376 Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 2 / Wednesday, January 3, 2018 / Notices 

1 161 FERC 62,026 (2017). 

2 18 CFR 385.2007(a)(2) (2017). 

regulatory requirements as set forth in 

the application. 

In Docket No. CP18–28–000, HP 

Gathering seeks a limited jurisdiction 

certificate to enable HP Gathering to 

lease 150,000 Dth per day of capacity on 

the relevant portion of the HP Gathering 

to HP Transmission while, at the same 

time, ensuring that the Commission’s 

jurisdiction will be asserted only over 

the Capacity Lease Agreement and not 

its non-jurisdictional gathering facilities 

and services and that all Commission 

jurisdictional filing and reporting 

requirements that might otherwise 

apply to HP Gathering will be waived. 

Questions regarding this filing may be 

directed to Dennis J. Kelly, Senior 

Counsel of HP Transmission and HP 

Gathering at (720) 457–6076, 2103 

CityWest Blvd., Bldg. #4, Houston, TX 

77042. 

This filing is available for review at 

the Commission’s Washington, DC 

offices, or may be viewed on the 

Commission’s website at http://

www.ferc.gov using the ‘‘e-Library’’ link. 

Enter the docket number, excluding the 

last three digits, in the docket number 

field to access the document. For 

assistance, please contact FERC Online 

Support at FERCOnlineSupport@

ferc.gov, or call toll-free at (866) 208– 

3676, or for TTY, contact (202) 502– 

8659. 

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 proceeding for this project should 

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, 385.211 (2016), by the 

comment date below. 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 filings made with the 

Commission by mail, hand delivery, or 

internet, in accordance with Rule 2001 

of the Commission’s Rules of Practice 

and Procedure, id. 385.2001. A copy 

must be served on every other party in 

the proceeding. Only parties to the 

proceeding can ask for court review of 

Commission orders in the proceeding. 

However, a person does not have to 

intervene 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. 

Protests and interventions may be 

filed electronically via the internet in 

lieu of paper; see 18 CFR 

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

on the Commission’s website under the 

‘‘e-filing’’ link. The Commission 

strongly encourages electronic filings. 

If the Commission decides to set the 

application for a formal hearing before 

an Administrative Law Judge, the 

Commission will issue another notice 

describing that process. At the end of 

the Commission’s review process, a 

final Commission order approving or 

denying the requested authorizations 

will be issued. 

Comment Date: 5:00 p.m. Eastern 

Time, January 12, 2018. 

Dated: December 22, 2017. 

Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr., 

Deputy Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2017–28322 Filed 1–2–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 14808–001] 

Merchant Hydro Developers, LLC; 

Notice of Surrender of Preliminary 

Permit 

Take notice that Merchant Hydro 

Developers, LLC, permittee for the 

proposed Panther Pumped Storage 

Hydroelectric Project, has requested that 

its preliminary permit be terminated. 

The permit was issued on October 11, 

2017, and would have expired on 

September 30, 2020.1 The project would 

have been located near the town of 

Simpson in Lackawanna and Wayne 

Counties, Pennsylvania. 

The preliminary permit for Project 

No. 14808 will remain in effect until the 

close of business, January 26, 2018. But, 

if the Commission is closed on this day, 

then the permit remains in effect until 

the close of business on the next day in 

which the Commission is open.2 New 

applications for this site may not be 

submitted until after the permit 

surrender is effective. 

Dated: December 27, 2017. 

Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr., 

Deputy Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2017–28348 Filed 1–2–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 13102–003] 

Birch Power Company; Notice of 

Technical Meeting 

a. Date and Time of Meeting: January 

8, 2018 at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Standard 

Time (11:00 a.m. Central Standard 

Time). 

b. Place: Telephone conference. 

c. FERC Contact: Sarah Salazar at 

sarah.salazar@ferc.gov, or (202) 502– 

6863. 

d. Purpose of Meeting: Commission 

Staff is hosting a technical meeting to 

discuss: (1) Our regulatory (licensing) 

process; (2) the recommended 

alternative in the draft environmental 

assessment issued on June 29, 2017 for 

the proposed Demopolis Lock and Dam 

Hydroelectric Project; and (3) comments 

on the US Fish and Wildlife Service’s 

draft biological opinion for the project. 

e. A summary of the meeting will be 

prepared and filed in the Commission’s 

public file for the project. 

g. All local, state, and federal 

agencies, Indian tribes, and other 

interested parties are invited to 

participate by phone. Please call Sarah 

Salazar at (202) 502–6863 by January 3, 

2018, to RSVP and to receive specific 

instructions on how to participate. 

Dated: December 22, 2017. 

Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr., 

Deputy Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2017–28325 Filed 1–2–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

Combined Notice of Filings #1 

Take notice that the Commission 

received the following electric rate 

filings: 

Docket Numbers: ER10–2984–037. 

Applicants: Merrill Lynch 

Commodities, Inc. 

Description: Notice of Non-Material 

Change in Status of Merrill Lynch 

Commodities, Inc. 


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