106472 Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 249 / Monday, December 30, 2024 / Notices 

Reese, Secretary, Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission, 12225 Wilkins 

Avenue, Rockville, MD 20852. All 

filings must clearly identify the project 

name and docket number on the first 

page: Rocky Mountain Pumped Storage 

Hydroelectric Project (P–2725–076). 

m. The application is not ready for 

environmental analysis at this time. 

n. The Rocky Mountain Pumped 

Storage Project consists of the following 

existing facilities: (1) a 120-foot-high, 

12,895-foot-long earth and rockfill 

upper dam; (2) a 221 acre upper 

reservoir with 10,650 acre-feet of storage 

and a normal operating pool elevation of 

1,392 feet NAVD88; (3) a 35-footdiameter, 567-foot-high concrete-lined 

power shaft; (4) a 35-foot-diameter, 

1,935-foot-long concrete lined tunnel 

with two concrete lined bifurcations; (5) 

three 19-foot-diameter, 470-foot-long 

steel lined penstocks; (6) a 348-footlong, 156-foot-wide, 175-foot-high 

powerhouse containing three reversible 

Francis pump-turbines, with a 

combined installed capacity of 904 

megawatts; (7) three 230 kilovolt, 2.7- 

mile-long transmission lines; (8) a 

substation; and (9) appurtenant 

facilities. 

The project has reserve storage water 

contained in two auxiliary pools 

adjacent to the lower reservoir. Pool I’s 

surface area is 400 acres and is formed 

by four dams. The pool I dams consist 

of: (a) a 25-foot-high earthen dam of 

unspecified length; (b) a 20-foot-high, 

775-foot-long earth and rockfill dam; (c) 

a 50-foot-high, 700-foot-long earth and 

rockfill dam; (d) a 50-foot-high, 405- 

foot-long earth and rockfill dam. Pool II 

surface area is 200 acres and is formed 

by a 30-foot-high, 335-foot-long earth 

and rockfill dam. 

The Rocky Mountain Pumped Storage 

Project is operated in a pumped storage 

mode and OPC proposes to continue 

operating the project in that mode. 

o. A copy of the application can be 

viewed on the Commission’s website at 

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 (P–2725). For assistance, 

contact FERC Online Support at 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or call 

tollfree, (866) 208–3676 or (202) 502– 

8659 (TTY). 

You may also register online 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, contact FERC Online 

Support. 

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. 

p. Procedural schedule and final 

amendments: The application will be 

processed according to the following 

preliminary schedule. Revisions to the 

schedule will be made as appropriate. 

Milestone Target date 

Issue Deficiency Letter (if necessary).February 2025. 

Request for Additional Information.February 2025. 

Issue Notice of Acceptance ........ May 2025. 

Issue Scoping Document 1 for 

comments.

June 2025. 

Issue Scoping Document 2 (if 

necessary).

August 2025. 

q. Final amendments to the 

application must be filed with the 

Commission no later than 30 days from 

the issuance date of the notice of ready 

for environmental analysis. 

Dated: December 18, 2024. 

Debbie-Anne A. Reese, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2024–30864 Filed 12–27–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket Nos. CP23–516–000; CP23–516– 

001] 

East Tennessee Natural Gas, LLC; 

Notice of Availability of the Final 

Environmental Impact Statement for 

the Proposed Ridgeline Expansion 

Project 

The staff of the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission (FERC or 

Commission) has prepared a final 

environmental impact statement (EIS) 

for the Ridgeline Expansion Project 

(Project), proposed by East Tennessee 

Natural Gas, LLC (East Tennessee) in the 

above-referenced docket. East Tennessee 

requests authorization to construct and 

operate 122.2 miles of 30-inch-diameter 

natural gas pipeline and associated 

facilities in Trousdale, Smith, Jackson, 

Putnam, Overton, Fentress, Morgan, and 

Roane Counties, Tennessee. The 

purpose of the Project is to provide 

about 300,000 dekatherms per day of 

new firm natural gas transportation 

capacity and up to 95,000 dekatherms of 

customized delivery service (i.e., 

peaking service) from multiple 

providers to the site of Tennessee Valley 

Authority’s Kingston Fossil Plant. 

