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LNG export application(s) previously 

approved on domestic natural gas 

supply and demand fundamentals. DOE 

may also consider other factors bearing 

on the public interest, including the 

impact of the proposed exports on the 

U.S. economy (including GDP, 

consumers, and industry), job creation, 

the U.S. balance of trade, and 

international considerations; and 

whether the authorization is consistent 

with DOE’s policy of promoting 

competition in the marketplace by 

allowing commercial parties to freely 

negotiate their own trade arrangements. 

Parties that may oppose this 

Application should address these issues 

in their comments and/or protests, as 

well as other issues deemed relevant to 

the Application. 

NEPA requires DOE to give 

appropriate consideration to the 

environmental effects of its decisions. 

No final decision will be issued in this 

proceeding until DOE has met its 

environmental responsibilities. 

Due to the complexity of the issues 

raised by the Applicant, interested 

persons will be provided 60 days from 

the date of publication of this Notice in 

which to submit comments, protests, 

motions to intervene, notices of 

intervention, or motions for additional 

procedures. 

Public Comment Procedures 

In response to this Notice, any person 

may file a protest, comments, or a 

motion to intervene or notice of 

intervention, as applicable. Any person 

wishing to become a party to the 

proceeding must file a motion to 

intervene or notice of intervention, as 

applicable. The filing of comments or a 

protest with respect to the Application 

will not serve to make the commenter or 

protestant a party to the proceeding, 

although protests and comments 

received from persons who are not 

parties will be considered in 

determining the appropriate action to be 

taken on the Application. All protests, 

comments, motions to intervene, or 

notices of intervention must meet the 

requirements specified by the 

regulations in 10 CFR part 590. 

Filings may be submitted using one of 

the following methods: (1) Emailing the 

filing to fergas@hq.doe.gov, with FE 

Docket No. 13–69–LNG in the title line; 

(2) mailing an original and three paper 

copies of the filing to the Office of Oil 

and Gas Global Security and Supply at 

the address listed in ADDRESSES; or (3) 

hand delivering an original and three 

paper copies of the filing to the Office 

of Oil and Gas Global Supply at the 

address listed in ADDRESSES. All filings 

must include a reference to FE Docket 

No. 13–69–LNG. 

Please Note: If submitting a filing via 

email, please include all related documents 

and attachments (e.g., exhibits) in the 

original email correspondence. Please do not 

include any active hyperlinks or password 

protection in any of the documents or 

attachments related to the filing. All 

electronic filings submitted to DOE must 

follow these guidelines to ensure that all 

documents are filed in a timely manner. Any 

hardcopy filing submitted greater in length 

than 50 pages must also include, at the time 

of the filing, a digital copy on disk of the 

entire submission. 

A decisional record on the 

Application will be developed through 

responses to this notice by parties, 

including the parties’ written comments 

and replies thereto. Additional 

procedures will be used as necessary to 

achieve a complete understanding of the 

facts and issues. A party seeking 

intervention may request that additional 

procedures be provided, such as 

additional written comments, an oral 

presentation, a conference, or trial-type 

hearing. Any request to file additional 

written comments should explain why 

they are necessary. Any request for an 

oral presentation should identify the 

substantial question of fact, law, or 

policy at issue, show that it is material 

and relevant to a decision in the 

proceeding, and demonstrate why an 

oral presentation is needed. Any request 

for a conference should demonstrate 

why the conference would materially 

advance the proceeding. Any request for 

a trial-type hearing must show that there 

are factual issues genuinely in dispute 

that are relevant and material to a 

decision and that a trial-type hearing is 

necessary for a full and true disclosure 

of the facts. 

If an additional procedure is 

scheduled, notice will be provided to all 

parties. If no party requests additional 

procedures, a final Opinion and Order 

may be issued based on the official 

record, including the Application and 

responses filed by parties pursuant to 

this notice, in accordance with 10 CFR 

590.316. 

The Application is available for 

inspection and copying in the Division 

of Natural Gas Regulatory Activities 

docket room, Room 3E–042, 1000 

Independence Avenue SW., 

Washington, DC 20585. The docket 

room is open between the hours of 8 

a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Monday through 

Friday, except Federal holidays. The 

Application and any filed protests, 

motions to intervene or notice of 

interventions, and comments will also 

be available electronically by going to 

the following DOE/FE Web address: 

http://www.fe.doe.gov/programs/

gasregulation/index.html. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on May 20, 

2014. 

