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Filed Date: 1/12/18. 

Accession Number: 20180112–5161. 

Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 2/2/18. 

Docket Numbers: ER18–651–000. 

Applicants: Arizona Public Service 

Company. 

Description: § 205(d) Rate Filing: 

OATT Collation Filing to be effective 1/ 

12/2018. 

Filed Date: 1/12/18. 

Accession Number: 20180112–5184. 

Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 2/2/18. 

Docket Numbers: ER18–652–000. 

Applicants: PJM Interconnection, 

L.L.C. 

Description: Tariff Cancellation: 

Notice of Cancellation of ISA SA No. 

4666, Queue No. Z2–038 to be effective 

2/19/2018. 

Filed Date: 1/16/18. 

Accession Number: 20180116–5192. 

Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 2/6/18. 

Docket Numbers: ER18–653–000. 

Applicants: Southern California 

Edison Company. 

Description: Tariff Cancellation: 

Notice of Cancellation GIA & DSA SEPV 

Kennedy Project SA Nos. 953–954 to be 

effective 2/5/2018. 

Filed Date: 1/16/18. 

Accession Number: 20180116–5193. 

Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 2/6/18. 

Take notice that the Commission 

received the following public utility 

holding company filings: 

Docket Numbers: PH18–3–000. 

Applicants: LS Power Development, 

LLC. 

Description: LS Power Development, 

LLC submits FERC 65–B Non-Material 

Change in Fact of Waiver Notification. 

Filed Date: 1/12/18. 

Accession Number: 20180112–5193. 

Comments Due: 5 p.m. ET 2/2/18. 

The filings are accessible in the 

Commission’s eLibrary system by 

clicking on the links or querying the 

docket number. 

Any person desiring to intervene or 

protest in any of the above proceedings 

must file in accordance with Rules 211 

and 214 of the Commission’s 

Regulations (18 CFR 385.211 and 

385.214) on or before 5:00 p.m. Eastern 

time on the specified comment date. 

Protests may be considered, but 

intervention is necessary to become a 

party to the proceeding. 

eFiling is encouraged. More detailed 

information relating to filing 

requirements, interventions, protests, 

service, and qualifying facilities filings 

can be found at: http://www.ferc.gov/ 

docs-filing/efiling/filing-req.pdf. For 

other information, call (866) 208–3676 

(toll free). For TTY, call (202) 502–8659. 

Dated: January 16, 2018. 

Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr., 

Deputy Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2018–01020 Filed 1–19–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. CP18–33–000] 

Florida Gas Transmission Company, 

LLC; Notice of Intent To Prepare an 

Environmental Assessment for the 

Proposed 18-Inch Mainline 

Abandonment Project and Request for 

Comments on Environmental Issues 

The staff of the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission (FERC or 

Commission) will prepare an 

environmental assessment (EA) that will 

discuss the environmental impacts of 

the 18-Inch Mainline Abandonment 

Project involving construction and 

operation of facilities by Florida Gas 

Transmission Company, LLC (FGT) in 

Miami-Dade County, Florida. The 

Commission will use this EA in its 

decision-making process to determine 

whether the project is in the public 

convenience and necessity. 

This notice announces the opening of 

the scoping process the Commission 

will use to gather input from the public 

and interested agencies on the project. 

You can make a difference by providing 

us with your specific comments or 

concerns about the project. Your 

comments should focus on the potential 

environmental effects, reasonable 

alternatives, and measures to avoid or 

lessen environmental impacts. Your 

input will help the Commission staff 

determine what issues they need to 

evaluate in the EA. To ensure that your 

comments are timely and properly 

recorded, please send your comments so 

that the Commission receives them in 

Washington, DC, on or before February 

12, 2018. 

If you sent comments on this project 

to the Commission before the opening of 

this docket on December 18, 2017, you 

will need to file those comments in 

Docket No. CP18–33–000 to ensure they 

are considered as part of this 

proceeding. 

This notice is being sent to the 

Commission’s current environmental 

mailing list for this project. State and 

local government representatives should 

notify their constituents of this 

proposed project and encourage them to 

comment on their areas of concern. 

If you are a landowner receiving this 

notice, a pipeline company 

representative may contact you about 

the acquisition of an easement to 

construct, operate, and maintain the 

proposed facilities. The company would 

seek to negotiate a mutually acceptable 

agreement. However, if the Commission 

approves the project, that approval 

conveys with it the right of eminent 

domain. Therefore, if easement 

negotiations fail to produce an 

agreement, the pipeline company could 

initiate condemnation proceedings 

where compensation would be 

determined in accordance with state 

law. 

FGT provided landowners with a fact 

sheet prepared by the FERC entitled An 

Interstate Natural Gas Facility On My 

Land? What Do I Need To Know? This 

fact sheet addresses a number of 

typically asked questions, including the 

use of eminent domain and how to 

participate in the Commission’s 

proceedings. It is also available for 

viewing on the FERC website 

(www.ferc.gov). 

