Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 49 / Friday, March 13, 2015 / Notices 13365 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Office of Energy Efficiency and 

Renewable Energy 

Wave Energy Prize 

AGENCY: Wind and Water Power 

Technologies Office, Office of Energy 

Efficiency and Renewable Energy, 

Department of Energy. 

ACTION: Notice of release of draft 

competition rules for public comment. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of 

Energy (DOE) gives notice of the 

availability of the draft Wave Energy 

Prize competition Rules and Terms and 

Conditions and requests public 

comment on the Rules and Terms and 

Conditions. The prize is designed to 

achieve game-changing performance 

enhancements to wave energy 

conversion (WEC) devices, establishing 

a pathway to sweeping cost reductions 

on a commercial scale. The prize 

consists of three phases—design, build, 

and test and evaluation. Prize purses to 

the winner(s): Grand Prize ($1,500,000), 

2nd Place Finisher ($500,000), and 3rd 

Place Finisher ($250,000). 

DATES: DOE intends to launch the Wave 

Energy Prize in April 2015. DOE is 

currently accepting public comments on 

the draft Prize Rules and Terms and 

Conditions through March 20, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: Interested persons can find 

the draft Prize Rules and Terms and 

Conditions at waveenergyprize.org 

under the ‘‘About’’ tab. To provide 

feedback, please submit questions and 

comments to: info@waveenergyprize.org. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

America COMPETES Reauthorization 

Act of 2010 (America COMPETES), 

Public Law 111–358, enacted January 4, 

2011, authorizes Federal agencies to 

issue competitions to stimulate 

innovations in technology, education, 

and science. The Wave Energy Prize 

leverages the America COMPETES Act 

to provide incentives to design, build, 

and test innovative WEC devices using 

novel WEC concepts. 

DOE intends to launch the Wave 

Energy Prize, a public prize challenge 

sponsored by DOE’s Water Power 

Program, in April 2015 and is currently 

accepting public comments on the draft 

Rules and Terms and Conditions. The 

prize is designed to increase the 

diversity of organizations involved in 

WEC technology development, while 

motivating and inspiring existing 

stakeholders. DOE envisions this 

competition will achieve game-changing 

performance enhancements to WEC 

devices, establishing a pathway to 

sweeping cost reductions on a 

commercial scale. 

The wave energy industry is young 

and is experiencing many new 

innovations as evidenced by a sustained 

growth in patent activity. While the 

private industry is developing these 

early-concept WEC devices through 

design and benchtop prototype testing, 

funding is hard to secure for 

performance testing and evaluation of 

WEC devices in wave tanks at a 

meaningful scale. This is a problem for 

the industry since scaled WEC 

prototype tank testing, validation, and 

evaluation are key steps in the 

advancement of WEC technologies 

through the technical readiness levels to 

reach commercialization. 

Goal of the Wave Energy Prize: The 

Wave Energy Prize will encourage the 

development of more efficient WEC 

devices that double the energy captured 

from ocean waves, which in turn will 

reduce the cost of wave energy, making 

it more competitive with traditional 

energy solutions. 

Economic impact of the Wave Energy 

Prize: A successful Wave Energy Prize 

could jump-start private sector 

innovation critical to the country’s longterm economic growth, energy security, 

and international competitiveness in the 

wave energy conversion sector. 

Why participate in the Wave Energy 

Prize? The Wave Energy Prize seeks to 

attract innovative ideas from developers 

new to the industry and next-generation 

ideas from existing developers by 

offering a monetary prize purse and 

providing an opportunity for tank 

testing and evaluation of scaled WEC 

device prototypes at the U.S. Navy’s 

Maneuvering and Seakeeping Basin 

(MASK) facility in Carderock, MD. 

Eligibility: U.S. entities are able to 

participate in the Wave Energy Prize. 