The final EIS assesses the potential 

environmental effects of the 

construction and operation of the 

Project in accordance with the 

requirements of the National 

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). The 

FERC staff concludes that approval of 

the proposed Project would have some 

limited adverse environmental effects; 

however, with implementation of East 

Tennessee’s impact avoidance, 

minimization, and mitigation measures, 

as well as adherence to the mitigation 

measures recommended in the EIS, 

these effects would be avoided, 

mitigated, or reduced to less-thansignificant levels. 

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 

(USACE), the U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency, the U.S. Fish and 

Wildlife Service, and the National Park 

Service participated as cooperating 

agencies in the preparation of the EIS. 

Cooperating agencies have jurisdiction 

by law or special expertise with respect 

to resources potentially affected by the 

proposal and participate in the NEPA 

analysis. The USACE will adopt and use 

the EIS to consider the issuance of an 

Individual Permit under section 404 of 

the Clean Water Act. Although the 

USACE provided input to the 

conclusions and recommendations 

presented in the final EIS, the USACE 

will present its own conclusions and 

recommendations in its Record of 

Decision for the Project. 

The final EIS addresses the potential 

environmental effects of the 

construction and operation of the 

following Project facilities, all in the 

State of Tennessee: 

• 122.2 miles of 30-inch-diameter 

pipeline in Trousdale, Smith, Jackson, 

Putnam, Overton, Fentress, Morgan, and 

Roane Counties, including 4.0 miles of 

header pipeline and 118.2 miles of 

mainline pipeline (collectively referred 

to as the Mainline); 

• a new 14,600-horsepower, electricdriven compressor station (Hartsville 

Compressor Station) and an associated 

solar array to partially power the facility 

in Trousdale County; 

• a new meter and regulating station 

to receive gas from Columbia Gulf 

Transmission, LLC in Trousdale County; 

• modifications to two existing meter 

and regulating stations to receive gas 

from Texas Eastern Transmission, LP 

and Midwestern Gas Transmission 

Company in Trousdale County; 


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Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 249 / Monday, December 30, 2024 / Notices 106473 

1Southwest Power Pool, Inc., Submission of 

Revisions to Tariff, Bylaws, and Membership 

Agreement to Expand the Regional Transmission 

Organization into the Western Interconnections 

(Part 1 of 2) and (Part 2 of 2), Docket Nos. ER24– 

2184, ER24–2185 (June 4, 2024). 

2WAPA’s Rocky Mountain region also plans to 

become a member of the SPP RTO, and WAPA’s 

Upper Great Plains region plans to expand its 

Continued 

• a new delivery meter station to 

measure gas delivered to the Kingston 

Fossil Plant in Roane County; and 

• related appurtenances. 

East Tennessee also proposes to 

remove approximately 24 miles of 

previously abandoned-in-place pipe 

segments along East Tennessee’s 

existing 22-inch-diameter Line 3100–1 

associated with various prior pipeline 

replacement projects. East Tennessee 

would relay the new 30-inch-diameter 

Mainline pipe into the same trench. 

The Commission mailed a copy of the 

Notice of Availability to Federal and 

State resources agencies, elected 

officials, environmental groups and 

non-governmental organizations, Native 

American Tribes, potentially affected 

landowners, local libraries and 

newspapers, and other stakeholders. 

The final EIS is only available in 

electronic format. It may be viewed and 

downloaded from FERC’s website 

(www.ferc.gov), on the natural gas 

environmental documents page (https:// 

www.ferc.gov/industries-data/naturalgas/environment/environmentaldocuments). In addition, the final EIS 

may be accessed by using the eLibrary 

link on FERC’s website. Click on the 

eLibrary link (https://elibrary.ferc.gov/ 

eLibrary/search), select ‘‘General 

Search,’’ and enter the docket number in 

the ‘‘Docket Number’’ field, excluding 

the last three digits (i.e. CP23–516). 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 final EIS is not a decision 

document. It presents Commission 

staff’s independent analysis of the 

environmental issues for the 

Commission to consider when 

addressing the merits of all issues in 

this proceeding. Additional information 

about the Project is available from the 

Commission’s Office of External Affairs, 

at (866) 208–FERC, or on the FERC 

website (www.ferc.gov) using the 

eLibrary link. The eLibrary link also 

provides access to the texts of all formal 

documents issued by the Commission, 

such as orders, notices, and 

rulemakings. 

