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35.12: Market-Based Rate Tariff in 

Compliance with Order No. 714 to be 

effective 6/29/2010. 

Filed Date: 06/29/2010. 

Accession Number: 20100629–5143. 

Comment Date: 5 p.m. Eastern Time 

on Tuesday, July 20, 2010. 

Docket Numbers: ER10–1628–000. 

Applicants: Texas Electric Marketing, 

LLC. 

Description: Texas Electric Marketing, 

LLC submits tariff filing per 35.12: 

Market-Based Rate Tariff in Compliance 

with Order No. 714 to be effective 6/29/ 

2010. 

Filed Date: 06/29/2010. 

Accession Number: 20100629–5147. 

Comment Date: 5 p.m. Eastern Time 

on Tuesday, July 20, 2010. 

Docket Numbers: ER10–1629–000. 

Applicants: San Diego Gas & Electric 

Company. 

Description: San Diego Gas & Electric 

Company submits tariff filing per 35: 

San Diego Gas & Electric Company 

Baseline Transmission Owner Tariff 

Volume 11 to be effective 6/28/2010. 

Filed Date: 06/29/2010. 

Accession Number: 20100629–5150. 

Comment Date: 5 p.m. Eastern Time 

on Tuesday, July 20, 2010. 

Docket Numbers: ER10–1630–000. 

Applicants: Wolf Hills Energy, LLC. 

Description: Wolf Hills Energy, LLC 

submits tariff filing per 35.12: MarketBased Rate Tariff in Compliance with 

Order No. 714 to be effective 6/29/2010. 

Filed Date: 06/29/2010. 

Accession Number: 20100629–5151. 

Comment Date: 5 p.m. Eastern Time 

on Tuesday, July 20, 2010. 

Docket Numbers: ER10–1631–000. 

Applicants: University Park Energy, 

LLC. 

Description: University Park Energy, 

LLC submits tariff filing per 35.12: 

Market-Based Rate Tariff in Compliance 

with Order No. 714 to be effective 6/29/ 

2010. 

Filed Date: 06/29/2010. 

Accession Number: 20100629–5155. 

Comment Date: 5 p.m. Eastern Time 

on Tuesday, July 20, 2010. 

Docket Numbers: ER10–1632–000. 

Applicants: Tenaska Power Services 

Co. 

Description: Tenaska Power Services 

Co. submits tariff filing per 35.12: 

Market-Based Rate Tariff in Compliance 

with Order No. 714 to be effective 6/29/ 

2010. 

Filed Date: 06/29/2010. 

Accession Number: 20100629–5162. 

Comment Date: 5 p.m. Eastern Time 

on Tuesday, July 20, 2010. 

Take notice that the Commission 

received the following electric securities 

filings: 

Docket Numbers: ES10–48–000. 

Applicants: Trans-Allegheny 

Interstate Line Company. 

Description: Trans-Allegheny 

Interstate Line Company Supplemental 

Filing. 

Filed Date: 06/29/2010. 

Accession Number: 20100629–5130. 

Comment Date: 5 p.m. Eastern Time 

on Friday, July 09, 2010. 

Any person desiring to intervene or to 

protest in any of the above proceedings 

must file in accordance with Rules 211 

and 214 of the Commission’s Rules of 

Practice and Procedure (18 CFR 385.211 

and 385.214) on or before 5 p.m. Eastern 

time on the specified comment date. It 

is not necessary to separately intervene 

again in a subdocket related to a 

compliance filing if you have previously 

intervened in the same docket. Protests 

will be considered by the Commission 

in determining the appropriate action to 

be taken, but will not serve to make 

protestants parties to the proceeding. 

Anyone filing a motion to intervene or 

protest must serve a copy of that 

document on the Applicant. In reference 

to filings initiating a new proceeding, 

interventions or protests submitted on 

or before the comment deadline need 

not be served on persons other than the 

Applicant. 

