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1City of Pella, Iowa v. Midcontinent Independent 

System Operator, Inc. and MidAmerican Energy 

Company, 140 FERC ¶ 61,029 (2012). 

All filings must (1) bear in all capital 

letters the title ‘‘COMMENTS’’, ‘‘REPLY 

COMMENTS’’, 

‘‘RECOMMENDATIONS,’’ ‘‘TERMS 

AND CONDITIONS,’’ or 

‘‘PRESCRIPTIONS;’’ (2) set forth in the 

heading the name of the applicant and 

the project number of the application to 

which the filing responds; (3) furnish 

the name, address, and telephone 

number of the person submitting the 

filing; and (4) otherwise comply with 

the requirements of 18 CFR 385.2001 

through 385.2005. All comments, 

recommendations, terms and conditions 

or prescriptions must set forth their 

evidentiary basis and otherwise comply 

with the requirements of 18 CFR 4.34(b). 

Agencies may obtain copies of the 

application directly from the applicant. 

Each filing must be accompanied by 

proof of service on all persons listed on 

the service list prepared by the 

Commission in this proceeding, in 

accordance with 18 CFR 4.34(b), and 

385.2010. 

You may also register online at 

http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/

esubscription.asp to be notified via 

email of new filings and issuances 

related to this or other pending projects. 

For assistance, contact FERC Online 

Support. 

n. Public notice of the filing of the 

initial development application, which 

has already been given, established the 

due date for filing competing 

applications or notices of intent. Under 

the Commission’s regulations, any 

competing development application 

must be filed in response to and in 

compliance with public notice of the 

initial development application. No 

competing applications or notices of 

intent may be filed in response to this 

notice. 

o. Procedural Schedule: 

The application will be processed 

according to the following revised 

Hydro Licensing Schedule. Revisions to 

the schedule may be made as 

appropriate. 

Milestone Target date 

Filing of Comments, Recommendations, Terms and Conditions, and Prescriptions ........................................ December 24, 2013. 

Filing of Reply Comments .................................................................................................................................. February 7, 2014. 

Commission issues EA ...................................................................................................................................... May 8, 2014. 

p. A license applicant must file no 

later than 60 days following the date of 

issuance of this notice: (1) A copy of the 

water quality certification; (2) a copy of 

the request for certification, including 

proof of the date on which the certifying 

agency received the request; or (3) 

evidence of waiver of water quality 

certification. 

Dated: October 24, 2013. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2013–25855 Filed 10–30–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. EL14–6–000] 

City of Pella, Iowa v. Midcontinent 

Independent System Operator, Inc., 

Mid-American Energy Company; 

Notice of Complaint 

Take notice that on October 23, 2013, 

pursuant to section 206 of the Federal 

Power Act (FPA), 16 U.S.C. 824e and 

Rule 206 of the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission’s (Commission) 

Rules of Practice and Procedure, 18 CFR 

385.206 (2013), The City of Pella, Iowa 

(Complainant) filed a formal complaint 

against Midcontinent Independent 

System Operator, Inc. and MidAmerican 

Energy Company (collectively, 

Respondents), requesting that the 

Commission enforce the terms of the 

settlement agreement approved by the 

Commission on July 16, 2012, in Docket 

Nos. EL10–77–000 and EL10–77–001.1

In addition, or in the alternative, the 

Complainant requests that the 

Commission find that Midcontinent 

Independent System Operator, Inc. 

unjustly and unreasonably violated the 

FPA by refusing to compensate the 

Complainant for operating generation 

for grid support. 

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. The Respondent’s answer 

and all interventions, or protests must 

be filed on or before the comment date. 

The Respondent’s answer, motions to 

intervene, and protests must be served 

on the Complainants. 

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 5 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. 

There is an ‘‘eSubscription’’ link on the 

Web site that enables subscribers to 

receive email notification when a 

document is added to a subscribed 

docket(s). For assistance with any FERC 

Online service, please email 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov, or call 

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

(202) 502–8659. 

Comment Date: 5:00 p.m. Eastern 

Time on November 12, 2013. 

Dated: October 24, 2013. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2013–25854 Filed 10–30–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–9902–21–ORD; Docket ID No. EPA– 

HQ–ORD–2013–0723] 

Best Practices for Continuous 

Monitoring of Temperature and Flow in 

Wadeable Streams 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of public comment 

period and letter peer review. 

