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other carrier must be addressed to: 

Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary, Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission, 12225 

Wilkins Avenue, Rockville, Maryland 

20852. The first page of any filing 

should include docket number P–2842– 

045 or P–2952–073, as appropriate. 

All filings with the Commission must 

bear the appropriate heading: 

‘‘Comments on Pre-Application 

Document,’’ ‘‘Study Requests,’’ 

‘‘Comments on Scoping Document 1,’’ 

‘‘Request for Cooperating Agency 

Status,’’ or ‘‘Communications to and 

from Commission Staff.’’ Any 

individual or entity interested in 

submitting study requests, commenting 

on the PAD or SD1, and any agency 

requesting cooperating status must do so 

by November 30, 2023. 

p. The Commission’s Office of Public 

Participation (OPP) supports meaningful 

public engagement and participation in 

Commission proceedings. OPP can help 

members of the public, including 

landowners, environmental justice 

communities, Tribal members and 

others, access publicly available 

information and navigate Commission 

processes. For public inquiries and 

assistance with making filings such as 

interventions, comments, or requests for 

rehearing, the public is encouraged to 

contact OPP at (202)502–6595 or OPP@

ferc.gov. 

q. The Commission’s scoping process 

will help determine the required level of 

analysis and satisfy the National 

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) 

scoping requirements, irrespective of 

whether the Commission prepares an 

environmental assessment or 

environmental impact statement. 

Scoping Meetings 

Commission staff will hold two 

scoping meetings in the vicinity of the 

project at the time and place noted 

below. The daytime meeting will focus 

on resource agency, Indian tribes, and 

non-governmental organization 

concerns, while the evening meeting is 

primarily for receiving input from the 

public. We invite all interested 

individuals, organizations, and agencies 

to attend one or both of the meetings, 

and to assist staff in identifying 

particular study needs, as well as the 

scope of environmental issues to be 

addressed in the environmental 

document. The times and locations of 

these meetings are as follows: 

Daytime Scoping Meeting 

Date: Thursday, October 26, 2023. 

Time: 9 a.m. (MDT). 

Location: Hilton Garden Inn—South 

Fork River Meeting Room, 700 Lindsay 

Boulevard, Idaho Falls, ID 83402. 

Phone: 208–522–9500. 

Evening Scoping Meeting 

Date: Thursday, October 26, 2023. 

Time: 7 p.m. (MDT). 

Location: Hilton Garden Inn—South 

Fork River Meeting Room, 700 Lindsay 

Boulevard, Idaho Falls, ID 83402. 

Phone: 208–522–9500. 

Scoping Document 1 (SD1), which 

outlines the subject areas to be 

addressed in the environmental 

document, was mailed to the 

individuals and entities on the 

Commission’s mailing list. Copies of 

SD1 will be available at the scoping 

meetings, or may be viewed on the web 

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

‘‘eLibrary’’ link. Follow the directions 

for accessing information in paragraph 

n. Based on all oral and written 

comments, a Scoping Document 2 (SD2) 

may be issued. SD2 may include a 

revised process plan and schedule, as 

well as a list of issues, identified 

through the scoping process. 

Environmental Site Review 

The applicant and Commission staff 

will conduct an environmental site 

review of the project on Wednesday, 

October 25, 2023, starting at 1 p.m. 

(MDT). 

All interested individuals, agencies, 

tribes, and NGOs are invited to attend. 

All participants are responsible for their 

own transportation to/from the project 

and during the site visit. Participants 

should meet at 1 p.m. at the Idaho Falls 

Power offices at 140 S Capital Avenue, 

Idaho Falls, ID 83402. Please contact 

Richard Malloy with Idaho Falls Power 

at (208) 612–8428, or via email at 

rmalloy@ifpower.org, on or before 

October 13, 2023, if you plan to attend 

the environmental site review. 