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. 

In addition, the Commission offers a 

free service called eSubscription that 

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 https://www.ferc.gov/ 

ferc-online/overview to register for 

eSubscription. 

Dated: December 20, 2024. 

Debbie-Anne A. Reese, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2024–31338 Filed 12–27–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Western Area Power Administration 

Colorado River Storage Project—Rate 

Order No. WAPA–220 

AGENCY: Western Area Power 

Administration, DOE. 

ACTION: Notice of proposed transmission 

and ancillary services formula rates. 

SUMMARY: The Colorado River Storage 

Project (CRSP) Management Center (MC) 

of the Western Area Power 

Administration (WAPA) proposes new 

formula rates for CRSP transmission and 

ancillary services for CRSP MC’s costs 

to be recovered under the Southwest 

Power Pool’s (SPP) Open Access 

Transmission Tariff (Tariff) should 

CRSP MC decide to become a member 

of SPP. The proposed formula rates will 

become effective on the latter of CRSP 

MC’s membership date or the go-live 

date of the expansion of the SPP 

Regional Transmission Organization 

(RTO) into the Western Interconnection 

(scheduled for April 1, 2026, as of the 

date of this notice) and will remain in 

effect for 5 years from the effective date, 

which with an effective date of April 1, 

2026, will be March 31, 2031, or until 

superseded. 

DATES: A consultation and comment 

period will begin December 30, 2024 

and end March 31, 2025. CRSP MC will 

present a detailed explanation of the 

proposed formula rates and other 

modifications at a public information 

forum that will be held on February 19, 

2025, at 2 p.m. MST to no later than 3 

p.m. MST. CRSP MC will also host a 

public comment forum on February 19, 

2025, at 3:15 p.m. MST to no later than 

4 p.m. MST. The public information 

forum and the public comment forum 

will be conducted virtually. Instructions 

for participating in the forums will be 

posted on CRSP MC’s Rates website at 

least 14 days prior to the public 

information and comment forums at: 

www.wapa.gov/about-wapa/regions/ 

crsp/rates/2026-rate-adjustmenttransmission-and-ancillary-services/. 

CRSP MC will accept comments any 

time during the consultation and 

comment period. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments and 

requests to be informed of Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) 

actions concerning the proposed 

formula rates submitted by WAPA to 

FERC for approval should be sent to: 

Rodney G. Bailey, CRSP Manager, 

Colorado River Storage Project 

Management Center, Western Area 

Power Administration, 1800 South Rio 

Grande Avenue, Montrose, CO 81401, or 

email CRSPMC-rate-adj@wapa.gov. 

CRSP MC will post information about 

the proposed formula rates and written 

comments received to its rates website 

at: www.wapa.gov/about-wapa/regions/ 

crsp/rates/2026-rate-adjustmenttransmission-and-ancillary-services/. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Tamala D. Gheller, Rates Manager, 

Colorado River Storage Project 

Management Center, Western Area 

Power Administration, (970) 240–6545 

or email: gheller@wapa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On April 

28, 2023, WAPA published a Federal 

Register notice titled ‘‘Recommendation 

for the Western Area Power 

Administration’s Rocky Mountain 

Region and Colorado River Storage 

Project Management Center to Pursue 

Final Negotiations Regarding 

Membership in the Southwest Power 

Pool Regional Transmission 

Organization, and for the Upper Great 

Plains Region to Expand its 

Participation’’ (88 FR 26298). On June 4, 

2024, SPP submitted revisions to its 

Tariff, Bylaws, and Membership 

Agreement to expand the SPP RTO into 

the Western Interconnection to FERC.1

If SPP succeeds in obtaining FERC’s 

approval of its Tariff, Bylaws, and 

Membership Agreement revisions, and 

upon further approval by the 

Administrator, CRSP MC plans to 

become a member of SPP.2


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