SUMMARY: EPA is announcing a 30-day 

public comment period for the draft 

document titled, ‘‘Best Practices for 

Continuous Monitoring of Temperature 

and Flow in Wadeable Streams’’ (EPA/ 

600/R–13/170). The EPA also is 

announcing that either ERG or Versar, 

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EPA contractors for external scientific 

peer review, will select an independent 

group of experts to conduct a letter peer 

review of the draft document. The 

document was prepared by the National 

Center for Environmental Assessment 

(NCEA) within EPA’s Office of Research 

and Development. The report describes 

best practices for the deployment of 

continuous temperature and flow 

sensors in wadeable streams. This 

document addresses questions related to 

equipment needs, configuration, 

placement, installation techniques, data 

retrieval, and data processing. 

EPA is releasing the draft report for 

the purposes of public comment and 

peer review. The draft document is 

available via the Internet on the NCEA 

home page under the Recent Additions 

and the Data and Publications menus at 

www.epa.gov/ncea. This draft report is 

not final as described in EPA’s 

information quality guidelines, and does 

not represent and should not be 

construed to represent Agency policy or 

views. EPA intends to forward the 

public comments that are submitted in 

accordance with this notice to the 

external peer reviewers for their 

consideration during the letter review. 

When finalizing the draft document, 

EPA intends to consider any public 

comments that EPA receives in 

accordance with this notice. 

DATES: The 30-day public comment 

period begins October 31, 2013, and 

ends December 2, 2013. Technical 

comments should be in writing and 

must be received by EPA by December 

2, 2013. 

ADDRESSES: The draft document, ‘‘Best 

Practices for Continuous Monitoring of 

Temperature and Flow in Wadeable 

Streams,’’ is available primarily via the 

Internet on the NCEA home page under 

the Recent Additions and the Data and 

Publications menus at www.epa.gov/

ncea. A limited number of paper copies 

will be available from the Information 

Management Team, NCEA; telephone: 

703–347–8561; facsimile: 703–347– 

8691. If you are requesting a paper copy, 

please provide your name, mailing 

address, and the document title, ‘‘Best 

Practices for Continuous Monitoring of 

Temperature and Flow in Wadeable 

Streams,’’ (EPA/600/R–13/170) to 

facilitate processing of your request. 

Comments may be submitted 

electronically via www.regulations.gov, 

by mail, by facsimile, or by hand 

delivery/courier. Please follow the 

detailed instructions provided in the 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of 

this notice. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

information on the public comment 

period, contact the ORD Docket at the 

EPA Headquarters Docket Center; 

telephone: 202–566–1752; facsimile: 

202–566–9744; or email: 

Docket_ORD@epa.gov. 

For technical information, contact Dr. 

Britta Bierwagen, NCEA; telephone: 

703–347–8613; facsimile: 703–347– 

8694; or email: 

bierwagen.britta@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Information About the Project/ 

Document 

The lack of continuous temperature 

and flow data for minimally disturbed, 

free-flowing freshwater wadeable 

streams is an impediment to analyses of 

long-term trends in biological, thermal, 

and hydrologic data. In recent years, 

there has been substantial interest in 

developing regional monitoring 

networks with states and EPA regional 

offices to detect long-term climate 

change-related impacts on aquatic 

communities in freshwater streams. 

Current participants, including states in 

the Northeast, Mid-Atlantic and 

Southeast, are initiating collection of 

thermal, hydrologic, and biological data 

from targeted sites in each state. To help 

further this effort, EPA and collaborators 

have written a best practices document 

to facilitate more uniform and effective 

collection of continuous temperature 

and water depth data at ungaged sites in 

wadeable streams. This document 

addresses questions related to 

equipment needs, configuration, 

placement, installation techniques, data 

retrieval, and data processing. The 

collection of these data will further 

efforts to detect and track climate 

change-related impacts over the long 

term, further our understanding of how 

thermal, hydrologic, and biological 

conditions vary spatially and temporally 

and inter-relate to one another, and help 

inform state and federal agencies on 

how to attribute altered environmental 

conditions to climate change versus 

other stressors. 

II. How To Submit Technical Comments 

to the Docket at www.regulations.gov 

Submit your comments, identified by 

Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–ORD–2013– 

0723, by one of the following methods: 

• www.regulations.gov: Follow the 

on-line instructions for submitting 

comments. 

• Email: Docket_ORD@epa.gov. 

• Fax: 202–566–9744. 

