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Dam 14 Hydroelectric Project would 

have an estimated annual generation of 

approximately 139-gigawatt-hours, 

which would be sold to a local utility. 

Applicant Contact: For Mississippi 

River 14 Hydro, LLC, Mr. Brent L. 

Smith, COO, Symbiotics, LLC, P.O. Box 

535, Rigby, ID 83442, phone: (208) 745– 

0834. 

FERC Contact: Patricia W. Gillis, (202) 

502–8735. 

Competing Application: This 

application competes with Project No. 

13115–000 filed February 15, 2008. 

Competing applications were required 

to be filed on or before July 10, 2008. 

Deadline for filing comments, motions 

to intervene: 60 days from the issuance 

of this notice. Comments and motions to 

intervene may be filed electronically via 

the Internet. See 18 CFR 

385.2001(a)(1)(iii) and the instructions 

on the Commission’s Web site under the 

‘‘e-Filing’’ link. If unable to be filed 

electronically, documents may be paperfiled. To paper-file, an original and eight 

copies should be mailed to: Kimberly D. 

Bose, Secretary, Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission, 888 First 

Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426. For 

more information on how to submit 

these types of filings please go to the 

Commission’s Web site located at 

http://www.ferc.gov/filingcomments.asp. More information about 

this project can be viewed or printed on 

the ‘‘eLibrary’’ link of Commission’s 

Web site at 

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

elibrary.asp. Enter the docket number 

(P–13116–000) in the docket number 

field to access the document. For 

assistance, call toll-free 1–866–208– 

3372. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E8–23067 Filed 9–30–08; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 12775–001] 

City of Spearfish, South Dakota; Notice 

of Application Tendered for Filing With 

the Commission, Soliciting Additional 

Study Requests, and Establishing 

Procedural Schedule for Relicensing 

September 24, 2008. 

Take notice that the following 

hydroelectric application has been filed 

with the Commission and is available 

for public inspection. 

a. Type of Application: Major Project. 

b. Project No.: P–12775–001. 

c. Date filed: September 10, 2008. 

d. Applicant: City of Spearfish, South 

Dakota. 

e. Name of Project: Spearfish 

Hydroelectric Project. 

f. Location: On Spearfish Creek in 

Lawrence County, South Dakota. The 

project occupies about 57.3 acres of 

United States lands within the Black 

Hills National Forest 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: Ms. Cheryl 

Johnson, Public Works Administrator, 

City of Spearfish, 625 Fifth Street, 

Spearfish, SD 57783; (605) 642–1333; or 

e-mail at cherylj@city.spearfish.sd.us. 

i. FERC Contact: Steve Hocking at 

(202) 502–8753; or e-mail at 

steve.hocking@ferc.gov. 

j. Cooperating agencies: We are asking 

Federal, state, local, and tribal agencies 

with jurisdiction and/or special 

expertise with respect to environmental 

issues to cooperate with us in the 

preparation of an environmental 

document. Agencies who would like to 

request cooperating status should follow 

the instructions for filing comments 

described in item l below. Cooperating 

agencies should note the Commission’s 

policy that agencies that cooperate in 

the preparation of an 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: November 10, 2008. 

All documents (original and eight 

copies) should be filed with: Kimberly 

D. Bose, Secretary, Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission, 888 First 

Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426. 

Additional study requests and 

requests for cooperating agency status 

may be filed electronically via the 

Internet in lieu of paper. The 

Commission strongly encourages 

electronic filings. See 18 CFR 

385.2001(a)(1)(iii) and the instructions 

on the Commission’s Web site (http:// 

www.ferc.gov) under the ‘‘e-Filing’’ link. 

m. The application is not ready for 

environmental analysis at this time. 

n. The existing Spearfish Project 

consists of: (1) A 130-foot-long, 4-foothigh concrete gravity dam; (2) a 0.32- 

acre reservoir; (3) a gatehouse next to 

the dam that contains four 2-foot-high, 

4-foot-wide steel intake gates; (4) a 4.5- 

mile-long, 6.5-foot-wide, 9-foot-high 

concrete-lined rock tunnel; (5) a forebay 

pond; (6) two 1,200-foot-long, 48-inch 

diameter, wood stave pipelines; (7) four 

36-inch-diameter, 54-foot-high 

standpipe surge towers; (8) two 4,700- 

foot-long, 30- to 34-inch diameter steel 

penstocks; (9) a reinforced concrete 

powerhouse containing two Pelton 

turbines and two, 2,000-kilowatt 

generators; and (10) appurtenant 

facilities. 

o. A copy of the application is 

available for review at the Commission 

in the Public Reference Room or may be 

viewed on the Commission’s Web site at 

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 or tollfree at (866) 208–3676, or for TTY, (202) 

502–8659. A copy is also available for 

inspection and reproduction at the 

address in item h above. 

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: The 

application will be processed according 

to the following Hydro Licensing 

Schedule. Revisions to the schedule will 

be made as appropriate. 

Milestone Target date 

FERC issues any deficiency letter.October 10, 2008. 

FERC issues acceptance 

notice and Scoping 

Document 1 (SD1).

December 1, 

2008. 

FERC holds scoping 

meetings.

January, 2009. 

All stakeholders: Interventions and protests 

due.

January 30, 2009. 

All stakeholders: Comments on SD1 due.February 13, 2009. 

FERC issues ready for 

environmental analysis 

notice and SD2.

March 2, 2009. 

