Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 23 / Thursday, February 4, 2016 / Notices 5995 

All Federal, State, Tribal, and local 

agencies, and other interested persons 

or organizations, are urged to participate 

in the NEPA scoping process. Scoping 

meetings will be conducted to inform 

interested parties of the proposed 

project, receive public input on the 

development of proposed alternatives to 

be reviewed in the EIS, and to identify 

significant issues to be analyzed. 

(2) Scoping meetings: The Corps plans 

to hold scoping meetings in Barrow, 

Nuiqsut, Anchorage, and Fairbanks. 

Public notices will be placed in local 

newspapers and other public places, 

and will be communicated directly with 

the smaller communities, once dates are 

confirmed. 

(3) Information about these meetings 

and meeting dates will be published 

locally, posted at the project Web site, 

and available by contacting the Corps as 

previously described. A description of 

the proposed project will be posted on 

the project Web site prior to these 

meetings to help the public focus their 

scoping comments. 

(4) The Corps will serve as the lead 

Federal agency in the preparation of the 

EIS. Agencies that are being invited to 

act as Cooperating Agencies include the 

following: 

a. U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency 

b. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 

c. State of Alaska, Department of 

Natural Resources, Office of Project 

Management and Permitting 

d. North Slope Borough 

e. Native Village of Nuiqsut 

(5) The EIS will analyze the potential 

social, economic, physical, and 

biological impacts to the affected areas. 

Numerous issues will be analyzed in 

depth in the EIS. These issues include, 

but are not limited to, the following: 

The construction and operation of the 

facilities and their effect upon the 

community of Nuiqsut; subsistence; 

cultural resources; air quality; 

socioeconomics; alternatives; secondary 

and cumulative impacts; threatened and 

endangered species including critical 

habitat; hydrology and wetlands; and 

fish and wildlife. 

(6) Other Environmental Review and 

Consultation Requirements: Other 

environmental review and consultation 

requirements include Executive Order 

13175 Consultation and Coordination 

with Indian Tribal Governments, 

Executive Order 12898 Federal Actions 

to Address Environmental Justice in 

Minority Populations and Low-Income 

Populations, 106 of the National 

Historic Preservation Act of 1966, and 

Endangered Species Act Section 7 

consultation. 

(7) Land and Resource Ownership: 

Kuukpik Corporation owns the surface 

estate of lands at the drill sites and 

lands traversed by the infield roads and 

infield pipelines, and portions of the 

access road and Nanushuk Pipeline. The 

State of Alaska, through the Alaska 

Department of Natural Resources 

(ADNR), manages the majority of surface 

lands traversed by the Nanushuk 

Pipeline and access road. The Project 

will access subsurface mineral resources 

that are shared by the State of Alaska 

and the Arctic Slope Regional 

Corporation (ASRC). 

Estimated Date Draft EIS Available to 

Public: It is anticipated that the Draft 

EIS will be available in spring 2017 for 

public review. 

Dated: January 26, 2016. 

Michael Salyer, 

Chief, North Branch, Regulatory Division, 

Department of the Army, Corps of Engineers. 

[FR Doc. 2016–01973 Filed 2–3–16; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3720–58–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

[OE Docket No. PP–371] 

Notice of Public Hearings for the Draft 

Northern Pass Transmission Line 

Project Environmental Impact 

Statement (DOE/EIS–0463) 

AGENCY: U.S. Department of Energy. 

ACTION: Notice of public hearings. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of 

Energy (DOE) announces public 

hearings to receive comments on the 

Draft EIS. The Draft EIS evaluates the 

potential environmental impacts of 

DOE’s proposed Federal action of 

issuing a Presidential permit to 

Northern Pass LLC (the Applicant) to 

construct, operate, maintain, and 

connect a new electric transmission line 

across the U.S./Canada border in 

northern New Hampshire. 

The U.S. Forest Service—White 

Mountain National Forest (USFS), the 

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers—New 

England District (USACE), the U.S. 

Environmental Protection Agency— 

Region 1 (EPA), and the New Hampshire 

Office of Energy and Planning (NHOEP) 

are cooperating agencies in the 

preparation of the EIS. 

The New Hampshire Site Evaluation 

Committee (SEC) was established by the 

New Hampshire legislature for the 

review, approval, monitoring and 

enforcement of compliance in the 

planning, siting, construction and 

operation of energy facilities in the State 

of New Hampshire. 

