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1Consideration of Greenhouse Gas Emissions in 

Natural Gas Infrastructure Project Reviews, 178 

FERC ¶ 61,108 (2022); 178 FERC ¶ 61,197 (2022). 

responses to this RFI, respondents may 

request a 30-minute individual 

unrecorded discussion with a DOE staff 

member regarding the content of their 

responses to the RFI questions. When 

submitting electronic responses, include 

with subject line ‘‘Organization/Name: 

Response to RFI on Hydropower 

Incentives Program’’. Only electronic 

responses or verbal responses through a 

scheduled 30-minute individual 

discussion will be accepted. The 

complete RFI is located at https://eereexchange.energy.gov/. 

DOE will hold a public meeting via 

webinar on Tuesday, August 9, 2022. 

For webinar registration information, 

participant instructions, and 

information about the capabilities 

available to webinar participants, please 

visit https://bit.ly/RFI_

HydroIncentiveProgram. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Questions may be addressed to Corey 

Vezina, email at hydroincentive@

ee.doe.gov or phone number (240) 562– 

1382. Further instruction can be found 

in the RFI document posted on EERE 

Exchange. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

purpose of this RFI is to solicit feedback 

from industry, tribes, government 

agencies, state and local coalitions, 

academia, research laboratories, labor 

unions, community-based organizations 

(CBOs), and other stakeholders on 

definitions, program structure, and 

selection related to the Department’s 

authority to provide capital 

improvement incentives under Sections 

243 and 247 of the Energy Policy Act of 

2005 (Pub. L. 109–58) (EPAct 2005). See 

42 U.S.C. 15882 and 15883. This is 

solely a request for information and not 

a Funding Opportunity Announcement. 

DOE is not accepting applications at this 

time. 

Confidential Business Information: 

According to 10 CFR 1004.11, any 

person submitting information that he 

or she believes to be confidential and 

exempt by law from public disclosure 

should submit via email, postal mail, or 

hand delivery two well-marked copies: 

one copy of the document marked 

‘‘confidential’’ including all the 

information believed to be confidential, 

and one copy of the document marked 

‘‘non-confidential’’ with the information 

believed to be confidential deleted. 

Submit these documents via email or on 

a CD, if feasible. DOE will make its own 

determination about the confidential 

status of the information and treat it 

according to its determination. 

It is DOE’s policy that all comments 

may be included in the public docket, 

without change and as received, 

including any personal information 

provided in the comments (except 

information deemed to be exempt from 

public disclosure). 

Signing Authority 

This document of the Department of 

Energy was signed on June 30, 2022, by 

Patricia Hoffman, Acting Director, Grid 

Deployment Office, 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 1, 2022. 

Treena V. Garrett, 

Federal Register Liaison Officer, U.S. 

Department of Energy. 

[FR Doc. 2022–14444 Filed 7–6–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. CP22–2–000] 

Gas Transmission Northwest LLC; 

Notice of Availability of the Draft 

Environmental Impact Statement for 

the Proposed GTN Xpress Project 

The staff of the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission (FERC or 

Commission) has prepared a draft 

environmental impact statement (EIS) 

for the GTN XPress Project (Project), 

proposed by Gas Transmission 

Northwest LLC (GTN) in the abovereferenced docket. GTN proposes to 

modify existing compressor stations in 

Idaho, Washington, and Oregon. This 

Project would increase the capacity of 

GTN’s existing natural gas transmission 

system by about 150 million standard 

cubic feet per day between Idaho and 

Oregon. According to GTN, the Project 

is necessary to serve the growing market 

demand its system is experiencing. 

The draft EIS assesses the potential 

environmental effects of modifying and 

installing new facilities at the existing 

compressor stations in accordance with 

the requirements of the National 

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). The 

FERC staff concludes that approval of 

the proposed Project, with the 

mitigation measures recommended in 

the EIS, would result in some adverse 

environmental impacts, but none that 

are considered significant. Regarding 

climate change impacts, this EIS is not 

characterizing the Project’s greenhouse 

gas emissions as significant or 

insignificant because the Commission is 

conducting a generic proceeding to 

determine whether and how the 

Commission will conduct significance 

determinations going forward.1 The EIS 

also concludes that no system or other 

alternative would meet the Project 

objectives while providing a significant 

environmental advantage over the 

Project as proposed. 

The U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency is participating as cooperating 

agency in the preparation of the EIS. A 

cooperating agency has jurisdiction by 

law or special expertise with respect to 

resources potentially affected by the 

proposal and participates in the NEPA 

analysis. 

The Commission mailed a copy of the 

Notice of Availability of the draft EIS to 

federal, state, and local government 

representatives and agencies; elected 

officials; environmental and public 

interest groups; Indian tribes; 

potentially affected landowners and 

other interested individuals and groups; 

and newspapers and libraries in the 

Project area. The draft EIS 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/industriesdata/natural-gas/environment/ 

environmental-documents). In addition, 

the draft EIS 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, 

excluding the last three digits (i.e. 