Meeting Objectives 

At the scoping meetings, staff will: (1) 

initiate scoping of the issues; (2) review 

and discuss existing conditions and 

resource management objectives; (3) 

review and discuss existing information 

and identify preliminary information 

and study needs; (4) review and discuss 

the process plan and schedule for prefiling activity that incorporates the time 

frames provided for in part 5 of the 

Commission’s regulations and, to the 

extent possible, maximizes coordination 

of Federal, State, and Tribal permitting 

and certification processes; and (5) 

discuss the appropriateness of any 

Federal or State agency or Indian Tribe 

acting as a cooperating agency for 

development of an environmental 

document. 

Meeting participants should come 

prepared to discuss their issues and/or 

concerns. Please review the PAD in 

preparation for the scoping meetings. 

Directions on how to obtain a copy of 

the PAD and SD1 are included in item 

n. of this document. 

Meeting Procedures 

Commission staff are moderating the 

scoping meetings. The meetings are 

recorded by an independent 

stenographer and become part of the 

formal record of the Commission 

proceeding on the project. Individuals, 

NGOs, Indian tribes, 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 NEPA document. 

Dated: October 2, 2023. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2023–22346 Filed 10–6–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket Nos. CP23–543–000, CP23–544– 

000, CP23–545–000] 

Bison Pipeline LLC, Northern Border 

Pipeline Company, Wyoming Interstate 

Company, LLC, Fort Union Gas 

Gathering, LLC; Notice of Applications 

and Establishing Intervention 

Deadlines 

Take notice that on September 15, 

2023, Bison Pipeline LLC (Bison), 700 

Louisiana Street, Suite 1300, Houston, 

Texas 77002–2700, filed an application, 

in Docket No. CP23–543–000, under 

section 7(b) of the Natural Gas Act 

(NGA) and part 157 of the Commission’s 

regulations requesting authorization to 

abandon 300,000 dekatherms per day 

(Dth/day) of existing unsubscribed 

capacity by lease to Wyoming Interstate 

Company, LLC (WIC) pursuant to the 

terms of a capacity lease agreement 

between Bison and WIC. 

Also, take notice that on September 

15, 2023, Northern Border Pipeline 

Company (Northern Border), 700 

Louisiana Street, Suite 1300, Houston, 

Texas 77002–2700, filed an application, 

in Docket No. CP23–544–000, under 

sections 7(b) and 7(c) of the NGA and 

part 157 of the Commission’s 

regulations requesting authorization for 

its Bison XPress Project, located in 

McKenzie, Dunn, and Morton Counties, 

North Dakota. The proposed Bison 

XPress Project consists of the 

replacement and expansion of 

compression facilities at Northern 


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1 18 CFR (Code of Federal Regulations) 157.9. 

2 18 CFR 157.10(a)(4). 

3 18 CFR 385.211. 

4Persons include individuals, organizations, 

businesses, municipalities, and other entities. 18 

CFR 385.102(d). 

5 18 CFR 385.2001. 

Border’s existing Arnegard, Manning, 

and Glen Ullin Compressor Stations. 

The Project will improve system 

reliability and provide 300,000 Dth/day 

of incremental capacity, which Northern 

Border will lease to WIC. The total 

estimated cost of constructing the Bison 

XPress Project is approximately $555 

million. 

Finally, take notice that on September 

18, 2023, WIC, Post Office Box 1087, 

Colorado Springs, Colorado, 80944, and 

Fort Union Gas Gathering, LLC (FUGG), 

569 Brookwood Village, Suite 749, 

Birmingham, Alabama 35209 filed a 

joint application, in Docket No. CP23– 

545–000, under section 7(c) of the NGA 

and part 157 of the Commission’s 

regulations requesting authorization for 

WIC to lease 300,000 Dth/day of 

capacity on the Northern Border, Bison, 

and FUGG pipeline systems. 