As it relates to any qualifying facility 

filings, the notices of self-certification 

[or self-recertification] listed above, do 

not institute a proceeding regarding 

qualifying facility status. A notice of 

self-certification [or self-recertification] 

simply provides notification that the 

entity making the filing has determined 

the facility named in the notice meets 

the applicable criteria to be a qualifying 

facility. Intervention and/or protest do 

not lie in dockets that are qualifying 

facility self-certifications or selfrecertifications. Any person seeking to 

challenge such qualifying facility status 

may do so by filing a motion pursuant 

to 18 CFR 292.207(d)(iii). Intervention 

and protests may be filed in response to 

notices of qualifying facility dockets 

other than self-certifications and selfrecertifications. 

The Commission encourages 

electronic submission of protests and 

interventions in lieu of paper, using the 

FERC Online links at http:// 

www.ferc.gov. To facilitate electronic 

service, persons with Internet access 

who will eFile a document and/or be 

listed as a contact for an intervenor 

must create and validate an 

eRegistration account using the 

eRegistration link. Select the eFiling 

link to log on and submit the 

intervention or protests. 

Persons unable to file electronically 

should submit an original and 14 copies 

of the intervention or protest to the 

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 

888 First St. NE., Washington, DC 

20426. 

The filings in the above proceedings 

are accessible in the Commission’s 

eLibrary system by clicking on the 

appropriate link in the above list. They 

are also available for review in the 

Commission’s Public Reference Room in 

Washington, DC. There is an 

eSubscription link on the Web site that 

enables subscribers to receive e-mail 

notification when a document is added 

to a subscribed dockets(s). For 

assistance with any FERC Online 

service, please e-mail 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov, or call 

(866) 208–3676 (toll free). For TTY, call 

(202) 502–8659. 

Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr., 

Deputy Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2010–16634 Filed 7–7–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Bonneville Power Administration 

Hooper Springs Project 

AGENCY: Bonneville Power 

Administration (BPA), Department of 

Energy (DOE). 

ACTION: Notice of Intent to prepare an 

Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) 

and notice of floodplain and wetlands 

involvement. 

SUMMARY: BPA intends to prepare an EIS 

in accordance with the National 

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) on 

the proposed construction, operation, 

and maintenance of a 115-kilovolt (kV) 

transmission line and a 138/115-kV 

substation (collectively referred to as the 

Hooper Springs Project). The new BPA 

substation would be called Hooper 

Springs Substation and would be 

located adjacent to PacifiCorp’s existing 

345/138-kV Threemile Knoll Substation, 

located near the City of Soda Springs in 

Caribou County, Idaho. The new 115-kV 

single-circuit BPA transmission line 

would extend generally north and east 

from these substations to a connection 

with Lower Valley Energy’s (LVE’s) 

existing 115-kV Lane Creek Substation, 

east of the City of Wayan, Idaho. The 

proposed project would address voltage 

stability and reliability concerns of two 

of BPA’s full requirements customers, 

LVE and Fall River Rural Electric 

Cooperative (Fall River), which 

purchase all or almost all of the electric 

power required to serve their loads from 

BPA under existing contracts. With this 

Notice of Intent, BPA is initiating the 


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public scoping process for the EIS and 

is requesting comments about the 

proposal and its potential 

environmental impacts that BPA should 

consider as it prepares the EIS. In 

accordance with DOE regulations for 

compliance with floodplain and 

wetlands environmental review 

requirements, BPA will prepare a 

floodplain and wetlands assessment to 

avoid or minimize potential harm to or 

within any affected floodplains and 

wetlands. The assessment will be 

included in the EIS. 

DATES: Written scoping comments are 

due to the address below by August 9, 

2010 to ensure their consideration in the 

preparation of the Draft EIS. Comments 

may also be submitted at the public 

scoping meeting to be held on July 29, 

2010 in Soda Springs, Idaho at the 

address below. Scoping comments 

received after the comment period will 

be considered to the extent practicable. 

ADDRESSES: Send written comments to 

inform the preparation of the Draft EIS, 

and requests to be placed on the project 

mailing list, to Hooper Springs Project, 

P.O. Box 9250, Portland, OR 97207, or 

by fax to (888) 315–4503. You also may 

call BPA’s toll free comment line at 

(800) 622–4519 and leave a message 

(please include the name of this 

project), or submit comments online at 

http://www.bpa.gov/comment. BPA will 

post all comment letters in their entirety 

on BPA’s Web site at http:// 

www.bpa.gov/comment. 