Public Participation 

For your convenience, there are three 

methods you can use to submit your 

comments to the Commission. The 

Commission encourages electronic filing 

of comments and has expert staff 

available to assist you at (202) 502–8258 

or FercOnlineSupport@ferc.gov. Please 

carefully follow these instructions so 

that your comments are properly 

recorded. 

(1) You can file your comments 

electronically using the eComment 

feature on the Commission’s website 

(www.ferc.gov) under the link to 

Documents and Filings. This is an easy 

method for submitting brief, text-only 

comments on a project; 

(2) You can file your comments 

electronically by using the eFiling 

feature on the Commission’s website 

(www.ferc.gov) under the link to 

Documents and Filings. With eFiling, 

you can provide comments in a variety 

of formats by attaching them as a file 

with your submission. New eFiling 

users must first create an account by 

clicking on eRegister. If you are filing a 

comment on a particular project, please 

select Comment on a Filing as the filing 

type; or 

(3) You can file a paper copy of your 

comments by mailing them to the 

following address. Be sure to reference 

the project docket number (CP18–33– 

000) with your submission: Kimberly D. 

Bose, Secretary, Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street 

NE, Room 1A, Washington, DC 20426. 


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1A blow down is a controlled release of natural 

gas. 

2A pig is a tool that the pipeline company inserts 

into and pushes through the pipeline for cleaning 

the pipeline, conducting internal inspections, or 

other purposes. 

3The appendices referenced in this notice will 

not appear in the Federal Register. Copies of 

appendices were sent to all those receiving this 

notice in the mail and are available at www.ferc.gov 

using the link called eLibrary or from the 

Commission’s Public Reference Room, 888 First 

Street NE, Washington, DC 20426, or call (202) 502– 

8371. For instructions on connecting to eLibrary, 

refer to the last page of this notice. 

4We, us, and our refer to the environmental staff 

of the Commission’s Office of Energy Projects. 

5The Council on Environmental Quality 

regulations addressing cooperating agency 

responsibilities are at Title 40, Code of Federal 

Regulations, part 1501.6. 

6The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation’s 

regulations are at Title 36, Code of Federal 

Regulations, part 800. Those regulations define 

historic properties as any prehistoric or historic 

district, site, building, structure, or object included 

in or eligible for inclusion in the National Register 

of Historic Places. 

Summary of the Proposed Project 

FGT proposes to abandon in place a 

1.3 mile portion of its 18-inch-diameter 

mainline pipeline facilities in MiamiDade County, Florida, and remove an 

aerial span to accommodate a county 

road construction project. FGT states it 

has not delivered gas through this 

section of pipeline in more than three 

years and has no current customers 

served by this section; however, it 

proposes to continue to maintain the 

abandoned pipeline facilities for 

potential future use. 

The 18-Inch Mainline Abandonment 

Project would consist of the following 

activities: 

—blow down 1 from the Turkey Point 

take-off; 

—clean the pipeline by pig 2 from 

milepost (MP) 919.0 to MP 924.9; 

—remove approximately 200 feet of the 

18-inch-diameter mainline pipe, 

including approximately 73 feet of 

aerial pipeline span which crosses 

Miami-Dade County Cutler Drain 

Canal 100A parallel to the SW 136th 

Street bridge in Miami; 

—cut and cap the pipeline on each side 

of the canal; and 

—fill with nitrogen and abandon in 

place the pipe and associated valves 

from approximately MP 923.6 to MP 

924.9. 

The general location of the project 

facilities is shown in appendix 1.3

Land Requirements for Construction 

Removal of the facilities would 

disturb about 0.65 acre of land, and an 

additional 1.5 acres would be used for 

a contractor yard. Following 

construction, the disturbed areas would 

be restored and revert to former uses. 

FGT states that it would continue to 

maintain the right-of-way for the 

abandoned pipeline. 

The EA Process 

The National Environmental Policy 

Act (NEPA) requires the Commission to 

take into account the environmental 

impacts that could result from an action 

whenever it considers the issuance of a 

Certificate of Public Convenience and 

Necessity. NEPA also requires us 4 to 

discover and address concerns the 

public may have about proposals. This 

process is referred to as scoping. The 

main goal of the scoping process is to 

focus the analysis in the EA on the 

important environmental issues. By this 

notice, the Commission requests public 

comments on the scope of the issues to 

address in the EA. We will consider all 

filed comments during the preparation 

of the EA. 

