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communities, Tribal members and 

others, access publicly available 

information and navigate Commission 

processes. For public inquiries and 

assistance with making filings such as 

interventions, comments, or requests for 

rehearing, the public is encouraged to 

contact OPP at (202) 502–6595 or OPP@

ferc.gov. 

Dated: February 13, 2024. 

Debbie-Anne A. Reese, 

Acting Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2024–03434 Filed 2–20–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. ID–7954–000] 

McClain, Mark; Notice of Filing 

Take notice that on February 13, 2024, 

Mark McClain submitted for filing, 

application for authority to hold 

interlocking positions, pursuant to 

section 305(b) of the Federal Power Act, 

16 U.S.C. 825d (b) and part 45.8 of the 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission’s (Commission) Rules of 

Practice and Procedure, 18 CFR part 

45.8. 

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. Such notices, motions, or 

protests must be filed on or before the 

comment date. On or before the 

comment date, it is not necessary to 

serve motions to intervene or protests 

on persons other than the Applicant. 

In addition to publishing the full text 

of this document in the Federal 

Register, the Commission provides all 

interested persons an opportunity to 

view and/or print the contents of this 

document via the internet through the 

Commission’s Home Page (http://

www.ferc.gov) using the ‘‘eLibrary’’ link. 

Enter the docket number excluding the 

last three digits in the docket number 

field to access the document. At this 

time, the Commission has suspended 

access to the Commission’s Public 

Reference Room, due to the 

proclamation declaring a National 

Emergency concerning the Novel 

Coronavirus Disease (COVID–19), issued 

by the President on March 13, 2020. For 

assistance, contact the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission at 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or call 

toll-free, (886) 208–3676 or TYY, (202) 

502–8659. 

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 may mail similar 

pleadings to the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street 

NE, Washington, DC 20426. Hand 

delivered submissions in docketed 

proceedings should be delivered to 

Health and Human Services, 12225 

Wilkins Avenue, Rockville, Maryland 

20852. 

The Commission’s Office of Public 

Participation (OPP) supports meaningful 

public engagement and participation in 

Commission proceedings. OPP can help 

members of the public, including 

landowners, environmental justice 

communities, Tribal members and 

others, access publicly available 

information and navigate Commission 

processes. For public inquiries and 

assistance with making filings such as 

interventions, comments, or requests for 

rehearing, the public is encouraged to 

contact OPP at (202) 502–6595 or OPP@

ferc.gov. 

Comment Date: 5:00 p.m. Eastern 

Time on March 5, 2024. 

Dated: February 13, 2024. 

Debbie-Anne A. Reese, 

Acting Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2024–03429 Filed 2–20–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

Combined Notice of Filings 

Take notice that the Commission has 

received the following Natural Gas 

Pipeline Rate and Refund Report filings: 

Filings Instituting Proceedings 

Docket Numbers: RP24–400–000. 

Applicants: Northern Natural Gas 

Company. 

Description: Northern Natural Gas 

submits report of the penalty and daily 

delivery variance charge (DDVC) 

revenues that have been credited to 

shippers. 

Filed Date: 2/13/24. 

Accession Number: 20240213–5112. 

Comment Date: 5 p.m. ET 2/26/24. 

Docket Numbers: RP24–401–000. 

Applicants: Fayetteville Express 

Pipeline LLC. 

Description: 4(d) Rate Filing: Update 

GT&C Section 19—Quality to be 

effective 3/15/2024. 

Filed Date: 2/14/24. 

Accession Number: 20240214–5032. 

Comment Date: 5 p.m. ET 2/26/24. 

Any person desiring to intervene, to 

protest, or to answer a complaint in any 

of the above proceedings must file in 

accordance with Rules 211, 214, or 206 

of the Commission’s Regulations (18 

CFR 385.211, 385.214, or 385.206) on or 

before 5 p.m. Eastern time on the 

specified comment date. Protests may be 

considered, but intervention is 

necessary to become a party to the 

proceeding. 

The filings are accessible in the 

Commission’s eLibrary system (https://

elibrary.ferc.gov/idmws/search/fercgen

search.asp) by querying the docket 

number. 

eFiling is encouraged. More detailed 

information relating to filing 

requirements, interventions, protests, 

service, and qualifying facilities filings 

can be found at: http://www.ferc.gov/ 

docs-filing/efiling/filing-req.pdf. For 

other information, call (866) 208–3676 

(toll free). For TTY, call (202) 502–8659. 

The Commission’s Office of Public 

Participation (OPP) supports meaningful 

public engagement and participation in 

Commission proceedings. OPP can help 

members of the public, including 

landowners, environmental justice 

communities, Tribal members and 

others, access publicly available 

information and navigate Commission 

processes. For public inquiries and 

assistance with making filings such as 

interventions, comments, or requests for 

rehearing, the public is encouraged to 

contact OPP at (202) 502–6595 or OPP@

ferc.gov. 

Dated: February 14, 2024. 

Debbie-Anne A. Reese, 

Acting Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2024–03488 Filed 2–20–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 3442–029] 

City of Nashua, New Hampshire; 

Notice of Intent To Prepare an 

Environmental Assessment 

On July 30, 2021, City of Nashua 

(Nashua) filed an application for a new 

license for the 3-megawatt Mine Falls 

Hydroelectric Project No. 3442 (project). 


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1The Council on Environmental Quality’s (CEQ) 

regulations under 40 CFR 1501.10(b)(1) require that 

EAs be completed within 1 year of the federal 

action agency’s decision to prepare an EA. This 

notice establishes the Commission’s intent to 

prepare an EA for the Mine Falls Project. See 

National Environmental Policy Act, 42 U.S.C. 4321 

et seq., as amended by section 107(g)(1)(B)(iii) of 

the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023, Public Law 

118–5, 4336a, 137 Stat. 42. 

