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6Additionally, 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. 

your comments on or before March 28, 

2025. The filing of a comment alone will 

not serve to make the filer a party to the 

proceeding. To become a party, you 

must intervene in the proceeding. 

How To File Protests, Interventions, 

and Comments 

There are two ways to submit 

protests, motions to intervene, and 

comments. In both instances, please 

reference the Project docket number 

CP25–49–000 in your submission. 

(1) You may file your protest, motion 

to intervene, and comments by using the 

Commission’s eFiling feature, which is 

located on the Commission’s website 

(www.ferc.gov) under the link to 

Documents and Filings. New eFiling 

users must first create an account by 

clicking on ‘‘eRegister.’’ You will be 

asked to select the type of filing you are 

making; first select ‘‘General’’ and then 

select ‘‘Protest’’, ‘‘Intervention’’, or 

‘‘Comment on a Filing’’; or 6

(2) You can file a paper copy of your 

submission by mailing it to the address 

below. Your submission must reference 

the Project docket number CP25–49– 

000. 

To file via USPS: Debbie-Anne A. 

Reese, Secretary, Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission, 888 First Street 

NE, Washington, DC 20426. 

To file via any other method: DebbieAnne A. Reese, Secretary, Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission, 12225 

Wilkins Avenue, Rockville, Maryland 

20852. 

The Commission encourages 

electronic filing of submissions (option 

1 above) and has eFiling staff available 

to assist you at (202) 502–8258 or 

FercOnlineSupport@ferc.gov. 

Protests and motions to intervene 

must be served on the applicant either 

by mail at: Berk Donaldson, Director, 

Regulatory, Texas Eastern Transmission, 

LP, P.O. Box 1642, Houston, Texas 

77251–1642, or by email (with a link to 

the document) at Berk.Donaldson@

enbridge.com. Any subsequent 

submissions by an intervenor must be 

served on the applicant and all other 

parties to the proceeding. Contact 

information for parties can be 

downloaded from the service list at the 

eService link on FERC Online. 

Tracking the Proceeding 

Throughout the proceeding, 

additional information about the project 

will be available from the Commission’s 

Office of External Affairs, at (866) 208– 

FERC, or on the FERC website at 

www.ferc.gov using the ‘‘eLibrary’’ link 

as described above. The eLibrary link 

also provides access to the texts of all 

formal documents issued by the 

Commission, such as orders, notices, 

and rulemakings. 

In addition, the Commission offers a 

free service called eSubscription which 

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. For more information and to 

register, go to www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/ 

esubscription.asp. 

Dated: January 27, 2025. 

Debbie-Anne A. Reese, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2025–02082 Filed 1–31–25; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 2150–153] 

Puget Sound Energy, Inc.; Notice of 

Intent To Prepare an Environmental 

Assessment 

On July 14, 2022, as supplemented on 

August 1, 2023, Puget Sound Energy, 

Inc. (licensee) filed a draft biological 

assessment (BA) under section 7 of the 

Endangered Species Act (ESA) 

addressing the potential effects that 

could occur to federally-listed species, 

designated critical habitat, and essential 

fish habitat (EFH) as a result of the 

licensee’s proposed Upper Baker Dam 

Spillway Stability Improvements and 

Tailrace Channel Rock Debris Removal 

Project (Spillway Project) at the Baker 

River Hydroelectric Project No. 2150. 

On September 15, 2021, the licensee 

filed a Water Quality Protection Plan in 

support of the proposed Spillway 

Project. The Baker River Project consists 

of two developments, Upper Baker and 

Lower Baker, and is located on the 

Baker River in Skagit and Whatcom 

counties, Washington. The project 

occupies federal lands administered by 

the U.S. Forest Service (Forest Service) 

within the Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie 

National Forest. 

The licensee proposes to improve 

stability of the Upper Baker Dam 

spillway slope and remove accumulated 

rockfall debris material in the tailrace 

channel downstream of the dam. To 

stabilize the spillway slope, the licensee 

plans to excavate the rockfall debris 

from the tailrace channel and backfill 

the existing sluiceway structure with 

concrete or cementitious grout, 

imported coarse and fine aggregate, and 

a portion of the rockfall debris, creating 

a concrete rock buttress to improve the 

stability of the spillway slope. The 

proposed project is needed because the 

existing spillway slope has been 

identified as a potential failure mode for 

the Upper Baker Dam, and rockfall 

debris in the channel downstream of the 

dam contributes to flooding of the 

powerhouse during spill events and has 

reduced power generation. 

On August 17, 2022, Commission staff 

issued a Notice of Water Quality 

Protection Plan Accepted for Filing and 

Soliciting Comments, Motions to 

Intervene, and Protests. On August 30, 

2022 and September 16, 2022, the 

Washington State Department of Fish 

and Wildlife and Forest Service, 

respectively, filed notices of 

intervention. No other comments or 

motions to intervene were received. 

On August 17, 2022, Commission staff 

adopted the licensee’s draft BA without 

modification as the Commission’s final 

BA and requested formal consultation 

with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 

(FWS) and the National Marine 

Fisheries Service (NMFS). By letter 

dated February 21, 2023, Commission 

staff updated the request for 

consultation under section 7 of the ESA 

from formal to informal consultation 

between NMFS and the Commission. 

On September 25, 2023, Commission 

staff issued separate letters to the FWS 

and NMFS, informing the agencies of 

the supplemental information filed by 

the licensee on August 1, 2023, and 

updating the requests for consultation 

under section 7 of the ESA. On August 

15, 2023, NMFS filed a letter of 

concurrence with the Commission’s 

determinations that the proposed 

Spillway Project is not likely to 

adversely affect the NMFS ESA-listed 

species and/or designated critical 

habitat. On November 3, 2023, the FWS 

filed its Biological Opinion in response 

to the Commission’s BA. 

