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

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] 

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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 a 

mixture of investor- and consumerowned utilities and Western. The 

WestConnect membership encompasses 

an interconnected grid stretching from 

western Nebraska to southern California 

and 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 single 

transaction 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 to 

other Participants. Western’s FERCapproved Tariff transmission rate 

designs for all regions yield an ‘‘allhours’’ transmission rate. Western’s 

transmission rates do not make a rate 

distinction between on-peak and offpeak, but rather spread the annual 

revenue requirements over all hours of 

the 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 the 

coordinated 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 

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