• Mail: U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency, EPA Docket Center 

(ORD Docket), [Mail Code: 28221T], 

1200 Pennsylvania Avenue NW., 

Washington, DC 20460. The phone 

number is 202–566–1752. If you provide 

comments by mail, please submit one 

unbound original with pages numbered 

consecutively, and three copies of the 

comments. For attachments, provide an 

index, number pages consecutively with 

the comments, and submit an unbound 

original and three copies. 

• Hand Delivery: The ORD Docket is 

located in the EPA Headquarters Docket 

Center, EPA West Building, Room 3334, 

1301 Constitution Avenue NW., 

Washington, DC. The EPA Docket 

Center’s Public Reading Room is open 

from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday 

through Friday, excluding legal 

holidays. The telephone number for the 

Public Reading Room is 202–566–1744. 

Deliveries are only accepted during the 

docket’s normal hours of operation, and 

special arrangements should be made 

for deliveries of boxed information. If 

you provide comments by hand 

delivery, please submit one unbound 

original with pages numbered 

consecutively, and three copies of the 

comments. For attachments, provide an 

index, number pages consecutively with 

the comments, and submit an unbound 

original and three copies. 

Instructions: Direct your comments to 

Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–ORD–2013– 

0723. Please ensure that your comments 

are submitted within the specified 

comment period. Comments received 

after the closing date will be marked 

‘‘late,’’ and may only be considered if 

time permits. It is EPA’s policy to 

include all comments it receives in the 

public docket without change and to 

make the comments available online at 

www.regulations.gov, including any 

personal information provided, unless a 

comment includes information claimed 

to be Confidential Business Information 

(CBI) or other information whose 

disclosure is restricted by statute. Do 

not submit information that you 

consider to be CBI or otherwise 

protected through www.regulations.gov 

or email. The www.regulations.gov Web 

site is an ‘‘anonymous access’’ system, 

which means EPA will not know your 

identity or contact information unless 

you provide it in the body of your 

comment. If you send an email 

comment directly to EPA without going 

through www.regulations.gov, your 

email address will be automatically 

captured and included as part of the 

comment that is placed in the public 

docket and made available on the 

Internet. If you submit an electronic 

comment, EPA recommends that you 

include your name and other contact 

information in the body of your 

comment and with any disk or CD–ROM 

you submit. If EPA cannot read your 

comment due to technical difficulties 

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and cannot contact you for clarification, 

EPA may not be able to consider your 

comment. Electronic files should avoid 

the use of special characters, any form 

of encryption, and be free of any defects 

or viruses. For additional information 

about EPA’s public docket visit the EPA 

Docket Center home page at 

www.epa.gov/epahome/dockets.htm. 

Docket: Documents in the docket are 

listed in the www.regulations.gov index. 

Although listed in the index, some 

information is not publicly available, 

e.g., CBI or other information whose 

disclosure is restricted by statute. 

Certain other materials, such as 

copyrighted material, are publicly 

available only in hard copy. Publicly 

available docket materials are available 

either electronically at 

www.regulations.gov or in hard copy at 

the ORD Docket in the EPA 

Headquarters Docket Center. 

Dated: October 23, 2013. 

Abdel-Razak M. Kadry, 

Acting Director, National Center for 

Environmental Assessment. 

[FR Doc. 2013–25845 Filed 10–30–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 

COMMISSION 

[WT Docket No. 13–240; DA 13–1980] 

Comment Sought on Scoping 

Document for Development of a 

Proposed Program Comment To 

Govern Review of Positive Train 

Control Facilities Under Section 106 of 

the National Historic Preservation Act 

AGENCY: Federal Communications 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Wireless 

Telecommunications Bureau (Bureau) of 

the Federal Communications 

Commission (FCC) seeks public 

comment in connection with the 

development of a proposed Program 

Comment to govern review for the 

construction of positive train control 

(PTC) wayside facilities under section 

106 of the National Historic 

Preservation Act (NHPA). The ideas the 

Bureau is considering for the potential 

Program Comment are described in the 

referenced Supplementary Information. 

DATES: Comments are due on November 

15, 2013. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

identified by WT Docket No. 13–240; 

DA 13–1980, by any of the following 

methods: 

Federal Communications 

Commission’s Web site: http://fjallfoss.

fcc.gov/ecfs2/. Follow the instructions 

for submitting comments. 

Mail: Filings can be sent by hand or 

messenger delivery, by commercial 

overnight courier, or by first-class or 

overnight U.S. Postal Service mail. All 

filings must be addressed to the 

Commission’s Secretary, Office of the 

Secretary, Federal Communications 

Commission. 

