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1On October 4, 1999, DOE’s Assistant Secretary 

for Environmental, Safety and Health delegated to 

Western’s Administrator the authority to approve 

EISs for integrating transmission facilities with 

Western’s transmission grid. 

transmission line right-of-way would be 

200 feet wide. 

Two access roads would be required 

for the proposed Project. One of the 

access roads would originate from 

Stockton Hill Road and extend 

approximately 3.7 miles east to the solar 

power facility. The other road would 

originate from Antares Road and extend 

approximately 2 miles to the preferred 

substation or 1 mile to the alternative 

substation. 

Two off-site temporary laydown areas 

would be used during the construction 

phase of the Project. The laydown areas 

would total about 640 acres and would 

be used for storage and assembly of 

proposed Project components. 

Agencies Proposed Actions and 

Alternatives 

Western’s proposed actions are to 

build a new substation and interconnect 

the proposed Project to Western’s 

transmission system at one of the 

substation locations described above. 

BLM’s proposed actions are to grant 

rights-of-way to HVS for the 

transmission line and associated access 

roads and any other Project components 

crossing Federal lands and to amend 

one of Western’s existing rights-of-way 

to build a substation at one of the 

substation locations described above. 

Western and BLM will also consider 

the no-action alternative in the EIS. 

Under the no-action alternative, 

Western would neither build a new 

substation nor interconnect the 

proposed Project and/or the BLM would 

not grant or amend rights-of-way. 

Agency Responsibilities 

Because interconnection of the 

proposed Project would incorporate a 

major new generation resource into 

Western’s power transmission system, 

Western has determined that an EIS is 

required under DOE NEPA 

implementing procedures, 10 CFR part 

1021, Subpart D, Appendix D, class of 

action D6.1 Western would be the lead 

Federal agency for preparing the EIS, as 

defined at 40 CFR 1501.5. The proposed 

Project includes construction of 

facilities on lands managed by the BLM; 

therefore, the BLM has agreed to be a 

cooperating agency for preparation of 

the EIS. Western invites other Federal, 

State, local, and tribal agencies with 

jurisdiction by law or special expertise 

with respect to environmental issues to 

be cooperating agencies on the EIS, as 

defined at 40 CFR 1501.6. Such agencies 

may also make a request to Western to 

be a cooperating agency by contacting 

Ms. Barger at the address listed above in 

the ADDRESSES section. 

The proposed Project may affect 

floodplains or wetlands. This notice 

also serves as notice of proposed 

floodplain or wetland action, in 

accordance with 10 CFR part 1022. 

Environmental Issues 

This notice is to inform agencies and 

the public of Western’s intent to prepare 

an EIS and solicit comments and 

suggestions for consideration in the EIS. 

To help the public frame its comments, 

the following list contains potential 

environmental issues preliminarily 

identified for analysis in the EIS: 

1. Impacts on protected, threatened, 

endangered, or sensitive species of 

animals or plants; 

2. impacts on migratory birds; 

3. impacts from noxious weeds, 

invasive and non-native species; 

4. impacts on recreation and 

transportation; 

5. impacts on land use, wilderness, 

farmlands, and Areas of Critical 

Environmental Concern; 

6. impacts on cultural or historic 

resources and tribal values; 

7. impacts on human health and 

safety; 

8. impacts on air, soil, and water 

resources (including air quality and 

surface water impacts); 

9. visual impacts; 

10. socio-economic impacts and 

disproportionately high and adverse 

impacts to minority and low-income 

populations. 

This list is not intended to be allinclusive or to imply any 

predetermination of impacts. Western 

invites interested parties to suggest 

specific issues within these general 

categories, or other issues not included 

above, to be considered in the EIS. 

Public Participation 

The EIS process includes a public 

scoping period; public review and 

hearings on the draft EIS; publication of 

a final EIS; and publication of a record 

of decision (ROD). The public scoping 

period begins with publication of this 

notice and closes October 23, 2009. At 

the conclusion of the NEPA process, 

Western and the BLM would each 

prepare a ROD. Persons interested in 

receiving future notices, Project 

information, copies of the EIS, and other 

information on the NEPA review 

process should contact Ms. Barger at the 

address listed above in the ADDRESSES

section. 