John A. Anderson, 

Director, Division of Natural Gas Regulatory 

Activities, Office of Oil and Gas Global 

Security and Supply, Office of Oil and 

Natural Gas. 

[FR Doc. 2014–12210 Filed 5–23–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Bonneville Power Administration 

Crystal Springs Hatchery Program 

AGENCY: Bonneville Power 

Administration (BPA), Department of 

Energy (DOE). 

ACTION: Notice of intent to prepare an 

Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) 

and notice of floodplain and wetlands 

assessment. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

National Environmental Policy Act 

(NEPA), BPA intends to prepare an EIS 

on its decision whether to fund the 

Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of the Fort 

Hall Reservation of Idaho (Tribes) 

proposal to construct and operate a 

hatchery for spring/summer Chinook 

salmon in the Salmon River subbasin 

and Yellowstone cutthroat trout in the 

Upper Snake River subbasin on Fort 

Hall Reservation. 

The Tribes’ proposed project that BPA 

is considering funding would involve 

construction of a hatchery and 

construction of two fish trapping (weir) 

facilities on US Forest Service (USFS) 

land. The hatchery would be 

constructed at the site of an obsolete 

trout hatchery owned by BPA on Crystal 

Springs in Bingham County, Idaho. The 

weirs would involve construction of a 

weir in the Yankee Fork of the Salmon 

River at the USFS Pole Flat 

Campground in Custer County, 

relocation of a section of Yankee Fork 

Road and associated facilities (RV pads), 

and construction of a weir on USFS 

land in Panther Creek in Lemhi County, 

Idaho. The USFS will be a cooperating 

agency on this EIS to inform their 

decision on whether to grant a special 

use permit for construction and 

operation of the two weirs and 

associated facilities and relocation of 

the road on forest service lands. 

Operations of the hatchery would 

include collection of adult spring/

summer Chinook for broodstock from 

existing hatcheries, incubation and 

rearing of juvenile Chinook, and release 

of smolts into the Yankee Fork and 


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Panther Creek. Over time, broodstock 

would be collected at the Yankee Fork 

and Panther Creek weirs. Chinook were 

extirpated from Panther Creek in the 

mid-1900s. In 1992, Chinook salmon 

native to Yankee Fork were listed as 

threatened under the Endangered 

Species Act (ESA); currently the 

population is classified at high risk of 

extinction and has been identified as an 

independent population of Snake River 

spring/summer Chinook salmon. The 

proposal would augment anadromous 

fish populations available for harvest 

and aid in establishing a naturally 

spawning Chinook population. 

The hatchery would also produce up 

to 5,000 resident Yellowstone cutthroat 

trout for release in an isolated oxbow 

lake within the Fort Hall Reservation 

permit fishing area in the upper Snake 

River subbasin. Biologists would 

monitor Chinook salmon in Yankee 

Fork and Panther Creek and 

Yellowstone cutthroat trout in the 

oxbow lake to inform decisions on 

hatchery operations. 

With this Notice of Intent, BPA is 

initiating the public scoping process for 

the EIS. BPA and the USFS are 

requesting comments about potential 

environmental impacts that should be 

considered as an EIS is prepared. 

In accordance with DOE regulations 

for compliance with floodplain and 

wetlands environmental review 

requirements, BPA will prepare a 

floodplain and wetlands assessment to 

avoid or minimize potential harm to or 

within any affected floodplains and 

wetlands. The assessment will be 

included in the EIS. 

DATES: Written comments are due to the 

ad dress below no later than July 7, 

2014. Comments may also be made at 

one of the three EIS scoping meetings to 

be held on June 10, 2014, June 11, 2014, 

and June 12, 2014 at the addresses 

below. 

ADDRESSES: Comments on the proposed 

scope of the Draft EIS for funding this 

Tribal project and requests to be placed 

on the project mailing list may be 

mailed by letter to Bonneville Power 

Administration, Public Affairs Office— 

DKE–7, P.O. Box 14428, Portland, OR 

97292–4428, or by fax to 503–230–4019. 