In the EA we will discuss impacts that 

could occur as a result of the 

construction and operation of the 

proposed project including, but not 

limited to, the following resources: land 

use; water resources; vegetation and 

wildlife; air quality and noise; and 

cultural resources. We will also evaluate 

any reasonable alternatives to the 

proposed project or portions of the 

project, and make recommendations on 

how to lessen or avoid impacts on the 

various resource areas. 

The EA will present our independent 

analysis of the issues. The EA will be 

available in the public record through 

eLibrary. Depending on the comments 

received during the scoping process, we 

may also publish and distribute the EA 

to the public for an allotted comment 

period. To ensure we have the 

opportunity to consider and address 

your comments, please carefully follow 

the instructions in the Public 

Participation section, beginning on 

page 2. 

With this notice, we are asking 

agencies with jurisdiction by law and/ 

or special expertise with respect to the 

environmental issues of this project to 

formally cooperate with us in the 

preparation of the EA.5 Agencies that 

would like to request cooperating 

agency status should follow the 

instructions for filing comments 

provided under the Public Participation 

section of this notice. 

Consultations Under Section 106 of the 

National Historic Preservation Act 

In accordance with the Advisory 

Council on Historic Preservation’s 

implementing regulations for section 

106 of the National Historic 

Preservation Act, we are using this 

notice to initiate consultation with the 

applicable State Historic Preservation 

Office (SHPO), and to solicit their views 

and those of other government agencies, 

interested Indian tribes, and the public 

on the project’s potential effects on 

historic properties.6 We will define the 

project-specific Area of Potential Effects 

(APE) in consultation with the SHPO as 

the project develops. On natural gas 

facility projects, the APE at a minimum 

encompasses all areas subject to ground 

disturbance (examples include 

construction right-of-way, contractor/ 

pipe storage yards, compressor stations, 

and access roads). Our EA for this 

project will document our findings on 

the impacts on historic properties and 

summarize the status of consultations 

under section 106. 

Environmental Mailing List 

The environmental mailing list 

includes federal, state, and local 

government representatives and 

agencies; elected officials; 

environmental and public interest 

groups; Native American Tribes; other 

interested parties; and local libraries 

and newspapers. This list also includes 

all affected landowners (as defined in 

the Commission’s regulations) who are 

potential right-of-way grantors, whose 

property may be used temporarily for 

project purposes, or who own homes 

within certain distances of aboveground 

facilities, and anyone who submits 

comments on the project. We will 

update the environmental mailing list as 

the analysis proceeds to ensure that we 

send the information related to this 

environmental review to all individuals, 

organizations, and government entities 

interested in and/or potentially affected 

by the proposed project. 

If we publish and distribute the EA, 

copies will be sent to the environmental 

mailing list for public review and 

comment. If you would prefer to receive 

a paper copy of the document instead of 

the CD version or would like to remove 

your name from the mailing list, please 

return the attached Information Request 

(appendix 2). 

Becoming an Intervenor 

In addition to involvement in the EA 

scoping process, you may want to 

become an ‘‘intervenor’’ which is an 

official party to the Commission’s 

proceeding. Intervenors play a more 

formal role in the process and are able 

to file briefs, appear at hearings, and be 

heard by the courts if they choose to 

appeal the Commission’s final ruling. 

An intervenor formally participates in 

the proceeding by filing a request to 

intervene. Instructions for becoming an 


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intervenor are in the ‘‘Document-less 

Intervention Guide’’ under the ‘‘e-filing’’ 

link on the Commission’s website. 

Motions to intervene are more fully 

described at http://www.ferc.gov/ 

resources/guides/how-to/intervene.asp. 

Additional Information 

Additional information about the 

project is available from the 

Commission’s Office of External Affairs, 

at (866) 208–FERC, or on the FERC 

website at www.ferc.gov using the 

eLibrary link. Click on the eLibrary link, 

click on General Search and enter the 

docket number, excluding the last three 

digits in the Docket Number field (i.e., 

CP18–33). Be sure you have selected an 

appropriate date range. For assistance, 

please contact FERC Online Support at 

FercOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or toll free 

at (866) 208–3676, or for TTY, contact 

(202) 502–8659. The eLibrary link also 

provides access to the texts of formal 

documents issued by the Commission, 

such as orders, notices, and 

rulemakings. 

In addition, the Commission offers a 

free service called eSubscription which 

allows you to keep track of all formal 

issuances and submittals in specific 

dockets. This can reduce the amount of 

time you spend researching proceedings 

by automatically providing you with 

notification of these filings, document 

summaries, and direct links to the 

documents. Go to www.ferc.gov/docsfiling/esubscription.asp. 

Finally, public sessions or site visits 

will be posted on the Commission’s 

calendar located at www.ferc.gov/ 

EventCalendar/EventsList.aspx along 

with other related information. 

