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of the following new facilities: (1) A 

900-foot-long excavated intake channel 

(headrace); (2) two 60-foot-long by 32- 

foot-wide trash racks with 2.5-inch bar 

spacing; (3) a 201-foot-long by 80-footwide powerhouse containing two 24- 

megawatt (MW) Kaplan turbines, having 

a total installed capacity of 48 MW; (4) 

a substation; (5) a forebay oxygen 

diffuser line system to enhance 

dissolved oxygen; (6) a 2,000-foot-long 

excavated tailrace channel; (7) a 1,700- 

foot-long retaining wall along the north 

side of tailrace channel; (8) a 4.4-milelong, 115-kilovolt transmission line; and 

(9) appurtenant facilities. The average 

annual generation would be about 

213,000 megawatt-hours. 

m. A copy of the application is 

available for review at the Commission 

in the Public Reference Room or may be 

viewed on the Commission’s Web site at 

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. For assistance, contact FERC 

Online Support. A copy is also available 

for inspection and reproduction at the 

address in item h above. 

All filings must (1) bear in all capital 

letters the title ‘‘COMMENTS’’, ‘‘REPLY 

COMMENTS’’, 

‘‘RECOMMENDATIONS,’’ ‘‘TERMS 

AND CONDITIONS,’’ or 

‘‘PRESCRIPTIONS;’’ (2) set forth in the 

heading the name of the applicant and 

the project number of the application to 

which the filing responds; (3) furnish 

the name, address, and telephone 

number of the person submitting the 

filing; and (4) otherwise comply with 

the requirements of 18 CFR 385.2001 

through 385.2005. All comments, 

recommendations, terms and conditions 

or prescriptions must set forth their 

evidentiary basis and otherwise comply 

with the requirements of 18 CFR 4.34(b). 

Agencies may obtain copies of the 

application directly from the applicant. 

Each filing must be accompanied by 

proof of service on all persons listed on 

the service list prepared by the 

Commission in this proceeding, in 

accordance with 18 CFR 4.34(b), and 

385.2010. 

You may also register online at http:// 

www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/

esubscription.asp to be notified via 

email of new filings and issuances 

related to this or other pending projects. 

For assistance, contact FERC Online 

Support. 

n. Public notice of the filing of the 

initial development application, which 

has already been given, established the 

due date for filing competing 

applications or notices of intent. Under 

the Commission’s regulations, any 

competing development application 

must be filed in response to and in 

compliance with public notice of the 

initial development application. No 

competing applications or notices of 

intent may be filed in response to this 

notice. 

o. A license applicant must file no 

later than 60 days following the date of 

issuance of this notice: (1) A copy of the 

water quality certification; (2) a copy of 

the request for certification, including 

proof of the date on which the certifying 

agency received the request; or (3) 

evidence of waiver of water quality 

certification. 

Dated: June 15, 2016. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2016–14599 Filed 6–20–16; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–9947–89–Region 10] 

Reissuance of NPDES General Permit 

for Discharges From Federal 

Aquaculture Facilities and Aquaculture 

Facilities Located in Indian Country 

Within the Boundaries of Washington 

State (Permit Number WAG130000) 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of availability. 

SUMMARY: The Director, Office of Water 

and Watersheds, EPA Region 10, is 

publishing notice of availability of the 

final National Pollutant Discharge 

Elimination System (NPDES) General 

Permit for Federal Aquaculture 

Facilities and Aquaculture Facilities 

Located in Indian Country within the 

Boundaries of Washington State 

(General Permit). The General Permit 

contains effluent limitations, along with 

administrative reporting and monitoring 

requirements, as well as standard 

conditions, prohibitions, and 

management practices. The Washington 

Department of Ecology and applicable 

tribes have provided Section 401 

certification for this permit. 

DATES: The issuance date of this General 

Permit is the date of publication of this 

notice. The General Permit will become 

effective August 1, 2016. 

ADDRESSES: Copies of the General 

Permit and Response to Comments are 

available through written requests 

submitted to EPA, Region 10, 1200 Sixth 

Avenue, Suite 900, OWW–191, Seattle, 

WA 98101. Electronic requests may be 

sent to: washington.audrey@epa.gov. 