All Stakeholders: Terms 

and conditions due.

May 1, 2009. 

FERC issues single environmental assess (EA) 

(no draft EA).

August 3, 2009. 


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Milestone Target date 

All stakeholders: EA 

comments due.

September 2, 

2009. 

All stakeholders: Modified terms and conditions due.November 2, 

2009. 

Nathaniel J. Davis, Sr., 

Deputy Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E8–23061 Filed 9–30–08; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Project No. 1864–083–MI] 

Upper Peninsula Power Company; 

Notice of Availability of Environmental 

Assessment 

September 25, 2008. 

In accordance with the National 

Environmental Policy Act of 1969 and 

the Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission’s regulations, 18 CFR Part 

380 (Order No. 486, 52 FR 47879), the 

Office of Energy Projects has reviewed 

Upper Peninsula Power Company’s 

proposed shoreline management plan 

for the Bond Falls Hydroelectric Project, 

located on the Ontonagon River in 

Ontonagon and Gogebic Counties, 

Michigan, and Vilas County, Wisconsin, 

and has prepared an Environmental 

Assessment (EA). 

A copy of the EA is on file with the 

Commission and is available for public 

inspection. The EA may also be viewed 

on the Commission’s Web site at 

http://www.ferc.gov using the 

‘‘eLibrary’’ link. Enter the docket 

number (P–1864) excluding the last 

three digits in the docket number field 

to access the document. For assistance, 

contact FERC Online Support at 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or tollfree at 1–866–208–3676, or for TTY, 

(202) 502–8659. 

Any comments on the EA should be 

filed by October 27, 2008 and should be 

addressed to the Secretary, Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 

First Street, NE., Room 1–A, 

Washington, DC 20426. Please reference 

the project name and project number 

(P–1864) on all comments. Comments 

may be filed electronically via Internet 

in lieu of paper. The Commission 

strongly encourages electronic filings. 

See 18 CFR 385.2001(a)(1)(iii) and the 

instructions on the Commission’s Web 

site under the ‘‘eFiling’’ link. For further 

information, contact Jon Cofrancesco at 

(202) 502–8951. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E8–23065 Filed 9–30–08; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. ER08–1542–000] 

U.S. Gas and Electric, Inc.; 

Supplemental Notice That Initial 

Market-Based Rate Filing Includes 

Request for Blanket Section 204 

Authorization 

September 25, 2008. 

This is a supplemental notice in the 

above-referenced proceeding of U.S. Gas 

and Electric, Inc.’s application for 

market-based rate authority, with an 

accompanying rate tariff, noting that 

such application includes a request for 

blanket authorization, under 18 CFR 

part 34, of future issuances of securities 

and assumptions of liability. 

Any person desiring to intervene or to 

protest should file with the Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission, 888 

First Street, NE., Washington, DC 20426, 

in accordance with Rules 211 and 214 

of the Commission’s Rules of Practice 

and Procedure (18 CFR 385.211 and 

385.214). Anyone filing a motion to 

intervene or protest must serve a copy 

of that document on the Applicant. 

Notice is hereby given that the 

deadline for filing protests with regard 

to the applicant’s request for blanket 

authorization, under 18 CFR part 34, of 

future issuances of securities and 

assumptions of liability, is October 15, 

2008. 

The Commission encourages 

electronic submission of protests and 

interventions in lieu of paper, using the 

FERC Online links at http:// 

www.ferc.gov. To facilitate electronic 

service, persons with Internet access 

who will eFile a document and/or be 

listed as a contact for an intervenor 

must create and validate an 

eRegistration account using the 

eRegistration link. Select the eFiling 

link to log on and submit the 

intervention or protests. 

Persons unable to file electronically 

should submit an original and 14 copies 

of the intervention or protest to the 

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 

888 First St., NE., Washington, DC 

20426. 

The filings in the above-referenced 

proceeding are accessible in the 

Commission’s eLibrary system by 

clicking on the appropriate link in the 

above list. They are also 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 e-mail notification when a 

document is added to a subscribed 

dockets(s). For assistance with any 

FERC Online service, please e-mail 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov, or call 

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

(202) 502–8659. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E8–23066 Filed 9–30–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6717–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. AD08–13–000] 

Transmission Barriers to Entry; Notice 

of Technical Conference 

September 24, 2008. 

Take notice that the Federal Energy 

Regulatory Commission will hold a 

technical conference on October 14, 

2008, from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. (Eastern 

Time) in the Commission Meeting Room 

at the Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission, 888 First Street, NE., 

Washington, DC 20426. The conference 

will be open for the public to attend and 

advance registration is not required. 

Members of the Commission may attend 

the conference. 

The purpose of this conference is to 

explore barriers to transmission 

development. The agenda for this 

conference will be published at a later 

time. 

Commission conferences are 

accessible under section 508 of the 

Rehabilitation Act of 1973. For 

accessibility accommodations, please 

send an e-mail to accessibility@ferc.gov 

or call toll free 1–866–208–3372 (voice) 

or 202–208–1659 (TTY), or send a FAX 

to 202–208–2106 with the required 

accommodations. 

For more information about this 

conference, please contact: Katie 

Detweiler, 202–502–6424, 

katie.detweiler@ferc.gov or Sarah 

McKinley, 202–502–8368, 

sarah.mckinley@ferc.gov. 

Kimberly D. Bose, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E8–23064 Filed 9–30–08; 8:45 am] 

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