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prewash program nor a main detergent 

compartment, determine the amount of 

main wash detergent (in grams) to be 

added directly into the washing 

chamber according to section 2.10.2 of 

Appendix C1. 

(3) Representations. FOTILE may not 

make representations about the energy 

and water use of a basic model listed in 

paragraph (1) of this Order for 

compliance, marketing, or other 

purposes unless that basic model has 

been tested in accordance with the 

provisions of paragraph (2) of this Order 

and such representations fairly disclose 

the results of such testing. 

(4) This Extension of Waiver shall 

remain in effect according to the 

provisions of 10 CFR 430.27. 

(5) This Extension of Waiver is issued 

on the condition that the statements, 

representations, and documentation 

provided by FOTILE are valid. If 

FOTILE makes any modifications to the 

controls or configurations of these basic 

models, the waiver will no longer be 

valid and FOTILE will either be 

required to use the current Federal test 

method or submit a new application for 

a test procedure waiver. DOE may 

rescind or modify this Extension of 

Waiver (and/or the underlying Order 

issued in Case Number 2020–020) at any 

time if it determines the factual basis 

underlying the petition for extension of 

waiver (and/or the underlying Order 

issued in Case Number 2020–020) is 

incorrect, or the results from the 

alternate test procedure are 

unrepresentative of a basic model’s true 

energy consumption characteristics. 10 

CFR 430.27(k)(1). Likewise, FOTILE 

may request that DOE rescind or modify 

the Extension of Waiver (and/or the 

underlying Order issued in Case 

Number 2020–020) if FOTILE discovers 

an error in the information provided to 

DOE as part of its petition, determines 

that the waiver is no longer needed, or 

for other appropriate reasons. 10 CFR 

430.27(k)(2). 

(6) FOTILE remains obligated to fulfill 

all applicable requirements set forth at 

10 CFR part 429. 

DOE makes decisions on waiver 

extensions, for only those basic models 

specifically set out in the request, not 

future models that may be manufactured 

by the petitioner. FOTILE may submit a 

new or amended petition for waiver and 

request for grant of interim waiver, as 

appropriate, for additional basic models 

of dishwashers. Alternatively, if 

appropriate, FOTILE may request that 

DOE extend the scope of a waiver or 

interim waiver to include additional 

basic models employing the same 

technology as the basic models set forth 

in the original petition consistent with 

10 CFR 430.27(g). 

Signing Authority 

This document of the Department of 

Energy was signed on July 17, 2021, by 

Kelly Speakes-Backman, Principal 

Deputy Assistant Secretary and Acting 

Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency 

and Renewable Energy, 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 July 19, 

2021. 

Treena V. Garrett, 

Federal Register Liaison Officer, U.S. 

Department of Energy. 

[FR Doc. 2021–15577 Filed 7–21–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

[OE Docket No. EA–489] 

Application To Export Electric Energy; 

North Star Electric Cooperative 

AGENCY: Office of Electricity, 

Department of Energy. 

ACTION: Notice of application. 

SUMMARY: North Star Electric 

Cooperative (Applicant or North Star) 

has applied for authorization to transmit 

electric energy from the United States to 

Canada pursuant to the Federal Power 

Act. 

DATES: Comments, protests, or motions 

to intervene must be submitted on or 

before August 23, 2021. 

ADDRESSES: Comments, protests, 

motions to intervene, or requests for 

more information should be addressed 

by electronic mail to 

Electricity.Exports@hq.doe.gov, or by 

facsimile to (202) 586–8008. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Matt 

Aronoff, 202–586–5863, 

matthew.aronoff@hq.doe.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Department of Energy (DOE) regulates 

exports of electricity from the United 

States to a foreign country, pursuant to 

sections 301(b) and 402(f) of the 

Department of Energy Organization Act 

(42 U.S.C. 7151(b) and 42 U.S.C. 

7172(f)). Such exports require 

authorization under section 202(e) of 

the Federal Power Act (16 U.S.C. 