You also may call BPA’s toll-free 

comment line at 1–800–622–4519 and 

leave a message (please include the 

name of this project), or submit 

comments online at www.bpa.gov/

comment. All comment letters will be 

available via the project Web site at 

www.bpa.gov/goto/CrystalSprings. 

On June 10, 2014, a scoping meeting 

will be held from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. 

at the Shoshone-Bannock Hotel & 

Events Center, I–15 Exit 80, Simplot Rd, 

Fort Hall, Idaho 83203. Additional 

scoping meetings will be held on June 

11, 2014 from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at 

the USFS Office, 1206 S. Challis Street 

Salmon, ID; and on June 12, 2014 from 

6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at the USFS 

Office, 311 N. US HWY 93, Challis, ID. 

At these informal open-house meetings, 

we will have project information, maps, 

and members of the project team 

available to answer questions and 

accept verbal and written comments. 

Forest Service Objection Process: The 

final EIS and USFS draft decision will 

be completed and mailed to those who 

have submitted comments, and to those 

who have requested to be included on 

the project mailing list. A copy of the 

final EIS and draft decision is planned 

to be mailed in early 2016. 

The project implements land 

management plans and is not authorized 

under the Healthy Forest Restoration 

Act and is subject to 36 Code of Federal 

Register (CFR) 218.7 (a) and (b). There 

will be an objection process before the 

final USFS decision is made and after 

the final EIS and draft decision are 

mailed (reference 36 CFR part 218). In 

order to be eligible to file an objection, 

specific written comments related to the 

project must be submitted during 

scoping, by the comment period on the 

draft EIS in accordance with procedures 

in 40 CFR 1506.10, and any other 

periods public comment is specifically 

requested on this EIS (36 CFR 218.5). 

Individual members of organizations 

must have submitted their own 

comments to meet the requirements of 

eligibility as an individual. Objections 

received on behalf of an organization are 

considered as those of the organization 

only. Names and addresses of those who 

comment and/or file objections will 

become part of the public record. 

For more information on how the 

objection process works for projects and 

activities implementing land and 

resource management plans and the 

requirements, contact Mary Hammer at 

208–756–5109, email marylhammer@

fs.fed.us, or you may read the 

regulations under 36 CFR part 218, 

subparts A and B on the National Forest 

Service Web site at http://www.gpo.gov/ 

fdsys/pkg/FR-2013-03-27/pdf/2013- 

06857.pdf. 

The environmental analysis will be 

mailed out to those who respond to this 

notice of intent, the scoping letter, to 

those who have requested the 

document, or are eligible to file an 

objection in accordance with 36 CFR 

218.5(a). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Don 

Rose, Environmental Coordinator, 

Bonneville Power Administration— 

KEC–4, P.O. Box 3621, Portland, Oregon 

97208–3621; toll-free telephone 1–800– 

282–3713; direct telephone 503–230– 

3796; or email dlrose@bpa.gov or Joe 

DeHerrera, Project Manager, Bonneville 

Power Administration—KEC–4, P.O. 

Box 3621, Portland, Oregon, 97208– 

3621; toll-free telephone number 1–800– 

622–4519; fax number 503–230–5699; 

email jldeherrera@bpa.gov. For 

questions specifically for the USFS, 

contact Mary Hammer at 208–756–5109, 

or email at marylhammer@fs.fed.us. 

Additional information can be found at 

the project Web site: www.bpa.gov/goto/ 

CrystalSprings. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: BPA’s 

funding of the Tribes’ project would 

support efforts to protect, mitigate, and 

enhance fish and wildlife affected by 

the development and operation of the 

Federal Columbia River Power System 

in the mainstem Columbia River and its 

tributaries pursuant to the Pacific 

Northwest Electric Power Planning and 

Conservation Act of 1980 (Act) (16 

U.S.C. 839b(h)(10)). The Act requires 

BPA to fund fish and wildlife 

protection, mitigation, and 

enhancement actions consistent with 

the Northwest Power and Conservation 

Council’s (Council) Fish and Wildlife 

Program and the purposes of the Act. 

