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represent small numbers of marine 

mammals relative to the affected stock 

abundances; (4) NOAA OMAO’s 

activities will not have an unmitigable 

adverse impact on taking for subsistence 

purposes as no relevant subsistence uses 

of marine mammals are implicated by 

this action, and; (5) appropriate 

monitoring and reporting requirements 

are included. 

Endangered Species Act 

Section 7(a)(2) of the Endangered 

Species Act of 1973 (ESA: 16 U.S.C. 

1531 et seq.) requires that each Federal 

agency insure that any action it 

authorizes, funds, or carries out is not 

likely to jeopardize the continued 

existence of any endangered or 

threatened species or result in the 

destruction or adverse modification of 

designated critical habitat. To ensure 

ESA compliance for the issuance of 

IHAs, NMFS consults internally 

whenever we propose to authorize take 

for endangered or threatened species. 

No incidental take of ESA-listed 

species is proposed for authorization or 

expected to result from this activity. 

Therefore, NMFS has determined that 

formal consultation under section 7 of 

the ESA is not required for this 

proposed action. 

Proposed Renewal IHA and Request for 

Public Comment 

As a result of these preliminary 

determinations, NMFS proposes to issue 

a renewal IHA to NOAA OMAO for 

conducting construction activities 

associated with NOAA vessel relocation 

at NAVSTA in Newport, RI through 

January 31, 2026, provided the 

previously described mitigation, 

monitoring, and reporting requirements 

are incorporated. A draft of the 

proposed and final initial IHA can be 

found at https://

www.fisheries.noaa.gov/national/ 

marine-mammal-protection/incidentaltake-authorizations-constructionactivities. We request comment on our 

analyses, the proposed renewal IHA, 

and any other aspect of this notice. 

Please include with your comments any 

supporting data or literature citations to 

help inform our final decision on the 

request for this renewal IHA. 

Dated: January 17, 2025. 

Kimberly Damon-Randall, 

Director, Office of Protected Resources, 

National Marine Fisheries Service. 

[FR Doc. 2025–01617 Filed 1–22–25; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–22–P 

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Department of the Army, Corps of 

Engineers 

Withdrawal of the Notice of Intent To 

Prepare a Draft Environmental Impact 

Statement (DEIS) for the Riverport 

Development and Proposed New 

Interchange on I–95 in Jasper County, 

South Carolina 

AGENCY: Department of the Army, U.S. 

Army Corps of Engineers, DoD. 

ACTION: Notice of intent; withdrawal. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Army Corps of 

Engineers, Charleston District (the 

Corps) is issuing this notice to advise 

Federal, State, and local governmental 

agencies and the public that the Corps 

is withdrawing the notice of intent to 

prepare a Draft Environmental Impact 

Statement (DEIS) for the Riverport 

Development and Proposed New 

Interchange on I–95 in Jasper County, 

South Carolina. 

DATES: The notice of intent to prepare a 

DEIS in the Federal Register on August 

1, 2014 (79 FR 44756), is withdrawn as 

of January 23, 2025. 

ADDRESSES: U.S. Army Corps of 

Engineers, Charleston District; Attn: 

Leslie Estill, 69A Hagood Avenue, 

Charleston, SC 29403. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

further information and/or questions 

about withdrawal of the Notice of 

Intent, please contact Leslie Estill, 

Project Manager, by email: 

Leslie.A.Estill@usace.army.mil, or by 

mail: Leslie Estill, Project Manager, 

Regulatory Division, 69A Hagood 

Avenue, Charleston, South Carolina 

29403. For media inquiries, please 

contact the Corps, Charleston District 

Corporate Communications Officer 

(CCO), Ms. Glenn Jeffries by telephone: 

