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must file in accordance with Rules 211 

and 214 of the Commission’s 

Regulations (18 CFR 385.211 and 

385.214) on or before 5:00 p.m. Eastern 

time on the specified comment date. 

Protests may be considered, but 

intervention is necessary to become a 

party to the proceeding. 

eFiling is encouraged. More detailed 

information relating to filing 

requirements, interventions, protests, 

service, and qualifying facilities filings 

can be found at: http://www.ferc.gov/ 

docs-filing/efiling/filing-req.pdf. For 

other information, call (866) 208–3676 

(toll free). For TTY, call (202) 502–8659. 

Dated: August 13, 2021. 

Debbie-Anne A. Reese, 

Deputy Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2021–17797 Filed 8–18–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 1858–023] 

Beaver City Corporation; Notice of 

Application Tendered for Filing With 

the Commission and Soliciting 

Additional Study Requests and 

Cooperating Agencies and 

Establishing Procedural Schedule for 

Relicensing and a Deadline for 

Submission of Final Amendments 

Take notice that the following 

hydroelectric application has been filed 

with the Commission and is available 

for public inspection. 

a. Type of Application: New Minor 

License. 

b. Project No.: 1858–023. 

c. Date filed: July 30, 2021. 

d. Applicant: Beaver City Corporation. 

e. Name of Project: Beaver City 

Canyon Plant No. 2 Hydroelectric 

Project. 

f. Location: On the Beaver River, in 

Beaver County, Utah, about 5 miles east 

of the city of Beaver. The project 

currently occupies 10.18 acres of federal 

land administered by the U.S. Forest 

Service, and 1.87 acres of federal land 

managed by the U.S. Bureau of Land 

Management. As proposed, the project 

would occupy 11.5 acres of federal land 

administered by the U.S. Forest Service. 

g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power 

Act 16 U.S.C. 791 (a)–825(r). 

h. Applicant Contact: Jason Brown, 

Beaver City Manager, 30 West 300 

North, Beaver, UT 84713; (435) 438– 

2451. 

i. FERC Contact: Evan Williams at 

(202) 502–8462, or at evan.williams@

ferc.gov. 

j. Cooperating agencies: Federal, state, 

local, and tribal agencies with 

jurisdiction and/or special expertise 

with respect to environmental issues 

that wish to cooperate in the 

preparation of the environmental 

document should follow the 

instructions for filing such requests 

described in item l below. Cooperating 

agencies should note the Commission’s 

policy that agencies that cooperate in 

the preparation of the environmental 

document cannot also intervene. See, 94 

FERC ¶ 61,076 (2001). 

k. Pursuant to section 4.32(b)(7) of 18 

CFR of the Commission’s regulations, if 

any resource agency, Indian Tribe, or 

person believes that an additional 

scientific study should be conducted in 

order to form an adequate factual basis 

for a complete analysis of the 

application on its merit, the resource 

agency, Indian Tribe, or person must file 

a request for a study with the 

Commission not later than 60 days from 

the date of filing of the application, and 

serve a copy of the request on the 

applicant. 

l. Deadline for filing additional study 

requests and requests for cooperating 

agency status: September 28, 2021. 

The Commission strongly encourages 

electronic filing. Please file additional 

study requests and requests for 

cooperating agency status using the 

Commission’s eFiling system at https:// 

ferconline.ferc.gov/FERCOnline.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: 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, Maryland 20852. All filings 

must clearly identify the project name 

and docket number on the first page: 

Beaver City Canyon Plant No. 2 

Hydroelectric Project (P–1858–023). 

m. The application is not ready for 

environmental analysis at this time. 

