Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 55 / Tuesday, March 24, 2009 / Notices 12351 

Docket Numbers: ER09–853–000. 

Applicants: PJM Interconnection 

L.L.C. 

Description: PJM Interconnection, 

LLC submits an executed 

interconnection service agreement 

entered into among PJM, BP Wind 

Energy North America etc. 

Filed Date: 03/16/2009. 

Accession Number: 20090317–0262. 

Comment Date: 5 p.m. Eastern Time 

on Monday, April 06, 2009. 

Docket Numbers: ER09–854–000. 

Applicants: Orange and Rockland 

Utilities, Inc. 

Description: Orange and Rockland 

Utilities, Inc submits amendment to 

Orange and Rockland Utilities, Inc Open 

Access Transmission Tariff, FERC 

Electric Tariff, Original Volume No 3. 

Filed Date: 03/16/2009. 

Accession Number: 20090317–0263. 

Comment Date: 5 p.m. Eastern Time 

on Monday, April 06, 2009. 

Docket Numbers: ER09–855–000. 

Applicants: Midwest Independent 

Transmission System. 

Description: Midwest ISO submits 

Facilities Construction Agreement 

among Wapsipinicon Power Partners 

LLC, etc. 

Filed Date: 03/16/2009. 

Accession Number: 20090317–0264. 

Comment Date: 5 p.m. Eastern Time 

on Monday, April 06, 2009. 

Take notice that the Commission 

received the following electric 

reliability filings: 

Docket Numbers: RR07–14–003; 

RR08–6–002. 

Applicants: North American Electric 

Reliability Corp. 

Description: Response to Data Request 

of North American Electric. Reliability 

Corporation to the FERC’s February 27, 

2009 Data Request. 

Filed Date: 03/16/2009. 

Accession Number: 20090316–5179. 

Comment Date: 5 p.m. Eastern Time 

on Wednesday, April 06, 2009. 

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. 

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 docket(s). For assistance 

with any FERC Online service, please email FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or 

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

call (202) 502–8659. 

Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr., 

Deputy Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E9–6417 Filed 3–23–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[P–516–459] 

South Carolina Electric & Gas 

Company; Notice of Intent To Prepare 

an Environmental Assessment and 

Notice of Scoping Meetings and Site 

Visit and Soliciting Scoping Comments 

March 17, 2009. 

Take notice that the following 

hydroelectric application has been filed 

with the Commission and are available 

for public inspection: 

a. Type of Application: New Major 

License. 

b. Project No.: 516–459. 

c. Date Filed: August 28, 2008. 

d. Applicant: South Carolina Electric 

& Gas Company. 

e. Name of Project: Saluda Project. 

f. Location: On the Saluda River in 

Richland, Lexington, Saluda, and 

Newberry counties, South Carolina. The 

project does not occupy any Federal 

lands. 

g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power 

Act, 16 U.S.C. 791(a)–825(r). 

h. Applicant Contact: William R. 

Argentieri, Manager—Civil Engineering, 

South Carolina Electric & Gas Company, 

111 Research Drive, Columbia, South 

Carolina 29203, (803) 217–9162. 

i. FERC Contact: Lee Emery, at 

lee.emery@ferc.gov, or (202) 502–8379. 

j. Deadline for Filing Scoping 

Comments: May 8, 2009. 

All documents (original and eight 

copies) should be filed with: Kimberly 

D. Bose, Secretary, Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission, 888 First 

Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426. 

The Commission’s Rules of Practice 

and Procedure require all interveners 

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 intervener 

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. 

Scoping comments may be filed 

electronically via the Internet in lieu of 

paper. The Commission strongly 

encourages electronic filings. See 18 

CFR 385.2001(a)(1)(iii) and the 

instructions on the Commission’s Web 

site (http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/ 

ferconline.asp) under the ‘‘e-filing’’ link. 

For a simpler method of submitting text 

only comments, click on ‘‘Quick 

Comment.’’ 

k. This application is not ready for 

environmental analysis at this time. 

l. The existing 207.3-megawatt Saluda 

Project consists of a single development 

with the following features: (1) A 7,800- 

foot-long, 213-foot-high earth-fill dam 

(Saluda dam), with South Carolina State 

Highway 6 (Highway 6) running along 

the top of the dam; (2) a dike that 

extends 2,550 feet from the north end of 

the dam, running parallel with Highway 

6; (3) a 2,900-foot-long emergency 

spillway, with six steel Taintor gates, 

that is located 500 feet from the south 

end of Saluda dam, and a spillway 

channel that reconnects with the Saluda 

River about 0.75 miles downstream from 

the Saluda powerhouse; (4) a 2,300-footlong, 213-foot-high roller compacted 

concrete backup dam located along the 

downstream toe of the Saluda dam, with 

(i) a crest elevation of 372.0 feet North 

American Vertical Datum of 1988 

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1The license application contains documents that 

provide elevations based on NAVD88 datum or 

based on Plant Datum. To convert from Plant Datum 

to NAVD88 datum, subtract 1.5 feet. 

