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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. EL13–35–000] 

Southwestern Public Service 

Company; Southwest Power Pool, Inc.; 

Notice of Complaint 

Take notice that on December 31, 

2012, pursuant to section 206 of the 

Federal Power Act (FPA), 16 U.S.C. 

824e (2000), Southwestern Public 

Service Company (Complainant) filed a 

formal complaint against Southwest 

Power Pool, Inc. (Respondent), 

requesting the establishment of a 

January 1, 2013 refund effective date 

and a finding from the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission (Commission) 

that the Respondent has violated the 

FPA by implementing a 40 percent 

increase in the Tri-County Electric 

Cooperative, Inc. Annual Transmission 

Revenue Requirement through an 

annual update under transmission 

formula rate protocols that are not just 

and reasonable. 

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 14 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 January 22, 2013. 

Dated: January 3, 2013. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2013–00267 Filed 1–8–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. EL13–34–000] 

New England States Committee on 

Electricity v. ISO New England Inc.; 

Notice of Complaint 

Take notice that on December 28, 

2012, pursuant to section 206 of the 

Rules and Practice and Procedure, 18 

CFR 385.206 and sections 206 of the 

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

New England States Committee on 

Electricity (Complainant) filed a formal 

complaint against ISO New England Inc. 

(Respondent) alleging that the 

Respondent’s proposed tariffs governing 

the Forward Capacity market (FCM) are 

unjust and unreasonable. 

The Complainant certifies that copies 

of the complaint were served on the 

contacts for the Respondent and the 

New England Power Pool as listed on 

the Commission’s list of Corporate 

Officials and on parties and regulatory 

agencies the Complainant reasonably 

expects to be affected by this Complaint, 

including all of the parties that have 

intervened in Docket ER12–953–001. 

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 14 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 January 17, 2013. 

Dated: January 3, 2013. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2013–00266 Filed 1–8–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. CP13–2–000] 

Sabine Pass Liquefaction, LLC and 

Sabine Pass LNG, L.P.; Notice of Intent 

To Prepare an Environmental 

Assessment for the Proposed Sabine 

Pass Liquefaction Modification Project 

and Request for Comments on 

Environmental Issues 

The staff of the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission (FERC or 

Commission) will prepare an 

environmental assessment (EA) that will 

discuss the environmental impacts of 

the Sabine Pass Liquefaction 

Modification Project (Project) involving 

the modification of facilities for Sabine 

Pass Liquefaction LLC and Sabine Pass 

LNG (Sabine Pass) in Cameron County, 

Louisiana. The Project facilities, 

described below, are proposed in 

support of the Sabine Pass facilities that 

were previously authorized (CP11–72– 

000) and are currently under 

construction. This EA will be used by 

the Commission in its decision-making 

process to determine whether the 

Project is in the public convenience and 

necessity. 

This notice announces the opening of 

the scoping process the Commission 

will use to gather input from the public 

and interested agencies on the Project. 

Your input will help the Commission 

staff determine what issues need to be 

evaluated in the EA. Please note that the 


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1The appendices referenced in this notice are not 

printed in the Federal Register, but they are being 

provided to all those who receive this notice in the 

mail. Copies of the NOI can be obtained from the 

Commission’s Web site at the ‘‘eLibrary’’ link, 

Commission’s Public Reference Room, or by calling 

(202) 502–8371. For instructions on connecting to 

eLibrary, refer to the end of this notice. 

2 ‘‘We’’, ‘‘us’’, and ‘‘our’’ refer to the 

environmental staff of the Commission’s Office of 

Energy Projects. 

3The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation’s 

regulations are at Title 36, Code of Federal 

Regulations, Part 800. Historic properties are 

defined in those regulations as any prehistoric or 

historic district, site, building, structure, or object 

included in or eligible for inclusion in the National 

Register for Historic Places. 

scoping period will close on February 4, 

2013. 

Comments on the Project may be 

submitted in written form or 

electronically, as described in the Public 

Participation section of this notice. This 

notice is being sent to the Commission’s 

current environmental mailing for this 

Project. State and local government 

representatives are asked to notify their 

constituents of this proposed Project 

and encourage them to comment on 

their areas of concern. 

Summary of the Proposed Project 

The Project would consist of the 

following facilities: 

• Construction and operation of a 

heavies removal unit (HRU) to be 

located within the existing Sabine Pass 

facility; 

• condensate storage, metering and 

send-out facilities; 

• four gas pipeline meter stations; 

• additional workspaces, laydown 

and parking areas; 

• construction and operation of two 

additional water supply pipelines to be 

installed via horizontal directional drill 

(HDD) and the associated workspace for 

the HDD entry and exit sites; and 

• natural gas liquids (NGL) truck 

loading facilities. 

