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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. Anyone filing a motion 

to intervene or protest must serve a copy 

of that document on the Applicant and 

all the parties in this proceeding. 

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 5 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 electronic 

review in the Commission’s Public 

Reference Room in Washington, DC. 

There is an eSubscription link on the 

website that enables subscribers to 

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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. 

Comment Date: 5:00 p.m. Eastern 

Time on January 8, 2018. 

Dated: December 20, 2017. 

Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr., 

Deputy Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2017–27911 Filed 12–26–17; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–9972–43-Region 4] 

Notice of Final National Pollutant 

Discharge Elimination System 

(NPDES) General Permit for the 

Eastern Portion of the Outer 

Continental Shelf (OCS) of the Gulf of 

Mexico (GEG460000); Availability of 

Finding of No Significant Impact 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notice of Reissuance of NPDES 

General Permit. 

SUMMARY: Today, the EPA Region 4 (the 

‘‘Region’’) is reissuing the National 

Pollutant Discharge Elimination System 

(NPDES) general permit for the Outer 

Continental Shelf (OCS) of the Gulf of 

Mexico (General Permit No. 

GEG460000) for new and existing source 

discharges in the Offshore Subcategory 

of the Oil and Gas Extraction Point 

Source Category. This reissued general 

permit replaces the previous permit 

issued on March 15, 2010, and which 

became effective on April 1, 2010, and 

expired on March 31, 2015. The general 

permit authorizes discharges from 

exploration, development, and 

production facilities located in and 

discharging to all Federal waters of the 

eastern portion of the Gulf of Mexico 

seaward of the outer boundary of the 

territorial seas, and covers existing and 

new source facilities with operations 

located on Federal leases occurring in 

water depths seaward of 200 meters, 

occurring offshore the coasts of Alabama 

and Florida. The western boundary of 

the coverage area is demarcated by 

Mobile and Visoca Knoll lease blocks 

located seaward of the outer boundary 

of the territorial seas from the coasts of 

Mississippi and Alabama. The permit 

term will be no longer than five years 

from the effective date of the permit. 

Individual permits will be issued for 

operating facilities on lease blocks 

traversed by and shoreward of the 200- 

meter water depth. 

The draft NPDES general permit was 

publicly noticed from August 18, 2016 

to September 17, 2016. This final permit 

reflects changes based on comments 

received during the public comments 

period, which are detailed in the 

Amendment to the Fact Sheet. 

DATES: This action is applicable as of 

January 20, 2018. 

ADDRESSES: The final NPDES general 

permit, Amendment to the Permit fact 

sheet, Finding of No Significant Impact 

document, Final Essential Fish Habitat 

Determination, Final Ocean Discharge 

Criteria Evaluation, and other relevant 

documents may be obtained by writing 

the U.S. EPA-Region 4, Water Protection 

Division (WPD), NPDES Section, Sam 

Nunn Atlanta Federal Center, 61 

Forsyth Street SW, Atlanta, Georgia 

30303–8960, Attention: Ms. Bridget 

Staples. Alternatively, copies of the 

above-mentioned documents may be 

downloaded at: https://www.epa.gov/ 

aboutepa/about-epa-region-4- 

southeast#r4-public-notices. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Bridget Staples, EPA Region 4, WPD, 

NPDES Section, by mail at the Atlanta 

address given above, by telephone at 

(404) 562–9783 or by email at 

Staples.Bridget@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Authorization To Discharge Under the 

National Pollutant Discharge 

Elimination System 

In compliance with the Federal Water 

Pollution Control Act, as amended (33 

U.S.C. 1251 et seq.), operators of 

offshore oil and gas facilities in lease 

blocks located in Outer Continental 

Shelf (OCS) Federal water in the eastern 

portion of the Gulf of Mexico seaward 

of the outer boundary of the territorial 

seas in water depths seaward of 200 

meters, occurring offshore the coasts of 

Alabama and Florida and in the western 

boundary of the coverage area 

demarcated by Mobile and Visoca Knoll 

lease blocks located seaward of the 

outer boundary of the territorial seas 

from the coasts of Mississippi and 

Alabama, are authorized to discharge to 

receiving waters in accordance with 

effluent limitations, monitoring 

requirements, and other conditions set 

forth in Parts I, II, III, IV and V, and 

appendices. 

Operators of facilities within the 

NPDES general permit coverage area 

must submit a Notice of Intent (NOI) to 

the Regional Administrator, prior to 

discharge, that they intend to be covered 

by the general permit (See Part I.A.4). 

The effective date of coverage will be 

the postmarked date of the NOI, or if the 

postmarked date is illegible, the 

effective date of coverage will be two 

days prior to the receipt date of the NOI. 

Administratively continued coverages 

under the previous NPDES general 

permit will cease for operators 30 days 

after the effective date of the new 

permit. Therefore, such operators must 

submit a new NOI to be covered under 

this general permit within 30 days after 

the effective date of this permit. If a 

permit application for an individual 

permit is filed, the coverage under the 

previous general permit terminates 

when a final action is taken on the 

application for an individual permit. 

This permit and the authorization to 

discharge shall expire midnight, Eastern 

Standard Time, five years from the 

effective date. 

Dated: December 14, 2017. 

Mary Walker, 

Director, Water Protection Division, U.S. EPA, 

Region 4. 

[FR Doc. 2017–27947 Filed 12–26–17; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[FRL–9972–41–ORD] 

Human Studies Review Board; 

Notification of Public Meetings 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA), Office of the Science 


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