Dated: January 12, 2018. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2018–01016 Filed 1–19–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 1494–438] 

Grand River Dam Authority; Notice of 

Intent To File License Application, 

Filing of Pre-Application Document 

(Pad), Commencement of Pre-Filing 

Process, and Scoping; Request for 

Comments on the Pad and Scoping 

Document, and Identification of Issues 

and Associated Study Requests 

a. Type of Filing: Notice of Intent to 

File License Application for a New 

License and Commencing Pre-filing 

Process. 

b. Project No.: 1494–438. 

c. Dated Filed: February 1, 2017. 

d. Submitted By: Grand River Dam 

Authority (GRDA). 

e. Name of Project: Pensacola 

Hydroelectric Project. 

f. Location: The project is located on 

the Grand (Neosho) River in Craig, 

Delaware, Mayes, and Ottawa Counties, 

Oklahoma. No federal lands have been 

identified within the project boundary. 

g. Filed Pursuant to: 18 CFR part 5 of 

the Commission’s Regulations. 

h. Potential Applicant Contact: Dr. 

Darrell Townsend, Assistant General 

Manager, GRDA, 420 Highway 28, 

Langley, OK 74359–0070; (918) 256– 

0616 or dtownsend@grda.com. 

i. FERC Contact: Rachel McNamara at 

(202) 502–8340 or email at 

rachel.mcnamara@ferc.gov. 

j. Cooperating agencies: Federal, state, 

local, and tribal agencies with 

jurisdiction and/or special expertise 

with respect to environmental issues 

that wish to cooperate in the 

preparation of the environmental 

document should follow the 

instructions for filing such requests 

described in item o below. Cooperating 

agencies should note the Commission’s 

policy that agencies that cooperate in 

the preparation of the environmental 

document cannot also intervene. See 94 

FERC 61,076 (2001). 

k. With this notice, we are initiating 

informal consultation with: (a) The U.S. 

Fish and Wildlife Service and/or NOAA 

Fisheries under section 7 of the 

Endangered Species Act and the joint 

agency regulations thereunder at 50 

CFR, Part 402 and (b) the State Historic 

Preservation Officer, as required by 

section 106, National Historic 

Preservation Act, and the implementing 

regulations of the Advisory Council on 

Historic Preservation at 36 CFR 800.2. 

l. With this notice, we are designating 

GRDA as the Commission’s non-federal 

representative for carrying out informal 

consultation, pursuant to section 7 of 

the Endangered Species Act and section 

106 of the National Historic 

Preservation Act. 

m. GRDA filed with the Commission 

a Pre-Application Document (PAD; 

including a proposed process plan and 

schedule), pursuant to 18 CFR 5.6 of the 

Commission’s regulations. 

n. A copy of the PAD is available for 

review at the Commission in the Public 

Reference Room or may be viewed on 

the Commission’s website (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, (866) 

208–3676 (toll free), or (202) 502–8659 

(TTY). A copy is also available for 

inspection and reproduction at the 

address in paragraph h. 

Register online at http://

www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/ 

esubscription.asp to be notified via 

email of new filing and issuances 

related to this or other pending projects. 

For assistance, contact FERC Online 

Support. 

o. With this notice, we are soliciting 

comments on the PAD and 

Commission’s staff Scoping Document 1 

(SD1), as well as study requests. All 

comments on the PAD and SD1, and 

study requests should be sent to the 

address above in paragraph h. In 

addition, all comments on the PAD and 

SD1, study requests, requests for 

cooperating agency status, and all 

communications to and from 

Commission staff related to the merits of 

the potential application must be filed 

with the Commission. 

The Commission strongly encourages 

electronic filing. Please file all 

documents using the Commission’s 

eFiling system at http://www.ferc.gov/ 

docs-filing/efiling.asp. Commenters can 

submit brief comments up to 6,000 

characters, without prior registration, 

using the eComment system at http://

www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/ 

ecomment.asp. You must include your 

name and contact information at the end 

of your comments. For assistance, 

please contact FERC Online Support at 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov. In lieu of 

electronic filing, please send a paper 

copy to: Secretary, Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street 

NE, Washington, DC 20426. The first 

page of any filing should include docket 

number P–1494–438. 

All filings with the Commission must 

bear the appropriate heading: Comments 

on Pre-Application Document, Study 

Requests, Comments on Scoping 

Document 1, Request for Cooperating 

Agency Status, or Communications to 

and from Commission Staff. Any 

individual or entity interested in 

submitting study requests, commenting 

on the PAD or SD1, and any agency 

requesting cooperating status must do so 

by March 13, 2018. 

p. We intend to prepare either an 

environmental assessment (EA) or 

Environmental Impact Statement (EIS). 

The meetings listed below will satisfy 

the NEPA scoping requirements, 

irrespective of whether an EA or EIS is 

issued by the Commission. 

Scoping Meetings 

Commission staff will hold four 

scoping meetings in the vicinity of the 


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