A Project location map depicting the 

proposed facilities is attached to this 

notice as Appendix 1.1

Land Requirements for Construction 

The HRU, condensate storage, and 

metering facilities would be located 

within the existing Sabine Pass LNG 

Import Terminal (SPLNG Terminal) 

property. No additional land would be 

required for these facilities. The 

additional workspace and parking 

would affect approximately 153.6 acres 

of land outside of the boundary of the 

SPLNG Terminal. Construction and 

operation of the two additional water 

supply pipelines would temporarily 

impact approximately 0.92 acres of 

additional land in an upland area also 

located outside the SPLNG Terminal. 

The EA Process 

The National Environmental Policy 

Act (NEPA) requires the Commission to 

take into account the environmental 

impacts that could result from an action 

whenever it considers the issuance of a 

Certificate of Public Convenience and 

Necessity. NEPA also requires us 2 to 

discover and address concerns the 

public may have about proposals. This 

process is referred to as ‘‘scoping.’’ The 

main goal of the scoping process is to 

focus the analysis in the EA on the 

important environmental issues. By this 

notice, the Commission requests public 

comments on the scope of the issues to 

address in the EA. We will consider all 

filed comments during the preparation 

of the EA. 

In the EA we will discuss impacts that 

could occur as results of the 

construction and operation of the 

proposed project under these general 

headings: 

• Geology and soils; 

• Land use; 

• Water resources, fisheries, and 

wetlands; 

• Cultural resources; 

• Vegetation and wildlife; 

• Air quality and noise; 

• Endangered and threatened species; 

• Reliability; and 

• Public safety. 

We will also evaluate reasonable 

alternatives to the proposed Project or 

portions of the Project, and make 

recommendations on how to lessen or 

avoid impacts on the various resource 

areas. 

The EA will present our independent 

analysis of the issues. The EA will be 

available in the public record through 

eLibrary. Depending on the comments 

received during the scoping process, we 

may also publish and distribute the EA 

to the public for an allotted comment 

period. We will consider all comments 

on the EA before making our 

recommendation to the Commission. To 

ensure your comments are considered, 

please carefully follow the instructions 

in the Public Participation section 

beginning on page 4. 

With this notice, we are asking 

agencies with jurisdiction and/or 

special expertise with respect to 

environmental issues to formally 

cooperate with us in the preparation of 

the EA. Agencies that would like to 

request cooperating agency status 

should follow the instructions for filing 

comments provided under the Public 

Participation section of this notice. 

Consultations Under Section 106 of the 

National Historic Preservation Act 

In accordance with the Advisory 

Council on Historic Preservation’s 

implementing regulations for section 

106 of the National Historic 

Preservation Act, we are using this 

notice to initiate consultation with 

applicable State Historic Preservation 

Office (SHPO), and to solicit their views 

and those of other government agencies, 

interested Indian tribes, and the public 

on the Project’s potential effects on 

historic properties.3 We will define the 

Project-specific Area of Potential Effects 

(APE) in consultation with the SHPO as 

the project is further developed. On 

natural gas projects, the APE at a 

minimum encompasses all areas subject 

to ground disturbance (examples 

include construction right-of-way, 

contractor/pipe storage yards, 

compressor stations, and access roads). 

Our EA for this Project will document 

our findings on the impacts on historic 

properties and summarize the status on 

consultations under section 106. 

Public Participation 

You can make a difference by 

providing us with your specific 

comments or concerns about the Project. 

Your comments should focus on the 

potential environmental effects, 

reasonable alternatives, and measures to 

avoid or lessen environmental impacts. 

The more specific your comments, the 

more useful they will be. To ensure that 

your comments are timely and properly 

recorded, please send in your comments 

so that they will be received in 

Washington, DC on or before February 

7, 2013. 

For your convenience, there are three 

methods which you can use to submit 

your comments to the Commission. In 

all instances please reference the project 

docket number (CP13–2–000) with your 

submission. The Commission 

encourages electronic filing of 

comments and has expert eFiling staff 

available to assist you at (202) 502–8258 

or efiling@ferc.gov. 

(1) You may file your comments 

electronically by using the eComment 

feature, which is located on the 

Commission’s Web site at www.ferc.gov 

under the link to Documents and 

Filings. An eComment is an easy 

method for interested persons to submit 

brief, text-only comments on a project; 

(2) You may file your comments 

electronically by using the eFiling 

feature, which is located on the 

Commission’s Web site at www.ferc.gov 

under the link to Documents and 

Filings. With eFiling you can provide 

comments in a variety of formats by 

attaching them as a file with your 


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submission. New eFiling users must 

first create an account by clicking on 

‘‘eRegister’’. You will be asked to select 

the type of filing you are making. A 

comment on a particular project is 

considered a ‘‘Comment on a Filing’’; or 

(3) You may file a paper copy of your 

comments at the following address: 

Kimberly D. Bose, Secretary, Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 

First Street NE., Room 1A, Washington, 

DC 20426. 