(843) 329–8123. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Corps 

is evaluating an updated (third) DA 

permit application, dated September 27, 

2022, from SLF III—Hardeeville, LLC 

(aka Stratford Land) for the RiverportExit 3 project (SAC–2010–00064) in 

accordance with Corps regulations and 

the policies and procedures that are 

established in the National 

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). The 

proposed Riverport-Exit 3 project 

requires authorization under section 404 

of the Clean Water Act (33 U.S.C. 1344), 

and the Corps previously advertised a 

public notice for the updated (third) DA 

permit application on November 23, 

2022 (see https://

www.sac.usace.army.mil/Missions/ 

Regulatory/Public-Notices/Article-View/ 

Article/3226964/sac-2010-00064/). The 

Riverport-Exit 3 project consists of the 

construction of a mixed-use 

development including industrial, 

commercial, civic, and residential uses. 

In detail, the proposed project is a 

master planned development at the 

4,304.65-acre Riverport Tract situated 

north and south of I–95, with 

improvements to the existing two-lane 

Purrysburg Road as well as a new 

interchange with I–95 at Mile Marker 3. 

The residential development (including 

3,339 residential dwelling units) would 

occupy the project area north of I–95, 

the commercial and civic development 

(2.6 million square feet of space to 

include restaurant and hotel, grocery 

store, hospital, and office/retail space) 

would be situated along both sides of 

the new interchange, and the industrial 

development (including over 10.6 

million square feet of warehouse space) 

would occupy the southern portion of 

the site. A portion of Purrysburg Road 

would be replaced by the proposed 

Riverport Parkway, which would be a 

divided roadway for the length of the 

development, crossing I–95 at Exit 3 

(proposed). The southern industrial 

portion of Riverport Parkway would be 

four-lanes, and the northern residential 

portion of Riverport Parkway would be 

two-lanes. 

On August 1, 2014, the Corps issued 

a Notice of Intent to prepare a DEIS for 

the Riverport Development and 

Proposed New Interchange on I–95 in 

Jasper County, South Carolina (SAC– 

2010–00064) (the Riverport-Exit 3 

project). Over the last ten years, the 

permit applicant, SLF III—Hardeeville, 

LLC (aka Stratford Land), has 

substantially modified the proposed 

master plan and the footprint of the 

proposed Riverport-Exit 3 project 

several times. As a result, the updated 

(third) Department of the Army (DA) 

permit application for the Riverport-Exit 

3 project, dated September 27, 2022, has 

also changed substantially. For instance, 

the overall project footprint has 

decreased from 5,136 acres to 

approximately 4,304.65 acres, impacts 

to waters of the United States have 

decreased from 102.16 acres to 46.26 

acres, and the mitigation plan has been 

updated to include an increase that 

results in obtaining 50% more credit 

than what is the required amount. Due 

to these developments, the Corps has 

elected to proceed with preparing an 

Environmental Assessment (EA) to 

evaluate the potential significance of the 

updated (third) DA permit application 

for the Riverport-Exit 3 project (see 40 

CFR 1501.3(c)(2) and 1501.5(a)) and 

withdraw the notice of intent to prepare 

a DEIS for the earlier version of the 


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project (see 33 CFR part 325, app. B., 

par. 8.g.). 

Daniel H. Hibner, 

Brigadier General, U.S. Army Corps of 

Engineers, South Atlantic Division. 

[FR Doc. 2025–01529 Filed 1–22–25; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3720–58–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. AD25–4–000] 

Interregional Transfer Capability 

Study: Strengthening Reliability 

Through the Energy Transformation 

Correction 

In notice document 2024–30493, 

appearing on pages 105790 through 

105983 in the issue of Friday, December 

27, 2024, make the following correction: 

On page 105790, in the first column, 

in the document heading, the Docket 

No. should appear as above. 