Under this program, the Council makes 

recommendations to BPA concerning 

which fish and wildlife projects to fund. 

The Tribes’ proposed project is one of 

those projects recommended to BPA by 

the Council. BPA obligated to fund the 

Tribes’ proposed project in the 2008 

Shoshone-Bannock Tribes Fish Accord 

Memorandum of Agreement, and made 

funding contingent on satisfactory 

completion of applicable environmental 

compliance, such as NEPA. The Tribes’s 

proposal is also consistent with BPA’s 

Fish and Wildlife Implementation Plan 

policy which calls for protecting weak 

stocks, like the Salmon River spring/

summer Chinook, while sustaining 

overall populations of fish for their 

economic and cultural value, including 

long-term harvest opportunities. 

The Tribes proposed prject includes 

the Crystal Springs Hatchery, the 

Yankee Fork weir, and the Panther 

Creek weir. Construction of the hatchery 

would include a hatchery building (for 

administrative offices, incubation and 

rearing, and water treatment), outdoor 

rearing facilities, a shop building (for 

vehicle, equipment, and feed storage), 

an effluent control area, two new wells 

(to improve water temperatures and 

water quality from existing water 

sources), and staff housing. 


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Construction of the Yankee Fork weir 

would include construction of a bridgesupported bar-rack weir system, a fish 

ladder, broodstock and juvenile 

acclimation facilities, a spawning and 

egg take area, a staff working area, and 

realignment of a section of Yankee Fork 

Road. 

Construction of the Panther Creek 

weir, would include construction of a 

bridge supported bar-rack weir system, 

a fish ladder, and broodstock and 

juvenile acclimation facilities. 

The proposed hatchery would 

produce up to 1,000,000 yearling 

spring/summer Chinook smolts. Project 

operations would include collection of 

adult spring/summer Chinook for 

broodstock from the Sawtooth and 

Pahsimeroi hatcheries located in Custer 

and Lemhi counties, Idaho; incubation 

and rearing of juvenile spring/summer 

Chinook; and release of 400,000 smolts 

into Panther Creek and 600,000 smolts 

into Yankee Fork of the Salmon River in 

Idaho. 

Once returning populations reach 

approximately 500–1,000 fish annually 

at each weir location, hatchery 

broodstock collection would cease and 

instead, harvest of approximately 800 

adult Chinook would be allowed 

annually at the Panther Creek weir for 

broodstock and 1,000 adult spring/

summer Chinook collected annually at 

the Yankee Fork weir for broodstock 

with excess adults allowed to pass the 

trap and return to key upriver habitat to 

spawn naturally. The Tribes’ project 

would also contribute to the 

conservation and recovery of the Snake 

River spring/summer Chinook ESU by 

restoring a population of 500 locally 

adapted Chinook spawners in the 

Yankee Fork and 500 spawners in 

Panther Creek (a total of 1,000 fish). The 

tribe would implement a monitoring 

and evaluation program to determine if 

harvest and conservation and recovery 

objectives are being achieved, ensure 

that hatchery culture practices meet 

identified standards, quantify hatchery 

fish migration performance, document 

hatchery-origin adult stray rates to other 

out-of-basin streams, and track natural 

fish population abundance, 

productivity, life history diversity and 

spatial structure. 

BPA will be the lead agency for 

preparation of the EIS. The USFS will 

be a cooperating agency and will assist 

BPA in evaluating alternatives and 

identifying issues that should be 

addressed in the EIS. The USFS could 

use the EIS to support a decision of 

whether to grant Special Use Permits to 

the Tribes and to identify what terms 

and conditions would be necessary if 

the Special Use Permits were granted. 

Additional cooperating agencies for the 

EIS may be identified as the proposed 

project proceeds through the NEPA 

process. 

Alternatives Proposed for 

Consideration: In the EIS, BPA is 

considering the following alternatives: 

to fund the proposed hatchery and weir 

facilities; to fund the hatchery only; a 

No Action Alternative of not funding 

the proposal; and other viable 

alternatives brought forth during the 

scoping process. 

