52482 Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 196 / Tuesday, October 13, 2009 / Notices 

Comment Date: 5 p.m. Eastern Time 

on October 23, 2009. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E9–24492 Filed 10–9–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. EL05–146–010] 

Independent Energy Producers 

Association v. California Independent 

System Operator Corporation; Notice 

of Compliance Filing 

October 5, 2009. 

Take notice that on October 2, 2009, 

Mirant Energy Trading LLC filed a 

compliance refund report pursuant to 

the Commission’s order issued on 

August 18, 2009, 128 FERC ¶ 61,165 

(2009) (Order on Remand). 

Any person desiring 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, 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 

comment date. Anyone filing a motion 

to intervene or protest must serve a copy 

of that document on the Applicant and 

all the parties in this proceeding. 

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 on-line at 

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

‘‘eLibrary’’ link and is available for 

review in the Commission’s Public 

Reference Room in Washington, DC. 

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document is added to a subscribed 

docket(s). For assistance with any FERC 

Online service, please e-mail 

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

(202) 502–8659. 

Comment Date: 5 p.m. Eastern Time 

on October 23, 2009. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E9–24493 Filed 10–9–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Bonneville Power Administration 

I–5 Corridor Reinforcement Project 

AGENCY: Bonneville Power 

Administration (BPA), Department of 

Energy (DOE). 

ACTION: Notice of Intent (NOI) to prepare 

an Environmental Impact Statement 

(EIS) and notice of floodplain and 

wetlands involvement. 

SUMMARY: BPA intends to prepare an EIS 

in accordance with the National 

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) on 

the construction, operation, and 

maintenance of a proposed 500-kilovolt 

(kV) transmission line and associated 

substations. The project would be 

located in Cowlitz and Clark counties, 

Washington, and Multnomah County, 

Oregon. The new BPA transmission line 

would extend generally southeast from 

a new substation proposed near Castle 

Rock in Cowlitz County, Washington 

(referred to as Castle Rock Substation), 

to a new substation proposed near 

BPA’s existing Troutdale Substation 

near the city of Troutdale in Multnomah 

County, Oregon. Multiple preliminary 

transmission line route segments have 

been identified that, when combined, 

result in various transmission line 

routing alternatives approximately 70 

miles long. The proposed transmission 

line and substations are needed to help 

ease transmission system congestion in 

the southwest Washington and 

northwest Oregon area, allowing BPA to 

fulfill existing and new transmission 

service requests for existing and new 

generation; improve system reliability; 

and meet continued electric load 

growth. 

With this NOI, BPA is initiating the 

public scoping process for the EIS. BPA 

is requesting comments about potential 

environmental impacts that it should 

consider as it prepares the EIS for the 

proposed project, as well as comments 

on preliminary transmission line route 

segments and the proposed substations 

that have been identified. 

In accordance with DOE regulations 

for compliance with floodplain and 

wetlands environmental review 

requirements, BPA will prepare a 

floodplain and wetlands assessment to 

avoid or minimize potential harm to or 

within any affected floodplains and 

wetlands. The assessment will be 

included in the EIS. 

DATES: Oral and written scoping 

comments are due to BPA no later than 

November 23, 2009. Comments may also 

be made at the EIS scoping meetings to 

be held between October 27 and 

November 7, 2009 at the addresses 

below. 

ADDRESSES: Send letters with comments 

on the proposed scope of the EIS to 

I–5 Corridor Reinforcement Project, P.O. 

Box 9250, Portland, OR, 97207, or by fax 

to (888) 315–4503. You may also call 

BPA’s comment and information line at 

(800) 230–6593 and leave a comment, or 

submit comments online at 

http://www.bpa.gov/go/i5. BPA will 

post all comments on BPA’s Web site at 

http://www.bpa.gov/i5. Submit requests 

to be placed on the project mailing list, 

for information, and questions to the 

same address and numbers above. 

