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[FR Doc. 2013–18233 Filed 7–29–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

[OE Docket No. PP–387] 

Application for Presidential Permit; 

Soule River Hydroelectric Project 

AGENCY: Office of Electricity Delivery 

and Energy Reliability, DOE. 

ACTION: Notice of application. 

SUMMARY: Soule Hydro, LLC (Soule 

Hydro) has applied for a Presidential 

permit to construct, operate, maintain, 

and connect an electric transmission 

line across the United States border 

with Canada. 

DATES: Comments, protests, or motions 

to intervene must be submitted on or 

before August 29, 2013. 

ADDRESSES: Comments, protests, or 

motions to intervene should be 

addressed as follows: Brian Mills, Office 

of Electricity Delivery and Energy 

Reliability (OE–20), U.S. Department of 

Energy, 1000 Independence Avenue 

SW., Washington, DC 20585. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Brian Mills (Program Office) at 202– 

586–8267 or via electronic mail at 

Brian.Mills@hq.doe.gov, or Katherine L. 

Konieczny (Attorney-Adviser) at 202– 

586–0503 or via electronic mail at 

Katherine.Konieczny@hq.doe.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

construction, operation, maintenance, 

and connection of facilities at the 

international border of the United States 

for the transmission of electric energy 

between the United States and a foreign 

country is prohibited in the absence of 

a Presidential permit issued pursuant to 

Executive Order (EO) 10485, as 

amended by EO 12038. 

On March 18, 2013, Soule Hydro filed 

an application with the Office of 

Electricity Delivery and Energy 

Reliability of the Department of Energy 

(DOE) for a Presidential Permit. Soule 

Hydro is a limited liability corporation, 

organized and existing in the State of 

Delaware. Alaska Power & Telephone 

Company (AP&T) is the parent company 

and sole shareholder for Soule Hydro. 

Soule Hydro proposes to construct 

and operate a high-voltage alternating 

current (HVAC) hydroelectric 

transmission line that is to originate on 

the Soule River, on Portland Canal in 

Southeast Alaska, and continue to the 

BC Hydro Stewart Substation on the 

north side of Stewart, British Columbia. 

It would occupy federal land 

administered by the Ketchikan-Misty 

Fjords Ranger District of the U.S. Forest 

Service (Forest Service). The proposed 

Soule River Hydroelectric Project (the 

‘‘Project’’) would be capable of 

transmitting up to 77.4 megawatts (MW) 

of power. 

The Alaska portion of the Project 

would be an 8-mile long, 138 kilovolt 

(kV) HVAC 3-phase submarine cable 

that would be laid on the floor of 

Portland Canal off the community of 

Hyder, Alaska, waterfront before it 

would cross the international boundary 

and extend approximately 2 miles to 

land at Stewart, B.C. Arrow Dock. 

The transmission line would 

eventually transition to overhead and 

terminate at the BC Hydro Stewart 

Substation approximately 2.5 miles 

from the cable landing. 

Soule Hydro represents that the 

Project’s precise final route would be 

subject to a number of factors, including 

resource issues, permitting, land 

acquisition, and stakeholder agreement. 

The approximately 8-mile-long portion 

of the Project located within the United 

States as well as the approximately 4.5 

miles of transmission infrastructure in 

Canada would be owned and operated 

by Soule Hydro. 

Since the restructuring of the electric 

industry began, resulting in the 

introduction of different types of 

competitive entities into the 

marketplace, DOE has consistently 

expressed its policy that cross-border 

trade in electric energy should be 

subject to the same principles of 

comparable open access and nondiscrimination that apply to 

transmission in interstate commerce. 

DOE has stated that policy in export 

authorizations granted to entities 

requesting authority to export over 

international transmission facilities. 

Specifically, DOE expects transmitting 

utilities owning border facilities to 

provide access across the border in 

accordance with the principles of 

comparable open access and nondiscrimination contained in the Federal 

Power Act and articulated in Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) 

Order No. 888 (Promoting Wholesale 

Competition Through Open Access 

Non-Discriminatory Transmission 

Services by Public Utilities; FERC Stats. 

& Regs. ¶31,036 (1996)), as amended. In 

furtherance of this policy, DOE invites 

comments on whether it would be 

appropriate to condition any 

Presidential permit issued in this 

proceeding on compliance with these 

open access principles. 

Procedural Matters: Any person may 

comment on or protest this application 

by filing such comment or protest at the 

address provided above in accordance 

with Rule 211 of FERC’s Rules of 

Practice and Procedure (18 CFR 

385.211). Any person seeking to become 

a party to this proceeding must file a 


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motion to intervene at the address 

provided above in accordance with Rule 

214 of FERC’s Rules of Practice and 

Procedure (18 CFR 385.214). Fifteen 

copies of each comment, protest, or 

motion to intervene should be filed with 

DOE on or before the date listed above. 

Additional copies of such comment, 

protest, or motion to intervene should 

also be filed directly with: Mr. Robert S. 

Grimm, CEO/President, Soule Hydro, 

LLC, c/o Alaska Power & Telephone 

Company, 193 Otto Street, P.O. Box 

3222, Port Townsend, WA 98368. 