Additionally, FUGG requests a limited 

jurisdiction certificate authorizing it to 

allow WIC to transport interstate natural 

gas on FUGG’s gathering system without 

subjecting FUGG’s gathering operations 

to the Commission’s NGA jurisdiction, 

all as more fully set forth in these 

applications which are on file with the 

Commission and open for public 

inspection. 

In addition to publishing the full text 

of this document in the Federal 

Register, the Commission provides all 

interested persons an opportunity to 

view and/or print the contents of this 

document via the internet through the 

Commission’s Home Page 

(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. At 

this time, the Commission has 

suspended access to the Commission’s 

Public Reference Room. For assistance, 

contact the Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission at FercOnlineSupport@

ferc.gov or call toll-free, (886) 208–3676 

or TTY (202) 502–8659. 

Any questions regarding the proposed 

projects in Docket Nos. CP23–543–000 

and CP23–544–000 should be directed 

to David A. Alonzo, Manager, Project 

Authorizations, Bison Pipeline LLC and 

Northern Border Pipeline Company, 700 

Louisiana Street, Suite 1300, Houston, 

Texas 77002–2700, by phone at (832) 

320–5477, or by email at david_alonzo@

tcenergy.com. Any questions regarding 

the proposed project in Docket No. 

CP23–545–000 should be directed to 

Francisco Tarin, Director, Regulatory, 

Wyoming Interstate Company, LLC, Post 

Office Box 1087, Colorado Springs, 

Colorado 80944, by phone at (719) 667– 

7517, or by email at 

WICregulatoryaffairs@

kindermorgan.com. 

Pursuant to section 157.9 of the 

Commission’s Rules of Practice and 

Procedure,1 within 90 days of this 

Notice the Commission staff will either: 

complete its environmental review and 

place it into the Commission’s public 

record (eLibrary) for this proceeding; or 

issue a Notice of Schedule for 

Environmental Review. If a Notice of 

Schedule for Environmental Review is 

issued, it will indicate, among other 

milestones, the anticipated date for the 

Commission staff’s issuance of the final 

environmental impact statement (FEIS) 

or environmental assessment (EA) for 

this proposal. The filing of an EA in the 

Commission’s public record for this 

proceeding or the issuance of a Notice 

of Schedule for Environmental Review 

will serve to notify federal and state 

agencies of the timing for the 

completion of all necessary reviews, and 

the subsequent need to complete all 

federal authorizations within 90 days of 

the date of issuance of the Commission 

staff’s FEIS or EA. 

Public Participation 

There are three ways to become 

involved in the Commission’s review of 

this project: you can file comments on 

the project, you can protest the filing, 

and you can file a motion to intervene 

in the proceeding. There is no fee or 

cost for filing comments or intervening. 

The deadline for filing a motion to 

intervene is 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on 

October 23, 2023. How to file protests, 

motions to intervene, and comments is 

explained below. 

The Commission’s Office of Public 

Participation (OPP) supports meaningful 

public engagement and participation in 

Commission proceedings. OPP can help 

members of the public, including 

landowners, environmental justice 

communities, Tribal members and 

others, access publicly available 

information and navigate Commission 

processes. For public inquiries and 

assistance with making filings such as 

interventions, comments, or requests for 

rehearing, the public is encouraged to 

contact OPP at (202) 502–6595 or OPP@

ferc.gov. 

Comments 

Any person wishing to comment on 

the project may do so. Comments may 

include statements of support or 

objections, to the project as a whole or 

specific aspects of the project. The more 

specific your comments, the more useful 

they will be. 

Protests 

Pursuant to sections 157.10(a)(4) 2 and 

385.211 3 of the Commission’s 

regulations under the NGA, any person 4

may file a protest to the application. 

Protests must comply with the 

requirements specified in section 

385.2001 5 of the Commission’s 

regulations. A protest may also serve as 

a motion to intervene so long as the 

protestor states it also seeks to be an 

intervenor. 

To ensure that your comments or 

protests are timely and properly 

recorded, please submit your comments 

on or before October 23, 2023. 