On Tuesday, October 27, 2009, an 

open-house style scoping meeting will 

be held from 4 p.m. to 

7 p.m. at Amboy Middle School, 22115 

NE Chelatchie Road, Amboy, 

Washington 98601. On Wednesday, 

October 28, 2009, a scoping meeting 

will be held from 4 p.m. to 

7 p.m. at Clark College, Gaiser Student 

Hall, 1933 Fort Vancouver Way, 

Vancouver, Washington 98663. On 

Thursday, October 29, 2009, a scoping 

meeting will be held from 4 p.m. to 

7 p.m. at Mark Morris High School, 

1602 Mark Morris Court, Longview, 

Washington 98632. On Tuesday, 

November 3, 2009, a scoping meeting 

will be held from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. at 

Liberty Middle School, 1612 NE 

Garfield Street, Camas, Washington 

98607. On Thursday, November 5, 2009, 

a scoping meeting will be held from 

4 p.m. to 7 p.m. at Gresham Holiday 

Inn, 2752 NE Hogan Drive, Gresham, 

Oregon 97030. On Saturday, November 

7, 2009, a scoping meeting will be held 

from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. at Hazel Dell 

Grange, 7509 NE Hazel Dell Avenue, 

Vancouver, Washington 98665. The 

Hazel Dell Grange is not wheelchair 

accessible. 

At these informal meetings we will 

provide maps and other information 

about the project and have members of 

the project team available to answer 

questions and accept oral and written 

comments. You may stop by any time 

during these open houses. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Nancy Wittpenn, Environmental Project 

Lead, Bonneville Power Administration 

KEC–4, P.O. Box 3621, Portland, Oregon 

97208–3621; toll-free telephone 1–800– 

282–3713; direct telephone 503–230– 


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3297; or e-mail nawittpenn@bpa.gov. 

You may also contact Mark Korsness, 

Project Manager, Bonneville Power 

Administration TNP–3, PO Box 3621, 

Portland, Oregon, 97208–3621; toll-free 

telephone 1–800–282–3713; direct 

telephone 360–619–6326; or e-mail 

makorsness@bpa.gov. Additional 

information can be found at BPA’s Web 

site: http://www.bpa.gov/go/i5. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Southwest 

Washington and northwest Oregon, 

including Vancouver, Longview, 

Portland, and surrounding suburban 

cities and towns, have a high 

concentration of industrial, commercial 

and residential electric load. The power 

plants that serve this area include 

hydroelectric dams; gas, coal and 

nuclear plants; and more recently, wind 

farms. These power facilities use the 

electrical transmission system to get the 

power they produce to the people and 

industries that use it. 

The transmission system in this area 

has become increasingly congested and 

is approaching its capacity as power 

production, particularly from wind, and 

electrical use have increased. In 

addition, BPA continues to receive 

requests for more transmission service. 

BPA’s annual Network Open Season 

process allows utilities, power 

generators, and other power marketers 

to make long-term transmission service 

requests on BPA’s transmission system. 

Existing and new requests received 

through BPA’s 2008 Network Open 

Season process further increases the 

likelihood that the transmission system 

will exceed its capacity. BPA must 

respond to these requests for 

transmission service under its Open 

Access Transmission Tariff. This tariff, 

which is generally consistent with the 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission’s pro forma open access 

tariff, has procedures that provide 

access to BPA’s transmission system for 

all eligible customers, consistent with 

all BPA requirements (including the 

availability or development of sufficient 

transmission capacity) and subject to an 

environmental review under NEPA. If 

an additional line is not built, continued 

congestion will jeopardize transmission 

system reliability and, possibly, lead to 

power interruptions or blackouts in the 

area. 

The proposed I–5 Corridor 

Reinforcement Project would help 

respond to these existing and new 

requests for transmission service, help 

accommodate load growth, and address 

reliability concerns. BPA, therefore, will 

prepare an EIS under NEPA to assist the 

agency as it decides whether to build 

the proposed project, and if a decision 

is made to build a line, which 

transmission line alternative should be 

constructed. 

