 

In allotting Helium-3, DOE would 

expect to give preference to devices for 

use in the United States. Therefore, DOE 

seeks information on how much 

companies’ expected Helium-3 will be 

for devices used outside the United 

States. 

Further Information on Submitting 

Information: 

According to 10 CFR 1004.11, any 

person submitting information that he 

or she believes to be confidential and 

exempt by law from public disclosure 

should submit two copies: One copy of 

the document including all the 

information believed to be confidential 

and one copy of the document with the 

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deleted. DOE will make its own 

determination as to the confidential 

status of the information and treat it 

according to its determination. 

Factors of interest to DOE when 

evaluating requests to treat submitted 

information as confidential include (1) 

A description of the items; (2) whether 

and why such items are customarily 

treated as confidential within the 

industry; (3) whether the information is 

generally known by or available from 

other sources; (4) whether the 

information has previously been made 

available to others without obligation 

concerning its confidentiality; (5) an 

explanation of the competitive injury to 

the submitting person which would 

result from public disclosure; (6) a date 

upon which such information might 

lose its confidential nature due to the 

passage of time; and (7) why disclosure 

of the information would be contrary to 

the public interest. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on November 

30, 2010. 

Christopher A. Smith, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Oil and 

Natural Gas. 

[FR Doc. 2010–30632 Filed 12–6–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 13879–000] 

Kahawai Power 2, LLC; Notice of 

Preliminary Permit Application 

Accepted for Filing and Soliciting 

Comments, Motions To Intervene, and 

Competing Applications 

November 29, 2010. 

On November 15, 2010, Kahawai 

Power 2, LLC filed an application for a 

preliminary permit, pursuant to section 

4(f) of the Federal Power Act, proposing 

to study the feasibility of the Makaweli 

River Water Power Project, located in 

Kauai County, in the state of Hawaii. 

The sole purpose of a preliminary 

permit, if issued, is to grant the permit 

holder priority to file a license 

application during the permit term. A 

preliminary permit does not authorize 

the permit holder to perform any land 

disturbing activities or otherwise enter 

upon lands or waters owned by others 

without the owners’ express permission. 

The proposed project would consist of 

the following developments: 

(1) A proposed 6-foot-high and 40- 

foot-long reinforced concrete weir and 

intake structure on the Kahana stream 

that will maintain a normal surface 

elevation of 2,200 feet msl; (2) a 

proposed 8-foot-high and 40-foot-long 

reinforced concrete weir and intake 

structure on the Mokuone stream that 

will maintain a normal surface elevation 

of 2,200 feet msl; (3) a new 31,000-footlong, steel penstock; (4) a proposed 

1.500-foot-long, 48-inch diameter, 

underground tunnel to convey water 

from the Mokuone Diversion to the 

Mokuone Feeder Penstock; (5) a new 

1,750-foot-long, 36-inch diameter steel 

feeder penstock to collect additional 

flows from the Mokuone Diversion; (6) 

a proposed 70-foot-long, 40-foot-wide, 

reinforced concrete powerhouse; (7) a 

proposed 90-foot-long, 15-foot-wide 

tailrace; (8) an anticipated proposed 

transmission line approximately 4.25 

miles in length and a voltage of 69kV; 

(9) a new gravel roadway approximately 

1 mile in length; (10) a proposed average 

annual generation of 23,900 megawatthours. 

Applicant Contact: Daniel Irvin, CEO, 

Free Flow Power Corporation, 33 

Commercial Street, Gloucester, MA 

01930; phone: (978) 252–7631. 

FERC Contact: Mary Greene, 202– 

502–8865. 

Deadline for filing comments, motions 

to intervene, competing applications 

(without notices of intent), or notices of 

intent to file competing applications: 60 

days from the issuance of this notice. 

Comments, motions to intervene, 

notices of intent, and competing 

applications may be filed electronically 

via the Internet. See 18 CFR 

385.2001(a)(1)(iii) and the instructions 

on the Commission’s Web site (http:// 

www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/ferconline.asp) 

under the ‘‘eFiling’’ link. For a simpler 

method of submitting text only 

comments, click on ‘‘Quick Comment.’’ 

For assistance, please contact FERC 

Online Support at 

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

contact (202) 502–8659. Although the 

Commission strongly encourages 

electronic filing, documents may also be 

paper-filed. To paper-file, mail an 

original and eight copies to: Kimberly D. 

Bose, Secretary, Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission, 888 First 

Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426. 

More information about this project, 

including a copy of the application, can 

be viewed or printed on the ‘‘eLibrary’’ 

link of Commission’s Web site at 

http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/ 

elibrary.asp. Enter the docket number 

(P–13879) in the docket number field to 

access the document. For assistance, 

contact FERC Online Support. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2010–30593 Filed 12–6–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

Notice of Competing Preliminary 

Permit Applications Accepted for 

Filing and Soliciting Comments, and 

Motions To Intervene 

November 30, 2010. 

Project No. 13741–000 

Lock + Hydro Friends Fund XLV 

Project No. 13748–000 

FFP Missouri 9, LLC 

Project No. 13771–000 

Solia 8 Hydroelectric, LLC 

Project No. 13789–000 

Point Marion Hydro, LLC 

On May 18, 2010, Lock+ Hydro 

Friends Fund XLV, FFP Missouri 9, 

LLC, and Solia 8 Hydroelectric, LLC 

filed applications, and on May 19, 2010, 

Point Marion Hydro, LLC filed an 

application pursuant to section 4(f) of 

the Federal Power Act, proposing to 

study the feasibility of hydropower at 

the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 

(Corps) Point Marion Lock and Dam 

located on the Monongahela River in 

Fayette County, Pennsylvania. The sole 

purpose of a preliminary permit, if 

issued, is to grant the permit holder 

priority to file a license application 

during the permit term. A preliminary 

permit does not authorize the permit 

holder to perform any land-disturbing 

activities or otherwise enter upon lands 

or waters owned by others without the 

owners’ express permission. 

Descriptions of the proposed Point 

Marion Lock and Dam Projects: 

Lock+ Hydro Friends Fund XLV’s 

project (Project No. 13741–000) would 

consist of: (1) Two 57-foot-high, 75-footlong prefabricated concrete walls 

attached to the downstream side of the 

Corps dam which would support one 

frame module; (2) each frame module 

would be 109 feet long and weigh 1.16 

million pounds and contain 10 

generating units with a total combined 

capacity of 19.0 megawatts (MW); (3) a 

new switchyard containing a 

transformer; and (4) a proposed 11,000- 

foot-long, 36.7-kilovolt (kV) 

transmission line connecting to an 

existing substation. The proposed 

project would have an average annual 

generation of 83.277 gigawatt-hours 


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