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1http://www.ferc.gov/industries/electric/indusact/market-planning.asp. 

project would affect federal lands 

administered by the Bureau of Land 

Management. The sole purpose of a 

preliminary permit, if issued, is to grant 

the permit holder priority to file a 

license application during the permit 

term. A preliminary permit does not 

authorize the permit holder to perform 

any land-disturbing activities or 

otherwise enter upon lands or waters 

owned by others without the owners’ 

express permission. 

The proposed project would consist of 

the following: (1) An upper reservoir 

formed by a 160-foot-high by 6,750-footlong, roller-compacted concrete (RCC) 

dam (an open ‘‘U’’—shaped structure 

varying from grade to roughly 160-foothigh) having a total storage capacity of 

5,530 acre-feet and a water surface area 

of 90 acres at full pool elevation of 6,000 

feet above mean-sea-level (msl); (2) a 

lower reservoir formed by a 200-foothigh by 730-foot-long, RCC dam, having 

a total storage capacity of 5,530 acre-feet 

and a water surface area of 110 acres at 

full pool elevation of 4,200 feet msl; (3) 

two 8,510-foot-long by 16-foot-diameter 

penstocks; (4) an underground 

powerhouse roughly 750-feet-long by 

175-feet-high by 70-feet-wide; (5) two 

320-foot-long by two 18-foot diameter 

tailraces; (6) an access tunnel roughly 

36-feet-in-diameter and 2,470-feet-long, 

connecting the project’s powerhouse to 

Grand County Highway 279; (7) the 

existing trail-road relocated to the south 

side of the reservoir to an elevation of 

4,210 feet msl; and (8) pump-turbines 

with a capacity of roughly 800 

megawatts (MW) (3 units × 267 MW 

unit). The annual energy output would 

be approximately 1,077,000 

megawatthours. Twin 25—kilovolt (kV) 

circuit transmission lines would 

interconnect with an existing Rocky 

Mountain Power transmission line via a 

40-mile-long interconnection. 

Applicant Contact: Mr. Frank L. 

Mazzone, Utah Independent Power, 

Inc., 957 Fairway Drive, Sonoma, CA 

95476; phone (707) 996–2573. 

FERC Contact: Brian Csernak; phone: 

(202) 502–6144. 

Deadline for filing comments, motions 

to intervene, competing applications 

(without notices of intent), or notices of 

intent to file competing applications: 60 

days from the issuance of this notice. 

Competing applications and notices of 

intent must meet the requirements of 18 

CFR 4.36. Comments, motions to 

intervene, notices of intent, and 

competing applications may be filed 

electronically via the Internet. See 18 

CFR 385.2001(a)(1)(iii) and the 

instructions on the Commission’s Web 

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

efiling.asp. Commenters can submit 

brief comments up to 6,000 characters, 

without prior registration, using the 

eComment system at http:// 

www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/ 

ecomment.asp. You must include your 

name and contact information at the end 

of your comments. For assistance, 

please contact FERC Online Support at 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or toll 

free at 1–866–208–3676, or for TTY, 

(202) 502–8659. Although the 

Commission strongly encourages 

electronic filing, documents may also be 

paper-filed. To paper-file, mail an 

original and seven copies to: Kimberly 

D. Bose, Secretary, Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street 

NE., Washington, DC 20426. 

More information about this project, 

including a copy of the application, can 

be viewed or printed on the ‘‘eLibrary’’ 

link of Commission’s Web site at http:// 

www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/elibrary.asp. 

Enter the docket number (P–14354) in 

the docket number field to access the 

document. For assistance, contact FERC 

Online Support. 

Dated: March 23, 2012. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2012–7642 Filed 3–29–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. AD10–12–003] 

Increasing Market and Planning 

Efficiency Through Improved Software; 

Notice of Technical Conference: 

Increasing Real-Time and Day-Ahead 

Market Efficiency Through Improved 

Software 

Take notice that Commission staff 

will convene a technical conference on 

June 25, 26, and 27, 2012 to discuss 

opportunities for increasing real-time 

and day-ahead market efficiency 

through improved software. A detailed 

agenda with the list of and times for the 

selected speakers will be published on 

the Commission’s Increasing Market and 

Planning Efficiency Web site 1 after May 

14, 2012. 

