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interventions, comments, or requests for 

rehearing, the public is encouraged to 

contact OPP at (202) 502–6595 or OPP@

ferc.gov. 

Dated: January 23, 2025. 

Carlos D. Clay, 

Deputy Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2025–01873 Filed 1–28–25; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 2221–041] 

Empire District Electric Company; 

Notice of Availability of Environmental 

Assessment 

In accordance with the National 

Environmental Policy Act of 1969 and 

the Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission’s (Commission) 

regulations, 18 CFR part 380, the Office 

of Energy Projects has reviewed the 

application for a new major license to 

continue to operate and maintain the 

Ozark Beach Hydroelectric Project 

(project). The project is located on the 

White River, in Taney County, Missouri. 

Commission staff has prepared an 

Environmental Assessment (EA) for the 

project. 

The EA contains staff’s analysis of the 

potential environmental impacts of the 

project and concludes that licensing the 

project, with appropriate environmental 

protective measures, would not 

constitute a major federal action that 

would significantly affect the quality of 

the human environment. 

The Commission provides all 

interested persons with an opportunity 

to view and/or print the EA via the 

internet through the Commission’s 

Home Page (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. For assistance, 

contact FERC Online Support at 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov, or tollfree at (866) 208–3676, or for TTY, (202) 

502–8659. 

You may also register online at 

https://ferconline.ferc.gov/FERC

Online.aspx to be notified via email of 

new filings and issuances related to this 

or other pending projects. For 

assistance, contact FERC Online 

Support. 

Any comments should be filed within 

30 days from the date of this notice. 

The Commission strongly encourages 

electronic filing. Please file 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. 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. The first 

page of any filing should include docket 

number P–2221–041. 

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. 

For further information, contact 

Colleen Corballis at 202–502–8598 or 

Colleen.Corballis@ferc.gov. 

Dated: January 13, 2025. 

Debbie-Anne A. Reese, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2025–01862 Filed 1–28–25; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 14787–004] 

Black Canyon Hydro, LLC; Notice of 

Application Ready for Environmental 

Analysis and Soliciting Comments, 

Recommendations, Terms and 

Conditions, and Prescriptions 

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.: 14787–004. 

c. Date Filed: January 18, 2023. 

d. Applicant: rPlus Hydro, LLLP, on 

behalf of Black Canyon Hydro, LLC 

(BCH). 

e. Name of Project: Seminoe Pumped 

Storage Project (Seminoe Project or 

project). 

f. Location: The proposed project 

would be located at the U.S. Bureau of 

Reclamation’s (Reclamation) Seminoe 

Reservoir on the North Platte River in 

Carbon County, Wyoming, 

approximately 35 miles northeast of 

Rawlins, Wyoming. The project would 

occupy 1,025.94 acres of land managed 

by the Bureau of Land Management 

(BLM) and 77.00 acres managed by 

Reclamation. 

g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power 

Act 16 U.S.C. 791(a)–825(r). 

h. Applicant Contact: Lars Dorr, 

Program Manager for rPlus Hydro, 

LLLP. Address: Black Canyon Hydro, 

LLC c/o rPlus Hydro, LLLP 201 S. Main 

St. Suite 2100 Salt Lake City, Utah 

84111. Phone: (858) 925–3743. Email: 

ldorr@rplusenergies.com. 

i. FERC Contact: Michael Tust at (202) 

502–6522; or email at michael.tust@

ferc.gov. 

j. Deadline for filing comments, 

recommendations, terms and 

conditions, and prescriptions: 60 days 

from the issuance date of this notice; 

reply comments are due 105 days from 

the issuance date of this notice. 

The Commission strongly encourages 

electronic filing. Please file comments, 

recommendations, terms and 

conditions, and prescriptions 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: Seminoe Pumped Storage Project 

(P–14787–004). 