This includes U.S. persons and 

companies as well as foreign companies 

that are incorporated in and maintain a 

primary place of business in the United 

States. Full eligibility requirements for 

the Wave Energy Prize are set in 

accordance with those established by 

America COMPETES, and are fully 

outlined in the draft Wave Energy Prize 

Rules document available at: 

waveenergyprize.org. DOE is accepting 

public comments on these draft Rules 

and the draft Terms and Conditions 

through March 20, 2015. See 

waveenergyprize.org for more 

information. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on March 10, 

2015. 

Jose Zayas, 

Wind and Water Power Technologies Office 

Director, Office of Energy Efficiency and 

Renewable Energy. 

[FR Doc. 2015–05770 Filed 3–12–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket Nos. CP15–90–000] 

Texas Eastern Transmission, LP; 

Notice of Application 

March 4, 2015. 

Take notice that on February 19, 2015, 

Texas Eastern Transmission, LP (Texas 

Eastern), 5400 Westheimer Court, 

Houston, Texas 77056, filed in the 

above referenced docket an application 

pursuant to section 7(c) of the Natural 

Gas Act (NGA), and Part 157 of the 

Commission’s regulations requesting 

authorization to construct and operate 

the Gulf Markets Expansion Project 

(Project). Specifically, the Project will 

enable Texas Eastern to provide 650 

MMcf/d of firm transportation service to 

the Gulf Coast region of Louisiana and 

Texas, as well as to provide mainline 

markets with the opportunity to access 

growing supply basins in the Northeast, 

all as more fully set forth in the 

application which is on file with the 

Commission and open to public 

inspection. The filing is available for 

review at the Commission in the Public 

Reference Room or may be viewed on 

the Commission’s Web site web 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 

at FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or call 

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

502–8659. 

Any questions concerning this 

application may be directed to Bill 

Hammons, P.O. Box 1396, Houston, 

Texas 77251, by telephone at (713) 215– 

2130. 

The Project consists of the 

construction of one new compressor 

station at Provident City in Lavaca 

County, Texas; the installation of a new 

compressor unit at an existing 

compression station in Opelousas, 

Louisiana; and other facilities 

modifications. Texas Eastern proposes 

rolled-in rate treatment for the Project, 

and to charge its existing recourse rates 

for service on the Project. The cost of 

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the project will be approximately $149.1 

million. 

Pursuant to section 157.9 of the 

Commission’s rules (18 CFR 157.9), 

within 90 days of this Notice, the 

Commission staff will either: complete 

its environmental assessment (EA) and 

place it into the Commission’s public 

record (eLibrary) for this proceeding; or 

issue a Notice of Schedule for 

Environmental Review. If a Notice of 

Schedule for Environmental Review is 

issued, it will indicate, among other 

milestones, the anticipated date for the 

Commission staff’s issuance of the final 

environmental impact statement (FEIS) 

or EA for this proposal. The filing of the 

EA in the Commission’s public record 

for this proceeding or the issuance of a 

Notice of Schedule for Environmental 

Review will serve to notify federal and 

state agencies of the timing for the 

completion of all necessary reviews, and 

the subsequent need to complete all 

federal authorizations within 90 days of 

the date of issuance of the Commission 

staff’s FEIS or EA. 

There are two ways to become 

involved in the Commission’s review of 

this project. First, any person wishing to 

obtain legal status by becoming a party 

to the proceedings for this project 

should, on or before the comment date 

stated below file with the Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 

First Street NE., Washington, DC 20426, 

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 NGA (18 

CFR 157.10). A person obtaining party 

status will be placed on the service list 

maintained by the Secretary of the 

Commission and will receive copies of 

all documents filed by the applicant and 

by all other parties. A party must submit 

seven copies of filings made in the 

proceeding with the Commission and 

must mail a copy to the applicant and 

to every other party. Only parties to the 

proceeding can ask for court review of 

Commission orders in the proceeding. 

