8416 Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 26 / Wednesday, February 7, 2024 / Notices 

data that can be used to inform policy 

decisions. 

Dated: February 1, 2024. 

Kun Mullan, 

PRA Coordinator, Strategic Collections and 

Clearance, Governance and Strategy Division, 

Office of Chief Data Officer, Office of 

Planning, Evaluation and Policy 

Development. 

[FR Doc. 2024–02408 Filed 2–6–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Environmental Management SiteSpecific Advisory Board, Portsmouth 

AGENCY: Office of Environmental 

Management, Department of Energy. 

ACTION: Notice of open meeting. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces a 

meeting of the Environmental 

Management Site-Specific Advisory 

Board (EM SSAB), Portsmouth. The 

Federal Advisory Committee Act 

requires that public notice of this 

meeting be announced in the Federal 

Register. 

DATES: Thursday, March 7, 2024; 

6:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m. ET 

ADDRESSES: The Ohio State University, 

Endeavor Center, 1862 Shyville Road, 

Room 165, Piketon, Ohio 45661. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Greg 

Simonton, Federal Coordinator, by 

Phone: (740) 897–3737 or Email: 

greg.simonton@pppo.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Purpose of the Board: The purpose of 

the Board is to provide advice and 

recommendations concerning the 

following EM site-specific issues: cleanup activities and environmental 

restoration; waste and nuclear materials 

management and disposition; excess 

facilities; future land use and long-term 

stewardship. The Board may also be 

asked to provide advice and 

recommendations on any EM program 

components. 

Tentative Agenda 

• Review of Agenda 

• Presentation 

• Administrative Activities 

• Public Comments 

Public Participation: The meeting is 

open to the public. The EM SSAB, 

Portsmouth, welcomes the attendance of 

the public at its advisory committee 

meetings and will make every effort to 

accommodate persons with physical 

disabilities or special needs. If you 

require special accommodations due to 

a disability, please contact Greg 

Simonton as soon as possible in 

advance of the meeting at the telephone 

number listed above. Written statements 

may be filed with the Board either 

before or after the meeting. Comments 

received by no later than 5:00 p.m. ET 

on Friday, March 1, 2024, will be read 

aloud during the meeting. Comments 

will also be accepted after the meeting, 

by no later than 5:00 p.m. ET on 

Tuesday, March 12, 2024. Please submit 

comments to Greg Simonton at the 

aforementioned email address. Please 

put ‘‘Public Comment’’ in the subject 

line. Individuals who wish to make oral 

statements pertaining to agenda items 

should contact Greg Simonton at the 

telephone number listed above. 

Requests must be received as soon as 

possible prior to the meeting and 

reasonable provision will be made to 

include the presentation in the agenda. 

The Deputy Designated Federal Officer 

is empowered to conduct the meeting in 

a fashion that will facilitate the orderly 

conduct of business. Individuals 

wishing to make public comments will 

be provided a maximum of five minutes 

to present their comments. The EM 

SSAB, Portsmouth, will hear public 

comments pertaining to its scope (cleanup standards and environmental 

restoration; waste management and 

disposition; stabilization and 

disposition of non-stockpile nuclear 

materials; excess facilities; future land 

use and long-term stewardship; risk 

assessment and management; and cleanup science and technology activities). 

Comments outside of the scope may be 

submitted via written statement as 

directed above. 

Minutes: Minutes will be available by 

writing or calling Greg Simonton, 

Federal Coordinator, U.S. Department of 

Energy, Portsmouth/Paducah Project 

Office, P.O. Box 700, Piketon, OH 

45661, Email: greg.simonton@pppo.gov 

or by Phone: (740) 897–3737, Minutes 

will also be available at the following 

website:https://www.energy.gov/pppo/ 

ports-ssab/listings/meeting-materials. 

Signing Authority: This document of 

the Department of Energy was signed on 

February 1, 2024, by David Borak, 

Deputy Committee Management Officer, 

pursuant to delegated authority from the 

Secretary of Energy. That document 

with the original signature and date is 

maintained by DOE. For administrative 

purposes only, and in compliance with 

requirements of the Office of the Federal 

Register, the undersigned DOE Federal 

Register Liaison Officer has been 

authorized to sign and submit the 

document in electronic format for 

publication, as an official document of 

the Department of Energy. This 

administrative process in no way alters 

the legal effect of this document upon 

publication in the Federal Register. 

Signed in Washington, DC, on February 2, 

2024. 

Treena V. Garrett, 

Federal Register Liaison Officer, U.S. 

Department of Energy. 

[FR Doc. 2024–02449 Filed 2–6–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 15332–000] 

York Energy Storage, LLC; Notice of 

Preliminary Permit Application 

Accepted for Filing and Soliciting 

Comments, Motions To Intervene, and 

Competing Applications 

On November 14, 2023, York Energy 

Storage, 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 

York Energy Storage Waterpower Project 

to be located near Lake Clarke, formed 

by the Safe Harbor Dam on the 

Susquehanna River, and Chanceford 

Township in York County, 

Pennsylvania. 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) a 9,800-foot-long, 225- 

foot-high dam, a 700-foot-long, 95-foothigh dike, and a 1,300-foot-long, 35- 

foot-high dike, creating an upper 

reservoir with a 580-acre surface area 

and a 26,000-acre-foot storage capacity 

at a normal pool elevation of 680 feet 

North American Vertical Datum of 1988 

(NAVD88); (2) a 150-foot-long, 50-footwide concrete-lined emergency spillway 

at the east end of the upper reservoir; (3) 

utilization of Lake Clarke as a lower 

reservoir with a 7,360-acre surface area 

and a 144,000-acre-foot storage capacity 

at a normal pool elevation of 227.2 feet 

NAVD88; (4) a 44-foot-diameter shaft 

and tunnel trifurcating into three 20- 

foot-diameter steel-lined tunnels; (5) a 

1,000-foot-long, 250-foot-wide, 50-foothigh underground powerhouse 

containing three 286-megawatt (MW) 

reversible pumping-generating units 

with a total installed capacity of 858 

MW; (6) a 1,500-foot-long powerhouse 

access tunnel, an 18-foot-diameter vent, 


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