CP22–2). 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 draft EIS 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 draft EIS may do so. 

Your comments should focus on the 

draft EIS’ disclosure and discussion of 


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1 GR Catalyst One, LLC is a subsidiary of Gravity 

Renewables, Inc. 

potential environmental effects, 

reasonable alternatives, and measures to 

avoid or lessen environmental impacts. 

To ensure consideration of your 

comments on the proposal in the final 

EIS, it is important that the Commission 

receive your comments on or before 5:00 

p.m. Eastern Time on August 22, 2022. 

For your convenience, there are three 

methods you can use to submit 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 file your comments 

electronically by 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.’’ If you are filing a comment 

on a particular project, please select 

‘‘Comment on a Filing’’ as the filing 

type; 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 (CP22–2–000) 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. 

Any person seeking to become a party 

to the proceeding must file a motion to 

intervene pursuant to Rule 214 of the 

Commission’s Rules of Practice and 

Procedures (18 CFR part 385.214). 

Motions to intervene are more fully 

described at https://www.ferc.gov/howintervene. Only intervenors have the 

right to seek rehearing or judicial review 

of the Commission’s decision. The 

Commission grants affected landowners 

and others with environmental concerns 

intervenor status upon showing good 

cause by stating that they have a clear 

and direct interest in this proceeding 

which no other party can adequately 

represent. Simply filing environmental 

comments will not give you intervenor 

status, but you do not need intervenor 

status to have your comments 

considered. 

Questions? 

Additional information about the 

Project is available from the 

Commission’s Office of External Affairs, 

at (866) 208–FERC, or on the FERC 

website (www.ferc.gov) using the 

eLibrary link. 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 that 

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. Go to https://www.ferc.gov/ 

ferc-online/overview to register for 

eSubscription. 

Dated: June 30, 2022. 

Debbie-Anne A. Reese, 

Deputy Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2022–14457 Filed 7–6–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 4684–070] 

GR Catalyst One, LLC; Notice of Intent 

To File License Application, Filing of 

Pre-Application Document, and 

Approving Use of the Traditional 

Licensing Process 

a. Type of Application: Notice of 

Intent to File License Application and 

Request to Use the Traditional Licensing 

Process (TLP). 

b. Project No.: 4684–070. 

c. Date filed: May 2, 2022. 

d. Submitted by: GR Catalyst One, 

LLC (GRCO).1

e. Name of Project: Stillwater 

Hydroelectric Project. 

f. Location: Located at the New York 

State Canal Corporation’s Stillwater 

dam, on Champlain Canal at Lock C–4, 

on the Hudson River in Saratoga 

County, in the town Stillwater, New 

York. The project does not occupy any 

federal land. 

g. Filed Pursuant to: 18 CFR 5.3 of the 

Commission’s regulations. 

h. Potential Applicant Contact: 

Celeste Fay, Director of Regulatory 

Affairs, 5 Dartmouth Avenue, Suite 104, 

Auburn, NH 03032. Phone: (413) 262– 

9466, Email: celeste@

gravityrenewables.com. 

i. FERC Contact: Samantha Pollak, 

Phone: (202) 502–6419, Email: 

samantha.pollak@ferc.gov. 

j. GRCO filed its request to use the 

TLP on May 2, 2022 and provided 

public notice of its request on the same 

day. In a letter dated July 1, 2022, the 

Director of the Division of Hydropower 

Licensing approved GRCO’s request to 

use the TLP. 

k. With this notice, we are initiating 

informal consultation with the U.S. Fish 

and Wildlife Service and/or NOAA 

Fisheries under section 7 of the 

Endangered Species Act and the joint 

agency regulations thereunder at 50 CFR 

part 402; and NOAA Fisheries under 

section 305(b) of the Magnuson-Stevens 

Fishery Conservation and Management 

Act and implementing regulations at 50 

CFR 600.920. We are also initiating 

consultation with the New York State 

Historic Preservation Officer, as 

required by section 106, National 

Historic Preservation Act, and the 

implementing regulations of the 

Advisory Council on Historic 

Preservation at 36 CFR 800.2. 

l. With this notice, we are designating 

GRCO as the Commission’s non-federal 

representative for carrying out informal 

consultation pursuant to section 7 of the 

Endangered Species Act and 

consultation pursuant to section 106 of 

the National Historic Preservation Act. 

m. GRCO filed a Pre-Application 

Document (PAD), including a proposed 

process plan and schedule, with the 

Commission, pursuant to 18 CFR 5.6 of 

the Commission’s regulations. 

n. A copy of the PAD may be viewed 

on the Commission’s website (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. For assistance, contact FERC 

Online Support at 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov, (866) 

208–3676 (toll free), or (202) 502–8659 

(TTY). 

o. The applicant states its unequivocal 

intent to submit an application for a 

new license for Project No. 4684. 

Pursuant to 18 CFR 16.20 each 

application for a subsequent license and 

any competing license applications 

must be filed with the Commission at 

least 24 months prior to the expiration 

of the existing license. All applications 


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