n. Project Description: The existing 

project consists of: (1) A 17-foot-high by 

65-foot-wide diversion dam; (2) a 30- 

inch-diameter, 11,450-foot-long black 

steel penstock; (3) a 34-foot-long by 41- 

foot-wide stone powerhouse containing 

an impulse turbine and one generating 

unit with an installed capacity of 625 

kilowatts; (4) a 4-foot-wide by 150-footlong tailrace channel; (5) a 12.5-kilovolt, 

approximately 21,000-foot-long 

transmission line; and (6) appurtenant 

facilities. Beaver City Corporation 

proposes to abandon the existing 

powerhouse and tailrace and construct: 

(1) A new 40-foot-long by 27-foot-wide 

powerhouse to contain a new turbinegenerator with an installed capacity of 

720 kilowatts, and (2) a new 

approximately 50-foot-long by 

approximately 7.5-foot-wide to 19-footwide tailrace. The new powerhouse and 

tailrace would be constructed 

approximately 50 feet upstream of the 

existing powerhouse, and the existing 

powerhouse would be retained within 

the project boundary as an historic 

structure. Beaver City Corporation also 

proposes to remove approximately 

20,930 feet of the existing 12.5-kilovolt 

transmission line from the project. 

o. In addition to publishing the full 

text of this notice in the Federal 

Register, the Commission provides all 

interested persons an opportunity to 

view and/or print the contents of this 

notice, as well as other documents in 

the proceeding (e.g., license application) 

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 (P–1858– 

023). 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 FERC at 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or call 

toll-free, (866) 208–3676 or (202) 502– 

8659 (TTY). 

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. 

For assistance, contact FERC Online 

Support. 

p. Procedural schedule and final 

amendments: The application will be 

processed according to the following 

preliminary schedule. Revisions to the 

schedule will be made as appropriate. 

Issue Deficiency Letter/ 

Request for Additional 

Information.

September 2021. 

Issue Acceptance Letter .. December 2021. 

Issue Scoping Document 

1.

January 2022. 

Request for Additional Information (if necessary).March 2022. 

Issue Scoping Document 

2 (if necessary).

April 2022. 


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1 Direct Pipe® is a construction method 

developed by Herrenknecht AG that combines 

microtunneling and horizontal direction drill 

(HDD). 

Notice of Ready for Environmental Analysis.April 2022. 

Final amendments to the application 

must be filed with the Commission no 

later than 30 days from the issuance 

date of the notice of ready for 

environmental analysis. 

Dated: August 13, 2021. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2021–17786 Filed 8–18–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. CP21–57–000] 

Mountain Valley Pipeline, LLC; Notice 

of Availability of the Environmental 

Assessment for the Proposed 

Mountain Valley Pipeline Amendment 

Project 

The staff of the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission (FERC or 

Commission) has prepared an 

environmental assessment (EA) for the 

Mountain Valley Pipeline Amendment 

Project (Amendment Project), proposed 

by Mountain Valley Pipeline, LLC 

(Mountain Valley) in the abovereferenced docket. Mountain Valley 

requests authorization to change the 

crossing method of specific waterbodies 

and wetlands from open-cut dry 

crossings (as authorized by its October 

13, 2017 Certificate of Public 

Convenience and Necessity [Certificate]) 

to trenchless methods (conventional 

bore, guided conventional bore, or 

Direct Pipe® 1). In addition, Mountain 

Valley requests authorization for two 

minor route adjustments to avoid 

wetlands and waterbodies and 

authorization to conduct nighttime 

construction at eight trenchless 

crossings. 

The EA assesses the potential 

environmental effects of the 

construction and operation of the 

Amendment Project in accordance with 

the requirements of the National 

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). The 

FERC staff concludes that approval of 

the proposed project, with appropriate 

mitigating measures, would not 

constitute a major federal action 

significantly affecting the quality of the 

human environment. 

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 

(COE) is a federal cooperating agency 

who assisted us in preparing this EA 

because they have jurisdiction by law or 

special expertise with respect to impacts 

to waters of the U.S. The COE may 

adopt the EA per 40 CFR 1501.8 if, after 

an independent review of the document, 

it concludes that their requirements 

and/or regulatory responsibilities have 

been satisfied. However, the COE would 

present its own conclusions and 

recommendations in its respective and 

applicable records of decision or 

determinations. Otherwise, it may elect 

to conduct its own supplemental 

environmental analyses. 