There are three methods you can use 

to submit your comments or protests to 

the Commission. In all instances, please 

reference the Project docket numbers 

CP23–543–000, CP23–544–000, and 

CP23–545–000 in your submission. 

(1) You may file your comments 

electronically by using the eComment 

feature, which is located on the 

Commission’s website at www.ferc.gov 

under the link to Documents and 

Filings. Using eComment is an easy 

method for interested persons to submit 

brief, text-only comments on a project; 

(2) You may file your comments or 

protests electronically by using the 

eFiling feature, which is located on the 

Commission’s website (www.ferc.gov) 

under the link to Documents and 

Filings. With eFiling, you can provide 

comments in a variety of formats by 

attaching them as a file with your 

submission. New eFiling users must 

first create an account by clicking on 

‘‘eRegister.’’ You will be asked to select 

the type of filing you are making; first 

select ‘‘General’’ and then select 

‘‘Comment on a Filing’’; or 

(3) You can file a paper copy of your 

comments or protests by mailing them 

to the following address below. Your 

written comments must reference the 

Project docket numbers (CP23–543–000, 

CP23–544–000, and CP23–545–000). 

To file via USPS: Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission, 888 First Street NE, 

Washington, DC 20426 

To file via any other courier: Kimberly 

D. Bose, Secretary, Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission, 12225 

Wilkins Avenue, Rockville, Maryland 

20852 

The Commission encourages 

electronic filing of comments (options 1 

and 2 above) and has eFiling staff 


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6 18 CFR 385.102(d). 

7 18 CFR 385.214. 

8 18 CFR 157.10. 

9The applicant has 15 days from the submittal of 

a motion to intervene to file a written objection to 

the intervention. 

10 18 CFR 385.214(c)(1). 11 18 CFR 385.214(b)(3) and (d). 

available to assist you at (202) 502–8258 

or FercOnlineSupport@ferc.gov. 

Persons who comment on the 

environmental review of this project 

will be placed on the Commission’s 

environmental mailing list, and will 

receive notification when the 

environmental documents (EA or EIS) 

are issued for this project and will be 

notified of meetings associated with the 

Commission’s environmental review 

process. 

The Commission considers all 

comments received about the project in 

determining the appropriate action to be 

taken. However, the filing of a comment 

alone will not serve to make the filer a 

party to the proceeding. To become a 

party, you must intervene in the 

proceeding. For instructions on how to 

intervene, see below. 

Interventions 

Any person, which includes 

individuals, organizations, businesses, 

municipalities, and other entities,6 has 

the option to file a motion to intervene 

in this proceeding. Only intervenors 

have the right to request rehearing of 

Commission orders issued in this 

proceeding and to subsequently 

challenge the Commission’s orders in 

the U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeal. 

To intervene, you must submit a 

motion to intervene to the Commission 

in accordance with Rule 214 of the 

Commission’s Rules of Practice and 

Procedure 7 and the regulations under 

the NGA 8 by the intervention deadline 

for the project, which is October 23, 

2023. As described further in Rule 214, 

your motion to intervene must state, to 

the extent known, your position 

regarding the proceeding, as well as 

your interest in the proceeding. For an 

individual, this could include your 

status as a landowner, ratepayer, 

resident of an impacted community, or 

recreationist. You do not need to have 

property directly impacted by the 

project in order to intervene. For more 

information about motions to intervene, 

refer to the FERC website at https://

www.ferc.gov/resources/guides/how-to/ 

intervene.asp. 

There are two ways to submit your 

motion to intervene. In both instances, 

please reference the Project docket 

numbers CP23–543–000, CP23–544– 

000, and CP23–545–000 in your 

submission. 