People With Disabilities: Contact the 

FCC to request reasonable 

accommodations (accessible format 

documents, sign language interpreters, 

CART, etc.) by email: FCC504@fcc.gov 

or phone: 202–418–0530 or TTY: 202– 

418–0432. 

For detailed instructions for 

submitting comments and additional 

information on the rulemaking process, 

see the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION

section of this document. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

• Stephen Del Sordo, (202) 418–1986 or 

stephen.delsordo@fcc.gov, or Anne 

Marie Wypijewski, (717) 338–2508 or 

annemarie.wypijewski@fcc.gov. Media 

contact: Cecilia Sulhoff, (202) 418–0587 

or cecelia.sulhoff@fcc.gov. Jeffrey 

Steinberg, Deputy Chief of the Spectrum 

and Competition Policy Division, at 

Jeffrey.Steinberg@fcc.gov or 202–418– 

0896. 

• Geoffrey Blackwell, Chief of the 

FCC’s Office of Native Affairs and 

Policy, at Geoffrey.Blackwell@fcc.gov or 

202–418–3629; or 

• Irene Flannery, Deputy Chief of the 

FCC’s Office of Native Affairs and 

Policy, at Irene.Flannery@fcc.gov or 

202–418–1307. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a 

summary of the Commission’s Public 

Notice in WT Docket No. 13–240; DA 

13–1980, released on September 27, 

2013. The full text of this document is 

available for public inspection and 

copying during regular business hours 

in the FCC Reference Center, Federal 

Communications Commission, 445 12th 

Street SW., Room CY–B402, 

Washington, DC 20554. Alternative 

formats are available for people with 

disabilities (Braille, large print, 

electronic files, audio format), by 

sending an email to fcc504@fcc.gov or 

calling the Commission’s Consumer and 

Governmental Affairs Bureau at (202) 

418–0530 (voice), (202) 418–0432 

9TTY). Program Comment For Planned 

Construction of Positive Train Control 

Facilities Within The Railroad Bed 

section 106 Scoping Document. The 

Federal Communications Commission 

(FCC) invites the participation of State 

Historic Preservation Officers (SHPOs), 

the historic preservation community, 

and other stakeholders in developing a 

proposed Program Comment, pursuant 

to § 800.14(e) of the rules of the 

Advisory Council on Historic 

Preservation (ACHP), 36 CFR part 800, 

to facilitate the review process under 

section 106 of the National Historic 

Preservation Act (NHPA), 16 U.S.C. 

470f, for the infrastructure required for 

Positive Train Control (PTC). The FCC 

is the lead, or action, federal agency 

because the construction of PTC 

facilities requires the use of radio 

spectrum that is licensed by the FCC. 

Our process for developing the Program 

Comment includes government-togovernment consultation with federally 

recognized Indian Tribes in accordance 

with § 800.14(e)(4) and (f) of the ACHP 

rules and in accordance with the trust 

relationship we share with sovereign 

Tribal Nations as outlined in the FCC’s 

Statement of Policy on Establishing a 

Government-to-Government 

Relationship With Indians Tribes (16 

FCC Rcd 4078, 4081 (2000)). 

The purpose of this scoping document 

is to inform and engage all stakeholders 

in this important process. The FCC will 

also release a document substantively 

identical to this document to initiate 

formal consultation on the development 

of the proposed Program Comment with 

federally recognized Tribal Nations. 

This document provides a statement of 

purpose, background on PTC, an 

overview of PTC infrastructure, an 

explanation of compliance with section 

106 for PTC infrastructure, a discussion 

of ideas for the proposed Program 

Comment, a description of next steps, 

and FCC contact information. 

Purpose 

PTC will enable the railroads to 

improve the safety of freight and 

passenger train operations by preventing 

derailments, incursions into work 

zones, and collisions. The FCC’s goal, 

through Tribal consultation and 

engagement with the ACHP, SHPOs and 

stakeholders, is to develop an efficient, 

practical, and timely review process that 

ensures full consideration of the effects 

of PTC facilities on historic properties, 

including Tribal religious and cultural 

sites. 

Congress mandated that the railroads 

complete PTC deployment by December 

31, 2015. To meet this statutory 

mandate, the railroads are preparing to 

install more than 20,000 wayside poles 

nationwide within the existing railroad 

bed alongside existing tracks. The 

freight railroads intend to install 

wayside poles approximately one to two 

miles apart along their tracks and at 

certain switch points and other 

operational sites. Nearly all of the 

wayside poles are expected to be 

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