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1 If the due date falls on a weekend or holiday, 

the due date is the following business day. 

Description: Compliance filing: Fuel 

and LAUF Report to be effective N/A. 

Filed Date: 12/13/24. 

Accession Number: 20241213–5038. 

Comment Date: 5 p.m. ET 12/26/24. 

Any person desiring to intervene, to 

protest, or to answer a complaint in any 

of the above proceedings must file in 

accordance with Rules 211, 214, or 206 

of the Commission’s Regulations (18 

CFR 385.211, 385.214, or 385.206) 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. 

Filings in Existing Proceedings 

Docket Numbers: RP25–231–001. 

Applicants: Carlsbad Gateway, LLC. 

Description: Tariff Amendment: 

Carlsbad Gateway Amended Filing to be 

effective 1/1/2025. 

Filed Date: 12/12/24. 

Accession Number: 20241212–5196. 

Comment Date: 5 p.m. ET 12/19/24. 

Any person desiring to protest in any 

the above proceedings must file in 

accordance with Rule 211 of the 

Commission’s Regulations (18 CFR 

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

time on the specified comment date. 

The filings are accessible in the 

Commission’s eLibrary system (https://

elibrary.ferc.gov/idmws/search/ 

fercgensearch.asp) by querying the 

docket number. 

eFiling is encouraged. More detailed 

information relating to filing 

requirements, interventions, protests, 

service, and qualifying facilities filings 

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

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

other information, call (866) 208–3676 

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

The Commission’s Office of Public 

Participation (OPP) supports meaningful 

public engagement and participation in 

Commission proceedings. OPP can help 

members of the public, including 

landowners, environmental justice 

communities, Tribal members and 

others, access publicly available 

information and navigate Commission 

processes. For public inquiries and 

assistance with making filings such as 

interventions, comments, or requests for 

rehearing, the public is encouraged to 

contact OPP at (202) 502–6595 or OPP@

ferc.gov. 

Dated: December 13, 2024. 

Debbie-Anne A. Reese, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2024–30278 Filed 12–18–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 175–032] 

Pacific Gas and Electric Company; 

Notice Soliciting Scoping Comments 

Take notice that the following 

application has been filed with the 

Commission and is available for public 

inspection. 

a. Type of Application: New Major 

License. 

b. Project No.: P–175–032. 

c. Date Filed: April 18, 2024. 

d. Applicant: Pacific Gas and Electric 

Company (PG&E). 

e. Name of Project: Balch 

Hydroelectric Project (Balch Project or 

project). 

f. Location: The existing project is 

located about 45 miles northeast of the 

city of Fresno, on the North Fork Kings 

River, in Fresno and Madera Counties, 

California (Figure 1). The project 

currently occupies 491.5 acres of 

Federal land administered by the U.S. 

Forest Service (Forest Service). 

g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power 

Act 16 U.S.C. 791(a)–825(r). 

h. Applicant Contact: Mr. Dave 

Gabbard, Vice President Power 

Generation, Pacific Gas and Electric 

Company, 300 Lakeside Drive, Oakland, 

CA 94612; telephone at (650) 207–9705; 

email at David.gabbard@pge.com. 

i. FERC Contact: Benjamin Mann, 

(202) 502–8462, or email at 

Benjamin.Mann@ferc.gov. 

j. Deadline for filing scoping 

comments: January 12, 2025.1

The Commission strongly encourages 

electronic filing. Please file scoping 

comments using the Commission’s 

eFiling system at https://

ferconline.ferc.gov/FERCOnline.aspx. 

Commenters can submit brief comments 

up to 6,000 characters, without prior 

registration, using the eComment system 

at https://ferconline.ferc.gov/ 

QuickComment.aspx. For assistance, 

please contact FERC Online Support at 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov, (866) 

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

(TTY). In lieu of electronic filing, you 

may submit a paper copy. Submissions 

sent via the U.S. Postal Service must be 

addressed to: Debbie-Anne A. Reese, 

Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission, 888 First Street NE, Room 

1A, Washington, DC 20426. 

Submissions sent via any other carrier 

must be addressed to: Debbie-Anne A. 