Public Participation and 

Identification of Environmental Issues: 

The potential environmental issues 

identified so far for this project include 

effects of hatchery operations on water 

quality; the risk of competition for 

habitat between increasing numbers of 

reintroduced spring/summer Chinook 

and ESA-listed fish such as bull trout; 

the potential for adult spring/summer 

Chinook collection activities to affect 

other fish; potential effects on soil, 

aesthetics, and water quality due to the 

construction of permanent facilities and 

the relocation of Yankee Fork Road on 

USFS land; and the social, cultural, and 

economic effects of project construction 

and operations, as well as harvest. 

In accordance with DOE regulations, 

a 45-day scoping period has been 

established by BPA, and supported by 

the USFS, during which the public is 

invited to comment on the scope of the 

proposed EIS. Scoping will help BPA 

and the USFS ensure they identify 

significant issues and develop 

alternatives in the EIS, and identify 

significant or potentially significant 

impacts that may result from the 

proposed project and alternatives. 

When completed, the Draft EIS will be 

circulated for review and comment, and 

BPA and the USFS will hold at least one 

public comment meeting for the Draft 

EIS. BPA, in coordination with the 

USFS and the Tribes, will consider and 

respond in the Final EIS to comments 

received on the Draft EIS. BPA and the 

USFS will each issue their own decision 

documents. 

Issued in Portland, Oregon on May 15, 

2014. 

Mark O. Gendron, 

Acting Administrator and Chief Executive 

Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2014–11994 Filed 5–23–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

Combined Notice of Filings #1 

Take notice that the Commission 

received the following electric rate 

filings: 

Docket Numbers: ER12–316–004. 

Applicants: NorthWestern 

Corporation. 

Description: Schedule 3 Compliance 

Filing re Order Affirming Initial 

Decision to be effective 1/1/2011. 

Filed Date: 5/19/14. 

Accession Number: 20140519–5074. 

Comments Due: 5 p.m. e.t. 6/9/14. 

Docket Numbers: ER12–2178–008; 

ER10–2172–019; ER11–2016–014; ER10– 

2184–019; ER10–2183–016; ER10–1048– 

016; ER10–2192–019; ER11–2056–013; 

ER10–2178–019; ER10–2174–019; ER11– 

2014–016; ER11–2013–016; ER10–3308– 

018; ER10–1020–015; ER13–1536–002; 

ER10–1078–015; ER10–1080–015; ER11– 

2010–016; ER10–1081–015; ER10–2180– 

019; ER11–2011–015; ER12–2528–007; 

ER11–2009–015; ER10–1143–015; ER11– 

2007–014; ER11–2005–016. 

Applicants: AV Solar Ranch 1, LLC, 

Baltimore Gas and Electric Company, 

Cassia Gulch Wind Park, LLC,CER 

Generation, LLC,CER Generation II, 

LLC, Commonwealth Edison Company, 

Constellation Energy Commodities 

Group M, Constellation Mystic Power, 

LLC, Constellation NewEnergy, Inc., 

Constellation Pwr Source Generation 

LLC,CR Clearing, LLC, Cow Branch 

Wind Power, LLC, Criterion Power 

Partners, LLC, Exelon Framingham, 

LLC, Exelon Generation Company, LLC, 

Exelon New Boston, LLC, Exelon West 

Medway, LLC, Exelon Wind 4, LLC, 

Exelon Wyman, LLC, Handsome Lake 

Energy, LLC, Harvest WindFarm, LLC, 

High Mesa Energy, LLC, Michigan Wind 

1, LLC,PECO Energy Company, Tuana 

Springs Energy, LLC, Wind Capital 

Holdings, LLC. 

Description: Amendment to December 

30, 2013 Updated Market Power 

Analysis for the Northeast Region of the 

Exelon Market-Based Rate Entities. 

Filed Date: 5/16/14. 

Accession Number: 20140516–5239. 

Comments Due: 5 p.m. e.t. 6/6/14. 

Docket Numbers: ER13–103–005. 

Applicants: California Independent 

System Operator Corporation. 

Description: 2014–05–19_Order 1000_

Regional_Third Compliance to be 

effective 10/1/2013. 

Filed Date: 5/19/14. 

Accession Number: 20140519–5200. 

Comments Due: 5 p.m. e.t. 6/9/14. 

Docket Numbers: ER13–2337–003. 


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