The proposed Amendment Project 

includes the following: 

• 120 trenchless crossings (117 

conventional bores, 2 guided 

conventional bores, and 1 Direct Pipe®) 

of 47 wetlands and 136 streams in 

Wetzel, Lewis, Webster, Nicholas, 

Greenbrier, Summers, and Monroe 

counties, West Virginia and Giles, 

Montgomery, Roanoke, Franklin, and 

Pittsylvania, counties, Virginia; 

• avoidance of one wetland via a shift 

in the permanent operational right-ofway at MP 0.70; 

• avoidance of one waterbody due to 

a route adjustment at MP 230.8; and 

• 24-hour construction activities at 

the previously authorized Gauley River 

and Roanoke River, two guided 

conventional bore crossings, the Direct 

Pipe® crossing, and three conventional 

bore locations. 

The Commission mailed a copy of the 

Notice of Availability to federal, state, 

and local government representatives 

and agencies; elected officials; 

environmental and public interest 

groups; Native American tribes; 

potentially affected landowners and 

other interested individuals and groups; 

and newspapers and libraries in the 

project area. The EA is only available in 

electronic format. It may be viewed and 

downloaded from the FERC’s website 

(www.ferc.gov), on the natural gas 

environmental documents page (https:// 

www.ferc.gov/industries-data/naturalgas/environment/environmentaldocuments). In addition, the EA may be 

accessed by using the eLibrary link on 

the FERC’s website. Click on the 

eLibrary link (https://elibrary.ferc.gov/ 

eLibrary/search), select ‘‘General 

Search’’ and enter the docket number in 

the ‘‘Docket Number’’ field, (i.e., CP21– 

57). Be sure you have selected an 

appropriate date range. For assistance, 

please contact FERC Online Support at 

FercOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or toll free 

at (866) 208–3676, or for TTY, contact 

(202) 502–8659. 

The EA is not a decision document. 

It presents Commission staff’s 

independent analysis of the 

environmental issues for the 

Commission to consider when 

addressing the merits of all issues in 

this proceeding. Any person wishing to 

comment on the EA may do so. Your 

comments should focus on the EA’s 

disclosure and discussion of potential 

environmental effects, reasonable 

alternatives, and measures to avoid or 

lessen environmental impacts. The more 

specific your comments, the more useful 

they will be. To ensure that the 

Commission has the opportunity to 

consider your comments prior to 

making its decision on this project, it is 

important that we receive your 

comments in Washington, DC on or 

before 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time on 

September 13, 2021. 

For your convenience, there are three 

methods you can use to file your 

comments to the Commission. The 

Commission encourages electronic filing 

of comments and has staff available to 

assist you at (866) 208–3676 or 

FercOnlineSupport@ferc.gov. Please 

carefully follow these instructions so 

that your comments are properly 

recorded. 

(1) You can file your comments 

electronically using the eComment 

feature on the Commission’s website 

(www.ferc.gov) under the link to FERC 

Online. This is an easy method for 

submitting brief, text-only comments on 

a project; 

(2) You can also file your comments 

electronically using the eFiling feature 

on the Commission’s website 

(www.ferc.gov) under the link to FERC 

Online. With eFiling, you can provide 

comments in a variety of formats by 

attaching them as a file with your 

submission. New eFiling users must 

first create an account by clicking on 

‘‘eRegister.’’ You must select the type of 

filing you are making. If you are filing 

a comment on a particular project, 

please select ‘‘Comment on a Filing’’; or 

(3) You can file a paper copy of your 

comments by mailing them to the 

Commission. Be sure to reference the 

project docket number (CP21–57–000) 

on your letter. 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, Maryland 

20852. 

Filing environmental comments will 

not give you intervenor status, but you 


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