Reese, Secretary, Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission, 12225 Wilkins 

Avenue, Rockville, Maryland 20852. All 

filings must clearly identify the project 

name and docket number on the first 

page: Balch Hydroelectric Project (P– 

175–032). 

k. This application is not ready for 

environmental analysis at this time. 

l. Project Description: The existing 

Balch Hydroelectric Project (project) 

includes the following facilities: (1) a 

135-foot-high, 396-foot-long diversion 

dam with a crest elevation of 4,098 feet 

that includes a 364-foot-long spillway 

and is located on the North Fork Kings 

River 9.9 miles upstream of the 

confluence with Kings River; (2) the 35- 

acre Black Rock Reservoir with a usable 

storage capacity of 1,260 acre-feet at a 

normal water surface elevation of 4,097 

feet; (3) an 11-foot-high, concrete tunnel 

intake; (4) a water conveyance system 

consisting of: (a) a 19,336-foot-long 

tunnel with a maximum hydraulic 

capacity of 760 cubic feet per second 

(cfs) that includes the 308-foot-long 

Black Rock Adit, the 350-foot-long Weir 

Creek Adit, an unlined surge chamber, 

and two sluice channels; (5) a 4,905.6- 

foot-long penstock leading to the Balch 

No. 1 Powerhouse and a 4,933.3-footlong penstock leading to the Balch No. 

2 Powerhouse; (6) the 65.5-foot-long, 

80.5-foot-wide Balch No. 1 Powerhouse 

housing one turbine-generator unit with 

an authorized installed capacity of 31.02 

megawatts (MW) and a maximum 

hydraulic capacity of 213 cfs; (7) the 

149-foot-long, 84-foot-wide Balch No. 2 

Powerhouse housing two turbinegenerator units with a total authorized 

installed capacity of 105 MW and a 

maximum hydraulic capacity of 315 cfs; 

(8) a 165-foot-high, 238-foot-long 

afterbay dam with a crest elevation of 

1,704 feet that includes a 238-foot-long 

spillway; (9) a 7-acre afterbay with a 

usable storage capacity of 135 acre-feet; 

(10) project roads and trails; (11) 

recreation facilities; (12) a 22-mile-long, 

115-kilovolt (kV) transmission line 

connecting the project with the grid at 

Piedra Junction; (13) the 76-acre Balch 

Camp, which is the project operating 

headquarters and includes personnel 

housing; (14) a 6.2-mile-line, 12-kV 

distribution line connecting Balch Camp 

with the project’s diversion dam; and 

(15) appurtenant facilities. 

The Balch Project is located 

downstream of PG&E’s Haas-Kings River 

Hydroelectric Project No. 1988 and 

Helms Pumped Storage Project No. 

2735, which use the same reservoirs 

(Courtright Lake and Lake Wishon) for 

operation. The project is operated as a 

peaking facility to generate power that 

is released from upstream storage to 

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purposes. Project operation is 

coordinated with Project No. 1988, 

whose releases from Lake Wishon 

largely control inflow to Black Rock 

Reservoir; however, spill fluctuations at 

the project are possible at times when 

inflow exceeds powerhouse capacity 

and during powerhouse outages. 

The current license requires PG&E to 

maintain the following continuous 

minimum flows in the North Kings 

River: (1) during normal water years: (a) 

from June 1 through November 31, 5 cfs 

from Black Rock Reservoir, 15 cfs from 

Balch Afterbay, and 30 cfs of total river 

flow; and (b) from December 1 through 

May 31, 2.5 cfs from Black Rock 

Reservoir, 10 cfs from Balch Afterbay, 

and 30 cfs of total river flow; (2) during 

dry water years, as defined by the 

California Department of Water 

Resources, year-round flows of 2.5 cfs 

from Black Rock Reservoir, 10 cfs from 

Balch Afterbay, and 20 cfs of total river 

flow. 

PG&E proposes to continue operating 

the project in a manner that is 

consistent with current operation, with 

the exception of the following new 

proposed measures: (1) minimum flows 

and water year types, (2) a recreation 

plan, (3) a biological resources 

management plan, (4) a historic 

properties management plan, (5) lowlevel operations, (6) flood period 

operations, (7) a hazardous substance 

plan, (8) a gaging plan, (9) visual 

resources management, (10) a fire 

management and response plan, and 

(11) a transportation system 

management plan. 

m. A copy of the application can be 

viewed on the Commission’s website at 

https://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 (P–175). For assistance, 

please contact FERC Online Support 

(see item j above). 