On Thursday, July 29, 2010, an openhouse style scoping meeting will be 

held from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Soda 

Springs High School, in the commons 

area, 300 E 1st N, Soda Springs, Idaho 

83276. At the meeting, BPA will provide 

maps and other information about the 

project and have members of the project 

team available to answer questions and 

accept oral and written comments. You 

may stop by any time during the open 

house. 

Persons needing reasonable 

accommodation to attend and 

participate in the public meetings 

should contact John Barco (see FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT) at least 

10 business days prior to the meeting, 

to allow sufficient time to process 

requests. Information regarding the 

Hooper Springs Project is available in 

alternative formats upon request. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John 

Barco, Environmental Project Lead, 

Bonneville Power Administration— 

KEC–4, P.O. Box 3621, Portland, Oregon 

97208–3621; toll-free telephone 1–800– 

282–3713; direct telephone 503–230– 

3223; or e-mail jwbarco@bpa.gov. You 

may also contact Erich Orth, Project 

Manager, Bonneville Power 

Administration—TEP–TPP–3, P.O. Box 

3621, Portland, Oregon 97208–3621; 

toll-free telephone 1–800–282–3713; 

direct telephone 360–619–6559; or email etorth@bpa.gov. Additional 

information can be found at BPA’s Web 

site: http://www.efw.bpa.gov/ 

environmental_services/ 

Document_Library/HooperSprings/. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: BPA 

needs to respond to a request from LVE 

to help improve the stability and 

reliability of the transmission system in 

southeastern Idaho. LVE, along with 

Fall River, are full requirements 

customers of BPA that purchase all or 

almost all of the electric power required 

to serve their electrical loads from BPA 

under existing contracts. LVE and Fall 

River provide electrical service to 

eastern Idaho, northwestern Wyoming, 

and southwestern Montana. 

Over the past few years, BPA has 

increased the voltage stability and 

reliability of its existing transmission 

lines in the area (e.g., Palisades-Goshen, 

Swan Valley-Goshen, Swan ValleyTeton, and Goshen-Drummond lines), 

which has helped improve the stability 

and reliability of the Fall River 

transmission system and the northern 

portion of LVE’s transmission system. 

However, the voltage stability and 

reliability of the southern portion of 

LVE’s transmission system continues to 

be a concern. LVE’s system experiences 

extreme peaks in electrical load during 

winter, when temperatures can drop to 

¥50 °F and electricity is needed for 

heat. If a transmission line were to go 

out of service during these times, 

voltage instability could occur and 

utility customers could lose power, 

potentially creating life-threatening 

situations. The proposed project would 

allow BPA to provide transmission 

reinforcement to avoid loss of LVE’s 

entire voltage load during peak winter 

conditions, enhance the existing system 

in the southern Idaho region, and 

prepare to meet ongoing and forecasted 

load growth of about 3 percent per year 

in southeast Idaho and the Jackson Hole 

valley area in Wyoming. 

Background: In May 2009, BPA 

completed and issued a Preliminary 

Environmental Assessment (EA) (DOE/ 

EA–1567) for BPA’s proposal to 

construct, operate, and maintain Hooper 

Springs Substation and to partially fund 

LVE’s construction, operation, and 

maintenance of a new 22-mile doublecircuit 115-kV Hooper Springs-Lower 

Valley Line. The proposed line 

considered in the Preliminary EA 

extended from the proposed Hooper 

Springs Substation generally northeast 

across a portion of the U.S. Forest 

Service Caribou-Targhee National Forest 

(USFS), U.S. Bureau of Land 

Management (BLM) land, and private 

land, along the Blackfoot River, 

connecting with LVE’s existing Lanes 

Creek-Valley Line at a point about 2 

miles southeast of the intersection of 

Blackfoot River Road and Diamond 

Creek. 

