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made substantial progress in achieving 

the goals and objectives of the project; 

whether the grantee has expended funds 

in a manner that is consistent with its 

approved application and budget; and, 

if the Secretary has established 

performance measurement 

requirements, whether the grantee has 

made substantial progress in achieving 

the performance targets in the grantee’s 

approved application. 

In making a continuation award, the 

Secretary also considers whether the 

grantee is operating in compliance with 

the assurances in its approved 

application, including those applicable 

to Federal civil rights laws that prohibit 

discrimination in programs or activities 

receiving Federal financial assistance 

from the Department (34 CFR 100.4, 

104.5, 106.4, 108.8, and 110.23). 

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Ian Rosenblum, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy and 

Programs, Delegated the Authority to Perform 

the Functions and Duties of the Assistant 

Secretary Office of Elementary and Secondary 

Education. 

[FR Doc. 2022–00411 Filed 1–11–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 2445–028] 

Notice of Application Tendered for 

Filing With the Commission and 

Soliciting Additional Study Requests 

and Establishing Procedural Schedule 

for Relicensing and a Deadline for 

Submission of Final Amendments; 

Green Mountain Power Corporation 

Take notice that the following 

hydroelectric application has been filed 

with the Commission and is available 

for public inspection. 

a. Type of Application: Subsequent 

Minor License. 

b. Project No.: 2445–028. 

c. Date filed: December 23, 2021. 

d. Applicant: Green Mountain Power 

Corporation (GMP). 

e. Name of Project: Center Rutland 

Hydroelectric Project (project). 

f. Location: On Otter Creek in Rutland 

County, Vermont. The project does not 

occupy any federal land. 

g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power 

Act 16 U.S.C. 791(a)–825(r). 

h. Applicant Contact: Mr. John 

Greenan, PE, Green Mountain Power 

Corporation, 2152 Post Road, Rutland, 

VT 05701; Phone at (802) 770–2195, or 

email at John.Greenan@

greenmountainpower.com. 

i. FERC Contact: Taconya D. Goar at 

(202) 502–8394, or Taconya.Goar@

ferc.gov. 

j. Cooperating agencies: Federal, state, 

local, and tribal agencies with 

jurisdiction and/or special expertise 

with respect to environmental issues 

that wish to cooperate in the 

preparation of the environmental 

document should follow the 

instructions for filing such requests 

described in item l below. Cooperating 

agencies should note the Commission’s 

policy that agencies that cooperate in 

the preparation of the environmental 

document cannot also intervene. See 94 

FERC ¶ 61,076 (2001). 

k. Pursuant to section 4.32(b)(7) of 18 

CFR of the Commission’s regulations, if 

any resource agency, Indian Tribe, or 

person believes that an additional 

scientific study should be conducted in 

order to form an adequate factual basis 

for a complete analysis of the 

application on its merit, the resource 

agency, Indian Tribe, or person must file 

a request for a study with the 

Commission not later than 60 days from 

the date of filing of the application, and 

serve a copy of the request on the 

applicant. 

l. Deadline for filing additional study 

requests and requests for cooperating 

agency status: February 21, 2022. 

The Commission strongly encourages 

electronic filing. Please file additional 

study requests and requests for 

cooperating agency status using the 

Commission’s eFiling system at https:// 

ferconline.ferc.gov/FERCOnline.aspx. 

For assistance, please contact FERC 

Online Support at 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov, (866) 

208–3676 (toll free), or (202) 502–8659 

(TTY). In lieu of electronic filing, you 

may submit a paper copy. Submissions 

sent via the U.S. Postal Service must be 

addressed to: Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission, 888 First Street NE, Room 

1A, Washington, DC 20426. 

Submissions sent via any other carrier 

must be addressed to: Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission, 12225 Wilkins Avenue, 

Rockville, MD 20852. All filings must 

clearly identify the project name and 

docket number on the first page: Center 

Rutland Hydroelectric Project (P–2445– 

028). 

m. The application is not ready for 

environmental analysis at this time. 

n. Project Description: The existing 

Center Rutland Project consists of: (1) A 

190-foot-long, 14-foot-high concrete and 

stone masonry gravity dam that 

includes: (i) A 174-foot-long spillway 

section with 2.3-foot-high wooden 

flashboards and a crest elevation of 

507.1 feet mean seal level (msl) at the 

top of the flashboards; and (ii) a 16-footlong non-overflow section; (2) an 

impoundment with a surface area of 13 

acres and a storage capacity of 30 acrefeet at an elevation of 507.4 feet msl; (3) 

a forebay; (4) a concrete and marble 

masonry intake structure; (5) a 6-footdiameter, 75-foot-long steel penstock; 

(6) a 40-foot-long, 33-foot-wide stone 

and marble masonry powerhouse 

containing one 275-kilowatt horizontalshaft turbine-generator unit; (7) a 

substation; (8) an 80-foot-long, 12.47- 

kilovolt transmission line; (9) a 0.35- 

mile-long fiber optic cable for smart grid 

communications with the electric 

system; and (10) appurtenant facilities. 

The project creates an approximately 

100-foot-long bypassed reach of Otter 

Creek. 

The project includes a small off-street 

parking area (with 3 to 5 car spaces), 

signage, landscaping, and a marked 

footpath to Otter Creek. 

The current license requires the 

project to operate in a run-of-river mode 

such that outflow from the project 

approximates inflow to the 

impoundment to protect aquatic 

resources in Otter Creek. The current 


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1 18 CFR 157.205. 