(1) You may file your motion to 

intervene by using the Commission’s 

eFiling feature, which is located on the 

Commission’s website (www.ferc.gov) 

under the link to Documents and 

Filings. New eFiling users must first 

create an account by clicking on 

‘‘eRegister.’’ You will be asked to select 

the type of filing you are making; first 

select ‘‘General’’ and then select 

‘‘Intervention.’’ The eFiling feature 

includes a document-less intervention 

option; for more information, visit 

https://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/efiling/ 

document-less-intervention.pdf.; or 

(2) You can file a paper copy of your 

motion to intervene, along with three 

copies, by mailing the documents to the 

address below. Your motion to 

intervene must reference the Project 

docket numbers CP23–543–000, CP23– 

544–000, and CP23–545–000. 

To file via USPS: Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission, 888 First Street NE, 

Washington, DC 20426 

To file via any other courier: Kimberly 

D. Bose, Secretary, Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission, 12225 

Wilkins Avenue, Rockville, Maryland 

20852 

The Commission encourages 

electronic filing of motions to intervene 

(option 1 above) and has eFiling staff 

available to assist you at (202) 502–8258 

or FercOnlineSupport@ferc.gov. 

Protests and motions to intervene 

must be served on the applicant either 

by mail or email at: David A. Alonzo, 

Manager, Project Authorizations, Bison 

Pipeline LLC and Northern Border 

Pipeline Company, 700 Louisiana 

Street, Suite 1300, Houston, Texas 

77002–2700, or at david_alonzo@

tcenergy.com, and to Francisco Tarin, 

Director, Regulatory, Wyoming 

Interstate Company, LLC, Post Office 

Box 1087, Colorado Springs, Colorado 

80944, or at WICregulatoryaffairs@

kindermorgan.com. 

Any subsequent submissions by an 

intervenor must be served on the 

applicant and all other parties to the 

proceeding. Contact information for 

parties can be downloaded from the 

service list at the eService link on FERC 

Online. Service can be via email with a 

link to the document. 

All timely, unopposed 9 motions to 

intervene are automatically granted by 

operation of Rule 214(c)(1).10 Motions to 

intervene that are filed after the 

intervention deadline are untimely, and 

may be denied. Any late-filed motion to 

intervene must show good cause for 

being late and must explain why the 

time limitation should be waived and 

provide justification by reference to 

factors set forth in Rule 214(d) of the 

Commission’s Rules and Regulations.11

A person obtaining party status will be 

placed on the service list maintained by 

the Secretary of the Commission and 

will receive copies (paper or electronic) 

of all documents filed by the applicant 

and by all other parties. 

Tracking the Proceeding 

Throughout the proceeding, 

additional information about the project 

will be available from the Commission’s 

Office of External Affairs, at (866) 208– 

FERC, or on the FERC website at 

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

as described above. The eLibrary link 

also provides access to the texts of all 

formal documents issued by the 

Commission, such as orders, notices, 

and rulemakings. 

In addition, the Commission offers a 

free service called eSubscription which 

allows you to keep track of all formal 

issuances and submittals in specific 

dockets. This can reduce the amount of 

time you spend researching proceedings 

by automatically providing you with 

notification of these filings, document 

summaries, and direct links to the 

documents. For more information and to 

register, go to www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/ 

esubscription.asp. 

Intervention Deadline: 5:00 p.m. 

Eastern Time on October 23, 2023. 

Dated: October 2, 2023. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2023–22350 Filed 10–6–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. ER23–2967–000] 

Toms River Net Meter Solar, LLC; 

Supplemental Notice That Initial 

Market-Based Rate Filing Includes 

Request for Blanket Section 204 

Authorization 

This is a supplemental notice in the 

above-referenced proceeding of Toms 

River Net Meter Solar, LLC’s application 

for market-based rate authority, with an 

accompanying rate tariff, noting that 

such application includes a request for 

blanket authorization, under 18 CFR 

part 34, of future issuances of securities 

and assumptions of liability. 

Any person desiring to intervene or to 

protest should file with the Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 

First Street NE, Washington, DC 20426, 


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