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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 September 

8, 2021. 

Treena V. Garrett, 

Federal Register Liaison Officer, U.S. 

Department of Energy. 

[FR Doc. 2021–19701 Filed 9–10–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 1061–103] 

Pacific Gas and Electric Company; 

Notice of Waiver Period for Water 

Quality Certification Application 

On August 26, 2021, Pacific Gas and 

Electric Company submitted to the 

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission 

(Commission) a copy of their 

application for a Clean Water Act 

section 401(a)(1) water quality 

certification filed with the California 

State Water Resources Control Board 

(California Water Board), in conjunction 

with the above captioned project. 

Pursuant to 40 CFR 121.6, we hereby 

notify the California Water Board of the 

following: 

Date of Receipt of the Certification 

Request: August 26, 2021. 

Reasonable Period of Time to Act on 

the Certification Request: One year. 

Date Waiver Occurs for Failure to Act: 

August 26, 2022. 

If the California Water Board fails or 

refuses to act on the water quality 

certification request by the above waiver 

date, then the agency’s certifying 

authority is deemed waived pursuant to 

section 401(a)(1) of the Clean Water Act, 

33 U.S.C. 1341(a)(1). 

Dated: September 7, 2021. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2021–19677 Filed 9–10–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 5261–023] 

Green Mountain Power Corporation; 

Notice of Application Tendered for 

Filing With The Commission and 

Soliciting Additional Study Requests 

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: Subsequent 

Minor License. 

b. Project No.: 5261–023. 

c. Date filed: August 27, 2021. 

d. Applicant: Green Mountain Power 

Corporation. 

e. Name of Project: Newbury 

Hydroelectric Project (project). 

f. Location: On the Wells River, in the 

town of Newbury, Orange County, 

Vermont. The project does not occupy 

any federal land. 

g. Filed Pursuant to: Federal Power 

Act 16 U.S.C. 791(a)–825(r). 

h. Applicant Contact: John Greenan, 

Green Mountain Power Corporation, 

2152 Post Road, Rutland, VT 05701; 

Phone at (802) 770–2195, or email at 

John.Greenan@

greenmountainpower.com. 

i. FERC Contact: Adam Peer at (202) 

502–8449, or adam.peer@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: October 26, 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: 

Newbury Hydroelectric Project (P– 

5261–023). 

m. The application is not ready for 

environmental analysis at this time. 

n. Project Description: The existing 

Newbury Project consists of: (1) An 

11.4-acre impoundment at a normal 

water surface elevation of 463.9 feet 

mean sea level; (2) a 26-foot-high by 90- 

foot-long concrete gravity dam that 

includes a 73.3-foot-long spillway 

topped with 5-foot-high pneumatic crest 

gates; (3) a seasonally installed, 8-footlong by 4-foot-wide steel sluice box on 

the south side of the spillway to provide 

downstream fish passage; (4) an 11.2- 

foot-wide, 9-foot-long intake structure 

with trash racks, connected to a 5-footdiameter, 435-foot-long underground 

steel penstock; (5) a 1,892-square-foot 

powerhouse containing a single 315- 

kilowatt turbine-generator unit; (6) a 

second 50-kilowatt turbine-generator 

unit located outside of the powerhouse 

approximately 75-feet downstream of 

the dam along the bypassed reach; (7) a 

125-foot-long tailrace; (8) three 150-footlong generator leads that create a 480 

Volt, 3 phase 150-foot-long underground 

transmission line connected to three 

pole mounted 167 kilovolt-ampere stepup transformers; and (9) appurtenant 

facilities. The project creates a 590-footlong bypassed reach of the Wells River. 

o. The current license requires Green 

Mountain Power Corporation to: (1) 

Operate the project in run-of-river 

mode; (2) release a continuous bypassed 

reach minimum flow of 50 cubic feet 

per second (cfs) from April 15 to June 

10 and 25 cfs during the remainder of 

the year; and (3) release a year-round, 


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continuous aesthetic flow of 5 cfs over 

the dam. The average annual generation 

of the project is approximately 882 

megawatt-hours. 

p. Green Mountain Power Corporation 

proposes to: (1) Continue operating the 

project in run-of-river mode; (2) release 

new bypassed reach minimum flows of 

35 cfs from May 15 to October 15 and 

30 cfs from October 16 to May 14; and 

(3) release a new aesthetic flow of 10 cfs 

over the dam from May 15 to October 

15 during daytime hours and no 

aesthetic flow the remainder of the year. 

q. 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–5261). 

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 

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 

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, 

contact FERC Online Support. 

r. Procedural schedule: The 

application will be processed according 

to the following preliminary schedule. 

Revisions to the schedule will be made 

as appropriate. 

Issue Deficiency Letter (if necessary) ...................................................................................................... November 2021. 

Request Additional Information .............................................................................................................. November 2021. 

Issue Acceptance Letter ............................................................................................................................ March 2022. 

Issue Scoping Document 1 for comments ............................................................................................... March 2022. 

Issue Scoping Document 2 ....................................................................................................................... May 2022. 

Issue Notice of Ready for Environmental Analysis ................................................................................ May 2022. 

s. 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: September 7, 2021. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

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BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. CP21–488–000] 

ANR Pipeline Company; Notice of 

Applications and Establishing 

Intervention Deadline 

Take notice that on August 27, 2021, 

ANR Pipeline Company (ANR), 700 

Louisiana Street, Suite 1300, Houston, 

Texas 77002–2700, filed an application 

pursuant to section 7(c) of the Natural 

Gas Act (NGA), in Docket No. CP21– 

488–000, for authorization to implement 

working gas capacity-to base gas 

capacity conversions (‘‘Storage 

Conversion Plan’’) at the Goodwell 

Storage Field, located in Newaygo 

County, Michigan, and at the LincolnFreeman Storage Field, located in Clare 

County, Michigan. ANR states that the 

Storage Conversion Plan is needed to 

allow ANR to access and utilize 

stranded working storage capacity and 

improve late season deliverability and 

reliability at the Goodwell and LincolnFreeman fields. 

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://

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

Enter the docket number excluding the 

last three digits in the docket number 

field to access the document. 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 FERCOnline

Support@ferc.gov or call toll-free, (886) 

208–3676 or TYY, (202) 502–8659. 

Any questions concerning this 

application should be directed to 

Alexander Kass, Legal Counsel, ANR 

Pipeline Company, 700 Louisiana 

Street, Suite 1300, Houston, Texas, by 

phone at 832.320.5226, or by email at 

alexander_kass@tcenergy.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 a protest to the 

project, you can file a motion to 

intervene in the proceeding, and you 

can file comments on the project. There 

is no fee or cost for filing protests, 

motions to intervene, or comments. The 

deadline for filing protests, motions to 

intervene, and comments is 5:00 p.m. 

Eastern Time on September 28, 2021. 

How to file comments and motions to 

intervene is explained below. 

Comments 

Any person wishing to comment on 

the project may do so. The Commission 

considers all comments received about 

the project in determining the 

appropriate action to be taken. To 

ensure that your comments are timely 

and properly recorded, please submit 

your comments on or before September 

28, 2021. However, 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. 

Persons who comment on the 

environmental review of this project 

will be placed on the Commission’s 

environmental mailing list, and will 

receive notification when the 


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