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1 In a filing of April 11, 2018, the Bureau of 

Indian Affairs provided documentation that lands 

held in trust by the BIA for the benefit of one or 

more federally-recognized Indian tribes occur 

within the existing Pensacola Project boundary. The 

total acreage of federal lands within the project 

boundary is unknown at this time. 

On October 16, 2017, the Commission 

staff granted Northern Natural’s request 

to utilize the Pre-Filing Process and 

assigned Docket No. PF18–1–000 to staff 

activities involved for the above 

referenced projects. Now, as of the filing 

of the July 30, 2018 application, the PreFiling Process for this project has ended. 

From this time forward, this proceeding 

will be conducted in Docket No. CP18– 

534–000, as noted in the caption of this 

Notice. 

Pursuant to section 157.9 of the 

Commission’s rules, 18 CFR 157.9, 

within 90 days of this Notice the 

Commission staff will either: Complete 

its environmental assessment (EA) 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 EA 

for this proposal. The filing of the 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 EA. 

There are two ways to become 

involved in the Commission’s review of 

this project. First, any person wishing to 

obtain legal status by becoming a party 

to the proceedings for this project 

should, on or before the comment date 

stated below, file with the Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 

First Street NE, Washington, DC 20426, 

a motion to intervene in accordance 

with the requirements of the 

Commission’s Rules of Practice and 

Procedure (18 CFR 385.214 or 385.211) 

and the Regulations under the NGA (18 

CFR 157.10). A person obtaining party 

status will be placed on the service list 

maintained by the Secretary of the 

Commission and will receive copies of 

all documents filed by the applicant and 

by all other parties. A party must submit 

five copies of filings made with the 

Commission and must mail a copy to 

the applicant and to every other party in 

the proceeding. Only parties to the 

proceeding can ask for court review of 

Commission orders in the proceeding. 

However, a person does not have to 

intervene in order to have comments 

considered. The second way to 

participate is by filing with the 

Secretary of the Commission, as soon as 

possible, an original and two copies of 

comments in support of or in opposition 

to this project. The Commission will 

consider these comments in 

determining the appropriate action to be 

taken, but the filing of a comment alone 

will not serve to make the filer a party 

to the proceeding. The Commission’s 

rules require that persons filing 

comments in opposition to the project 

provide copies of their protests only to 

the party or parties directly involved in 

the protest. 

Persons who wish to comment only 

on the environmental review of this 

project should submit an original and 

two copies of their comments to the 

Secretary of the Commission. 

Environmental commentors will be 

placed on the Commission’s 

environmental mailing list, will receive 

copies of the environmental documents, 

and will be notified of meetings 

associated with the Commission’s 

environmental review process. 

Environmental commentors will not be 

required to serve copies of filed 

documents on all other parties. 

However, the non-party commentors 

will not receive copies of all documents 

filed by other parties or issued by the 

Commission (except for the mailing of 

environmental documents issued by the 

Commission) and will not have the right 

to seek court review of the 

Commission’s final order. 

The Commission strongly encourages 

electronic filings of comments, protests 

and interventions in lieu of paper using 

the ‘‘eFiling’’ link at http://

www.ferc.gov. Persons unable to file 

electronically should submit original 

and five copies of the protest or 

intervention to the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street 

NE, Washington, DC 20426. 

Comment Date: 5:00 p.m. Eastern 

Time on August 31, 2018. 

Dated: August 10, 2018. 

Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr., 

Deputy Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2018–17652 Filed 8–15–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 1494–438] 

Grand River Dam Authority; Notice of 

Modification of Procedural Schedule 

Take notice that the schedule for 

processing the following hydroelectric 

application has been modified. 

a. Type of Application: Notice of 

Intent to File License Application for a 

New License and Commencing Prefiling Process. 

b. Project No.: 1494–438. 

c. Date Filed: February 1, 2017. 

d. Applicant: Grand River Dam 

Authority (GRDA). 

e. Name of Project: Pensacola 

Hydroelectric Project. 

f. Location: The project is located on 

the Grand (Neosho) River in Craig, 

Delaware, Mayes, and Ottawa Counties, 

Oklahoma. The project occupies federal 

land.1

g. Filed Pursuant to: 18 CFR part 5 of 

the Commission’s Regulations. 

h. Applicant Contact: Dr. Darrell 

Townsend, Assistant General Manager, 

GRDA, 420 Highway 28, Langley, OK 

74359–0070; (918) 256–0616 or 

dtownsend@grda.com. 

i. FERC Contact: Rachel McNamara at 

(202) 502–8340 or rachel.mcnamara@

ferc.gov. 

j. Procedural Schedule: The 

Commission’s August 10, 2018, letter 

established August 21, 2018, as the new 

date for the additional Tribal 

Consultation meeting. The revised 

deadline for filing the Revised Proposed 

Study Plan is now September 24, 2018, 

and the revised deadline for filing 

comments on the Revised Proposed 

Study Plan is now October 24, 2018. As 

such, the application will be processed 

according to the following revised 

schedule. Revisions to the schedule may 

be made as appropriate. If a date falls on 

a weekend or holiday, the due date will 

be the following business day. 

Milestone Target date 

File Revised Proposed Study Plan ................................................................................................................................. September 24, 2018. 

File Comments on Revised Proposed Study Plan ......................................................................................................... October 24, 2018. 


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Milestone Target date 

Commission Issues Study Plan Determination .............................................................................................................. November 8, 2018. 

Notice of Formal Study Dispute (if necessary) .............................................................................................................. November 28, 2018. 

Commission Issues Study Dispute Determination (if necessary) .................................................................................. February 6, 2019. 

Dated: August 10, 2018. 

Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr., 

Deputy Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2018–17655 Filed 8–15–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

Notice of Effectiveness of Exempt 

Wholesale Generator and Foreign 

Utility Company Status 

Docket Nos. 

East Hampton Energy Storage 

Center, LLC ................................. EG18–80–000 

Montauk Energy Storage Center, 

LLC .............................................. EG18–81–000 

Armadillo Flats Wind Project, LLC .. EG18–82–000 

Heartland Divide Wind Project, LLC EG18–83–000 

Antelope Expansion 2, LLC ............ EG18–84–000 

Pegasus Wind, LLC ........................ EG18–85–000 

Thunder Spirit Wind, LLC ............... EG18–86–000 

Pratt Wind, LLC ............................... EG18–87–000 

Stoneray Power Partners, LLC ....... EG18–88–000 

Copenhagen Wind Farm, LLC ........ EG18–89–000 

Rio Bravo Windpower, LLC ............. EG18–90–000 

Minco Wind IV, LLC ........................ EG18–91–000 

Minco Wind V, LLC ......................... EG18–92–000 

Lorenzo Wind, LLC ......................... EG18–93–000 

Wildcat Ranch Wind Project, LLC ... EG18–94–000 

Enbridge Rampion UK Ltd .............. FC18–5–000 

Take notice that during the month of 

July 2018, the status of the abovecaptioned entities as Exempt Wholesale 

Generators or Foreign Utility Companies 

became effective by operation of the 

Commission’s regulations. 18 CFR 

366.7(a) (2017). 

Dated: August 10, 2018. 

Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr., 

Deputy Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2018–17653 Filed 8–15–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS 

COMMISSION 

[MB Docket No. 17–179; FCC 18–100] 

Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. and 

Tribune Media Company, Applications 

for Transfer of Control of Tribune 

Media Company and Certain 

Subsidiaries, WDCW(TV) 

AGENCY: Federal Communications 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This document commences a 

hearing to determine whether granting 

the applications filed by Tribune Media 

Company (Tribune) and Sinclair 

Broadcast Group, Inc. (Sinclair) seeking 

to transfer control of Tribune 

subsidiaries to Sinclair would be in the 

public interest. The Commission has 

designated the applications for hearing 

after finding that there were substantial 

and material questions of fact as to 

whether; Sinclair was a ‘‘real party in 

interest’’ to the sale of certain broadcast 

stations; Sinclair engaged in 

misrepresentation and/or lack of candor 

in its applications with the Commission; 

and consummation of the overall 

transaction would be in the public 

interest, including whether it would 

comply with § 73.3555 of the 

Commission’s rules. 

