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holidays. 18 CFR 375.101(c) (2010). The 

applications were filed between 5:00 p.m. on Friday 

July 9, 2010, and 8:30 a.m. on Monday July 12, 

2010. Under the Commission’s Rules of Practice 

and Procedure, any document received after regular 

business hours is considered filed at 8:30 a.m. on 

the next regular business day. 18 CFR 

385.2001(a)(2) (2010). 

2 18 CFR 4.37 (2010). See, e.g., BPUS Generation 

Development, LLC, 126 FERC ¶ 61,132 (2009). 

were filed by Lock+ Hydro Friends 

Fund XLVIII, for Project No. 13809–000, 

and FFP Missouri 15, LLC, for Project 

No. 13814–000. 

Where all permit applicants are 

municipalities or all permit applicants 

are non-municipalities, and no 

applicant’s plans are better adapted than 

the others’ to develop, conserve, and 

utilize in the public interest the water 

resources of a region, the Commission 

issues a permit to the applicant who 

filed first in time.2 In this case, because 

two applications from entities not 

claiming municipal preference are 

deemed filed at the same time, the 

Commission will conduct a random tie 

breaker to determine priority. In the 

event that the Commission concludes 

that neither applicant’s plans are better 

adapted than the other, priority will be 

determined accordingly. 

On December 29, 2010, at 11 a.m. 

(Eastern Standard Time), the Secretary 

of the Commission, or her designee, 

will, by random drawing, determine the 

filing priority for the two applicants 

identified in this notice. The drawing is 

open to the public and will be held in 

room 2C, the Commission Meeting 

Room, located at 888 First St. NE., 

Washington, DC 20426. The results of 

the drawing will be recorded by the 

Secretary or her designee. A subsequent 

notice will be issued by the Secretary 

announcing the results of the drawing. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. RP11–1435–000] 

Columbia Gulf Transmission 

Company; Notice of Technical 

Conference 

December 15, 2010. 

On October 28, 2010, Columbia Gulf 

Transmission Company (Columbia Gulf) 

filed a request under section 4 of the 

Natural Gas Act (NGA) to implement a 

general rate increase. Columbia Gulf 

submitted two sets of proposed tariff 

records with alternative rate structures 

for consideration by the Commission: 

actual tariff rates as its Primary Case and 

pro forma tariff rates as its Preferred 

Case. On November 30, 2010, the 

Commission issued an order that, 

among other things, directed the Staff to 

convene a technical conference to 

explore the non-rate issues raised by the 

filing. 

Take notice that a technical 

conference to discuss non-rate issues 

raised by Columbia Gulf’s filing will be 

held on Tuesday, January 18, 2011 at 10 

a.m. (EST) and Wednesday, January 19, 

2011 at 10 a.m. (EST), in a room to be 

designated at the offices of the Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 

First Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426. 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission conferences are accessible 

under section 508 of the Rehabilitation 

Act of 1973. For accessibility 

accommodations please send an e-mail 

to accessibility@ferc.gov or call toll free 

1–866–208–3372 (voice) or 202–208– 

1659 (TTY), or send a FAX to 202–208– 

2106 with the required 

accommodations. 

All parties and staff are permitted to 

attend. For further information please 

contact Sebrina M. Greene at (202) 502– 

6309 or sebrina.greene@ferc.gov. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Western Area Power Administration 

Notice of Cancellation of 

Environmental Impact Statement for 

the Proposed NextGen Project Near 

Selby, Walworth County, SD (DOE/EIS– 

0401) 

AGENCY: Western Area Power 

Administration, DOE. 

ACTION: Cancellation of Environmental 

Impact Statement. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of 

Energy (DOE), Western Area Power 

Administration (Western) is issuing this 

notice to advise the public that it is 

cancelling the preparation of an 

environmental impact statement (EIS) 

under the National Environmental 

Policy Act (NEPA) on an 

interconnection request by the Basin 

Electric Power Cooperative (BEPC). 

BEPC proposed to design, construct, 

operate, and maintain a 500- to 700- 

megawatt base load, coal-fired 

generation facility near Selby, Walworth 

County, South Dakota, and interconnect 

it with Western’s transmission system, 

thus triggering a NEPA review of 

Western’s action to allow the 

interconnection. BEPC has notified 

Western it is suspending further action 

on its proposed project. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

further information on the cancellation 

of this EIS process, contact Matt Marsh, 

Upper Great Plains Regional Office, 

Western Area Power Administration, 

P.O. Box 35800, Billings, MT 59107– 

5800, e-mail MMarsh@wapa.gov, 

telephone (800) 358–3415. For general 

information on the DOE’s NEPA review 

process, contact Carol M. Borgstrom, 

Director, Office of NEPA Policy and 

Compliance, GC–54, U.S. Department of 

Energy, 1000 Independence Avenue, 

SW., Washington, DC 20585–0119, 

telephone (202) 586–4600 or (800) 472– 

2756, facsimile (202) 586–7031. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The U.S. 

Department of Energy (DOE), Western 

Area Power Administration (Western) is 

cancelling the preparation of an 

environmental impact statement (EIS) 

under the National Environmental 

Policy Act (NEPA) on an 

interconnection request by the Basin 

Electric Power Cooperative (BEPC). 

BEPC proposed to design, construct, 

operate, and maintain a 500- to 700- 

megawatt base load, coal-fired 

generation facility near Selby, Walworth 

County, South Dakota. BEPC’s proposed 

NextGen Project would have been 

entirely owned and operated by BEPC, 

and would have been constructed on 

private land. Western received a request 

for interconnection from BEPC, which 

triggered a NEPA process on Western’s 

proposed action to approve or deny 

BEPC’s request to interconnect their 

proposed project with Western’s 

transmission system. If the 

interconnection were to be approved, 

Western would have needed to 

construct and operate an 

interconnection facility at the point of 

interconnection. 

A Notice of Intent to Prepare an 

Environmental Impact Statement was 

published in the Federal Register on 

July 27, 2007 (72 FR 41307). Public 

scoping meetings were held subsequent 

to the Notice of intent, but a Draft EIS 

was not produced. BEPC has notified 

Western that it is suspending further 

action on its proposed project; 

accordingly Western is terminating the 

NEPA review process on its 

interconnection decision. 

Dated: December 10, 2010. 

Timothy J. Meeks, 

Administrator. 

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