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USPTO cannot guarantee that it will be 

able to do so. 

Justin Isaac, 

Information Collections Officer, Office of the 

Chief Administrative Officer, United States 

Patent and Trademark Office. 

[FR Doc. 2024–23349 Filed 10–8–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–16–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Patent and Trademark Office 

[Docket No.: PTO–C–2024–0031] 

Performance Review Board 

AGENCY: United States Patent and 

Trademark Office, Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of revised board 

members. 

SUMMARY: In conformance with the Civil 

Service Reform Act of 1978, the United 

States Patent and Trademark Office 

(USPTO) announces the appointment of 

persons to serve as members of its 

Performance Review Board (PRB). This 

is an update to the recently published 

Federal Register notice (published on 

July 16, 2024), to reflect a board member 

serving in the role of a new position as 

the Interim Chief Public Engagement 

Officer. 

ADDRESSES: Office of Human Resources, 

USPTO, P.O. Box 1450, Alexandria, VA 

22313–1450. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Lari 

B. Washington, Director, Human Capital 

Management, USPTO, at 571–272–5187. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

membership of the USPTO’s PRB is as 

follows: 

Derrick Brent, Chair, Deputy Under 

Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual 

Property and Deputy Director of the 

USPTO 

Frederick W. Steckler, Vice Chair, Chief 

Administrative Officer, USPTO 

Vaishali Udupa, Commissioner for 

Patents, USPTO 

David S. Gooder, Commissioner for 

Trademarks, USPTO 

Dennis J. Hoffman, Chief Financial 

Officer, USPTO 

Henry J. Holcombe, Chief Information 

Officer, USPTO 

David L. Berdan, General Counsel, 

USPTO 

Scott D. Ewalt, Interim Chief Public 

Engagement Officer, USPTO 

Sharon Israel, Chief Policy Officer and 

Director for International Affairs, 

USPTO 

Gerard F. Rogers, Chief Administrative 

Trademark Judge, USPTO 

Scott R. Boalick, Chief Administrative 

Patent Judge, USPTO 

Bismarck Myrick, Director of the Office 

of Equal Employment Opportunity 

and Diversity, USPTO 

Cara Duckworth, Chief Corporate 

Communications Officer, USPTO 

Shirin Bidel-Niyat, Chief of Staff, 

USPTO 

Alternates: 

Robin Evans, Deputy Commissioner for 

Patents, USPTO 

Amy Cotton, Deputy Commissioner for 

Trademark Examination Policy, 

USPTO 

Katherine K. Vidal, 

Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual 

Property and Director of the United States 

Patent and Trademark Office. 

[FR Doc. 2024–23315 Filed 10–8–24; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Senior Executive Service Performance 

Review Board 

AGENCY: Department of Energy. 

ACTION: Designation of performance 

review board chair. 

SUMMARY: This notice provides the 

Performance Review Board Chair 

designee for the Department of Energy. 

This listing supersedes all previously 

published lists of Performance Review 

Board Chair. 

DATES: This appointment is effective as 

of October 3, 2024. 

Dennis M. Miotla (Primary) 

Terri E. Lee (Alternate) 

Signing Authority 

This document of the Department of 

Energy was signed on October 3, 2024, 

by Farhana Hossain, Director of the 

Office of Corporate Executive 

Management within the Office of the 

Chief Human Capital 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 October 3, 

2024. 

Jennifer Hartzell, 

Alternate Federal Register Liaison Officer, 

U.S. Department of Energy. 

[FR Doc. 2024–23268 Filed 10–8–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Senior Executive Service Performance 

Review Board 

AGENCY: Department of Energy. 

ACTION: Designation of performance 

review board standing register. 

SUMMARY: This notice provides the 

Performance Review Board (PRB) 

Standing Register for the Department of 

Energy. This listing supersedes all 

previously published lists of PRB 

members. 

DATES: This appointment is effective as 

of October 3, 2024. 

Al-Daouk, Ahmad M. 

Bell, Melody C. 

Bishop, Tracey A. 

Budney, Michael D. 

deBeauclair, Geoffrey G. 

Durant III, James M. 

Hine, Scott E. 

Hoffman, Patricia A. 

Kinsey, Marlys L. 

Konieczny, Katherine L. 

Martin, Stephanie K. 

Miller, Michael P. 

Montoya, Michael M. 

Plasynski, Sean I. 

Richards, Jocelyn E. 

Schultz, Douglas W. 

Shoulta, Jeffrey L. 

Susut, Ceren 

William, West F. 

Signing Authority 

This document of the Department of 

Energy was signed on October 3, 2024, 

by Farhana Hossain, Director of the 

Office of Corporate Executive 

Management within the Office of the 

Chief Human Capital 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. 


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1 18 CFR 385.216(b) (2024). 

1Equitrans, L.P., 185 FERC ¶ 61,040 (2023). 

2Contested proceedings are those where an 

intervenor disputes any material issue of the filing. 

18 CFR 385.2201(c)(1). 

3Algonquin Gas Transmission, LLC, 170 FERC 

¶ 61,144, at P 40 (2020). 

4 Id. at P 40. 

5Similarly, the Commission will not re-litigate 

the issuance of an NGA section 3 authorization, 

including whether a proposed project is not 

inconsistent with the public interest and whether 

the Commission’s environmental analysis for the 

permit order complied with NEPA. 