For requests by phone, call Audrey 

Washington at (206) 553–0523. The 

General Permit, Fact Sheet, Biological 

Evaluation, and Response to Comments 

may be found on the Region 10 Web site 

at http://yosemite.epa.gov/r10/

water.nsf/npdes+permits/

general+npdes+permits/. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Audrey Washington, (206) 553–0523. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Other Legal Requirements 

Endangered Species Act [16 U.S.C. 

1531 et al.]. Section 7 of the Endangered 

Species Act (ESA) requires Federal 

agencies to consult with NOAA 

Fisheries (NMFS) and the U.S. Fish and 

Wildlife Service (USFWS) if their 

actions have the potential to either 

beneficially or adversely affect any 

threatened or endangered species. EPA 

has analyzed the discharges authorized 

by the General Permit, and their 

potential to adversely affect any of the 

threatened or endangered species or 

their designated critical habitat areas in 

the vicinity of the discharges. Based on 

this analysis, EPA has determined that 

the issuance of this permit is not likely 

to adversely affect any threatened or 

endangered species in the vicinity of the 

discharge. NMFS and USFWS have 

concurred with this determination. 

National Environmental Policy Act 

(NEPA) [42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.] and 

Other Federal Requirements. 

Regulations at 40 CFR 122.49 list the 

federal laws that may apply to the 

issuance of permits, i.e., ESA, National 

Historic Preservation Act, the Coastal 

Zone Act Reauthorization Amendments 

(CZARA), NEPA, and Executive Orders, 

among others. The NEPA compliance 

program requires analysis of 

information regarding potential impacts, 

development and analysis of options to 

avoid or minimize impacts, and 

development and analysis of measures 

to mitigate adverse impacts. EPA 

determined that no Environmental 

Assessments (EAs) or Environmental 

Impact Statements (EIS’s) are required 

under NEPA. EPA determined that 

continued coverage of the Chief Joseph 

Fish Hatchery under the reissued 

General Permit meets the criteria to be 

categorically excluded from further 

NEPA review. EPA also determined that 

CZARA does not apply. 

Essential Fish Habitat (EFH). The 

Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Management 

and Conservation Act requires EPA to 

consult with NOAA–NMFS when a 

proposed discharge has the potential to 

adversely affect a designated EFH. The 

EFH regulations define an adverse effect 

as ‘‘any impact which reduces quality 


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and/or quantity of EFH . . . [and] may 

include direct (e.g. contamination or 

physical disruption), indirect (e.g. loss 

of prey, reduction in species’ fecundity), 

site-specific or habitat-wide impacts, 

including individual, cumulative, or 

synergistic consequences of actions.’’ 

NMFS may recommend measures for 

attachment to the federal action to 

protect EFH; however, such 

recommendations are advisory, and not 

prescriptive in nature. EPA has 

evaluated the General Permit and has 

made the determination that issuance of 

the General Permit is not likely to 

adversely affect EFH. NMFS has 

concurred with this determination. 

Executive Order 12866: The Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) 

exempts this action from the review 

requirements of Executive Order 12866 

pursuant to Section 6 of that order. 

Economic Impact [Executive Order 

12291]: The EPA has reviewed the effect 

of Executive Order 12291 on this 

General Permit and has determined that 

it is not a major rule pursuant to that 

Order. 

Paperwork Reduction Act [44 U.S.C. 

3501 et seq.] The EPA has reviewed the 

requirements imposed on regulated 

facilities in the General Permit and finds 

them consistent with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1980, 44 U.S.C. 3501 

et seq. 

Regulatory Flexibility Act [5 U.S.C. 

601 et seq.] The Regulatory Flexibility 

Act (RFA) requires that EPA prepare an 

initial regulatory flexibility analysis for 

rules subject to the requirements of the 

Administrative Procedures Act [APA, 5 

U.S.C. 553] that have a significant 

impact on a substantial number of small 

entities. However, EPA has concluded 

that NPDES General Permits are not 

rulemakings under the APA, and thus 

not subject to APA rulemaking 

requirements or the RFA. 

Unfunded Mandates Reform Act: 

Section 201 of the Unfunded Mandates 

Reform Act (UMRA), Public Law 104–4, 

generally requires Federal agencies to 

assess the effects of their regulatory 

actions (defined to be the same as rules 

subject to the RFA) on tribal, state, and 

local governments, and the private 

sector. However, General NPDES 

Permits are not rules subject to the 

requirements of the APA, and are, 

therefore, not subject to the UMRA. 