Western will hold a public scoping 

meeting on October 1, 2009, at the 

Kingman High School Auditorium, 4182 

Bank Street, Kingman, AZ 86409. The 

meeting is scheduled for 6–8 p.m. with 

a short presentation followed by an 

open-house meeting, during which 

attendees are invited to speak one-onone with agency and Project 

representatives. Attendees are welcome 

to come and go at their convenience 

throughout the meeting. 

The purpose of the scoping meeting is 

to provide information about the 

proposed Project, review Project maps, 

answer questions, and take written 

comments from interested parties. All 

meeting locations are handicappedaccessible. Anyone needing special 

accommodations should contact Ms. 

Barger to make arrangements. 

The public will have the opportunity 

to provide written comments at the 

public scoping meetings. Written 

comments may also be sent to Ms. 

Barger by fax, U.S. Postal Service mail, 

or e-mail. To help define the scope of 

the EIS, comments should be received 

by Western no later than October 23, 

2009. Before including your address, 

phone number, e-mail address, or other 

personal identifying information in your 

comment, be advised that your entire 

comment—including your personal 

identifying information—may be made 

publicly available at any time. While 

you can ask us in your comment to 

withhold from public review your 

personal identifying information, we 

cannot guarantee that we will be able to 

do so. 

Dated: September 9, 2009. 

Timothy J. Meeks, 

Administrator. 

[FR Doc. E9–22201 Filed 9–14–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. PR09–32–000] 

DCP Raptor Pipeline, LLC; Notice of 

Petition for Rate Approval 

September 4, 2009. 

Take notice that on September 1, 

2009, DCP Raptor Pipeline, LLC (Raptor) 

filed a petition for rate approval for 

NGPA Section 311 maximum 

transportation rates, pursuant to section 

284.123(b)(2) of the Commission’s 

regulations. Raptor requests that the 

Commission approve a maximum firm 

reservation charge of $2.342 per MMBtu 

per month, firm commodity charge of 

$0.0000 per MMBtu, maximum 

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$0.0770 per MMBtu, a lost and 

unaccounted for charge of 2.53 percent 

and a fuel charge of 2.06 percent for gas 

transported under section 311. 

Any person desiring to participate in 

this rate proceeding must file a motion 

to intervene or to protest this filing must 

file in accordance with Rules 211 and 

214 of the Commission’s Rules of 

Practice and Procedure (18 CFR 385.211 

and 385.214). Protests will be 

considered by the Commission in 

determining the appropriate action to be 

taken, but will not serve to make 

protestants parties to the proceeding. 

Any person wishing to become a party 

must file a notice of intervention or 

motion to intervene, as appropriate. 

Such notices, motions, or protests must 

be filed on or before the date as 

indicated below. Anyone filing an 

intervention or protest must serve a 

copy of that document on the Applicant. 

Anyone filing an intervention or protest 

on or before the intervention or protest 

date need not serve motions to intervene 

or protests on persons other than the 

Applicant. 

The Commission encourages 

electronic submission of protests and 

interventions in lieu of paper using the 

‘‘eFiling’’ link at http://www.ferc.gov. 

Persons unable to file electronically 

should submit an original and 14 copies 

of the protest or intervention to the 

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 

888 First Street, NE, Washington, DC 

20426. 

This filing is accessible online at 

http://www.ferc.gov, using the 

‘‘eLibrary’’ link and is available for 

review in the Commission’s Public 

Reference Room in Washington, DC. 

There is an ‘‘eSubscription’’ link on the 

Web site that enables subscribers to 

receive e-mail notification when a 

document is added to a subscribed 

docket(s). For assistance with any FERC 

Online service, please e-mail 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov, or call 

(866) 208–3676 (toll free). For TTY, call 

(202) 502–8659. 

Comment Date: 5 p.m. Eastern time on 

Friday, September 11, 2009. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E9–22103 Filed 9–14–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 13123–002—California Eagle 

Mountain Pumped Storage Project] 

Eagle Crest Energy Company; Notice 

of Proposed Restricted Service List for 

a Programmatic Agreement for 

Managing Properties Included in or 

Eligible for Inclusion In the National 

Register of Historic Places 

September 8, 2009. 