6Algonquin Gas Transmission, LLC, 170 FERC 

¶ 61,144, at P 40 (2020). 

Signed in Washington, DC, on October 3, 

2024. 

Jennifer Hartzell, 

Alternate Federal Register Liaison Officer, 

U.S. Department of Energy. 

[FR Doc. 2024–23267 Filed 10–8–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 2459–286] 

Lake Lynn Generation, LLC; Notice of 

Effectiveness of Withdrawal of 

Request for Temporary Variance 

On July 16, 2024, Lake Lynn 

Generation, LLC filed a temporary 

variance request for the Lake Lynn 

Hydroelectric Project No. 2459. On 

September 11, 2024, Lake Lynn 

Generation, LLC filed a notice of 

withdrawal of the request for temporary 

variance. 

No motion in opposition to the notice 

of withdrawal has been filed, and the 

Commission has taken no action to 

disallow the withdrawal. Pursuant to 

Rule 216(b) of the Commission’s Rules 

of Practice and Procedure,1 the 

withdrawal of the request for temporary 

variance became effective on September 

26, 2024, and this proceeding is hereby 

terminated. 

Dated: October 2, 2024. 

Debbie-Anne A. Reese, 

Acting Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2024–23296 Filed 10–8–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. CP21–455–001] 

Equitrans, L.P.; Notice of Request for 

Extension of Time 

Take notice that on October 2, 2024, 

Equitrans, L.P. (Equitrans) requested 

that the Commission grant an extension 

of time, until January 31, 2025, to 

complete its Well 3660 Plug and 

Abandonment Project (Project) located 

in Greene County, Pennsylvania as 

authorized in the Order Denying 

Protests and Authorizing Abandonment 

(Order).1 The Order authorized 

Equitrans to proceed with the Project 

under its Part 157 blanket certificate. By 

Rule, the Project should have been 

completed within one year of the Order 

date, or by October 23, 2024. 

Equitrans states that, pursuant to a 

court order in ongoing litigation 

involving Well 3660 and pending in the 

Court of Common Pleas of Greene 

County, Pennsylvania (Court), Equitrans 

was required to preserve physical 

evidence, which includes the well. 

Equitrans received an order from the 

Court lifting the preservation order on 

September 9, 2024. Equitrans asserts 

that it is finalizing written protocols for 

plugging and abandonment to submit to 

the parties to the litigation prior to 

commencement of plugging activities. 

Thus, Equitrans requests an extension of 

time, until January 31, 2025, to 

complete the abandonment activities. 

This notice establishes a 15-calendar 

day intervention and comment period 

deadline. Any person wishing to 

comment on Equitrans’ request for an 

extension of time may do so. No reply 

comments or answers will be 

considered. If you wish to obtain legal 

status by becoming a party to the 

proceedings for this request, you 

should, on or before the comment date 

stated below, file a motion to intervene 

in accordance with the requirements of 

the Commission’s Rules of Practice and 

Procedure (18 CFR 385.214 or 385.211) 

and the Regulations under the Natural 

Gas Act (NGA) (18 CFR 157.10). 

As a matter of practice, the 

Commission itself generally acts on 

requests for extensions of time to 

complete construction for NGA facilities 

when such requests are contested before 

order issuance. For those extension 

requests that are contested,2 the 

Commission will aim to issue an order 

acting on the request within 45 days.3

The Commission will address all 

arguments relating to whether the 

applicant has demonstrated there is 

good cause to grant the extension.4 The 

Commission will not consider 

arguments that re-litigate the issuance of 

the certificate order, including whether 

the Commission properly found the 

project to be in the public convenience 

and necessity and whether the 

Commission’s environmental analysis 

for the certificate complied with the 

National Environmental Policy Act 

(NEPA).5 At the time a pipeline requests 

an extension of time, orders on 

certificates of public convenience and 

necessity are final and the Commission 

will not re-litigate their issuance.6 The 

Director of the Office of Energy Projects, 

or his or her designee, will act on all of 

those extension requests that are 

uncontested. 

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). From the Commission’s 

Home Page on the internet, this 

information is available on eLibrary. 

The full text of this document is 

available on eLibrary in PDF and 

Microsoft Word format for viewing, 

printing, and/or downloading. To access 

this document in eLibrary, type the 

docket number excluding the last three 

digits of this document in the docket 

number field. 

User assistance is available for 

eLibrary and the Commission’s website 

during normal business hours from 

FERC Online Support at (202) 502–6652 

(toll free at 1–866–208–3676) or email at 

ferconlinesupport@ferc.gov, or the 

Public Reference Room at (202) 502– 

8371, TTY (202) 502–8659. Email the 

Public Reference Room at 

public.referenceroom@ferc.gov. 

The Commission strongly encourages 

electronic filings of comments in lieu of 

paper using the ‘‘eFile’’ link at http://

www.ferc.gov. In lieu of electronic filing, 

you may submit a paper copy which 

must reference the Project docket 

number. 

To file via USPS: Debbie-Anne A. 

Reese, Acting Secretary, Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street 

NE, Washington, DC 20426. 

To file via any other courier: DebbieAnne A. Reese, Acting Secretary, 

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 

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 


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