The Commission’s Rules of Practice 

and Procedure require all intervenors 

filing documents with the Commission 

to serve a copy of that document on 


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each person on the official service list 

for the project. Further, if an intervener 

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 

and is now ready for environmental 

analysis. 

l. Project Description: The Seminoe 

Project would utilize Reclamation’s 

existing 1,017,280 acre-feet Seminoe 

reservoir on the North Platte River as 

the lower reservoir and would include 

the following new facilities: (1) a 8,498- 

foot-long circumference, 20-foot wide, 

65 to 185-foot-high, roller-compacted 

concrete (RCC) dam impounding a 

10,800-acre-foot upper reservoir at a 

crest elevation of 7,455 feet and a 

maximum operating pool elevation of 

7,445 feet (allowing for a 10-foot 

freeboard between the maximum 

operating level and the dam crest); (2) 

a 200-foot-long concrete, ungated, ogee 

crest emergency spillway; (3) a 75-footdiameter, covered bell-mouth intake set 

near the southwestern edge of the upper 

reservoir at an elevation of 7,295 feet; 

(4) an approximately 680-foot-long, 32- 

foot-diameter concrete lined-headrace 

tunnel connecting to a 615-foot-long, 24- 

foot-diameter aboveground steel conduit 

which would extend underground for 

an additional 2,470 feet before 

discharging to a 30-foot-diameter 

vertical, concrete-lined shaft; (5) a 165- 

foot-long, 17-foot-diameter concrete, 

steel-lined penstock connecting from 

the vertical shaft to the pump-turbines; 

(6) three pump-turbines each rated at 

324 megawatts (MW) (for a combined 

total generating capacity of 972 MW) 

located in the underground powerhouse 

(machine hall); (7) an approximately 

4,070-foot-long, 31-foot-diameter 

concrete-lined tailrace tunnel 

discharging water to a lower intake 

structure within the existing Seminoe 

Reservoir at normal maximum water 

surface elevation of 6,357 feet; (8) a 

transformer cavern containing 18 

kilovolt (kV) generator step-up 

transformers for each unit, and a gasinsulated switchgear switchyard; (9) a 

765-foot-long horizontal tunnel 

transmitting power from the transformer 

gallery to a vertical cable shaft up to a 

take-off structure at the surface, and 

then via two separate, 500 kV, overhead 

primary transmission lines extending to 

the 500 kV interconnection at Aeolus 

Substation, approximately 30 miles to 

the southeast of the project; (10) an 

approximately 32-foot-diameter main 

access tunnel providing access to the 

machine hall; (11) a 15-foot-wide, 16- 

foot-high surge chamber access tunnel 

lined with shotcrete; (12) a 2.6-milelong new access road around the upper 

reservoir; (13) a new 40-foot-wide road 

to the main access tunnel portal starting 

from a proposed new bridge over the 

tailrace of Seminoe Dam; and (14) 

appurtenant facilities. Additionally, 

portions of Western Area Power 

Administration’s existing Miracle MileSnowy Range 1 115 kV and Miracle 

Mile-Snowy Range 2 230 kV 

transmission lines would be relocated 

around the upper reservoir. 

Furthermore, the existing Bennett 

Mountain Road (also called Dry Lake 

Road) would be upgraded (i.e., widened 

to 24 feet) to support construction and 

maintenance of the proposed upper 

reservoir and realigned in places to 

reduce steep grades and avoid wetlands. 

The powerline road from Hanna would 

serve as the main access route to the 

lower intake and gate shaft area. BCH 

also proposes to upgrade a small section 

of the existing rough, single-track road 

from the proposed gate shaft location to 

the surge chamber access tunnel exit. 

BCH proposes to draw 13,400 acrefeet of water from Seminoe Reservoir to 

initially fill the new upper reservoir and 

would need 672 acre-feet of water each 

year to replenish water lost through 

evaporation. Once the upper reservoir is 

filled, approximately 10,800 acre-feet 

could be cycled between the upper 

reservoir and Seminoe Reservoir each 

day and the project would be capable of 

generating 2,916 gigawatt-hours per 

year. 