On October 19, 2015, Northern Pass 

Transmission, LLC and Public Service 

Company of New Hampshire d/b/a 

Eversource Energy (collectively 

Applicant), filed an Application for a 

Certificate of Site and Facility 

(Application) seeking the issuance of a 

Certificate of Site and Facility approving 

the siting, construction, and operation 

of a 192-mile transmission line and 

associated facilities with a capacity 

rating of up to 1,090 MW from the 

Canadian border in Pittsburg in Coos 

County to Deerfield in Rockingham 

County (Project). New Hampshire law, 

R.S.A. Section 162–H:10(I–c), requires 

that within 90 days after acceptance of 

an application for a certificate, that the 

New Hampshire Site Evaluation 

Committee shall hold at least one public 

hearing in each county where the 

proposed facility will be located. 

DATES: The public review period to 

receive comments on the Draft EIS 

closes on April 4, 2016, see the Public 

Participation section for more 

information about submitting 

comments. 

DOE and the cooperating agencies and 

the New Hampshire SEC will conduct 

joint public hearings to receive oral and 

written comments concerning the 

project on March 7 and March 10, 2016. 

DOE and the cooperating agencies will 

conduct public hearings to receive oral 

and written comments on the Draft EIS 

at the following locations commencing 

at the times identified: 

Colebrook: Monday March 7, 2016, 5:00 

p.m., Colebrook Elementary School, 

Gymnasium, Colebrook, NH 

Waterville Valley: Wednesday March 9, 

2016, 5:00 p.m., Waterville Valley 

Conference and Event Center, 

Waterville Room, Waterville Valley, 

NH 03215 

Concord: Thursday March 10, 2016, 

5:00 p.m., Grappone Conference 

Center, Granite Ballroom, 70 

Constitution Avenue, Concord, NH 

03301 

Whitefield: Friday March 11, 2016, 5:00 

p.m., Mountain View Grand Resort 

and Spa, Presidential Room, 101 

Mountain View Road, Whitefield, NH 

03598 

ADDRESSES: Requests to pre-register to 

provide oral comments at a public 

hearing should be addressed to the 

Northern Pass EIS Team at this email 

address: info@northernpasseis.us. 

Comments on the Draft EIS can be 

submitted verbally during public 

hearings or in writing to Mr. Brian Mills 

at: Office of Electricity Delivery and 

Energy Reliability (OE–20), U.S. 

Department of Energy, 1000 

Independence Avenue SW., 


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5996 Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 23 / Thursday, February 4, 2016 / Notices 

1San Diego Gas & Elec. Co. v. Sellers of Energy 

& Ancillary Servs., 153 FERC ¶ 61,144 (2015) 

(‘‘Order on Rehearing’’), denying rehearing of San 

Diego Gas & Elec. Co. v. Sellers of Energy & 

Ancillary Servs., Opinion No. 536, 149 FERC ¶ 

61,116 (2014) (‘‘Opinion No. 536’’). 

Washington, DC 20585; via email to 

draftEIScomments@northernpasseis.us; 

by facsimile to (202) 586–8008; or 

through the project Web site at http://

www.northernpasseis.us/. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Brian Mills at the addresses above, or at 

202–586–8267. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Public Participation 

Comments: DOE invites interested 

Members of Congress, state and local 

governments, other Federal agencies, 

American Indian tribal governments, 

organizations, and members of the 

public to provide comments on the Draft 

EIS. 

The public comment period on the 

Draft EIS started on July 31, 2015, with 

the publication in the Federal Register 

by the U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency of its Notice of Availability of 

the Draft EIS. 

The public review period to receive 

comments on the Draft EIS closes on 

April 4, 2016. Please mark envelopes 

and electronic mail subject lines as ‘‘NP 

Draft EIS Comments.’’ Written 

comments should be submitted by April 

4, 2016. Written and oral comments will 

be given equal weight and all comments 

received or postmarked by that date will 

be considered by DOE in preparing the 

Final EIS. Comments submitted (e.g., 

postmarked) after that date will be 

considered to the extent practicable. 

Public Hearings: When requesting to 

pre-register to provide oral comments at 

a public hearing (see the DATES section 

for times and locations), please include 

your full name and email address, and 

specify the location you request to speak 

at. Please state in the subject line, ‘‘NP 

Draft EIS Public Hearing Speaker 

Request.’’ Please submit your request 

by, February 25, 2016; requests received 

by that date will be given priority in the 

speaking order. However, requests to 

speak may also be made at the hearing. 