(NAVD88),1 and (ii) rock fill 

embankment sections on the north and 

south ends of the backup dam, having 

a combined length of 5,700 feet; (5) a 41- 

mile-long, 50,900-acre reservoir (Lake 

Murray) at a full pool elevation of 358.5 

feet NAVD88, with a total usable storage 

of approximately 635,000 acre-feet; (6) 

five 223-foot-high intake towers and 

associated penstocks; (7) a concrete and 

brick powerhouse containing four 

vertical Francis turbine generating units 

(three at 32.5 MW and one at 42.3 MW), 

and a fifth vertical Francis turbine 

generating unit (67.5 MW), which is 

enclosed in a weather-tight housing 

located on a concrete deck attached to 

the south end of the main powerhouse; 

(8) a 150-foot-long tailrace; and (9) 

appurtenant facilities. There is no 

transmission line or bypassed reach 

associated with the project. 

m. A copy of the application is 

available for review at the Commission 

in the Public Reference Room or may be 

viewed on the Commission’s Web site 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 

Online Support at 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or tollfree at 1–866–208–3676, or for TTY, 

(202) 502–8659. A copy is also available 

for inspection and reproduction at the 

address in item h above. 

You may also register Online at http:// 

www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/ 

esubscription.asp to be notified via email of new filings and issuances 

related to this or other pending projects. 

For assistance, contact FERC Online 

Support. 

n. Scoping Process. 

The Commission intends to prepare 

an Environmental Assessment (EA) on 

the project in accordance with the 

National Environmental Policy Act. The 

EA will consider both site-specific and 

cumulative environmental impacts and 

reasonable alternatives to the proposed 

action. 

Scoping Meetings 

FERC staff will conduct one agency 

scoping meeting and one public 

meeting. The agency scoping meeting 

will focus on resource agency and nongovernmental organization (NGO) 

concerns, while the public scoping 

meeting is primarily for public input. 

All interested individuals, 

organizations, and agencies are invited 

to attend one or both of the meetings, 

and to assist the staff in identifying the 

scope of the environmental issues that 

should be analyzed in the EA. The times 

and locations of these meetings are as 

follows: 

Agency Scoping Meeting 

Date: Wednesday, April 8, 2009. 

Time: 9 a.m. (EST) 

Place: Saluda Shoals Park 

Auditorium. 

Address: 5605 Bush River Road, 

Columbia, SC. 

Public Scoping Meeting 

Date: Wednesday, April 8, 2009. 

Time: 6:30 p.m. (EST) 

Place: Saluda Shoals Park 

Auditorium. 

Address: 5065 Bush River Road, 

Columbia, SC. 

Copies of the Scoping Document 

(SD1) outlining the subject areas to be 

addressed in the EA were distributed to 

the parties on the Commission’s mailing 

list. Copies of the SD1 will be available 

at the scoping meeting or may be 

viewed on the Web at http:// 

www.ferc.gov using the ‘‘eLibrary’’ link 

(see item m above). 

Site Visit 

The Applicant and FERC staff will 

conduct a project site visit beginning at 

9 a.m. (EST) on Tuesday, April 7, 2009. 

All interested individuals, 

organizations, and agencies are invited 

to attend. All participants should meet 

at the Saluda Project powerhouse, 6428 

Bush River Road, Columbia, SC 29212. 

Those individuals wishing to participate 

in the site visit should notify William 

Argentieri of their intent and provide 

their name, address, and social security 

number no later than Tuesday, March 

31, 2009. All participants are 

responsible for their own transportation 

to the site and lunch. Anyone with 

questions about the site visit (or needing 

directions) should contact William 

Argentieri at (803) 217–9162 or by email at bargentieri@scana.com. 

Objectives 

At the scoping meetings, the staff will: 

(1) Summarize the environmental issues 

tentatively identified for analysis in the 

EA; (2) solicit from the meeting 

participants all available information, 

especially quantifiable data, on the 

resources at issue; (3) encourage 

statements from experts and the public 

on issues that should be analyzed in the 

EA, including viewpoints in opposition 

to, or in support of, the staff’s 

preliminary views; (4) determine the 

resource issues to be addressed in the 

EA; and (5) identify those issues that 

require a detailed analysis, as well as 

those issues that do not require a 

detailed analysis. 

Procedures 

The meetings are recorded by a 

stenographer and become part of the 

formal record of the Commission 

proceeding on the project. 

Individuals, organizations, and 

agencies with environmental expertise 

and concerns are encouraged to attend 

the meeting and to assist the staff in 

defining and clarifying the issues to be 

addressed in the EA. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E9–6287 Filed 3–23–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. EL09–39–000] 

FirstEnergy Solutions Corp.; Notice of 

Filing 

March 17, 2009. 

Take notice that on March 4, 2009, 

FirstEnergy Solutions Corp. filed a 

Petition for Declaratory Order, pursuant 

to Rule 207 of the Commission’s Rules 

of Practice and Procedure, 18 CFR 

385.207 (2008). 

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 

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