824a(e)). 

On June 6, 2021, North Star filed an 

application with DOE (Application or 

App.) to transmit electric energy from 

the United States to Canada for a term 

of five years. North Star states that it ‘‘is 

a cooperative corporation organized 

under Minnesota state law with its 

principal place of business [in] 

Baudette, MN.’’ App. at 4. North Star 

also describes itself as ‘‘a distribution 

cooperative member-owner of Minnkota 

Power Cooperative (‘Minnkota’), a 

generation and transmission . . . 

cooperative that provides wholesale 

power requirements to North Star and 

its other member-owned cooperatives.’’ 

Id. at 1–2. North Star further represents 

that ‘‘because [it] is a cooperative, [its] 

customers are its member-owners.’’ Id. 

at 1. 

North Star states that it ‘‘does not own 

any of its own power generation 

facilities itself, but instead purchases all 

of its power supply requirements (to 

serve its retail customers) from 

Minnkota.’’ App. at 2. 

At the time of its application, North 

Star served residential customers in 

Canada ‘‘via two radial, low-voltage 

feeds that cross the U.S.-Canadian 

border and extend ten miles from 

Minnkota’s International Falls 

Substation in northern Minnesota to the 

border and then into Canada.’’ App. at 

2. It describes these customers as ‘‘in 

Canadian waters.’’ Id. North Star has 

applied for an export authorization ‘‘so 

that it may continue to serve its existing 

customers in Canada and to serve any 

future customers that may be tapped off 

the described radial lines,’’ including 

three new customers—also in Canadian 

waters—who have requested service. Id. 

at 3. North Star contends that its 

proposed exports ‘‘will not impair the 

sufficiency of electric supply within the 

United States’’ and will not ‘‘impede or 

tend to impede the coordination in the 

public interest of facilities subject to the 

jurisdiction of the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission.’’ Id. 

The Applicant represents that the 

existing cross-border distribution 

facilities to be utilized by the Applicant 

have been in operation for at least 50 

years. See App. at 7. North Star has 

exported power over these distribution 

facilities without holding the required 

export authorization under section 

202(e) of the Federal Power Act, and 

‘‘regrets that it did not obtain this 

required authorization earlier.’’ Id. at 3. 

The Applicant states that ‘‘in July 2018, 

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prospective customers about extending 

retail service to new customer[s] in 

Canadian waters, North Star discovered 

it did not have the necessary 

authorization’’ to export power to 

customers in Canada. Id. at 2–3. North 

Star, via its power supplier, found that 

it did not hold a required Presidential 

Permit. See id. at 3. North Star has 

represented that it ‘‘was not aware of the 

requirement to have either a 

Presidential permit or export 

authorization.’’ Id. North Star has 

further represented that ‘‘[a]s soon as it 

became aware of [the] requirements, [it] 

contacted counsel to determine 

appropriate remedial actions, including 

filing the necessary applications and 

obtaining the required permit(s) and 

authorization.’’ Id. Accordingly, the 

Applicant has submitted this 

application for export and, 

concurrently, submitted an application 

for a Presidential Permit. 

Procedural Matters: Any person 

desiring to be heard in this proceeding 

should file a comment or protest to the 

Application at the address provided 

above. Protests should be filed in 

accordance with Rule 211 of the Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) 

Rules of Practice and Procedure (18 CFR 

385.211). Any person desiring to 

become a party to this proceeding 

should file a motion to intervene at the 

above address in accordance with FERC 

Rule 214 (18 CFR 385.214). 

Comments and other filings 

concerning North Star’s application to 

export electric energy to Canada should 

be clearly marked with OE Docket No. 

EA–489. Additional copies are to be 

provided directly to Daniel E. Frank, 

700 Sixth St. NW, Suite 700, 

Washington, DC 20001–3980, 

danielfrank@eversheds-sutherland.com. 