Before a Presidential permit may be 

issued or amended, DOE must 

determine that the proposed action is in 

the public interest. In making that 

determination, DOE considers the 

environmental impacts of the proposed 

project pursuant to the National 

Environmental Policy Act of 1969, 

determines the project’s impact on 

electric reliability by ascertaining 

whether the proposed project would 

adversely affect the operation of the U.S. 

electric power supply system under 

normal and contingency conditions, and 

considers any other factors that may 

also be relevant to the public interest. 

DOE must obtain the concurrences of 

the Secretary of State and the Secretary 

of Defense before taking final action on 

a Presidential permit application. 

Copies of this application will be 

made available, upon request, for public 

inspection and copying at the address 

provided above, by accessing the 

program Web site at http:// 

www.oe.energy.gov/permits_

pending.htm, or by emailing Angela 

Troy at angela.troy@hq.doe.gov. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on July 24, 

2013. 

Brian Mills, 

Director, Permitting and Siting, Office of 

Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability. 

[FR Doc. 2013–18241 Filed 7–29–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. IC13–14–000] 

Commission Information Collection 

Activities (FERC Form 80); Comment 

Request; Extension 

AGENCY: Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Comment request. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

requirements of the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C. 

3507(a)(1)(D), the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission (Commission or 

FERC) is submitting the information 

collection, FERC Form 80, Licensed 

Hydropower Development Recreation 

Report, to the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) for review of the 

information collection requirements. 

Any interested person may file 

comments directly with OMB and 

should address a copy of those 

comments to the Commission as 

explained below. The Commission 

issued a Notice in the Federal Register 

(78 FR 28820, 5/16/2013) requesting 

public comments. FERC received no 

comments on the FERC Form 80 and is 

making this notation in its submittal to 

OMB. 

DATES: Comments on the collection of 

information are due August 29, 2013. 

ADDRESSES: Comments filed with OMB, 

identified by the OMB Control No. 

1902–0106, should be sent via email to 

the Office of Information and Regulatory 

Affairs: oira_submission@omb.gov. 

Attention: Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission Desk Officer. The Desk 

Officer may also be reached via 

telephone at 202–395–4718. 

A copy of the comments should also 

be sent to the Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission, identified by the Docket 

No. IC13–14–000, by either of the 

following methods: 

• eFiling at Commission’s Web site: 

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

efiling.asp 

• Mail/Hand Delivery/Courier: 

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 

Secretary of the Commission, 888 First 

Street NE., Washington, DC 20426. 

Instructions: All submissions must be 

formatted and filed in accordance with 

submission guidelines at: http:// 

www.ferc.gov/help/submissionguide.asp. For user assistance contact 

FERC Online Support by email at 

ferconlinesupport@ferc.gov, or by phone 

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

502–8659 for TTY. 

Docket: Users interested in receiving 

automatic notification of activity in this 

docket or in viewing/downloading 

comments and issuances in this docket 

may do so at http://www.ferc.gov/docsfiling/docs-filing.asp. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Ellen Brown may be reached by email 

at DataClearance@FERC.gov, telephone 

at (202) 502–8663, and fax at (202) 273– 

0873. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title: FERC Form 80, Licensed 

Hydropower Development Recreation 

Report. 

OMB Control No.: 1902–0106. 

Type of Request: Minor revisions to 

the FERC Form 80 information 

collection requirements with no change 

to the current reporting burden. 

Abstract: FERC uses the information 

on the FERC Form 80 to implement the 

statutory provisions of sections 4(a), 

10(a), 301(a), 304 and 309 of the Federal 

Power Act (FPA), 16 U.S.C. 797, 803, 

825c & 8254. FERC’s authority to collect 

this information comes from section 

10(a) of the FPA which requires the 

Commission to be responsible for 

ensuring that hydro projects subject to 

FERC jurisdiction are consistent with 

the comprehensive development of the 

nation’s waterway for recreation and 

other beneficial public uses. In the 

interest of fulfilling these objectives, 

FERC expects licensees subject to its 

jurisdiction to recognize the resources 

that are affected by their activities and 

to play a role in protecting such 

resources. 

FERC Form 80 is a report on the use 

and development of recreational 

facilities at hydropower projects 

licensed by the Commission. 

Applications for licenses, amendments 

to licenses, and/or changes in land 

rights frequently involve changes in 

resources available for recreation. FERC 

utilizes the FERC Form 80 data when 

analyzing the adequacy of existing 

public recreational facilities and when 

processing and reviewing proposed 

amendments to help determine the 

impact of such changes. In addition, the 

FERC regional office staff uses the FERC 

Form 80 data when conducting 

inspections of licensed projects. FERC 

inspectors use the data in evaluating 

compliance with various license 

conditions and in identifying 

recreational facilities at hydropower 

projects. 

The FERC Form 80 requires data 

specified by Title 18 of the Code of 

Federal Regulations (CFR) under Parts 

8.11 and 141.14 (and discussed at 

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

forms.asp#80). 

FERC collects the FERC Form 80 once 

every six years. The last collection was 

due on April 1, 2009, for data compiled 

during the 2008 calendar year. The next 

collection of the FERC Form 80 is due 

on April 1, 2015, with subsequent 

collections due every sixth year, for data 

compiled during the previous calendar 

year. 

The Commission made minor 

revisions throughout the form. 

Specifically, FERC clarified and 

simplified instructions, removed 

redundancy in certain questions, 

clarified questions and terms, and 

generally improved the readability of 

the form. 

FERC has attached the revised form to 

this notice. 


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