Appeal of Permit: Any interested 

person may appeal the General Permit 

in the Federal Court of Appeals in 

accordance with section 509(b)(1) of the 

Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C. 1369(b)(1). 

This appeal must be filed within 120 

days of the General Permit issuance 

date. Affected persons may not 

challenge the conditions of the General 

Permit in further EPA proceedings (see 

40 CFR 124.19). Instead, they may either 

challenge the General Permit in court or 

apply for an individual NPDES permit. 

Authority: This action is taken under the 

authority of Section 402 of the Clean Water 

Act as amended, 42 U.S.C. 1342. 

Dated: June 9, 2016. 

Daniel D. Opalski, 

Director, Office of Water and Watersheds, 

Region 10. 

[FR Doc. 2016–14671 Filed 6–20–16; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[Docket ID No. EPA–HQ–ORD–2013–0357; 

FRL 9947–98–ORD] 

Evaluating Urban Resilience to Climate 

Change: A Multi-Sector Approach 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of public comment 

period. 

SUMMARY: EPA is announcing a 30-day 

public comment period for the draft 

document titled ‘‘Evaluating Urban 

Resilience to Climate Change: A MultiSector Approach’’ (EPA/600/R–15/312). 

EPA is also announcing that Versar, 

Inc., an EPA contractor for external 

scientific peer review, will select four 

independent experts from a pool of 

eight to conduct a letter peer review of 

the same draft document. The document 

was prepared by the National Center for 

Environmental Assessment (NCEA) 

within EPA’s Office of Research and 

Development (ORD). This document 

describes an assessment tool that uses 

quantitative and qualitative indicators 

to help cities identify areas of resilience 

and vulnerability to climate change 

impacts and introduces example case 

studies from Washington, DC and 

Worcester, Massachusetts. 

EPA intends to forward the public 

comments that are submitted in 

accordance with this document to the 

external peer reviewers for their 

consideration during the letter peer 

review. When finalizing the draft 

document, EPA intends to consider any 

public comments received in response 

to this notice. EPA is releasing this draft 

document for the purposes of public 

comment and peer review. This draft 

document is not final as described in 

EPA’s information quality guidelines 

and it does not represent and should not 

be construed to represent Agency policy 

or views. The draft document is 

available via the internet on EPA’s 

Global Change Research Program 

Products and Publications Web page at 

https://www.epa.gov/risk/globalchange-research-program-products-andpublications. 

DATES: The 30-day public comment 

period begins June 21, 2016, and ends 

July 21, 2016. Technical comments 

should be in writing and must be 

received by EPA by July 21, 2016. The 

document will be available on or around 

June 22, 2016. 

ADDRESSES: The external peer review 

draft, ‘‘Evaluating Urban Resilience to 

Climate Change: A Multi-Sector 

Approach,’’ is available primarily via 

the internet on the EPA’s Global Change 

Research Program Products and 

Publications Web page at https://

www.epa.gov/risk/global-changeresearch-program-products-andpublications. A limited number of paper 

copies are available from the 

Information Management Team, NCEA; 

telephone: 703–347–8561; facsimile: 

703–347–8691. If you are requesting a 

paper copy, please provide your name, 

mailing address, and the document title. 

Comments may be submitted 

electronically via www.regulations.gov, 

by mail, by facsimile, or by hand 

delivery/courier. Please follow the 

detailed instructions provided in the 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of 

this notice. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

information on the public comment 

period, contact the ORD Docket at the 

EPA Headquarters Docket Center; 

telephone: 202–566–1752; facsimile: 

202–566–9744; or email: Docket_ORD@

epa.gov. 

For technical information, contact 

Susan Julius, NCEA; telephone: 703– 

347–8619; facsimile: 703–347–8694; or 

email: julius.susan@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Information About the Document 

Climate change impacts are diverse, 

long-term, and not easily predictable. 

Adapting to climate change requires 

making context specific and forwardlooking decisions regarding a variety of 

climate change impacts and 

vulnerabilities when the future is highly 

uncertain. EPA scientists and their 

collaborators created an assessment tool 

to help cities identify climate change 

risks in eight different municipal 

sectors. The report identifies and tests 

indicators of traits that may enhance or 

inhibit communities’ resilience to 

climate change, allowing decisionmakers to focus planning efforts on 

those areas that are least resilient to 

anticipated impacts. The results yielded 

an approach that provides a way for 

cities to explore threats to and measures 


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