### 66695 Federal Register / Vol. 78, No. 215 / Wednesday, November 6, 2013 / Notices

Dated: November 1, 2013. Donna S. Wieting, Director, Office of Protected Resources, National Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 2013–26596 Filed 11–5–13; 8:45 am]

**BILLING CODE 3510–22–P**

**DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY**

**[OE Docket No. PP–362]**

**Notice of Availability for the Draft Environmental Impact Statement and**  **Announcement of Public Hearings for the Proposed Champlain Hudson**  **Power Express Transmission Line Project; Correction** 

**AGENCY :**  U.S. Department of Energy.

**ACTION :**  Notice of availability and public hearings; correction.

**SUMMARY :**  The Department of Energy (DOE) published a document in the Federal Register of November 1, 2013, announcing the availability for the Draft Environmental Impact Statement and public hearings for the proposed Champlain Hudson Power Express transmission line project. This document corrects an error in that notice.

**FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT :**  Requests for additional information should be directed to Brian Mills at Brian.Mills@hq.doe.gov.

Correction

In the Federal Register of November 1, 2013 in FR Doc. 2013–26080, 78 FR 65622, please make the following correction:

On page 65622, third column, under the heading **DATES** , the second sentence is corrected to read: ‘‘The public comment period started on November 1, 2013, with the publication in the Federal Register by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency of its Notice of Availability of the Draft EIS, and will continue until December 16, 2013.’’

Issued in Washington, DC, on November 1,

2013. Brian Mills, NEPA Compliance Officer, Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability.
[FR Doc. 2013–26573 Filed 11–5–13; 8:45 am]

**BILLING CODE 6450–01–P DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY** 

**Western Area Power Administration**

**Loveland Area Projects, Colorado River Storage Project, Pacific**  **Northwest-Pacific Southwest Intertie Project, Central Arizona Project, and**  **Parker-Davis Project—Rate Order No. WAPA–163** 

**AGENCY :**  Western Area Power Administration, DOE.

**ACTION :**  Notice of Proposed Formula Rates for Western Area Power Administration (Western) Transmission Projects to Enter into WestConnect’s Point-to-Point Regional Transmission Service Participation Agreement (PA).

**SUMMARY :**  Western is proposing new formula rates to participate in WestConnect’s PA. The proposed formula rates under Rate Schedule WC– 8 would become effective June 1, 2014, and remain in effect through May 30, 2019. Western, along with other WestConnect participants (Participants), has participated in the WestConnect Pricing Experiment (Experiment) since its inception in June 2009. On June 28, 2013, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued an order (143 FERC ¶ 61,291) conditionally accepting the PA and regional tariffs. FERC ordered that the Participants in the filing submit separate compliance filings. Western has determined that no changes are necessary to Western’s Open Access Transmission Tariff (Tariff) because Western will continue to offer this transmission service under the existing Tariff Schedule 8. For Western to implement the permanent arrangement, however, Western needs to adopt new formula rates. Publication of this Federal Register notice begins the formal process for the proposed formula
rates.

**DATES :**  The consultation and comment period will begin today and will end December 6, 2013. Western will accept written comments any time during the consultation and comment period. The proposed action constitutes a minor rate adjustment as defined by 10 CFR part 903. As such, Western has determined it is not necessary to hold a public information or public comment forum.

**ADDRESSES :**  Send written comments to: Ms. Lynn C. Jeka, Colorado River Storage Project Manager, Colorado River Storage Project Management Center, 150 East Social Hall Avenue, Suite 300, Salt Lake City, UT 84111–1580, fax (801) 524–5017, or email WestConnect@
wapa.gov. Western will post information about the rate process on its Web site at http://www.wapa.gov/dsw/ pwrmkt/WestConnect/Default.htm. Western will post official comments received to its Web site after the close of the comment period. Western must receive comments by the end of the consultation and comment period to ensure they are considered in Western’s decision process.

**FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT :**  Mr. Thomas Hackett, Rates Team Lead, Colorado River Storage Project Management Center, 150 East Social Hall Avenue, Suite 300, Salt Lake City, UT 84111–1580, telephone (801) 524– 5503, or email hackett@wapa.gov.

**SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION :**  WestConnect consists of a group of electric utilities currently providing transmission service in the Western Interconnection. Its members are amixture of investor- and consumerowned utilities and Western. The WestConnect membership encompasses an interconnected grid stretching from western Nebraska to southern Californiaand from Wyoming to the United StatesMexico border. Western began participating in the Experiment in June 2009, which offered potential customers the option of scheduling a singletransaction for hourly, non-firm, pointto-point transmission service over multiple transmission providers’ systems at a single rate. The original term of the Experiment was 2 years and expired on June 30, 2011. In 2011, WestConnect filed with FERC to extend the term of the Experiment for 2 additional years, until June 30, 2013.

To participate in the Experiment during its total 4-year term, Western had to convert its ‘‘all-hours,’’ non-firm, point-to-point transmission rates into on-peak and off-peak rates, similar toother Participants. Western’s FERCapproved Tariff transmission ratedesigns for all regions yield an ‘‘allhours’’ transmission rate. Western’s transmission rates do not make a ratedistinction between on-peak and offpeak, but rather spread the annual revenue requirements over all hours ofthe year. Western established these onpeak and off-peak rates using the authority granted to Western’s Administrator in Delegation Order No. 00–037.00A to set rates for short-term sales.

On April 16, 2013, WestConnect submitted to FERC an Amended and Restated PA that, in essence, offers thecoordinated hourly, non-firm, point-topoint transmission service at a single rate on a permanent basis, effective July 1, 2013. On June 28, 2013, FERC issued an order conditionally accepting the PA and regional tariffs. In its order, FERC stated it was approving the proposal