However, a person does not have to 

intervene in order to have comments 

considered. The second way to 

participate is by filing with the 

Secretary of the Commission, as soon as 

possible, an original and two copies of 

comments in support of or in opposition 

to this project. The Commission will 

consider these comments in 

determining the appropriate action to be 

taken, but the filing of a comment alone 

will not serve to make the filer a party 

to the proceeding. The Commission’s 

rules require that persons filing 

comments in opposition to the project 

provide copies of their protests only to 

the party or parties directly involved in 

the protest. 

Persons who wish to comment only 

on the environmental review of this 

project should submit an original and 

two copies of their comments to the 

Secretary of the Commission. 

Environmental commentors will be 

placed on the Commission’s 

environmental mailing list, will receive 

copies of the environmental documents, 

and will be notified of meetings 

associated with the Commission’s 

environmental review process. 

Environmental commentors will not be 

required to serve copies of filed 

documents on all other parties. 

However, the non-party commentors 

will not receive copies of all documents 

filed by other parties or issued by the 

Commission (except for the mailing of 

environmental documents issued by the 

Commission) and will not have the right 

to seek court review of the 

Commission’s final order. 

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 should submit an original 

and 7 copies of the protest or 

intervention to the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street 

NE., Washington, DC 20426. 

Comment Date: March 25, 2015. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2015–05685 Filed 3–12–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. PF14–21–000] 

Alaska Gasline Development 

Corporation; BP Alaska LNG, LLC; 

Conoco Phillips Alaska LNG Company; 

ExxonMobil Alaska LNG, LLC; 

TransCanada Alaska Midstream, LP; 

Notice of Intent To Prepare an 

Environmental Impact Statement for 

the Planned Alaska Lng Project and 

Request for Comments on 

Environmental Issues 

The staff of the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission (FERC or 

Commission) will prepare an 

environmental impact statement (EIS) 

that will discuss the environmental 

impacts of the Alaska LNG Project 

involving construction and operation of 

facilities by Alaska Gasline 

Development Corporation; BP Alaska 

LNG, LLC; Conoco Phillips Alaska LNG 

Company; ExxonMobil Alaska LNG, 

LLC; and TransCanada Alaska 

Midstream, LP (Applicants) in Alaska. 

The Commission will use this EIS in its 

decision-making process to determine 

whether the project is in the public 

convenience and necessity. 

This notice announces the opening of 

the scoping process the Commission 

and its cooperating agencies will use to 

gather input from the public and 

interested agencies on the project. Your 

input will help the Commission staff 

determine what issues they need to 

evaluate in the EIS. Understanding that 

affected stakeholders may include 

communities that depend on seasonal 

subsistence activities, the scoping 

period will remain open for an extended 

period, closing on December 4, 2015. 

This is not your only public input 

opportunity; please refer to the 

Environmental Review Process flow 

chart in attachment 1. 

You may submit comments in written 

form or verbally. Further details on how 

to submit written comments are in the 

Public Participation section of this 

notice. In lieu of or in addition to 

sending written comments, the 

Commission invites you to attend the 

public scoping meetings to provide 

verbal and/or written comments on the 

project. 

A schedule of the public scoping 

meeting dates, locations, and times will 

be issued in a separate notice at least 

one month prior to the date of the 

meetings. 

This notice is being sent to the 

Commission’s current environmental 

mailing list for this project. The 

environmental mailing list includes 

potentially affected landowners (crossed 

by or adjacent to the project route); 

landowners within 0.5 mile of 

compressor station sites, the gas 

treatment plant (GTP), and the 

liquefaction terminal; federal, state, and 

local government agencies; elected 

officials; environmental and public 

interest groups; Alaska Native tribes; 

local libraries and newspapers; and 

other interested parties. State, local, and 

tribal government representatives are 

asked to notify their constituents of this 

planned project and encourage them to 

comment on their areas of concern. 

A fact sheet prepared by the FERC 

entitled ‘‘An Interstate Natural Gas 

Facility On My Land? What Do I Need 

To Know?’’ is available for viewing on 

the FERC Web site (www.ferc.gov). This 

fact sheet addresses a number of 

typically-asked questions, including the 

use of eminent domain and how to 

participate in the Commission’s 

proceedings. 

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