BPA will be the lead agency for 

preparation of the EIS. In furtherance of 

existing cooperative agreements 

between BPA and the States of 

Washington and Oregon, the 

Washington Energy Facility Site 

Evaluation Council (Washington EFSEC) 

and the Oregon Energy Facility Siting 

Council (Oregon EFSC) will be 

cooperating agencies in the NEPA 

process. Among other things, these state 

agencies will assist BPA in evaluating 

transmission line alternatives, 

identifying State interests that should be 

addressed in the EIS, and participating 

in preparation of the EIS. Additional 

cooperating agencies for the EIS may be 

identified as the proposed project 

proceeds through the NEPA process. 

Preliminary Route Segments for 

Developing Alternatives. BPA’s 

proposed 500–kV transmission line 

would extend from a new substation 

near Castle Rock, Washington, to a new 

substation near Troutdale, Oregon. BPA 

has identified many preliminary 

transmission line route segments that 

can be combined in various ways to 

form different potential routes for the 

proposed transmission line. All 

potential transmission line routes 

generally extend southeast from Castle 

Rock through Cowlitz County, 

Washington, and then generally south 

through Clark County, Washington, to a 

proposed crossing of the Columbia River 

near the city of Camas, Washington. Just 

south of this river crossing, all potential 

line routes would end at the proposed 

new substation directly north of the city 

of Troutdale in Oregon. 

The route segments vary in length and 

are composed of either existing or new 

rights-of-way, or parallel existing rightsof-way. Route segments cross privately 

and publicly owned urban and rural 

lands. Depending on the combination of 

these route segments, potential routes 

for the proposed transmission line vary 

in length but are approximately 70 miles 

long. 

While many preliminary route 

segments have already been identified, 

other route segments may be identified 

and existing route segments may be 

modified or eliminated as a result of the 

scoping process. BPA will use 

comments received during the scoping 

period, continuing discussions with 

various interested parties, and further 

transmission line design work to 

develop route segments into 

transmission line alternatives to be 

studied in the draft EIS. BPA will also 

consider the No Action Alternative, that 

is, not building the transmission line 

and substations, in the draft EIS. 

Public Participation and Identification 

of Environmental Issues. The potential 

environmental issues identified for most 

transmission line projects involve land 

use, recreation, transportation and 

aviation, socioeconomics, cultural 

resources, visual resources, public 

health and safety, noise, electric and 

magnetic field effects, sensitive plants 

and animals and their habitats, soil 

erosion, wetlands, floodplains, and fish 

and water resources. BPA will conduct 

a 45-day scoping period during which 

tribes; affected landowners; concerned 

citizens; special interest groups; local, 

State, and Federal governments; and any 

other interested parties are invited to 

comment on the scope of the EIS, 

including the route segments under 

consideration and the environmental 

impacts to be evaluated. Scoping will 

help BPA add, modify, or eliminate 

route segments and ultimately help BPA 

develop transmission line alternatives to 

be studied in the EIS. Scoping will also 

ensure that a full range of issues related 

to this proposal is addressed in the EIS, 

and also will identify significant or 

potentially significant impacts that may 

result from the proposed project. When 

completed, the draft EIS will be 

circulated for review and comment, and 

BPA will hold public meetings to 

answer questions and receive 

comments. BPA will consider and 

respond to comments received on the 

draft EIS in the final EIS. The final EIS 

is expected to be published in spring 

2012. BPA’s decision will be 

documented in a Record of Decision 

that will follow the final EIS. 

Issued in Portland, Oregon, on October 2, 

2009. 

Stephen J. Wright, 

Administrator and Chief Executive Officer. 

[FR Doc. E9–24469 Filed 10–9–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. ER09–1760–000] 

Wilton Wind II, LLC; Supplemental 

Notice That Initial Market-Based Rate 

Filing Includes Request for Blanket 

Section 204 Authorization 

October 2, 2009. 

This is a supplemental notice in the 

above-referenced proceeding of Wilton 

Wind II, LLC’s application for marketbased rate authority, with an 

accompanying rate schedule, noting that 


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