Based on comments received on the 

Preliminary EA, it was discovered that 

the proposed route identified in the 

Preliminary EA crossed four 

contaminated mining sites (Conda, 

Ballard, Wooley Valley, and North 

Maybe Phosphate Mines) that are the 

subject of an ongoing Superfund Site 

Investigation for selenium soil 

contamination under the 

Comprehensive Environmental 

Response, Compensation and Liability 

Act (CERCLA). Each of these Superfund 

Site Investigation areas is currently 

under review to determine the nature 

and extent of contamination. Given the 

presence of these Superfund Sites and 

the routing of the line as originally 

proposed, either through or near those 

sites, BPA has determined that 

preparation of an EIS is appropriate. 

BPA will be the lead agency for 

preparation of the EIS. The USFS and 

BLM will act as cooperating agencies to 

assist with preparation of the EIS, 

including assisting BPA in evaluating 

transmission line alternatives and 

identifying interests that should be 

addressed in the EIS. If, after 

completion of the environmental review 

in the EIS, BPA decides to proceed with 

constructing, operating, and 

maintaining a new line, both the USFS 

and BLM would be able to use the 

information in the EIS to support their 

respective decisions to grant Special 

Use Permits to BPA, as appropriate, 

where the line would cross their 

respective lands. Additional cooperating 

agencies for the EIS may be identified as 

the proposed project proceeds through 

the NEPA process. 

Alternatives Proposed for 

Consideration: BPA has identified three 

potential action alternatives that vary 

the transmission line by route, 

connection point, length, and voltage. 

Two of these alternatives would 

originate from the same proposed 

Hooper Springs Substation as was 

described in the May 2009 Preliminary 

EA, while the third alternative would 

originate from PacifiCorp’s existing 

ThreeMile Knoll Substation. The three 

potential alternatives are as follows: 

• Hooper Springs Substation and 

Northernmost Route (Proposed Action): 

Under this alternative, BPA would 

construct, operate, and maintain a new 


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115-kV, 32-mile, single-circuit 

transmission line, from BPA’s proposed 

Hooper Springs Substation, extending 

generally north along Highway 34 before 

heading east to connect with LVE’s 

existing 115-kV Lane Creek Substation 

east of the City of Wayan, Idaho, 

crossing both private land and public 

land (USFS and BLM lands), but 

remaining south of Grays Lake National 

Wildlife Refuge and outside the four 

known contaminated mining sites to the 

maximum extent practicable. 

• Hooper Springs Substation and 

Easternmost Route, with Line 

Adjustments: Under this alternative, 

BPA would construct, operate, and 

maintain a new 115-kV, 22- to 30-mile, 

double-circuit transmission line, 

connecting PacifiCorp’s existing 

Threemile Knoll Substation with the 

proposed BPA-constructed, operated, 

and maintained Hooper Springs 

Substation, extending generally 

northeast and then east before 

connecting with LVE’s existing Lane 

Creek-Valley Line at a point about 2 

miles southeast of the intersection of 

Blackfoot River Road and Diamond 

Creek Road. This alternative is similar 

to the action originally proposed in the 

Preliminary EA, except that BPA, rather 

than LVE, would retain ownership, 

operation, and maintenance of the line, 

and would route the line around known 

Superfund Sites, thus also lengthening 

the line. 

• Threemile Knoll Substation and 

Northernmost Route: Under this 

alternative, BPA would not construct 

Hooper Springs Substation. BPA would 

construct, operate, and maintain a new 

138-kV (230-kV construction), 32-mile, 

single-circuit transmission line, 

connecting PacifiCorp’s existing 

Threemile Knoll Substation with LVE’s 

existing 138/115-kV Lane Creek 

Substation, using the route specified in 

the Proposed Action. 

In addition to these three action 

alternatives, BPA also will consider a 

No Action Alternative. Under this 

alternative, BPA would not construct 

the Hooper Springs Substation or a 

transmission line. Other alternatives 

may be identified through the scoping 

process. 

Public Participation and 

Identification of Environmental 

Resources: With this Notice of Intent, 

BPA is initiating the public scoping 

process for the Hooper Springs Project 

EIS. BPA will conduct a 30-day scoping 

period during which Tribes, affected 

landowners, concerned citizens, special 

interest groups, local, State, and Federal 

governments, and any other interested 

parties are invited to comment on the 

scope of the Draft EIS to be prepared. 

