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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. 

Scoping comments may be filed 

electronically via the Internet in lieu of 

paper. The Commission strongly 

encourages electronic filings. 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 ‘‘e-filing’’ link. 

For a simpler method of submitting text 

only comments, click on ‘‘Quick 

Comment.’’ 

k. This application is not ready for 

environmental analysis at this time. 

l. The existing Markland 

Hydroelectric Project consists of a 

powerhouse integrated into the north 

end of the U.S. Army Corps of 

Engineers’ (Corps) Markland dam, 

which was constructed by the Corps 

between 1959 and 1964. The project has 

a total installed capacity of 64.8 

megawatts (MW) and produces an 

average annual generation of 350,454 

megawatt-hours. All generated power is 

utilized within the applicant’s electric 

utility system. The project operates in 

run-of-release mode, has no storage, and 

only uses flows released by the Corps. 

The project consists of the following 

facilities: (1) A 96-foot-high, 248-footwide intake structure, with steel 

trashrack panels installed along the east 

side, directing flows to the connected 

powerhouse; (2) a powerhouse, integral 

to the Corps’ Markland dam, containing 

three vertical shaft Kaplan turbine/ 

generator units with a total installed 

capacity of 64.8 MW; (3) a tailrace 

discharging flows immediately 

downstream of the dam; (4) a substation 

about 250 feet north of the powerhouse; 

(5) an approximately 750-foot-long 

existing access road; (6) a 9.37-milelong, 138-kilovolt transmission line in a 

100-foot-wide right-of-way extending to 

Fairview, Indiana; and (7) appurtenant 

facilities. The applicant is proposing to 

add a new, approximately 300-foot-long 

access road, leading to a new parking 

area for recreation use at the tailrace of 

the dam. 

m. A copy of the application is 

available for review at the Commission 

in the Public Reference Room or may be 

viewed on the Commission’s Web site 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, contact FERC 

Online Support at 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or tollfree at 1–866–208–3676, or for TTY, 

(202) 502–8659. A copy is also available 

for inspection and reproduction at the 

address in item h above. 

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. 

n. Scoping Process: 

The Commission intends to prepare 

an Environmental Assessment (EA) on 

the project in accordance with the 

National Environmental Policy Act. The 

EA will consider both site-specific and 

cumulative environmental impacts and 

reasonable alternatives to the proposed 

action. 

Scoping Meetings 

FERC staff will conduct one agency 

scoping meeting and one public 

meeting. The agency scoping meeting 

will focus on resource agency and nongovernmental organization (NGO) 

concerns, while the public scoping 

meeting is primarily for public input. 

All interested individuals, 

organizations, and agencies are invited 

to attend one or both of the meetings, 

and to assist the staff in identifying the 

scope of the environmental issues that 

should be analyzed in the EA. The times 

and locations of these meetings are as 

follows: 

Agency Scoping Meeting 

Date: Thursday, September 17, 2009. 

Time: 9 a.m. 

Place: Best Western Ogle Haus 

Meeting Rooms. 

Address: 1013 W. Main St., Vevay, 

Indiana. 

Public Scoping Meeting 

Date: Thursday, September 17, 2009. 

Time: 7 p.m. 

Place: Best Western Ogle Haus 

Meeting Rooms. 

Address: 1013 W. Main St., Vevay, 

Indiana. 

Copies of the Scoping Document 

(SD1) outlining the subject areas to be 

addressed in the EIS were distributed to 

the parties on the Commission’s mailing 

list. Copies of the SD1 will be available 

at the scoping meeting or may be 

viewed on the Web at http:// 

www.ferc.gov using the ‘‘eLibrary’’ link 

(see item m above). 

Site Visit 

The Applicant and FERC staff will 

conduct a project site visit beginning at 

1 p.m. on September 17, 2009. All 

interested individuals, organizations, 

and agencies are invited to attend. All 

participants should meet at the parking 

lot of the Markland Hydroelectric 

Project, 13901 State Highway 156, 

Florence, Indiana. All participants are 

responsible for their own transportation 

to the site. Anyone with questions about 

the site visit should contact Ms. Tamara 

Styer of Duke Energy at (704) 382–0293. 

Objectives 

At the scoping meetings, the staff will: 

(1) Summarize the environmental issues 

tentatively identified for analysis in the 

EA; (2) solicit from the meeting 

participants all available information, 

especially quantifiable data, on the 

resources at issue; (3) encourage 

statements from experts and the public 

on issues that should be analyzed in the 

EA, including viewpoints in opposition 

to, or in support of, the staff’s 

preliminary views; (4) determine the 

resource issues to be addressed in the 

EA; and (5) identify those issues that 

require a detailed analysis, as well as 

those issues that do not require a 

detailed analysis. 

Procedures 

The meetings will be recorded by a 

stenographer and become part of the 

formal record of the Commission 

proceeding on the project. 