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. For assistance, contact FERC 

Online Support (see item j above). 

All filings must: (1) bear in all capital 

letters the title ‘‘COMMENTS,’’ ‘‘REPLY 

COMMENTS,’’ 

‘‘RECOMMENDATIONS,’’ ‘‘TERMS 

AND CONDITIONS,’’ or 

‘‘PRESCRIPTIONS;’’ (2) set forth in the 

heading the name of the applicant and 

the project number of the application to 

which the filing responds; (3) furnish 

the name of the person submitting the 

filing; and (4) otherwise comply with 

the requirements of 18 CFR 385.2001 

through 385.2005. All comments, 

recommendations, terms and conditions 

or prescriptions must set forth their 

evidentiary basis and otherwise comply 

with the requirements of 18 CFR 4.34(b). 

Agencies may obtain copies of the 

application directly from the applicant. 

Each filing must be accompanied by 

proof of service on all persons listed on 

the service list prepared by the 

Commission in this proceeding, in 

accordance with 18 CFR 4.34(b) and 

385.2010. 

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 at 

OPP@ferc.gov. 

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 applicant must file no later 

than 60 days from the issuance date of 

this notice: (1) a copy of the water 

quality certification; (2) a copy of the 

request for certification, including proof 

of the date on which the certifying 

authority received the request; or (3) 

evidence of a waiver of water quality 

certification. 

o. Procedural schedule: The 

application will be processed according 

to the following anticipated schedule. 

Revisions to the schedule will be made 

as appropriate. The schedule for issuing 

draft and final NEPA documents is 

consistent with the Commission’s 

Notice of Revised Schedule for the 

Seminoe Pumped Storage Project issued 

October 18, 2024: 

Milestone Target date 

Comments, Recommendations and Agency Terms and Conditions/Prescriptions Due ............................................................ March 2025. 

Applicant’s Reply Comments Due .............................................................................................................................................. April 2025. 

Commission Issues Draft NEPA Document ................................................................................................................................ September 2025. 

Commission Issues Final NEPA Document ................................................................................................................................ April 2026. 


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1 18 CFR 157.9. 

2 18 CFR 157.10(a)(4). 

3 18 CFR 385.211. 

4Persons include individuals, organizations, 

businesses, municipalities, and other entities. 18 

CFR 385.102(d). 

5 18 CFR 385.2001. 

p. Final amendments to the 

application must be filed with the 

Commission no later than 30 days from 

the issuance date of this notice. 

Dated: January 13, 2025. 

Debbie-Anne A. Reese, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2025–01859 Filed 1–28–25; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. CP25–50–000] 

CenterPoint Energy Resource 

Corporation; Delta North Louisiana 

Gas Company, LLC; Notice of 

Application and Establishing 

Intervention Deadline 

Take notice that on January 16, 2025, 

CenterPoint Energy Resource 

Corporation (CERC), 555 Eleventh Street 

NW, Suite 1000, Washington, DC 20004 

and Delta North Louisiana Gas 

Company LLC (Delta North Louisiana), 

1301 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, 

Washington, DC 20004, filed a joint 

application under section 7(f) of the 

Natural Gas Act (NGA), and Part 157 of 

the Commission’s regulations requesting 

that the Commission: (i) modify CERC’s 

existing service area determination 

under NGA Section 7(f) issued in 

Docket No. CP19–111–000 and amended 

in CP21–469–000 and (ii) grant Delta 

North Louisiana the requested service 

area determination and related waivers 

in Texas and Louisiana. Pursuant to 

CERC’s and Delta North Louisiana’s 

Asset Purchase Agreement dated 

February 19, 2024, Delta North 

Louisiana will acquire CERC’s Louisiana 

local distribution company (LDC) 

facilities and operations, and as a result, 

will need the requested service area 

determination modifications, all as more 

fully set forth in the application which 

is on file with the Commission and open 

for public inspection. 