You may also register at https://

ferconline.ferc.gov/FERCOnline.aspx to 

be notified via email of new filings and 

issuances related to this or other 

pending projects. For assistance, please 

contact FERC Online Support (see item 

j above). 

n. The Commission’s Office of Public 

Participation (OPP) supports meaningful 

public engagement and participation in 

Commission proceedings. OPP can help 

members of the public, including 

landowners, environmental justice 

communities, Tribal members and 

others, access publicly available 

information and navigate Commission 

processes. For public inquiries and 

assistance with making filings such as 

interventions, comments, or requests for 

rehearing, the public is encouraged to 

contact OPP at (202) 502–6595 or OPP@

ferc.gov. 

o. Scoping Process: Pursuant to the 

National Environmental Policy Act 

(NEPA), Commission staff intends to 

prepare either an environmental 

assessment (EA) or an environmental 

impact statement (EIS) (collectively 

referred to as the ‘‘NEPA document’’) 

that describes and evaluates the 

probable effects, including an 

assessment of the site-specific and 

cumulative effects, if any, of the 

proposed action and alternatives. The 

Commission’s scoping process will help 

determine the required level of analysis 

and satisfy the NEPA scoping 

requirements, irrespective of whether 

the Commission issues an EA or an EIS. 

At this time, we do not anticipate 

holding an on-site scoping meeting. 

Instead, we are soliciting written 

comments and suggestions on the 

preliminary list of issues and 

alternatives to be addressed in the 

NEPA document, as described in 

scoping document 1 (SD1), issued 

December 13, 2024. 

Copies of SD1, which outlines the 

subject areas to be addressed in the 

NEPA document, were distributed to the 

parties on the Commission’s mailing list 

and the applicant’s distribution list. 

Copies of SD1 may be viewed on the 

web at https://www.ferc.gov using the 

‘‘eLibrary’’ link. Follow the directions 

for accessing information in paragraph 

m. 

Dated: December 13, 2024. 

Debbie-Anne A. Reese, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2024–30277 Filed 12–18–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–R09–OAR–2024–0510; FRL–12382– 

01–R9] 

Finding of Failure To Attain by the 

Attainment Date for the 2010 1-Hour 

Primary Sulfur Dioxide National 

Ambient Air Quality Standard; Guam; 

Piti-Cabras Nonattainment Area 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Determination of 

nonattainment. 

SUMMARY: The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) is determining that the 

Piti-Cabras, Guam, sulfur dioxide (SO2) 

nonattainment area (NAA) failed to 

attain the 2010 1-hour SO2 primary 

national ambient air quality standard 

(NAAQS, ‘‘standard,’’ or ‘‘2010 SO2

NAAQS’’) by the applicable statutory 

attainment date of April 9, 2023. This 

determination is based on an analysis of 

available modeling, emissions data, and 

information concerning control strategy 

implementation. This action addresses 

the EPA’s obligation under Clean Air 

Act (CAA) section 179(c) to determine 

whether the Piti-Cabras SO2 NAA (‘‘PitiCabras area’’) attained the 2010 SO2

NAAQS by the April 9, 2023 attainment 

date. 

ADDRESSES: The EPA has established a 

docket for this action under Docket ID 

No. EPA–R09–OAR–2024–0510. All 

documents in the docket are listed on 

the https://www.regulations.gov 

website. Although listed in the index, 

some information is not publicly 

available, e.g., Confidential Business 

Information or other information whose 

disclosure is restricted by statute. 

Certain other material, such as 

copyrighted material, is not placed on 

the internet and will be publicly 

available only in hard copy form. 

Publicly available docket materials are 

available through https://

www.regulations.gov, or please contact 

the person identified in the FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT section for 

additional availability information. If 

you need assistance in a language other 

than English or if you are a person with 

a disability who needs a reasonable 

accommodation at no cost to you, please 

contact the person identified in the FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Andrew Ledezma, Air Planning Office 

(ARD–2), EPA Region IX, 75 Hawthorne 

Street, San Francisco, CA 94105, (415) 

972–3985, or by email at 

Ledezma.Andrew@epa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Throughout this document, ‘‘we,’’ ‘‘us,’’ 

and ‘‘our’’ refer to the EPA. 


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