A final decision will be made on the 

requested authorization after the 

environmental impacts have been 

evaluated pursuant to DOE’s National 

Environmental Policy Act Implementing 

Procedures (10 CFR part 1021) and after 

DOE evaluates whether the proposed 

action will have an adverse impact on 

the sufficiency of supply or reliability of 

the U.S. electric power supply system. 

Copies of the Application will be 

made available, upon request, by 

accessing the program website at http:// 

energy.gov/node/11845, or by emailing 

Matt Aronoff at matthew.aronoff@

hq.doe.gov. 

Signed in Washington, DC, on July 19, 

2021. 

Christopher Lawrence, 

Management and Program Analyst, Energy 

Resilience Division, Office of Electricity. 

[FR Doc. 2021–15596 Filed 7–21–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 2310–243] 

Pacific Gas and Electric Company; 

Notice of Application Accepted for 

Filing and Soliciting Comments, 

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. Application Type: Temporary 

variance of license requirement. 

b. Project No.: 2310–243. 

c. Date Filed: July 8, 2021 and 

supplemented on July 14, 2021. 

d. Applicant: Pacific Gas and Electric 

Company (licensee). 

e. Name of Project: Drum-Spaulding 

Project. 

f. Location: South Yuba River and 

Bear River in Placer and Nevada 

counties, California. 

g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power 

Act, 16 U.S.C. 791(a)–825(r). 

h. Applicant Contact: Michelle 

Ocken, License Coordinator, Pacific Gas 

and Electric Company, (530) 863–3439. 

i. FERC Contact: Robert Ballantine, 

(202) 502–6289, robert.ballantine@

ferc.gov. 

j. Deadline for filing comments, 

motions to intervene, and protests is 20 

days from the issuance of this notice by 

the Commission (August 4, 2021). 

The Commission strongly encourages 

electronic filing. Please file comments, 

motions to intervene, and protests using 

the Commission’s eFiling system at 

http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/ 

efiling.asp. Commenters can submit 

brief comments up to 6,000 characters, 

without prior registration, using the 

eComment system at http://

www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/ 

ecomment.asp. You must include your 

name and contact information at the end 

of your comments. 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: Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission, 888 First Street NE, Room 

1A, Washington, DC 20426. 

Submissions sent via any other carrier 

must be addressed to: Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary, Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission, 12225 Wilkins Avenue, 

Rockville, MD 20852. The first page of 

any filing should include docket 

number P–2310–243. Comments 

emailed to Commission staff are not 

considered part of the Commission 

record. 

The Commission’s Rules of Practice 

and Procedure require all intervenors 

filing documents with the Commission 

to serve a copy of that document on 

each person whose name appears 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. Description of Request: Due to 

persistent drought conditions, the 

licensee requests Commission approval 

of a temporary variance of the minimum 

flow requirement at streamflow gage 

YB–292 (Mormon Ravine). The licensee 

is requesting to decrease the target flow 

from an instantaneous 5 cubic feet per 

second (cfs) to 3 cfs, measured as a 24- 

hour average. The reduced flow is 

necessary to manage water resources in 

association with Placer County Water 

Agency and license required flows. If 

granted, the variance would last through 

October 1, 2021, or until adequate 

precipitation occurs to ensure that 

inflow equals outflow at the referenced 

reservoir for at least seven consecutive 

days, whichever comes later. 

l. Locations of the Application: 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 

website at http://www.ferc.gov/docsfiling/elibrary.asp. Enter the docket 

number excluding the last three digits in 

the docket number field to access the 

document. You may also register online 

at http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/ 

esubscription.asp to be notified via 

email of new filings and issuances 

related to this or other pending projects. 

Agencies may obtain copies of the 

application directly from the applicant. 

At this time, the Commission has 

suspended access to the Commission’s 

Public Reference Room due to the 

proclamation declaring a National 

Emergency concerning the Novel 

Coronavirus Disease (COVID–19), issued 

by the President on March 13, 2020. For 

assistance, contact the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission at 


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