In addition to publishing the full text 

of this document in the Federal 

Register, the Commission provides all 

interested persons an opportunity to 

view and/or print the contents of this 

document via the internet through the 

Commission’s Home Page (http://

www.ferc.gov). From the Commission’s 

Home Page on the internet, this 

information is available on eLibrary. 

The full text of this document is 

available on eLibrary in PDF and 

Microsoft Word format for viewing, 

printing, and/or downloading. To access 

this document in eLibrary, type the 

docket number excluding the last three 

digits of this document in the docket 

number field. 

User assistance is available for 

eLibrary and the Commission’s website 

during normal business hours from 

FERC Online Support at (202) 502–6652 

(toll free at 1–866–208–3676) or email at 

ferconlinesupport@ferc.gov, or the 

Public Reference Room at (202) 502– 

8371, TTY (202) 502–8659. Email the 

Public Reference Room at 

public.referenceroom@ferc.gov. 

Any questions regarding the proposed 

project should be directed to J. Patrick 

Nevins, Attorney for CenterPoint Energy 

Resources Corp, 555 Eleventh Street 

NW, Suite 1000, Washington, DC 20004, 

by phone at (202) 637–3363, or by email 

at patrick.nevins@lw.com or Brooksany 

Barrowes, Attorney for Delta North 

Louisiana Gas Company, LLC, 1301 

Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, 

DC 20004, by phone at (202) 389–5025 

or by email at brooksany.barrowes@

kirkland.com. 

Pursuant to section 157.9 of the 

Commission’s Rules of Practice and 

Procedure,1 within 90 days of this 

Notice the Commission staff will either: 

complete its environmental review and 

place it into the Commission’s public 

record (eLibrary) for this proceeding; or 

issue a Notice of Schedule for 

Environmental Review. If a Notice of 

Schedule for Environmental Review is 

issued, it will indicate, among other 

milestones, the anticipated date for the 

Commission staff’s issuance of the final 

environmental impact statement (FEIS) 

or environmental assessment (EA) for 

this proposal. The filing of an EA in the 

Commission’s public record for this 

proceeding or the issuance of a Notice 

of Schedule for Environmental Review 

will serve to notify federal and state 

agencies of the timing for the 

completion of all necessary reviews, and 

the subsequent need to complete all 

federal authorizations within 90 days of 

the date of issuance of the Commission 

staff’s FEIS or EA. 

Public Participation 

There are three ways to become 

involved in the Commission’s review of 

this project: you can file comments on 

the project, you can protest the filing, 

and you can file a motion to intervene 

in the proceeding. There is no fee or 

cost for filing comments or intervening. 

The deadline for filing a motion to 

intervene is 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on 

February 13, 2025. How to file protests, 

motions to intervene, and comments is 

explained below. 

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. 

Comments 

Any person wishing to comment on 

the project may do so. Comments may 

include statements of support or 

objections, to the project as a whole or 

specific aspects of the project. The more 

specific your comments, the more useful 

they will be. 

Protests 

Pursuant to sections 157.10(a)(4) 2 and 

385.211 3 of the Commission’s 

regulations under the NGA, any person 4

may file a protest to the application. 

Protests must comply with the 

requirements specified in section 

385.2001 5 of the Commission’s 

regulations. A protest may also serve as 

a motion to intervene so long as the 

protestor states it also seeks to be an 

intervenor. 

To ensure that your comments or 

protests are timely and properly 

recorded, please submit your comments 

on or before February 13, 2025. 

There are three methods you can use 

to submit your comments or protests to 

the Commission. In all instances, please 

reference the Project docket number 

CP25–50–000 in your submission. 

(1) You may file your comments 

electronically by using the eComment 

feature, which is located on the 

Commission’s website at www.ferc.gov 

under the link to Documents and 

Filings. Using eComment is an easy 

method for interested persons to submit 

brief, text-only comments on a project; 

(2) You may file your comments or 

protests electronically by using the 

eFiling feature, which is located 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 


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