[FR Doc. C1–2024–30493 Filed 1–22–25; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 0099–10–D 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 15045–002] 

Current Hydro Project 19, LLC; Notice 

of Application Accepted for Filing and 

Soliciting Motions To Intervene and 

Protests 

Take notice that the following 

hydroelectric application has been filed 

with the Commission and is available 

for public inspection. 

a. Type of Application: Original Major 

License. 

b. Project No.: 15045–002. 

c. Date Filed: May 8, 2024. 

d. Applicant: Current Hydro Project 

19, LLC. 

e. Name of Project: New Cumberland 

Hydroelectric Project. 

f. Location: The New Cumberland 

Project would be located at the U.S. 

Army Corps of Engineers’ (Corps) New 

Cumberland Locks and Dam on the 

Ohio River in Hancock County, West 

Virginia. The project would occupy 2 

acres of Federal land administered by 

the Corps. 

g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power 

Act 16 U.S.C. 791(a)–825(r). 

h. Applicant Contact: Mr. Jeremy 

King, Current Hydro, LLC, 3120 

Southwest Freeway, Suite 101, PMB 

50808, Houston, TX 77098. 

i. FERC Contact: Colleen Corballis at 

(202) 502–8598 or colleen.corballis@

ferc.gov; or Shivani Khetani at (212) 

273–5917 or Shivani.khetani@ferc.gov. 

j. Deadline for filing motions to 

intervene and protests: 60 days from the 

issuance date of this notice. 

The Commission strongly encourages 

electronic filing. Please file motions to 

intervene and protests 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: New Cumberland Hydroelectric 

Project (P–15045–002). 

The Commission’s Rules of Practice 

require all intervenors filing documents 

with the Commission to serve a copy of 

that document on each person on the 

official service list for the project. 

Further, if an intervenor files comments 

or documents with the Commission 

relating to the merits of an issue that 

may affect the responsibilities of a 

particular resource agency, they must 

also serve a copy of the document on 

that resource agency. 

k. This application has been accepted 

for filing but is not ready for 

environmental analysis. 

l. The New Cumberland Project would 

be located at the Corps’ existing New 

Cumberland Locks and Dam and would 

consist of the following new facilities: 

(1) a 101-foot-wide, 193-foot-long 

reinforced concrete powerhouse; (2) a 

90-foot-wide by 350-foot-long intake 

section with trash racks; (3) two 

identical Kaplan pit turbine-generators 

with a combined capacity of 19.99 

megawatts; (4) a 13.8-kilovolt (kV), 180- 

foot-long underground utilidor crossing 

under the Norfolk Southern railway and 

transitioning to a 350-foot overhead 

transmission to the powerhousesubstation; (5) a 90-foot-wide by 90-footlong powerhouse-substation; (6) a 1,050- 

foot-long, 34.5-kV, three-phase overhead 

transmission line connecting the 

powerhouse-substation to the existing 

35-kV transmission line, east of 

Hancock County Bus Garage 

interconnection point in West Virginia; 

and (7) appurtenant facilities. 

m. A copy of the application is 

available for review via the internet 

through the Commission’s Home Page 

(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 

at FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or call 

toll free, (886) 208–3676 or TTY (202) 

502–8659. 

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. 

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. Any qualified applicant desiring to 

file a competing application must 

submit to the Commission, on or before 

the specified intervention deadline date, 

a competing development application, 

or a notice of intent to file such an 

application. Submission of a timely 

notice of intent allows an interested 

person to file the competing 

development application no later than 

120 days after the specified intervention 

deadline date. Applications for 

preliminary permits will not be 

accepted in response to this notice. 

A notice of intent must specify the 

exact name, business address, and 

telephone number of the prospective 

applicant, and must include an 

unequivocal statement of intent to 

submit a development application. A 

notice of intent must be served on the 

applicant(s) named in this public notice. 

Anyone may submit comments, a 

protest, or a motion to intervene in 

accordance with the requirements of 

Rules of Practice and Procedure, 18 CFR 

385.210, .211, and .214. In determining 

the appropriate action to take, the 

Commission will consider all protests or 

other comments filed, but only those 


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