In the August 17, 2022 letter, and 

reiterated in the February 21, 2023 

letter, Commission staff also 

determined, pursuant to the MagnusonStevens Fishery Conservation and 

Management Act (Magnuson-Stevens 

Act), that the Spillway Project may 

adversely affect EFH for Pacific coast 

salmon. In the August 15, 2023 letter, 

NMFS reviewed the proposed Spillway 

Project for potential effects on EFH 

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1 In accordance with the Council on 

Environmental Quality’s regulations, the unique 

identification number for documents relating to this 

environmental review is EAXX–019–20–000– 

1737643370. 40 CFR 1501.5(c)(4) (2024). 

including conservation measures and 

any determination made by the 

Commission regarding the potential 

effects of the proposed Spillway Project, 

and concluded that the proposed 

Spillway Project would not adversely 

affect EFH. 

This notice identifies Commission 

staff’s intention to prepare an 

environmental assessment (EA) for the 

project.1 Commission staff plans to issue 

an EA by March 7, 2025. Revisions to 

the schedule may be made as 

appropriate. 

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 to 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. 

Any questions regarding this notice 

may be directed to Marybeth Gay at 

(202) 502–6125 or Marybeth.gay@

ferc.gov. 

Dated: January 27, 2025. 

Debbie-Anne A. Reese, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2025–02080 Filed 1–31–25; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 15370–000] 

New England Hydropower Company, 

LLC; Notice of Preliminary Permit 

Application Accepted for Filing and 

Soliciting Comments, Motions To 

Intervene, and Competing Applications 

On August 14, 2024, New England 

Hydropower Company, LLC, filed an 

application for a preliminary permit, 

pursuant to section 4(f) of the Federal 

Power Act (FPA), proposing to study the 

feasibility of the Manville Dam 

Hydroelectric Project No. 15370 

(project), to be located at the Manville 

dam on the Blackstone River near the 

Town of Cumberland, Providence 

County, Rhode Island. The sole purpose 

of a preliminary permit, if issued, is to 

grant the permit holder priority to file 

a license application during the permit 

term. A preliminary permit does not 

authorize the permit holder to perform 

any land-disturbing activities or 

otherwise enter upon lands or waters 

owned by others without the owners’ 

express permission. 

The proposed project would consist of 

the following new features: (1) three 

fixed blade Kaplan turbines including 

two turbines with a generating capacity 

of 392 kilowatts, and one turbine with 

a generating capacity of 180 kilowatts; 

(2) two 24-foot-wide, 50-foot-long 

turbine bays; (3) a 16-foot-wide, 35-footlong, 16-foot-high electrical control 

building; (4) a 1,000 kilo-volt-amperes 

pad-mounted transformer; (5) a 50 kilovolt-amperes grounding transformer; (6) 

three shut-off gates; (7) two 24-foot 

wide, 50-foot-long steel trash racks; (8) 

two 24 foot-wide, 10-foot-long isolation 

gates; (9) three 14-foot-long draft tubes; 

and (9) an 800-foot-long, 13 kilovolt 

transmission line connecting the turbine 

generator units to the regional grid. The 

proposed project would have an 

estimated average annual generation of 

3,952-megawatt-hours. 

Applicant Contact: Michael C. Kerr, 

New England Hydropower Company, 

LLC, 100 Cummings Center, Suite 451C, 

Beverly, MA 01915; phone: (860) 729– 

9767; email: michael@

nehydropower.com. 

FERC Contact: Justin R. Robbins; 

phone: (202) 502–8308, or by email at 

justin.robbins@ferc.gov. 

Deadline for filing comments, motions 

to intervene, competing applications 

(without notices of intent), or notices of 

intent to file competing applications: 60 

days from the issuance of this notice. 

Competing applications and notices of 

intent must meet the requirements of 18 

CFR 4.36. 

The Commission strongly encourages 

electronic filing. Please file comments, 

motions to intervene, notices of intent, 

and competing applications using the 

Commission’s eFiling system at https:// 

ferconline.ferc.gov/eFiling.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. 

The first page of any filing should 

include docket number P–15370–000. 

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. 

More information about this project, 

including a copy of the application, can 

be viewed on the Commission’s website 

(https://www.ferc.gov) using the 

‘‘eLibrary’’ link. Enter the docket 

number, excluding the last three digits 

(P–15370), in the docket number field to 

access the document. For assistance, 

contact FERC Online Support. 

Dated: January 27, 2025. 

Debbie-Anne A. Reese, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2025–02078 Filed 1–31–25; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION 

AGENCY 

[EPA–HQ–OPPT–2024–0425–0009; EPA– 

HQ–OPP–2013–0266; EPA–HQ–OW–2024– 

0481; FRL–12590–01–OA] 

Three Actions Published by the 

Environmental Protection Agency With 

Comment Periods That Close Between 

February 3, 2025 and February 11, 

2025; Notice of Comment Period 

Extension and Delay of Public 

Meetings 

AGENCY: Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA). 

ACTION: Notices; extension of comment 

periods. 

SUMMARY: This document extends the 

comment period for three notices 

published by the Environmental 

Protection Agency in the Federal 

Register on December 3, 2024 and 

December 13, 2024. 

DATES: The original comment periods 

for notices FRL–12241–02–OCSPP (89 

FR 95779, December 3, 2024) and FRL– 

9941–02–OCSPP (89 FR 96650, 

December 5, 2024) close on February 3, 


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