Individuals, organizations, and 

agencies with environmental expertise 

and concerns are encouraged to attend 

the meeting and to assist the staff in 

defining and clarifying the issues to be 

addressed in the EA. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E9–20236 Filed 8–21–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 13545–000] 

Free Flow Power Ohio River 8, LLC; 

Notice of Preliminary Permit 

Application Accepted for Filing and 

Soliciting Comments, Motions To 

Intervene, and Competing Applications 

August 14, 2009. 

On July 14, 2009, Free Flow Power 

Ohio River 8, 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 

Whiskey Bay Hydrokinetic Energy 

Project, located on the Atchafalaya 

River, Saint Landry, Saint Martin, and 

Iberville Parishes, Louisiana. The sole 

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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: (1) 1,860 turbine-generator units 

configured in a series of turbine arrays 

which in turn will be grouped to form 

turbine fields; (2) a combination of 

freestanding pilings, a floating bargelike platform, or existing shore 

infrastructure such as dock pilings onto 

which the turbine arrays will be 

moored; (3) submersible electric cables 

interconnecting the arrays within each 

turbine field and transmit the turbine 

field’s generation to a shore station; (4) 

several shore stations each consisting of 

less than 100 square meters which will 

transition the submersible cabling to the 

overhead transmission; (5) a 8.3 mile, 69 

kV line interconnecting the shore 

stations and delivering power to the 

project substation; and (6) appurtenant 

facilities. The proposed project would 

generate about 163 gigawatt-hours 

annually. 

Applicant contact: Ramya 

Swaminathan, Free Flow Power 

Corporation, 33 Commercial Street, 

Gloucester, Massachusetts 01930, 

phone: (978) 226–1531. 

FERC Contact: Sergiu Serban, 202– 

502–6211. 

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 under the 

‘‘e-Filing’’ link. If unable to be filed 

electronically, documents may be paperfiled. To paper-file, an original and eight 

copies should be mailed to: Kimberly D. 

Bose, Secretary, Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission, 888 First 

Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426. For 

more information on how to submit 

these types of filings please go to the 

Commission’s Web site located at http:// 

www.ferc.gov/filing-comments.asp. 

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–13545) in 

the docket number field to access the 

document. For assistance, call toll-free 

1–866–208–3372. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E9–20224 Filed 8–21–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 13543–000] 

Free Flow Power Ohio River 6, LLC; 

Notice of Preliminary Permit 

Application Accepted for Filing and 

Soliciting Comments, Motions To 

Intervene, and Competing Applications 

August 14, 2009. 

On July 14, 2009, Free Flow Power 

Ohio River 6, 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 

Krotz Springs Hydrokinetic Energy 

Project, located on the Atchafalaya 

River, Pointe Coupee, Saint Landry, and 

Saint Martin Parishes, Louisiana. 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: (1) 1,110 turbine-generator units 

configured in a series of turbine arrays 

which in turn will be grouped to form 

turbine fields; (2) a combination of 

freestanding pilings, a floating bargelike platform, or existing shore 

infrastructure such as dock pilings onto 

which the turbine arrays will be 

moored; (3) submersible electric cables 

interconnecting the arrays within each 

turbine field and transmit the turbine 

field’s generation to a shore station; (4) 

several shore stations each consisting of 

less than 100 square meters which will 

transition the submersible cabling to the 

overhead transmission; (5) a 4.5 mile, 69 

kV line interconnecting the shore 

stations and delivering power to the 

project substation; and (6) appurtenant 

facilities. The proposed project would 

generate about 96 gigawatt-hours 

annually. 

Applicant contact: Ramya 

Swaminathan, Free Flow Power 

Corporation, 33 Commercial Street, 

Gloucester, Massachusetts 01930, 

phone: (978) 226–1531. 

FERC Contact: Sergiu Serban, 202– 

502–6211. 

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 under the 

‘‘e-Filing’’ link. If unable to be filed 

electronically, documents may be paperfiled. To paper-file, an original and eight 

copies should be mailed to: Kimberly D. 

Bose, Secretary, Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission, 888 First 

Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426. For 

more information on how to submit 

these types of filings please go to the 

Commission’s Web site located at 

http://www.ferc.gov/filingcomments.asp. 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–13543) in the docket number field to 

access the document. For assistance, 

call toll-free 1–866–208–3372. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E9–20222 Filed 8–21–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 13541–000] 

Free Flow Power Ohio River 4, LLC; 

Notice of Preliminary Permit 

Application Accepted for Filing and 

Soliciting Comments, Motions To 

Intervene, and Competing Applications 

August 14, 2009. 

On July 14, 2009, Free Flow Power 

Ohio River 4, 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 

Melville Crevasse Hydrokinetic Energy 

Project, located on the Atchafalaya 

River, Pointe Coupee and Saint Landry 

Parishes, Louisiana. 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 


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