2Persons include individuals, organizations, 

businesses, municipalities, and other entities. 18 

CFR 385.102(d). 

3 18 CFR 157.205(e). 

license also requires a minimum 

bypassed reach flow of 80 cubic feet per 

second or inflow to the impoundment, 

whichever is less, from June 1 through 

October 15 to protect aquatic resources 

in Otter Creek and aesthetic resources in 

the project area. The average annual 

generation of the project was 

approximately 541.7 megawatt-hours 

from 2014 through 2020. 

The applicant proposes to: (1) 

Continue to operate the project in a runof-river mode to protect aquatic 

resources; (2) continue to release a 

minimum bypassed reach flow of 80 cfs 

or inflow, whichever is less, from June 

1 through October 15, to protect aquatic 

resources; (3) release a minimum 

bypassed reach flow of 40 cfs or inflow, 

whichever is less, from October 16 

through May 31, to protect aquatic 

resources; and (4) implement a seasonal 

clearing restriction from April 15 

through October 31, for trees that are 4 

inches in diameter or greater, to protect 

the federally threatened northern longeared bat. In addition, GMP states that 

the flashboards have not been in place 

since prior to 2012, and proposes to 

reinstall them. 

o. In addition to publishing the full 

text of this notice in the Federal 

Register, the Commission provides all 

interested persons an opportunity to 

view and/or print the contents of this 

notice, as well as other documents in 

the proceeding (e.g., license application) 

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 (P–2445). 

For assistance, contact FERC at 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or call 

toll-free, (866) 208–3676 or (202) 502– 

8659 (TTY). 

You may also register online at 

https://ferconline.ferc.gov/FERCOnline.

aspx to be notified via email of new 

filings and issuances related to this or 

other pending projects. For assistance, 

contact FERC Online Support. 

p. Procedural schedule: The 

application will be processed according 

to the following preliminary schedule. 

Revisions to the schedule will be made 

as appropriate. 

Issue Deficiency Letter (if necessary)— 

February 2022 

Request Additional Information— 

February 2022 

Issue Scoping Document 1 for 

comments—May 2022 

Request Additional Information (if 

necessary)—June 2022 

Issue Acceptance Letter—June 2022 

Issue Scoping Document 2—July 2022 

Issue Notice of Ready for Environmental 

Analysis—July 2022 

q. Final amendments to the 

application must be filed with the 

Commission no later than 30 days from 

the issuance date of the notice of ready 

for environmental analysis. 

Dated: January 6, 2022. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2022–00413 Filed 1–11–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. CP22–33–000] 

Notice of Request Under Blanket 

Authorization and Establishing 

Intervention and Protest Deadline; 

Northern Natural Gas Company 

Take notice that on December 27, 

2021, Northern Natural Gas Company 

(Northern), 1111 South 103rd Street, 

Omaha, Nebraska 68124, filed in the 

above referenced docket, a prior notice 

request pursuant to sections 157.205, 

157.213(b) and 157.216(b) of the 

Commission’s regulations under the 

Natural Gas Act (NGA) and Northern’s 

blanket certificate issued in Docket No. 

CP82–401–000, for authorization to 

replace an injection and withdrawal 

well at its Redfield Storage Field, 

located in Dallas County, Iowa. 

Northern purposes to (1) install and 

operate an injection and withdrawal 

well; (2) install a natural gas pipeline 

lateral; (3) install a water production 

line; and (4) abandon an existing 

injection and withdrawal well. Northern 

estimates that the cost of the Project is 

approximately $3.8 million. Northern 

states that the replacement injection and 

withdrawal well will have no impact on 

the Redfield storage field’s certificated 

physical parameters, including total gas 

storage inventory, reservoir pressure, 

reservoir and buffer boundaries and 

certificated capacity. In addition, 

Northern states that there will be no 

impact to service of Northern’s 

customers as a result of the proposed 

Project, all as more fully set forth in the 

application, which is on file with the 

Commission and open to public 

inspection. 

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://

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 FERC at 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or call 

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

502–8659. 

Any questions regarding this prior 

notice request should be directed to 

Michael T. Loeffler, Senior Director, 

Certificates and External Affairs for 

Northern, 1111 South 103rd Street, 

Omaha, NE 68124, at 402–398–7103, or 

by email to mike.loeffler@nngco.com. 

Public Participation 

There are three ways to become 

involved in the Commission’s review of 

this project: You can file a protest to the 

project, you can file a motion to 

intervene in the proceeding, and you 

can file comments on the project. There 

is no fee or cost for filing protests, 

motions to intervene, or comments. The 

deadline for filing protests, motions to 

intervene, and comments is 5:00 p.m. 

Eastern Time on March 7, 2022. How to 

file protests, motions to intervene, and 

comments is explained below. 

Protests 

Pursuant to section 157.205 of the 

Commission’s regulations under the 

NGA,1 any person 2 or the Commission’s 

staff may file a protest to the request. If 

no protest is filed within the time 

allowed or if a protest is filed and then 

withdrawn within 30 days after the 

allowed time for filing a protest, the 

proposed activity shall be deemed to be 

authorized effective the day after the 

time allowed for protest. If a protest is 

filed and not withdrawn within 30 days 

after the time allowed for filing a 

protest, the instant request for 

authorization will be considered by the 

Commission. 

Protests must comply with the 

requirements specified in section 

157.205(e) of the Commission’s 

regulations,3 and must be submitted by 

the protest deadline, which is March 7, 

2022. A protest may also serve as a 

motion to intervene so long as the 


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