Environmental Mailing List 

The environmental mailing list 

includes federal, state, and local 

government representatives and 

agencies; elected officials; 

environmental and public interest 

groups; interested Indian tribes; other 

interested parties; and local libraries 

and newspapers. This list also includes 

all affected landowners (as defined in 

the Commission’s regulations) who are 

potential right-of-way grantors, whose 

property may be used temporarily for 

project purposes, or who own homes 

within certain distances of aboveground 

facilities, and anyone who submits 

comments on the Project. We will 

update the environmental mailing list as 

the analysis proceeds to ensure that we 

send the information related to this 

environmental review to all individuals, 

organizations, and government entities 

interested in and/or potentially affected 

by the proposed project. 

If the EA is published for distribution, 

copies will be sent to the environmental 

mailing list for public review and 

comment. If you would prefer to receive 

a paper copy of the document instead of 

the CD version or would like to remove 

your name from the mailing list, please 

return the attached Information Request 

(appendix 2). 

Becoming an Intervenor 

In addition to involvement in the EA 

scoping process, you may want to 

become an ‘‘intervenor’’ which is an 

official party to the Commission’s 

proceeding. Intervenors play a more 

formal role in the process and are able 

to file briefs, appear at hearings, and be 

heard by the courts if they choose to 

appeal the Commission’s final ruling. 

An intervenor formally participates in 

the proceeding by filing a request to 

intervene. Instructions for becoming an 

intervenor are included in the User’s 

Guide under the ‘‘e-filing’’ link on the 

Commission’s Web site. 

Additional Information 

Additional information about the 

project is available from the 

Commission’s Office of External Affairs, 

at (866) 208–FERC or on the FERC Web 

site at www.ferc.gov using the 

‘‘eLibrary’’ link. Click on the eLibrary 

link, click on ‘‘General Search’’ and 

enter the docket number, excluding the 

last three digits, in the Docket Number 

field (i.e., CP13–2). Be sure you have 

selected an appropriate date range. For 

assistance, please contact FERC Online 

Support at FercOnlineSupport@ferc.gov 

or toll free at (866) 208–3676, or for 

TTY, contact (202) 502–8659. The 

eLibrary link also provides access to the 

texts of formal documents issued by the 

Commission, such as orders, notices, 

and rulemakings. 

In addition, the Commission now 

offers a free service called eSubscription 

which allows you to keep track of all 

formal issuances and submittals in 

specific dockets. This can reduce the 

amount of time you spend researching 

proceedings by automatically providing 

you with notification of these filings, 

document summaries and direct links to 

the documents. Go to www.ferc.gov/ 

esubscribenow.htm. 

Finally, public meetings or site visits 

will be posted on the Commission’s 

calendar located at www.ferc.gov/ 

EventCalendar/EventsList.aspx along 

with other related information. 

Dated: January 3, 2013. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2013–00263 Filed 1–8–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 14459–000] 

EH California Hydro, LLC; Notice of 

Preliminary Permit Application 

Accepted for Filing and Soliciting 

Comments and Motions To Intervene 

On October 11, 2012, EH California 

Hydro, LLC filed an application for a 

preliminary permit, pursuant to section 

4(f) of the Federal Power Act (FPA), 

proposing to study the feasibility of the 

Lake Clementine Hydro Project to be 

located at the U.S, Corps of Engineer’s 

North Fork dam on the North Fork of 

the American River, near the City of 

Auburn, Placer County, California. 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. 

To harness the water that now flows 

over the spillway of the North Fork 

Dam, the applicant plans to install two 

hydro generating units, with a total 

installed capacity of 6.9 megawatts and 

an estimated annual generation of 27.8 

gigawatt-hours. The applicant’s plans 

include building a submerged morning 

glory intake; a penstock siphon through 

the dam’s left abutment, a silo 

powerhouse, and a tailrace. 

Applicant Contact: Mr. John R. 

Collins, EH California Hydro, LLC, 5425 

Wisconsin Avenue, Suite 600, Chevy 

Chase, Maryland 20815; phone: (301) 

718–4433. 

FERC Contact: Jim Fargo at 

james.fargo@ferc.gov; phone: (202) 502– 

6095. 

Competing Application: This 

application competes with Project No. 

13432–002 filed October 2, 2012. 

Competing applications had to be filed 

on or before December 9, 2012. 

Deadline for filing comments or 

motions to intervene: 60 days from the 

issuance of this notice. Comments and 

motions to intervene 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–14459) in 

the docket number field to access the 

document. For assistance, contact FERC 

Online Support. 

Dated: January 3, 2013. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2013–00261 Filed 1–8–13; 8:45 am] 

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