The speaking order will be as follows: 

(1) Elected Officials; (2) Pre-registered 

speakers (order determined on a firstcome, first-served basis); (3) Speakers 

registering at the meeting. Pre-registered 

speakers who have requested to speak at 

a specific time will be accommodated as 

possible. 

Availability of the Draft EIS 

The documents are available online at 

http://www.northernpasseis.us/. Copies 

of the Draft EIS are also available at a 

number of public libraries and town 

halls (a list of locations is found here: 

http://media.northernpasseis.us/media/

DraftEIS_Hard_Copy_Locations.pdf). 

Printed copies of the documents may 

be obtained by contacting Mr. Mills at 

the above address. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on January 29, 

2016. 

Meghan Conklin, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary, National 

Electricity Delivery, Office of Electricity 

Delivery and Energy Reliability. 

[FR Doc. 2016–02111 Filed 2–3–16; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket Nos. CP14–517–000; CP14–518– 

000; PF13–14–000] 

Golden Pass Products, LLC; Golden 

Pass Pipeline, LLC; Revised Notice of 

Schedule for Environmental Review of 

the Golden Pass Liquefied Natural Gas 

Export Project 

This notice identifies the Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission 

(Commission or FERC) staff’s revised 

schedule for the completion of the final 

environmental impact statement (EIS) 

for Golden Pass Products, LLC and 

Golden Pass Pipeline, LLC’s Golden 

Pass Liquefied Natural Gas Export 

Project. The previous notice of 

schedule, issued on June 26, 2015, 

identified March 4, 2016 as the issuance 

date. 

Schedule for Environmental Review 

Issuance of Notice of Availability of the 

final EIS July 29, 2016 

90-day Federal Authorization Decision 

Deadline October 27, 2016 

If a schedule change becomes 

necessary, additional notice will be 

provided so that the relevant agencies 

are kept informed of the Project’s 

progress. 

Additional Information 

In order to receive notification of the 

issuance of the final EIS and to keep 

track of all formal issuances and 

submittals in specific dockets, the 

Commission offers a free service called 

eSubscription. Go to www.ferc.gov/docsfiling/esubscription.asp. 

Dated: January 29, 2016. 

Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr., 

Deputy Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2016–02075 Filed 2–3–16; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. EL00–95–288] 

San Diego Gas & Electric Company v. 

Sellers of Energy and Ancillary 

Services Into Markets Operated by the 

California Independent System 

Operator Corporation and the 

California Power Exchanges; Notice of 

Compliance Filing 

Take notice that on January 29, 2016, 

MPS Merchant Services, Inc. submitted 

its Compliance Filing to Order on 

Rehearing of Opinion No. 536.1

Any person desiring to intervene or to 

protest this filing must file in 

accordance with Rules 211 and 214 of 

the Commission’s Rules of Practice and 

Procedure (18 CFR 385.211, 385.214). 

Protests will be considered by the 

Commission in determining the 

appropriate action to be taken, but will 

not serve to make protestants parties to 

the proceeding. Any person wishing to 

become a party must file a notice of 

intervention or motion to intervene, as 

appropriate. Such notices, motions, or 

protests must be filed on or before the 

comment date. On or before the 

comment date, it is not necessary to 

serve motions to intervene or protests 

on persons other than the Applicant. 

The Commission encourages 

electronic submission of protests and 

interventions in lieu of paper using the 

‘‘eFiling’’ link at http://www.ferc.gov. 

Persons unable to file electronically 

should submit an original and 5 copies 

of the protest or intervention to the 

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 

888 First Street NE., Washington, DC 

20426. 

This filing is accessible on-line at 

http://www.ferc.gov, using the 

‘‘eLibrary’’ link and is available for 

review in the Commission’s Public 

Reference Room in Washington, DC. 

There is an ‘‘eSubscription’’ link on the 

Web site that enables subscribers to 

receive email notification when a 

document is added to a subscribed 

docket(s). For assistance with any FERC 

Online service, please email 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov, or call 

(866) 208–3676 (toll free). For TTY, call 

(202) 502–8659. 

Comment Date: 5:00 p.m. Eastern 

Time on March 9, 2016. 


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