Rule 2010 of the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission’s (Commission) 

Rules of Practice and Procedure 

provides that, to eliminate unnecessary 

expense or improve administrative 

efficiency, the Secretary may establish a 

restricted service list for a particular 

phase or issue in a proceeding.1 The 

restricted service list should contain the 

names of persons on the service list 

who, in the judgment of the decisional 

authority establishing the list, are active 

participants with respect to the phase or 

issue in the proceeding for which the 

list is established. 

The Commission staff is consulting 

with the California State Historic 

Preservation Officer (hereinafter, SHPO) 

and the Advisory Council on Historic 

Preservation (hereinafter, Council) 

pursuant to the Council’s regulations, 36 

CFR part 800, implementing section 106 

of the National Historic Preservation 

Act, as amended, (16 U.S.C. 470 f), to 

prepare and execute a programmatic 

agreement for managing properties 

included in, or eligible for inclusion in, 

the National Register of Historic Places 

at the Eagle Mountain Pumped Storage 

Project No. 13123–002. 

The programmatic agreement, when 

executed by the Commission and the 

SHPO, would satisfy the Commission’s 

section 106 responsibilities for all 

individual undertakings carried out in 

accordance with the license until the 

license expires or is terminated (36 CFR 

800.13[e]). The Commission’s 

responsibilities pursuant to section 106 

for the Eagle Mountain Pumped Storage 

Project would be fulfilled through the 

programmatic agreement, which the 

Commission proposes to draft in 

consultation with certain parties listed 

below. The executed programmatic 

agreement would be incorporated into 

any Order issuing a license. 

For the purpose of commenting on the 

programmatic agreement, we propose to 

restrict the service list for the 

aforementioned project as follows: 

Don Klima or Representative Advisory 

Council on Historic Preservation, The 

Old Post Office Building, 1100 

Pennsylvania Avenue, NW. Suite 803, 

Washington, DC 20004; 

Stephen Lowe or Representative, Eagle 

Crest Energy Company, One El Paseo 

West Building, 74–199 El Paseo Drive, 

Suite 204, Palm Desert, CA 92260; 

Cherilyn E. Widell, SHPO, or 

Representative, CA Office of Historic 

Preservation, 1416 9th Street, 

Sacramento, CA 95814; 

Richard M. Milanovich, Chairman, or 

Representative, Agua Caliente Band of 

Cahuilla Indians, 5401 Dinah Shore 

Drive, Palm Springs, CA 92264; 

Pattie Tuck, THPO, Agua Caliente Band 

of Cahuilla Indians, 5401 Dinah Shore 

Drive, Palm Springs, CA 92264; 

Diana L. Chihuahua, or Representative, 

Torres-Martinez Desert Cahuilla 

Indians, P.O. Box 1160, Thermal, CA 

92274; 

Ron Escobar, Chemehuevi Reservation, 

P.O. Box 1976, Havasu Lake, CA 

92363; 

John Gomez, Ramona Band of Cahuilla 

Mission Indians, 56310 Highway 371, 

Suite B, Anza, CA 92539; 

Robert Martin, Chairman, or 

Representative, Morongo Band of 

Mission Indians, 11581 Potrero Road, 

Banning, CA 92220; 

Director or Representative, U.S. Bureau 

of Land Management, 22835 Calle San 

Juan De Los Lagos, Moreno Valley, CA 

92553; 

Donald H. Clarke, Law Offices of 

GKRSE, 1500 K Street, NW., Suite 

330, Washington, DC 20005; 

Michael Contreras, Jr., Morongo Band of 

Mission Indians, 13000 Fields Road, 

Banning, CA 92220; 

Luther Salgado, Sr., or Representative, 

Cahuilla Band of Indians, P.O. Box 

391741, Anza, CA 92539. 

Any person on the official service list 

for the above-captioned proceeding may 

request inclusion on the restricted 

service list, or may request that a 

restricted service list not be established, 

by filing a motion to that effect within 

15 days of this notice date. In a request 

for inclusion, please identify the 

reason(s) why there is an interest to be 

included. Also please identify any 

concerns about historic properties, 

including properties of traditional 

religious and cultural importance to an 

Indian tribe. If historic properties would 

be identified within the motion, please 

use a separate page, and label it NONPUBLIC Information. 

The original and 8 copies of any such 

motion must be filed with Kimberly D. 

Bose, Secretary of the Commission, 888 

First Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426, 


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