The project is located on the Nashua 

River in Hillsborough County, New 

Hampshire. 

In accordance with the Commission’s 

regulations, on November 21, 2023, 

Commission staff issued a notice that 

the project was ready for environmental 

analysis (REA Notice). Based on the 

information in the record, including 

comments filed on the REA Notice, staff 

does not anticipate that licensing the 

project would constitute a major federal 

action significantly affecting the quality 

of the human environment. Therefore, 

staff intends to prepare an 

Environmental Assessment (EA) on the 

application to relicense the Mine Falls 

Project. 

The EA will be issued and circulated 

for review by all interested parties. All 

comments filed on the EA will be 

analyzed by staff and considered in the 

Commission’s final licensing decision. 

The Commission’s Office of Public 

Participation (OPP) supports meaningful 

public engagement and participation in 

Commission proceedings. OPP can help 

members of the public, including 

landowners, environmental justice 

communities, Tribal members, and 

others to access publicly available 

information and navigate Commission 

processes. For public inquiries and 

assistance with making filings such as 

interventions, comments, or requests for 

rehearing, the public is encouraged to 

contact OPP at (202) 502–6595 or OPP@

ferc.gov. 

The application will be processed 

according to the following schedule. 

Revisions to the schedule may be made 

as appropriate. 

Milestone Target date 

Commission issues EA ....................................................................................................................................................... February 2025.1

Comments on EA ................................................................................................................................................................ March 2025. 

Any questions regarding this notice 

may be directed to Khatoon Melick at 

(202) 502–8433 or khatoon.melick@

ferc.gov. 

Dated: February 13, 2024. 

Debbie-Anne A. Reese, 

Acting Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2024–03426 Filed 2–20–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL OP–OFA–110] 

Notice of Adoption of Department of 

Energy Categorical Exclusion Under 

the National Environmental Policy Act 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency. 

ACTION: Notice of adoption of categorical 

exclusion. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) is adopting the 

Department of Energy’s (DOE) 

Categorical Exclusion (CE) for Methane 

Gas Recovery and Utilization Systems 

under the National Environmental 

Policy Act (NEPA) to use in EPA’s 

program and funding opportunities 

administered by EPA. This notice 

describes the categories of proposed 

actions for which EPA intends to use 

DOE’s CE and describes the consultation 

between the agencies. 

DATES: This action is effective upon 

publication. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Melissa Winters, Manager, Pollution 

Prevention and Communities Branch, 

Land, Chemicals, and Redevelopment 

Division, EPA Region 10, by phone at 

206–553–5180, or by email at 

winters.melissa@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

NEPA and CEs 

The National Environmental Policy 

Act, as amended at, 42 U.S.C. 4321– 

4347 (NEPA), requires all Federal 

agencies to assess the environmental 

impact of their actions. Congress 

enacted NEPA in order to encourage 

productive and enjoyable harmony 

between humans and the environment, 

recognizing the profound impact of 

human activity and the critical 

importance of restoring and maintaining 

environmental quality to the overall 

welfare of humankind. 42 U.S.C. 4321, 

4331. NEPA’s twin aims are to ensure 

agencies consider the environmental 

effects of their proposed actions in their 

decision-making processes and inform 

and involve the public in that process. 

42 U.S.C. 4331. NEPA created the 

Council on Environmental Quality 

(CEQ), which promulgated NEPA 

implementing regulations, 40 CFR parts 

1500 through 1508 (CEQ regulations). 

To comply with NEPA, agencies 

determine the appropriate level of 

review—an environmental impact 

statement (EIS), environmental 

assessment (EA), or CE. 42 U.S.C. 4336. 

If a proposed action is likely to have 

significant environmental effects, the 

agency must prepare an EIS and 

document its decision in a record of 

decision. 42 U.S.C. 4336. If the 

proposed action is not likely to have 

significant environmental effects or the 

effects are unknown, the agency may 

instead prepare an EA, which involves 

a more concise analysis and process 

than an EIS. 42 U.S.C. 4336. Following 

the EA, the agency may conclude the 

process with a finding of no significant 

impact if the analysis shows that the 

action will have no significant effects. If 

the analysis in the EA finds that the 

action is likely to have significant 

effects, however, then an EIS is 

required. 

Under NEPA and the CEQ regulations, 

a Federal agency also can establish 

CEs—categories of actions that the 

agency has determined normally do not 

significantly affect the quality of the 

human environment—in their agency 

NEPA procedures. 42 U.S.C. 4336(e)(1); 

40 CFR 1501.4, 1507.3(e)(2)(ii), 

1508.1(d). If an agency determines that 

a CE covers a proposed action, it then 

evaluates the proposed action for 

extraordinary circumstances in which a 

normally excluded action may have a 

significant effect. 40 CFR 1501.4(b). If 

no extraordinary circumstances are 

present or if further analysis determines 

that the extraordinary circumstances do 

not involve the potential for significant 

environmental effects, the agency may 

apply the CE to the proposed action 

without preparing an EA or EIS. 42 

U.S.C. 4336(a)(2), 40 CFR 1501.4. If the 

extraordinary circumstances have the 

potential to result in significant effects, 

the agency is required to prepare an EA 

or EIS. 

Section 109 of NEPA, enacted as part 

of the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023, 

allows a Federal agency to ‘‘adopt’’ and 

use another agency’s CEs for a category 

of proposed agency actions. 42 U.S.C. 


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