7680 Federal Register / Vol. 90, No. 13 / Wednesday, January 22, 2025 / Notices 

Signed in Washington, DC, on January 15, 

2025. 

Jennifer Hartzell, 

Alternate Federal Register Liaison Officer, 

U.S. Department of Energy. 

[FR Doc. 2025–01416 Filed 1–21–25; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Notice of Availability: Draft Energy 

Storage Strategy and Roadmap; 

Extension of Public Comment Period 

AGENCY: Department of Energy (DOE). 

ACTION: Notice of availability (NOA); 

extension of public comment period. 

SUMMARY: On December 20, 2024, the 

Department of Energy (DOE) published 

a notice entitled ‘‘Notice of Availability: 

Draft Energy Storage Strategy and 

Roadmap.’’ DOE is extending the public 

comment period announced in that 

notice, which currently closes on 

February 3, 2025, by 45 days. The 

comment period will now remain open 

until March 20, 2025, to allow 

additional time for the public to review 

and comment on the Draft DOE Energy 

Storage Strategy and Roadmap. 

DATES: The comment period for the 

NOA published on December 20, 2024 

(89 FR 104129) is extended. DOE will 

accept comments responding to this 

NOA submitted on or before March 20, 

2025, 11:59 p.m. eastern time (ET). 

ADDRESSES: Interested parties may 

submit comments electronically to 

esgc@hq.doe.gov, with the subject line 

‘‘Energy Storage SRM—Comments’’. 

Only electronic responses will be 

accepted. DOE will not accept handdelivered submissions. 

Requirements for Submissions: To be 

assured of consideration, submit any 

written comments by the deadline. All 

submissions must be in English. 

Responses must be provided as a 

Microsoft Word (.doc) or (.docx) 

attachment to the email with no more 

than 10 pages in length. Comments 

submitted should be machine-readable 

and should not be copy-protected. 

Comments must include the following 

responder information: company/ 

institution name (if applicable); 

company/institution/individual contact 

name; contact’s address, phone number, 

and email address; and a self-identified 

respondent category (see 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section). 

This information may be used if there 

are issues or questions with the 

comment submission. DOE may not 

consider submissions that you do not 

make in accordance with these 

instructions. 

Response Guidance: To facilitate 

comment submission, DOE is providing 

a comment template at https://

www.energy.gov/oe/draft-energystorage-strategy-and-roadmapstakeholder-comment. Use of this 

template is not required; however, any 

comments provided must reference the 

relevant page and line number in the 

Draft DOE Energy Storage Strategy and 

Roadmap. If a comment addresses a 

table or figure, that cross-reference 

should be provided. To assist DOE’s 

review of submitted comments, for each 

comment, please indicate a comment 

type from the following list: editorial; 

technical; reference; or other. See the 

provided template for guidance on each 

comment type. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for additional information may 

be submitted electronically to Caitlin 

Callaghan at esgc@hq.doe.gov, or at 

(202) 586–1411. Please direct media 

inquiries to DOE Office of Public 

Affairs, (202) 586–4940 or DOENews@

hq.doe.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: DOE is 

seeking general feedback on the Draft 

DOE Energy Storage Strategy and 

Roadmap (Energy Storage SRM) as part 

of its process to update the Energy 

Storage Grand Challenge 2020 

Roadmap. The Draft Energy Storage 

SRM can be found here: https://

www.energy.gov/oe/draft-energystorage-strategy-and-roadmapstakeholder-comment. Additional 

information is available in the original 

notice (89 FR 104129). 

Based on consideration of the current 

timeline for public comment, including 

recognition of several Federal holidays, 

DOE is extending the public comment 

period announced in 89 FR 104129 by 

45 days. Therefore, the public comment 

period is extended until March 20, 

2025. 

Signing Authority 

This document of the Department of 

Energy was signed on January 15, 2025, 

by Gene Rodrigues, Assistant Secretary 

for the Office of Electricity, pursuant to 

delegated authority from the Secretary 

of Energy. That document with the 

original signature and date is 

maintained by DOE. For administrative 

purposes only, and in compliance with 

requirements of the Office of the Federal 

Register, the undersigned DOE Federal 

Register Liaison Officer has been 

authorized to sign and submit the 

document in electronic format for 

publication, as an official document of 

the Department of Energy. This 

administrative process in no way alters 

the legal effect of this document upon 

publication in the Federal Register. 

Signed in Washington, DC, on January 15, 

2025. 

Jennifer Hartzell, 

Alternate Federal Register Liaison Officer, 

U.S. Department of Energy. 

[FR Doc. 2025–01394 Filed 1–21–25; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 5362–021] 

Kennebunk Light and Power District; 

Notice of Intent To Prepare an 

Environmental Assessment 

On March 31, 2021, and 

supplemented on April 8, 2021, 

Kennebunk Light and Power District 

(licensee) filed an application for 

surrender of its license for the Lower 

Mousam Hydroelectric Project No. 5362. 

The project is located on the Mousam 

River in York County, Maine. The 

project does not occupy any Federal 

lands. 

The licensee proposes to surrender its 

license because more cost-effective 

sources of electricity are available and 

the project is no longer cost-effective to 

operate. The licensee proposes to 

decommission the project by removing 

all flashboards, disconnecting the leads 

from the generators, removing all 

generation and electrical equipment, as 

well as securing each project 

development with fencing. The dams 

would remain in place and no ground 

disturbing activities are proposed other 

than fencing. 

Commission staff issued a public 

notice of the application on April 21, 

2021, setting May 21, 2021 as the 

deadline for filing comments, motions 

to intervene, and protests. The U.S. 

Department of Commerce, Maine 

Department of Inland Fisheries and 

Wildlife, and the U.S. Department of 

Interior filed timely notices of 

intervention and comments. Maine 

Rivers, Mousam and Kennebunk Rivers 

Alliance, Mousam Rivers Coalition, 

Maine Department of Marine Resources, 

and Trout Unlimited filed timely 

motions to intervene and comments. 

Additionally, non-profits and numerous 

private citizens filed comments or 

protests, including: Maine Audubon 

Society, National Marine Fisheries 

Service, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife 

Service, Maine Audubon Society, and 

the Wells National Estuarine Research 

Reserve. Numerous commenters 

recommend removal of the dams and 


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