The potential environmental resources 

identified for analysis in most 

transmission line projects include land 

use, recreation, transportation and 

aviation, socioeconomics, cultural 

resources, visual resources, public 

health and safety, noise, electric and 

magnetic field effects, sensitive plants 

and animals and their habitats, soil 

erosion, wetlands and floodplains, and 

fish and water resources. BPA is seeking 

any additional information about these 

environmental resources, and impacts to 

those resources, from the proposed 

alternatives, including potential 

mitigation measures for each proposed 

alternative or different alternatives that 

may meet the technical requirements of 

the transmission system. 

While all comments are appreciated, 

BPA specifically seeks comment to 

inform its analysis of the effects of any 

potential line route on bird species, 

habitat, and habitat use, including 

flyway patterns and other behaviors in 

the Grays Lake National Wildlife Refuge 

area and any other flyway areas 

identified through this process. BPA 

also particularly seeks information 

about the nature and extent of the four 

known Superfund sites, and any other 

contamination in the area not currently 

known to the agency. 

Scoping will help BPA further assess 

and refine the transmission line 

alternatives to be studied in the Draft 

EIS. Scoping will also ensure that a full 

range of issues related to this proposal 

are addressed in the Draft EIS, and 

identify significant or potentially 

significant impacts that may result from 

the proposed project. When completed, 

the Draft EIS will be circulated for 

review and comment, and BPA will 

hold public meetings to answer 

questions and receive comments. At this 

time, BPA expects to issue the Draft EIS 

in spring 2012. BPA will consider and 

respond to comments received on the 

Draft EIS in the Final EIS. The Final EIS 

is expected to be published in fall 2012. 

BPA’s decision will be documented in 

a Record of Decision that will follow the 

Final EIS. 

Issued in Portland, Oregon, on June 29, 

2010. 

Stephen J. Wright, 

Administrator and Chief Executive Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2010–16622 Filed 7–7–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. ER10–1634–000] 

California Independent System; 

Operator Corporation; Notice of Filing 

June 30, 2010. 

Take notice that on June 29, 2010, the 

California Independent System Operator 

Corporation (CAISO) and the City of 

Riverside, California (Riverside) filed a 

Joint Petition For Limited Waiver Of 

Tariff Provisions And Request For 

Shortened Comment Period And 

Expedited Commission Order (tariff 

waiver) to allow CAISO to correct an 

inadvertent data entry error that 

resulted in an erroneous wheeling 

access charge to Riverside in the amount 

of $30 million dollars. The tariff waiver 

would exempt Riverside from the 

obligation of paying the erroneous 

amount of $30 million due on July 1, 

2010, exempt Riverside from the 

obligation to post Financial Security to 

secure this amount, and also exempt 

CAISO from the obligation to pay this 

amount to Southern California Edison 

Company. 

Any person desiring to intervene or to 

protest this filing must file in 

accordance with Rules 211 and 214 of 

the Commission’s Rules of Practice and 

Procedure (18 CFR 385.211, 385.214). 

Protests will be considered by the 

Commission in determining the 

appropriate action to be taken, but will 

not serve to make protestants parties to 

the proceeding. Any person wishing to 

become a party must file a notice of 

intervention or motion to intervene, as 

appropriate. Such notices, motions, or 

protests must be filed on or before the 

comment date. On or before the 

comment date, it is not necessary to 

serve motions to intervene or protests 

on persons other than the Applicant. 

The Commission encourages 

electronic submission of 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 14 copies 

of the protest or intervention to the 

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 

888 First Street, NE., Washington, DC 

20426. 

This filing is accessible on-line at 

http://www.ferc.gov, using the 

‘‘eLibrary’’ link and is available for 

review in the Commission’s Public 

Reference Room in Washington, DC. 

There is an ‘‘eSubscription’’ link on the 

Web site that enables subscribers to 

receive e-mail notification when a 

document is added to a subscribed 


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