63450 Federal Register / Vol. 75, No. 199 / Friday, October 15, 2010 / Notices 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

DOE/NSF High Energy Physics 

Advisory Panel 

AGENCY: Department of Energy, Office of 

Science. 

ACTION: Notice of open meeting. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces a 

meeting of the DOE/NSF High Energy 

Physics Advisory Panel (HEPAP). 

Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. 

L. 92–463, 86 Stat. 770) requires that 

public notice of these meetings be 

announced in the Federal Register. 

DATES: Tuesday, October 26, 2010; 9 

a.m.–6 p.m. 

ADDRESSES: Hilton Hotel, 1750 

Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland 

20852. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John 

Kogut, Executive Secretary; High Energy 

Physics Advisory Panel; U.S. 

Department of Energy; SC–25/ 

Germantown Building, 1000 

Independence Avenue, SW., 

Washington, DC 20585–1290; 

Telephone: 301–903–1298. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Purpose of Meeting: To provide 

advice and guidance on a continuing 

basis to the Department of Energy and 

the National Science Foundation on 

scientific priorities within the field of 

high energy physics research. 

Tentative Agenda: Agenda will 

include discussions of the following: 

Tuesday, October 26, 2010 

• Discussion of proposal to run the 

Fermilab Tevatron Collider for three 

additional years (2012–2014) beyond 

the completion of its currently planned 

program. 

• Public Comment (10-minute rule). 

Public Participation: The meeting is 

open to the public. If you would like to 

file a written statement with the 

Committee, you may do so either before 

or after the meeting. If you would like 

to make oral statements regarding any of 

these items on the agenda, you should 

contact John Kogut, 301–903–1298 or 

John.Kogut@science.doe.gov. You must 

make your request for an oral statement 

at least 5 business days before the 

meeting. Reasonable provision will be 

made to include the scheduled oral 

statements on the agenda. The 

Chairperson of the Panel will conduct 

the meeting to facilitate the orderly 

conduct of business. Public comment 

will follow the 10-minute rule. This 

notice is being published less than 15 

days before the date of the meeting due 

to programmatic issues. 

Minutes: The minutes of the meeting 

will be available on the U.S. Department 

of Energy’s Office of High Energy 

Physics Advisory Panel Web site at 

http://www.science.doe.gov/hep/panels/ 

index.shtml. 

Issued in Washington, DC on October 8, 

2010. 

LaTanya R. Butler, 

Acting Deputy Committee Management 

Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2010–26004 Filed 10–14–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. P–12642–003] 

Wilkesboro Hydroelectric Company; 

Notice of Application Ready for 

Environmental Analysis and Soliciting 

Comments, Recommendations, Terms 

and Conditions, and Prescriptions 

October 7, 2010. 

Take notice that the following 

hydroelectric application has been filed 

with the Commission and is available 

for public inspection. 

a. Type of Application: Original Major 

License. 

b. Project No.: P–12642–003. 

c. Date filed: September 29, 2009. 

d. Applicant: Wilkesboro 

Hydroelectric Company. 

e. Name of Project: W. Kerr Scott 

Hydropower Project. 

f. Location: The proposed project 

would be located at the existing U.S. 

Army Corps of Engineers’ (Corps) W. 

Kerr Scott dam on the Yadkin River, 

near Wilkesboro in Wilkes County, 

North Carolina. A total of 3.5 acres of 

Federal lands, administered by the 

Corps, would be occupied by the 

proposed project. 

g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power 

Act 16 U.S.C. 791(a)–825(r). 

h. Applicant Contact: Mr. Kevin 

Edwards, P.O. Box 143, Mayodan, NC 

27027; Mr. Dean Edwards, P.O. Box 

1565, Dover, FL 33527. 

i. FERC Contact: Jennifer Adams at 

(202) 502–8087, or 

jennifer.adams@ferc.gov. 

j. The deadline for filing comments, 

recommendations, terms and 

conditions, and prescriptions is 60 days 

from the issuance of this notice and 

reply comments are due 105 days from 

the issuance date of this notice. 

All documents 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 tollfree 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. 

The Commission’s Rules of Practice 

require all intervenors filing documents 

with the Commission to serve a copy of 

that document on each person on the 

official service list for the project. 

Further, if an intervenor files comments 

or documents with the Commission 

relating to the merits of an issue that 

may affect the responsibilities of a 

particular resource agency, they must 

also serve a copy of the document on 

that resource agency. 

k. This application has been accepted 

and is ready for environmental analysis 

at this time. 

l. The proposed project would use the 

Corps’ existing Kerr Scott dam, and 

would consist of the following modified 

and new facilities: (1) A multi-level 

intake structure with trashracks; (2) a 

749-foot-long reinforced concrete water 

conduit with a 580-foot-long, 11-footdiameter steel liner in the downstream 

portion; (3) a penstock bifurcation and 

two 8-foot-diameter steel penstocks; (4) 

a gate at the end of the water conduit, 

with a Howell-Bunger-ring-jet-type fixed 

cone valve; (5) an 80-foot-long by 30- 

foot-wide powerhouse containing one 

2.0-MW Kaplan unit and one 2.0-MW 

propeller-type unit; (6) an 80-foot-wide 

by 30-foot-long discharge channel that 

joins the Yadkin River at the 

downstream end of the existing stilling 

basin; (7) a substation; (8) a new 

underground 12.47-kilovolt (kV) 

transmission line that extends 150 feet 

from the proposed powerhouse to an 

existing utility pole to the south of the 

powerhouse, and an upgraded 3,600- 

foot-long, 12.47-kV three-phase line that 

connects the utility pole to a Duke 

Energy substation; and (9) appurtenant 

facilities. The proposed Kerr Scott 

Project, using releases from the 

reservoir, as directed by the Corps, 

would generate approximately 22,400 

megawatt-hours of energy annually. 

m. A copy of the application is 

available for review at the Commission 

in the Public Reference Room or may be 

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