This conference will bring together 

diverse experts from ISOs/RTOs, nonmarket utilities, the software industry, 

government, research centers and 

academia for the purposes of 

stimulating discussion and sharing of 

information about the technical aspects 

of these issues and identifying fruitful 

avenues for research. This conference is 

intended to build on the discussions 

initiated in the Commission’s June 2010 

and June 2011 staff technical 

conferences on increasing market and 

planning efficiency through improved 

software. 

The conferences held in June 2010 

and June 2011 produced presentations 

on several advanced approaches to 

market modeling which appear to have 

significant promise for potential 

efficiency improvements: Stochastic 

modeling; optimal transmission 

switching; AC optimal power flow 

modeling; and use of active and 

dynamic transmission ratings. 

Significant computational impediments 

to efficiently and reliably implement 

these approaches must be understood 

and overcome before benefits can be 

realized. In this conference, we seek to 

explore research and technical steps 

that would be needed to implement 

these and other advanced technologies 

in the future. 

In particular we solicit proposals for 

presentations on topics and questions 

such as the following: 

(1) Stochastic modeling for unit 

commitment and operating reserves: 

Given the difficulty in formulating and 

solving full-scale stochastic unitcommitment problems, what interim 

steps might be taken to more 

intelligently incorporate information 

about uncertainty into unit-commitment 

and dispatch? Specifically: 

D How can uncertainty be described 

in a manageable set of scenarios or 

constraints that improve unitcommitment and dispatch while 

allowing good solutions to be achieved 

in the required timeframe? 

D If a stochastic unit-commitment 

model is used, how should day-ahead 

prices be calculated, given that the 

stochastic formulation no longer 

produces as part of its solution a single 

set of deterministic shadow prices for 

power at each location? 

D How would a stochastic day-ahead 

unit commitment mechanism alter 

current market software for other 

processes (for example, reliability unitcommitment processes)? 

D What steps toward better 

incorporation of uncertainty into unitcommitment might be taken over the 

next 5 to 10 years? 

D What methods can be used to 

calculate requirements for contingency 

reserves and regulating reserves? 

Æ How can reserves calculations more 

completely capture the uncertainty and 

variability of the system, including 

forecast error? 

Æ How can outage probability be 

captured in contingency reserve 

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https://www.ferc.gov/whats-new/registration/realmarket-6-25-12-speaker-form.asp. 

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25-12-form.asp. 

calculations, and how good is the 

available data? 

Æ What methods can be used to 

determine reserve zones? 

(2) Optimal transmission switching: 

D Simple optimal DC transmission 

switching appears to represent a 

potentially solvable technical problem 

using existing computational resources 

if transmission operators optimize only 

a small number of transmission switch 

positions. It is less clear whether 

transmission switching model 

formulations that include realistic 

representations of reliability 

requirements are solvable. What is the 

performance of these more complex 

model formulations? 

D What additional computational 

impediments, if any, exist to 

implementing optimal transmission 

switching over a small number of 

switches while maintaining reliability? 

D What steps toward optimal 

transmission switching might be taken 

over the next 5 to 10 years? 

(3) AC optimal power flow modeling: 

D What is the current state of 

computational capability with respect to 

dependably solving AC optimal power 

flow problems, including analysis of 

power system reliability? 

D Discussions during previous 

conferences have centered on concerns 

that current system data quality might 

not allow for an AC optimal power flow 

model to be properly formulated and 

solved. What are the specific data 

concerns, and what needs to be done to 

address them? 

D What steps toward use of AC 

optimal power flow modeling might be 

taken over the next 5 to 10 years? 

(4) Adaptive and dynamic 

transmission ratings: 

D Previous presentations examined 

the use of post-contingency analysis 

when determining transmission ratings, 

including consideration of availability 

of ramping capability. How can (or 

have) adaptive transmission ratings 

been implemented? 