DATES: Persons desiring to participate as 

parties in the hearing shall file a 

petition for leave to intervene not later 

than September 17, 2018. 

ADDRESSES: File documents with the 

Office of the Secretary, Federal 

Communications Commission, 445 12th 

Street SW, Washington, DC 20554, with 

a copy mailed to each party to the 

proceeding. Each document that is filed 

in this proceeding must display on the 

front page the docket number of this 

hearing, ‘‘MB Docket No. 17–179.’’ 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

David Brown, David.Brown@fcc.gov, 

Media Bureau, (202) 418–1645. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a 

summary of the Hearing Designation 

Order (Order), MB Docket No. 17–139, 

FCC 18–100, adopted July 18, 2018, and 

released July 19, 2018. The full text of 

the Order is available for inspection and 

copying during normal business hours 

in the FCC’s Reference Information 

Center at Portals II, CY–A257, 445 12th 

Street SW, Washington, DC 20554. The 

full text is also available online at 

http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/. 

Summary of the Hearing Designation 

Order 

1. On June 28, 2017, Sinclair 

Broadcast Group, Inc. (Sinclair) and 

Tribune Media Company (Tribune) filed 

applications seeking to transfer control 

of Tribune subsidiaries to Sinclair. 

Sinclair and Tribune have amended 

their applications several times 

thereafter, in an attempt to bring the 

transaction into compliance with the 

Commission’s national television 

multiple ownership rule, as well as the 

public interest requirements of the 

Communications Act of 1934, as 

amended (the Act). 

2. Among these applications were 

three that, rather than transfer broadcast 

television licenses in Chicago, Dallas, 

and Houston directly to Sinclair, 

proposed to transfer these licenses to 

other entities. According to the 

proposals, Sinclair would divest WGN– 

TV, Chicago, Illinois, to WGN TV, LLC, 

a newly-created entity by Steve Fader, 

an individual with no broadcast 

experience, for a purchase price of 

approximately $60 million. Sinclair 

would also divest KDAF(TV), Dallas 

Texas, and KIAH(TV), Houston, Texas, 

to Cunningham Broadcast Corporation 

(Cunningham) for a combined purchase 

price of approximately $60 million. The 

Commission notes that the proposed 

transfer applications to Fader and 

Cunningham were withdrawn on July 

18, 2018. 

3. Multiple formal pleadings have 

been filed opposing this latest 

divestiture plan. Most opponents 

challenge the divestitures as ‘‘shams’’ 

intended to circumvent the local and 

national television multiple ownership 

rules and find most egregious the 

proposed divestitures to Fader and 

Cunningham. Some parties question 

whether Sinclair will hold de facto 

control over WGN TV, LLC. 

Specifically, they question the 

reasonableness of the terms of the 

transaction, including a purchase price 

of only $60 million, and Sinclair’s plans 

to enter into a Joint Sales Agreement 

(JSA), Shared Services Agreement 

(SSA), and Option with WGN TV, LLC 

at closing. The parties also question 

Fader’s independence from Sinclair 

given that Fader and David Smith, 

currently a director and controlling 

shareholder of Sinclair and formerly its 

CEO, are business partners outside of 

the broadcast industry. Specifically, 

Fader is the CEO of Atlantic Automotive 

Group (Atlantic), in which David Smith 

has a controlling interest and serves as 

a member of its board of directors, and 

Atlantic is a Sinclair advertiser and 

tenant. Similarly, some parties argue 

that the sale of stations in Dallas and 

Houston to Cunningham are in name 

only and warrant a hearing. According 

to the objectors, problematic aspects of 


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