D Previous presentations also 

examined how transmission ratings 

might be updated in real time in 

response to ambient conditions. How 

have such dynamic transmission ratings 

been implemented? 

D What are the data or computational 

challenges associated with 

implementing adaptive or dynamic 

transmission ratings? 

While the topics suggested above are 

largely forward-looking, we also 

encourage proposals for presentations 

on best practices and other analyses of 

current operations with respect to these 

and related topics. 

The technical conference will be held 

in the Commission Meeting Room at the 

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 

888 First Street NE., Washington, DC 

20426. All interested participants are 

invited to attend, and participants with 

ideas for relevant presentations are 

invited to nominate themselves to speak 

at the conference. 

Speaker nominations must be 

submitted on or before April 27, 2012 

through the Commission’s Web site 2 by 

providing the proposed speaker’s 

contact information along with a title, 

abstract, and list of contributing authors 

for the proposed presentation. Proposed 

presentations should be closely related 

to the topics discussed above. Speakers 

and presentations will be selected to 

ensure relevant topics and to 

accommodate time constraints. 

Although registration is not required 

for general attendance by U.S. citizens, 

we encourage those planning to attend 

the conference to register through the 

Commission’s Web site.3 We will 

provide printed nametags for those who 

register on or before June 20, 2012. 

Due to new security procedures, we 

strongly encourage attendees who are 

not citizens of the United States to 

register for the conference by June 1, 

2012, in order to avoid any delay 

associated with being processed by 

FERC security. 

Following the conferences, a 

comment date will be set for the filing 

of post-conference comments. 

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. 

A free webcast of this event will be 

available through the FERC Web site. 

Webcast viewers will not be able to 

participate during the technical 

conference. Anyone with Internet access 

interested in viewing the webcast of this 

conference can do so by navigating to 

Calendar of Events at www.ferc.gov. The 

events will contain a link to the 

webcast. The Capitol Connection 

provides technical support for the 

webcasts and offers the option of 

listening to the conferences via phonebridge for a fee. If you have any 

questions, visit 

www.CapitolConnection.org or call (703) 

993–3100. 

FERC conferences are accessible 

under section 508 of the Rehabilitation 

Act of 1973. For accessibility 

accommodations please send an email 

to accessibility@ferc.gov or call toll free 

(866) 208–3372 (voice) or (202) 502– 

8659 (TTY), or send a fax to (202) 208– 

2106 with the required 

accommodations. 

For further information about these 

conferences, please contact: 

Sarah McKinley (Logistical 

Information), Office of External 

Affairs, (202) 502–8004, 

Sarah.McKinley@ferc.gov. 

Brian Bak (Technical Information), 

Office of Energy Policy and 

Innovation, (202) 502–6574, 

Brian.Bak@ferc.gov. 

Dated: March 26, 2012. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2012–7643 Filed 3–29–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[ER–FRL–9002–3] 

Environmental Impacts Statements; 

Notice of Availability 

Responsible Agency: Office of Federal 

Activities, General Information (202) 

564–7146 or http://www.epa.gov/ 

compliance/nepa/. 

Weekly receipt of Environmental Impact 

Statements 

Filed 03/19/2012 Through 03/23/2012 

Pursuant to 40 CFR 1506.9. 

Notice 

Section 309(a) of the Clean Air Act 

requires that EPA make public its 

comments on EISs issued by other 

Federal agencies. EPA’s comment letters 

on EISs are available at: http:// 

www.epa.gov/compliance/nepa/ 

eisdata.html. 

EIS No. 20120080, Revised Final EIS, 

USACE, FL, Central and Southern 

Florida Project, Broward County 

Water Preserve Areas, Updates 

Resulting from Policy Changes that 

occurred since 2007 Civil Works 

Board Approval, South Florida Water 

Management District (SFWMD), 

Comprehensive Everglades 

Restoration Plan, (CERP), Broward 

County, FL, Review Period Ends: 04/ 

30/2012, Contact: Angela E. Dunn 

904–232–2108. 

EIS No. 20120081, Draft EIS, USFWS, 

AK, Izembek National Wildlife Refuge 

Land Exchange/Road Corridor, 

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